Business School

Your MBA Personal Statement matters!

Competition for business schools has never been tighter.  Only half of all business school applicants will be accepted everywhere they apply. Your competition is qualified and prepared with great GMAT scores and wholehearted recommendations.  You must augment these with powerful application essays that set you apart.

Regardless of whether you’re seeking a full-time, part-time, or executive MBA, the essays that you submit to business schools will help you stand out from hundreds of applicants with comparable academic credentials and work experience. To be successful, your MBA essay must address your motivation and qualifications and show how your career ambitions align with the school’s mission.  They must also reveal your character and your leadership abilities in a way that captures the attention of the busy admissions officer and makes her/him want to accept you.

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Law School

Your Law School Personal Statement matters!

Only half of all law school applicants will be accepted everywhere they apply. In this fiercely competitive environment, your outstanding LSAT scores, and recommendations may not be enough to set you apart.  You need an outstanding  law school personal statement.

Given the demands of a legal career that is so dependent on exacting language, law school admissions officials will expect you to demonstrate that you can write write compelling prose. Your law school essay must demonstrate your intellect, commitment, and character, and show that you are decisive and sincere. It must show them that you will be an outstanding, contributing student and practitioner.

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Medical School

Your Medical School Essay matters!

Why the AMCAS Personal Statement is Essential

Despite the shifting state of health care in the U.S., medical school applications are up and the competition has never been tighter.  While Medical school admissions committees will expect outstanding MCATS, GPAs and recommendations, your personal statement will provide you the opportunity to stand out from the competition.

Your essay must show the admissions committee that you are the compassionate, intelligent, responsible and sincere person that will round out their entering class and will make an outstanding physician.

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Dental School Application Essay and Personal Statement

Your Dental Admissions Essay matters!

Great DATs, GPAs and recommendations from your professors will get you far, but with dental school applications at an all-time high, you must provide an outstanding dental personal statement.  Your dental essay must show the admissions committee how you came to be interested in dentistry, what you have to offer their program, and set for your plan to bring your professional goals to fruition. You must also show that you will be a responsive and reliable care giver.  Your essay must compel the admissions committee to bring you into their dental program.

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Residency Programs

Your Residency Statement matters!

You’ve worked your heart out in medical school, earning the kind of grades, recommendations and USMLE scores that will put you on good footing for your residency application.  Residency program directors will use your personal statement to decide between you and other applicants.  Let your strong statement open the door to your interview.

Your residency statement must reveal how you developed your interested in the specialty for which you are applying. It must show how you will contribute to your program and set forth how you will bring your professional goals to fruition. This is your opportunity to stand out from the tight competition and compel the program directors to invite you on board.

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Nursing Programs

Your Nursing essay matters!

RNs and CNPs  form the backbone of our healthcare system.  When you wish to get into this field, you will need to show experience, outstanding grades and supportive recommendations. Your nursing essay can tip the scales for your application.

Regardless of the nursing program that you seek, from BSN, to MSN, to RN or ND, the personal statement you write can shape your future. Nursing programs read your application with an eye for whether you show the scientific, humanistic, critical thinking, and leadership skills that contemporary nursing demands. Your essay must reveal who you are as a person and your abilities and willingness to take on these demands.  It should make the admissions officer feel obliged to bring you into her/his program.

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Optometry School

Your Optometry Personal Statement matters!

Your optometry school personal statements will take the admissions committee beyond your test scores, GPAs and recommendations to show the admissions committee what kind of student and clinician you will be.  Other highly-qualified applicants are vying for your spot.  Show the committee that you are the kind of compassionate, responsible, intelligent communicator in whose trust your patients can place their vision.

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Pharmacy School

Your Pharmacy Personal Statement matters!

Our health care system requires dependable pharmacists.  The competition for the nation’s few pharmacy schools has increased steadily in recent years. Your great PCAT scores, terrific grades and enthusiastic recommendations will take you far into the admissions process, but you’ll need an outstanding essay to attract the attention of the busy admissions committee.

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Veterinary School

Your Vet School Personal Statement matters!

