Graduate School Essay

What do graduate programs want?

• Students who have the capacity and drive to achieve success and fulfill their dreams.
• Students who are standouts in their chosen field.
• Students who will enhance the school's reputation for excellence.
• Students who will energize the intellectual life of the academic community.
• Students who have the imagination and flair to think outside the box.

One way to discover if prospective students can meet these criteria is through the personal statement. That's why it's important that you write a good one. That's where Essay Plus comes in.

Getting into graduate school can be a daunting task and one of the biggest challenges faced by the prospective candidate is writing an effective personal statement or graduate essay. The aim of our service is not only to help you focus and organize your personal statement but also to provide you with writing tips that will give you the confidence to produce an essay that reflects the real you.

Test scores, letters of recommendation, GRE and I.Q. all go a long way in giving the admissions officers insight into who you really are, but the personal statement requires that you provide a glimpse into your personality that these other sources might not necessarily show.

Because of this, it is extremely important that your personal statement be one that presents you as an authentic person. Another way of putting this, and it may sound crass, is that you are selling yourself to a committee of strangers. They may never meet you, and so your graduate essay or personal statement is your sales pitch.

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