In your personal history statement, please describe how your personal background informs your decision to pursue a civil engineering degree.
A sample of topics that you might address in your statement is below.
• Any educational, familial, cultural, economic or social experiences or opportunities relevant to your academic journey • Challenges and/or obligations you have had to address in order to achieve your educational goals and how you addressed them • Employment while an undergraduate • How your perspectives or activities contribute to social or cultural diversity and/or make you sensitive to the experiences of underrepresented groups • How you have overcome barriers to access higher education • How you have come to understand the barriers faced by others • Your academic service to advance equitable access to higher education for women, racial minorities and individuals from other groups that have been historically underrepresented in higher education • Your research focusing on under-served populations or related issues of inequality • Your leadership among such groups
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