Personal Statement

A 300-500-word personal statement outlining the reasons for applying to your chosen course, and how you feel you will benefit from the course of study.

 

• Show your personal opinions
• Attitude about certain things
• What you agree or disagree on
• Muslim
• Indonesian (developing country) goes to an International school limited American perspective. (might not think like a usual Indonesian)
• Woman (gender issues, especially in Indonesia)
• Awareness on muslim crisis globally → why learning business will help and take an impact.

I want to be one of the Indonesian kids that have the ability to help the Indonesian community

Why the course: Global management (enterprise and innovation) with integrated foundation

Why London

• We get its because you like that there is culture but don’t be too broad

From the recording

1. Take accountability of the unique facts about your profile
   1. WOMAN
   2. INDONESIAN (3RD WORLD DEVELOPING COUNTRY)
   3. CURRENT PROBLEMS
   4. MUSLIM (Show how aware you are towards these crisis, and show that you can’t predict what a person is like only by knowing their religion, correlated to why it’s so important for you to get into this specific university in this subject, and why it would enable you to make an impact addressing those problems.)
2. Indonesia is a developing country, so it has a lot of potential for future development. (too broad)
   1. Talk about how they will benefit by accepting me as a student in their school.
   2. Talk about how them investing their school on me will have the potential to impact the business world from a developing country
   3. BE SPECIFIC – TALK ABOUT WHAT CERTAIN ASPECTS OF THE BUSINESS WORLD YOU NEED TO LEARN ABOUT AND CORRELATE THAT TO THE COURSE YOU WANT TO TAKE AND WHY THAT COURSE IS THE PERFECT OPTION FOR YOU.
   4. MAKE A POINT ABOUT HOW YOU ACQUIRING ALL THOSE BUSINESS KNOWLEDGE WOULD MAKE AN IMPACT ON SOMETHING HERE IN INDONESIA.
   5. WHAT ARE THE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO WHEN YOU’RE BACK IN INDONESIA?
   6. TALK ABOUT PAST WORK EXPERIENCES
   7. THEY WOULD NOT ONLY FOCUS ON PROFIT, BUT THEY WILL ALSO FOCUS ON SOCIAL IMPACT. (TALK ABOUT A BUNCH OF COMPANIES THAT YOU IDOLIZE) (I BELIEVE THAT WORLD HUNGER AND POVERTY IS NOT A PROBLEM THAT SHOULD BE ADDRESSED BY THE GOVERNMENT, BUT BY THE ECONOMY.) (MUHAMMAD JOESOEF → ONE OF MY IDOLS) A BANGLADESH, he established a micro business scheme that wasn’t just profitable for him but also empowering the lower class. The business grew over time and became profitable. The breakeven point came by faster than they thought.
   8. Potential, a lot of promise when their developing me as a young entrepreneur in their school. (impacts a lot of people, good investment)
   9. Talk about what you did in school, and social work.

 

• Research about the history
• Don’t be vague
• What is culture for you
• State that you understand what culture really means
• Unique culture that you want to learn.

 

In order to make a social enterprise you also need to have business acumen and to know how to run a proper business that is sustainable

Social impact companies and if you want to make it profitable it has to be self-funding you can’t ask for money all the time, so you need to have a business model that actually works and that is actually sufficient.