How to Write the Perfect Personal Statement
4th Edition
Published on 26. March 2012
128 pages
978-0-7689-3673-5 (ISBN)
Description
The admissions process for law, business, medical, or graduate school is more competitive today than ever before. Peterson's How to Write the Perfect Personal Statement provides essential tips on how to create and write personal statements that respond to the questions that appear on the applications of many popular graduate schools. The guide also offers great insight on whom to approach for letters of recommendation and how to make the best impression at the interview. How to Write the Perfect Personal Statement features 30 actual samples of successful application essays as well as recommendations from admissions officers on winning strategies that have guaranteed students admission into business, law, medical, and graduate school. How to Write the Perfect Personal Statement offers step-by-step instructions on style, format, concept, and theme; preparation strategies for the personal interview; tactics on whom to ask to write letters of recommendation; top 10 DOs and DON'Ts for writing the essay; tips from admission officials from Columbia, Michigan, and other high-profile schools; and much more!
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How to Write the Perfect Personal Statement
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Content
- Intro
- About the Author
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- PART 1 Creating Perfect Personal Statements
- THE QUESTIONS
- PREPARING TO WRITE YOUR ESSAYS
- WRITING YOUR PERSONAL STATEMENT: CONTENT AND THEME
- THE ULTIMATE TEST FOR CONTENT
- WHAT THEY ARE
- LOOKING FOR
- ALMOST EVERYONE MAKES THIS MISTAKE
- GETTING CREATIVE- ESPECIALLY IN YOUR OPENING REMARKS
- TAKING RISKS IN EXPRESSING YOURSELF
- DISCUSSING YOUR BACKGROUND AND EXPERIENCE
- DISCUSSING WHAT MAKES YOU DIFFERENT OR UNIQUE
- DISCUSSING YOUR MINORITY STATUS OR DISADVANTAGED BACKGROUND
- DISCUSSING YOUR MOTIVES AND ASPIRATIONS
- DISCUSSING WHY YOU WANT TO ATTEND THIS PARTICULAR SCHOOL
- EXPLAINING DEFICIENCIES, INCONSISTENCIES, AND BLEMISHES
- DISCLOSING SKELETONS IN YOUR CLOSET
- DISCUSSING YOUR RECOMMENDERS AND OTHER " INFLUENTIAL" PEOPLE
- WRITING YOUR PERSONAL STATEMENT: STYLE AND FORMAT
- INTRODUCTORY PARAGRAPHS AND CONCLUSIONS/SUMMARIES
- UNCONVENTIONAL AND GIMMICKY WRITING STYLES
- UNCONVENTIONAL AND GIMMICKY FORMATS AND PACKAGES
- TYPEFACE, TYPE SIZE, AND HANDWRITTEN ESSAYS ( PAPER-BASED APPLICATIONS ONLY)
- PAGE LIMITS AND WORD LIMITS
- OBTAINING ASSISTANCE IN WRITING AND EDITING YOUR PERSONAL STATEMENT
- SUBMITTING OR REFERENCING SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS
- THE TOP 10 DO'S AND DON'TS FOR WRITING PERSONAL STATEMENTS
- TOP 10 RULES TO WRITE BY
- TOP 10 PERSONAL STATEMENT PITFALLS
- PERSONAL STATEMENTS AND MEDICAL SCHOOL APPLICATIONS
- THE AMCAS APPLICATION FORM
- THE AMCAS " PERSONAL COMMENTS" ESSAY
- " SUPPLEMENTAL" OR " SECONDARY" APPLICATION ESSAYS
- APPLYING TO LAW SCHOOLS VIA THE LSAC WEB SITE
- PART 2 Recommendation Letters and In-Person Interviews
- RECOMMENDATION LETTERS
- WHAT THE SCHOOLS WANT TO KNOW FROM YOUR RECOMMENDERS
- SELECTING YOUR RECOMMENDERS
- APPROACHING AND ASSISTING POTENTIAL RECOMMENDERS
- UNDERGRADUATE PLACEMENT FILES AND CREDENTIAL SERVICES
- IF THE SCHOOL DOES NOT REQUIRE RECOMMENDATION LETTERS
- SUBMITTING FEWER OR MORE LETTERS THAN REQUIRED
- " SEALED" RECOMMENDATION LETTERS
- WAIVING YOUR RIGHT OF ACCESS TO RECOMMENDATION LETTERS
- SUBMITTING A " DEAN'S CERTIFICATION"
- THE LSAC LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION SERVICE ( FOR LAW SCHOOL APPLICANTS)
- COMMITTEE LETTERS FOR MEDICAL SCHOOL APPLICANTS
- THE AMCAS LETTERS SERVICE FOR MEDICAL SCHOOL ADMISSION
- THE GRE PERSONAL POTENTIAL INDEX ( FOR MASTER'S AND PH. D. APPLICANTS)
- IN-PERSON INTERVIEWS
- ARRANGING FOR AN INTERVIEW
- INTERVIEW FORMAT AND DRESS CODE
- WHAT TO EXPECT DURING THE INTERVIEW
- Edward Tom Assistant Dean, Admissions Berkeley Law ( University of California, Berkeley, School of Law)
- Richard Geiger Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Cornell University Law School
- Andrew P. Cornblatt Dean of Admissions
- Associate Vice President Georgetown University Law Center
- Dennis Shields Former Assistant Dean and Director of Admissions University of Michigan Law School
- Shelli Soto Former Assistant Dean of Admissions The University of Texas at Austin School of Law
- Michael Rappaport Dean of Admissions UCLA School of Law
- Ethan Hanabury Associate Dean for Admissions and Administration Columbia Business School, Columbia University
- Melinda Bissett Former Director of Admissions The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
- Paul Magelli Former Assistant Dean of Admissions University of Illinois M. B. A. Program
- Mary Miller Former Director of Admissions Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University
- Eric C. Abrams Director of Outreach, M. B. A. Admissions Stanford University, Graduate School of Business
- Henry F. Malin Former Director of Admissions Amos Tuck School of Business Administration ( Dartmouth College)
- Judy Colwell Former Assistant Director of Admissions Stanford University School of Medicine
- Raymond Brienza Former Assistant Dean of Admissions New York University School of Medicine
- Katie Horne Former Director of Admissions University of Michigan Medical School
- Diana Woo, M. D. Former Associate Dean of Medical Student Admissions Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago
- Pat Fero Director, Office of Admissions School of Medicine, University of Washington
- PART 3 Thirty Great Personal Statements
- PART 4 Advice from the Experts
