Graduate Admissions Essays: Write Your Way into the Graduate School of Your Choice (Graduate Admissions Essays, 4th Edition)

Learn the secrets of successful graduate school applicants.

Graduate Admissions Essays, by higher education expert Donald Asher, is the essential resource for anyone thinking about graduate or professional school. This newly revised and thoroughly updated fourth edition has the latest tactics for online admissions, information about new essay and portfolio formats, links to hot websites and little-known resources, and insider tips for giving your applications the edge of equally - or better - qualified applicants. Graduate Admissions Essays offers a wealth of information found nowhere else.

• 50 exemplary samples of winning essays
• Exercises and alerts for common mistakes to improve your writing
• Strategies to lobby your way into the most competitive programs
• A method for using strategic application timing to improve your chance of admission
• Ways to secure great letters of recommendation
• Information on finding and getting the best scholarships, residencies, and fellowships

Based on thousands of interviews with successful graduate students and graduate admissions officers, Graduate Admissions Essays deconstructs and demystifies the increasingly competitive application process and provides a detailed action plan that has proven successful for getting into prestigious graduate programs across the country and abroad.