• Personal Statement (5-7 pages): Your personal statement should highlight the formative and significant experiences in your life, and how those experiences have influenced you in choosing to pursue your vocation or profession. Things to Consider when writing the Personal Statement: Consider how periods of life and career transition have contributed to your awareness. Consider what it is about you that will enable you to benefit from the degree program to which you are applying. As well, from your understanding of the University's learning methodology involving transformative learning, consider how you might benefit from this kind of active, experiential learning model.

What to Include in Your Personal Statement:

• Multiple pages in length.
• Be sure to share formative and significant experiences of your life and how these have influenced you in choosing your program as a vocation and profession.
• Consider in your statement that periods of life and career transition contribute significantly to self awareness.
  • What is it about you as a learner that will enable you to benefit from Meridian's degree program?
  • Work experiences you may have had which relate to your program of interest and the vision you have of your future as a professional.

If you feel that the personal statement does not sufficiently demonstrate your writing skills, you may wish to enclose an additional writing sample of not more than seven pages.