Graduate Admissions Essays: Write Your Way into the Graduate School of Your Choice » (REV)

Career consultant DONALD ASHER is a featured speaker at more than 100 colleges and universities every year, coast to coast. A columnist for MSN Encarta and contributor to the Wall Street Journal's CareerJournal.com and CollegeJournal.com, he divides his time between Nevada and San Francisco.

Veteran higher-education consultant Donald Asher demystifies the graduate school application process and offers a detailed action plan that has proved successful for some of the most competitive programs in the country. The 50 sample essays-selected from thousands of candidates-showcase the best of the best, while the Essay Hall of Shame identifies common pitfalls to avoid. Sample letters of recommendation and essays for scholarships, residencies, fellowships, and postgraduate and postdoctoral applications cover all stages of the application process.

Teaches how to craft a winning essay with 50 state-of-the-art samples to inspire, instruct, and all but guarantee a top-of-the-pile application. Updated third edition includes an entirely new chapter dedicated to online applications and how they're managed, processed, and considered. Previous editions have sold 100,000 copies.

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A professional resume writer advises prospective applicants to graduate school, not just on the mechanics of the process, but the style, approaches, and other nuances as well. No index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Acknowledgments     vii
Introduction: How to Use This Book     xi
Should You Go to Grad School, and How Are You Going to Pay for This?     1
Choosing a School or Program     13
Planning and Managing Your Application Process     27
What Happens to Your Application     46
Getting Ready to Write     55
Your First Draft: From Your Heart onto the Page     64
Subsequent Drafts: From the Page into the Reader's Brain     79
Samples, Samples, Samples     88
Letters of Recommendation     211
Resources     231
Sample Essay Index     235
General Index     239