Personal Statements carry weight—they are often the first document admissions committees consider. To grab the attention of reviewers right away, then, you want to clearly express your purpose and ...

Graduate and professional schools often require some sort of written statement — often called a “statement of purpose,” “personal statement,” or “letter of intent”– as a part of the application. Some ...

For students considering graduate school, the daunting task of writing the perfect personal statement may be holding them back. Most students who apply to graduate school have not written an entrance ...

Long gone are the days of staring at blank Google Docs — or Microsoft Word; to each their own — when tackling graduate school applications. As deadlines draw closer, students may struggle with how to ...

Support of Undergraduate Research and Creative Endeavors (SOURCE) will host a session titled “The Graduate School Application Process (for STEM students) and Writing Those Pesky Personal Statements” ...

Don’t go back to your ecstatic first discovery about your field (i.e., when you were 10 or even 16). Most readers will skip this. Focus on what you have done in college. Articulate your unique ...

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Support of Undergraduate Research and Creative Endeavors (SOURCE) will host a session titled “The Graduate School Application Process (for Social Sciences students) and Writing Those Pesky Personal ...