You probably already know that the nation’s 28 accredited veterinary colleges accept approximately 35% of their qualified applicants.  You need to find a way to stand out from applicants with similar GPAs, recommendations and exam scores.  Your essay provides the admissions committee an opportunity to show that you will be a responsive, humane and competent care-giver.

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Education Graduate School

Your Personal Statement matters!

Whether you’ve taught for years and are looking for additional credentials, you’ve just graduated from college and are looking towards teacher certification, or you plan to take on Educational Leadership training, you face a daunting task of standing out to the admissions committee. Your personal statement provides a way for you to demonstrate the experience, commitment and fresh perspective that you can offer to an education program. Your essay must show that you are an articulate, clear-minded and self-knowing applicant who is committed to education. Most importantly, your essay must make the reader feel compelled to bring you into her/his program.

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Engineering

Your Personal Statement matters!

Your admissions essay must make you stand out.  It needs to demonstrate that you have a knowledgeable but forward-thinking approach to technology, that your professional goals are clear, and highlight your relevant research experience. Engineers don’t just speak to each other, they communicate with other professionals and sometimes to the wider public.  Your essay must therefore also demonstrate that you understand secondary fields and that your work will contribute to science more broadly. Your task is to craft a coherent, well-structured, and concise essay that helps you stand out as a unique applicant and future engineer.

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Government and Public Affairs

Your Personal Statement matters!

Whether you’re seeking a Masters in public policy or a Ph.D. in public planning, admissions officials will scrutinize your personal statement for evidence of the exacting, meticulous writing that characterizes the best of public policy work. Public affairs schools expect their students to write concise, well-structured prose that effectively conveys the problems and solutions of the field.  Your essay must stand as an archetype of the extensive and exacting writing that comes with  public service while at the same time show that you stand out amongst the many applicants who wish to go into public affairs and government.  How will your essay accomplish this?

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Journalism

Your Personal Statement matters!

As a Journalist, the success of your work will depend on your ability to articulate ideas and events in a  compelling, lucid and exact manner.  Your journalism degree will reflect your ability to communicate with wide audiences and in engaging ways. Your essay must reveal why you are willing and able to do this.  It must make the admissions officer feel compelled to bring you into her/his program.

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Psychology

Your Personal Statement matters!

Psychology is one of the most popular, and therefore, one of the most competitive fields of graduate study. Top clinical psychology programs regularly reject students with outstanding GRE scores and GPAs.  One way to distinguish yourself from hundreds or even thousands of applicants with similar credentials is through a compelling personal statement.

Regardless of the field or degree that you seek, you must use the statement of purpose to detail your research interests and experience and prove to admissions committee that you poses the training and potential to perform well in your area of psychological study. Since you will be writing your way through most of graduate school,  your essay must display your finesse as a writer and illustrate your potential as a scholar or practitioner.

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Public Health

Your Personal Statement matters!

Whether you’re seeking a Masters in biostatistics or public health or a Ph.D. in epidemiology, admissions committees will scrutinize your personal statement for proof that you possess the commitment to community and social health that forms the backbone of public health. Your writing must reveal that you are a humane being who possesses compassion and insight, and proves that your insights span from the statistical model of public health through to the human populations that it serves.

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Science and Mathematics

Your Personal Statement matters!

From chemistry, to biology, physics to mathematics,, graduate programs in the sciences share in common that you present your findings in a lucid manner. When faculty members evaluate applications, they look for students who articulate their ideas concisely and model their ability to manage writing a Masters or Ph.D. thesis. Your application essay should prove to faculty that you will be an engaged, competent student and scientist.

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Social Sciences and Humanities

Your Personal Statement matters!

Whether you’re applying to a Masters program in Comparative Literature or Ph.D. program in Anthropology, the admissions officials will scrutinize your essay for outstanding writing ability and proof that you possess a humanistic perspective on society and culture. Graduate schools seek candidates who can write sophisticated but persuasive, prose. You must demonstrate the potential to manage the publication demands of contemporary academia.

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