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Questions to Ask Yourself Before Writing Your Graduate Admissions Essay
Having trouble writing your admissions essay? Consider these questions to prepare your personal statement. Your answers to these questions can help you choose a topic for your essay and organize your statement accordingly.

Writing the Graduate Admissions Essay: What to Include and Not Include
Students often wonder how to approach writing the graduate admissions essay, also known as a personal statement. What do you include? What don't you mention? Is first person ok? Read on.

Beat Writer's Block to Complete Your Graduate Admissions Essay
Everyone suffers from writer's block at one time or another, but it is especially disconcerting while writing your graduate admissions essay.

How to Organize Your Graduate Admissions Essay
A good essay is not just about content, but about structure. How you organize your ideas matter. Learn how to organize an effective graduate school admissions essay

Graduate Admissions Essay Checklist
If you're writing an admissions essay as part of your application to graduate school, you should take care to ensure that you've written an essay that highlights your strengths -- and minimized weaknesses. Avoid common admissions essay gaffes by running through this checklist.

Graduate Admissions Essay Dos and Don'ts
Writing an effective graduate admissions essay is about following rules. Here are the rules, the dos and don'ts, of writing admissions essays or personal statements

Why the Admissions Essay?
Many applicants to graduate school wonder: Why does every application to every graduate program require that applicants submit an admissions essay?