Grad's Guide to Graduate Admissions Essays
Grad's Guide to Graduate Admissions Essays

Author: Colleen Reding

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-09-03

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 1000493172

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Grad's Guide to Graduate Admissions Essays provides more than 50 successful admissions essays straight from the source—recent college graduates making the transition to earning advanced degrees at highly selective graduate programs. Harvard, Columbia, Stanford, and Northwestern are just a few of the universities to which these students were admitted. Each of the essays contains designated segments highlighting the particular characteristics that make them outstanding admissions essays. Additionally, the essays are interspersed with segments labeled “Writer's Words of Wisdom,” which contain statements from the author of the particular essay with advice on the admissions process. By receiving guidance from successful graduate school applicants, readers can glean advice from a variety of perspectives, while still obtaining the critical information as it relates to well-written essays for programs within a variety of fields including law, business, medicine, education, and humanities.

Graduate Admissions Essays, Fifth Edition
Graduate Admissions Essays, Fifth Edition

Author: Donald Asher

Publisher: Ten Speed Press

Published: 2024-07-16

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 198486355X

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The fully updated fifth edition of the go-to guide for crafting winning essays for any type of graduate program or scholarship, including PhD, master's, MD, JD, Rhodes, and postdocs, with brand-new essays and the latest hot tips and secret techniques. Based on thousands of interviews with successful grad students and admissions officers, Graduate Admissions Essays deconstructs and demystifies the ever-challenging application process for getting into graduate and scholarship programs. The book presents: Sample essays in a comprehensive range of subjects, including some available from no other source: medical residencies, postdocs, elite fellowships, academic autobiographies, and more! The latest on AI, the GRE, and diversity and adversity essays. Detailed strategies that have proven successful for some of the most competitive graduate programs in the country (learn how to beat 1% admissions rates!). How to get strong letters of recommendation, how to get funding when they say they have no funding, and how to appeal for more financial aid. Brand-new sample supplemental application letters, letters to faculty mentors, and letters of continuing interest. Full of Dr. Donald Asher's expert advice, this is the perfect graduate application resource whether you're fresh out of college and eager to get directly into graduate school or decades into your career and looking for a change.

Grad's Guide to Graduate Admissions Essays
Grad's Guide to Graduate Admissions Essays

Author: Colleen Reding

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781618213938

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Grad's Guide to Graduate Admissions Essays provides more than 50 successful admissions essays straight from the source--recent college graduates making the transition to earning advanced degrees at highly selective graduate programs. Harvard, Columbia, Stanford, and Northwestern are just a few of the universities to which these students were admitted. Each of the essays contains designated segments highlighting the particular characteristics that make them outstanding admissions essays. Additionally, the essays are interspersed with segments labeled "Writer's Words of Wisdom," which contain statements from the author of the particular essay with advice on the admissions process. By receiving guidance from successful graduate school applicants, readers can glean advice from a variety of perspectives, while still obtaining the critical information as it relates to well-written essays for programs within a variety of fields including law, business, medicine, education, and humanities.

Getting What You Came For
Getting What You Came For

Author: Robert Peters

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published: 2023-08-29

Total Pages: 553

ISBN-13: 0374614172

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Is graduate school right for you? Should you get a master's or a Ph.D.? How can you choose the best possible school? This classic guide helps students answer these vital questions and much more. It will also help graduate students finish in less time, for less money, and with less trouble. Based on interviews with career counselors, graduate students, and professors, Getting What You Came For is packed with real-life experiences. It has all the advice a student will need not only to survive but to thrive in graduate school, including: instructions on applying to school and for financial aid; how to excel on qualifying exams; how to manage academic politics—including hostile professors; and how to write and defend a top-notch thesis. Most important, it shows you how to land a job when you graduate.

Graduate School
Graduate School

Author: David G. Mumby

Publisher: PRTPS

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780968217368

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Aimed at college and university students in all major fields of study, this book covers everything one needs to know about how to apply successfully to graduate school in North America.

Insider's Guide to Graduate Programs in Clinical and Counseling Psychology
Insider's Guide to Graduate Programs in Clinical and Counseling Psychology

Author: John C. Norcross

Publisher: Guilford Publications

Published: 2022-04-14

Total Pages: 482

ISBN-13: 1462548474

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The definitive guide for prospective graduate students in clinical and counseling psychology has now been revised and updated for 2022/2023, with all-new data on more than 300 doctoral programs. This is the book you can rely on for finding the programs that meet your needs and maximizing your chances of getting in. Profiles cover each program's specializations or tracks, admission requirements, acceptance rates, financial aid, research areas, and clinical opportunities. The Insider's Guide is based on intensive research and includes information, advice, and decision-making worksheets not available from any other source. The 2022/2023 edition includes a new chapter on deciding between a doctoral or master's degree, shares insights on how COVID-19 has altered the admissions process, and addresses other timely topics.

Graduate Admissions Essays, Fourth Edition
Graduate Admissions Essays, Fourth Edition

Author: Donald Asher

Publisher: Ten Speed Press

Published: 2012-07-24

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1607743213

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The fully updated fourth edition of the go-to guide for crafting winning essays for any type of graduate program or scholarship, including PhD, master’s, MBA, MD, JD, postdocs, DDS, DVM, Rhodes, Marshall, Fulbright--you name it. Based on thousands of interviews with successful grad students and graduate admissions officers, Graduate Admissions Essays deconstructs and demystifies the ever-challenging and seemingly more impersonal application process for getting into graduate and scholarship programs. The book presents 50 sample essays in a comprehensive range of subjects, detailed strategies that have proven successful for some of the most notoriously competitive graduate programs in the country, as well as sample letters of recommendation, essays for residencies and fellowships, and postgrad applications.

Insider's Guide to Graduate Programs in Clinical and Counseling Psychology
Insider's Guide to Graduate Programs in Clinical and Counseling Psychology

Author: Michael A. Sayette

Publisher: Guilford Publications

Published: 2020-01-20

Total Pages: 509

ISBN-13: 1462541445

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Featuring expert advice for applying to graduate school in clinical and counseling psychology--as well as profiles of more than 300 doctoral programs--this authoritative resource has now been updated for 2020/2021. More than 150,000 prospective students have used the Insider's Guide to find the programs that meet their needs and maximize their chances of getting in. Profiles include each program's specializations or tracks, admission requirements, acceptance rates, financial aid, research areas, and clinical opportunities. A detailed time line and multiple worksheets help students complete key prerequisites, decide where to apply, develop their credentials, put together strong applications, and make an informed final decision. The 2020/2021 Edition includes profiles of 14 additional programs, plus updates about the application process.

Graduate Admissions Essays
Graduate Admissions Essays

Author: Donald Asher

Publisher: TEN SPEED PRESS

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 1580088724

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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.