Graduate Admissions Essays: Write Your Way into the Graduate School of Your Choice (Graduate Admissions Essays)

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Summary: The Best Graduate Admissions Book Out There!
Review: This book is by far the best book out there for those applying to graduate schools in the social sciences (I'm planning on getting my Ph.D. in Anthropology with a specialization in Archaeology). I followed his strategies carefully, and have received multiple funding offers from well known universities. Coming from a family where no one has ever attended graduate school, this book was essential. Definitely buy it now if you're considering applying in the fall!

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Summary: Helpful & answered questions
Review: This book was helpful in that its beginning chapters dealt with answering questions about the application process and how to sit down and start writing the essay. The example essays were not especially helpful to me, although they did help get the juices flowing and gave me a great idea on an opening paragraph. I can see how they might be very helpful to people writing essays for very competitive programs in the medical, legal, or business worlds. I would recommend this book to people who have questions about the application process and having trouble starting their essays.

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Summary: Helpful & answered questions
Review: This book was helpful in that its beginning chapters dealt with answering questions about the application process and how to sit down and start writing the essay. The example essays were not especially helpful to me, although they did help get the juices flowing and gave me a great idea on an opening paragraph. I can see how they might be very helpful to people writing essays for very competitive programs in the medical, legal, or business worlds. I would recommend this book to people who have questions about the application process and having trouble starting their essays.

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Summary: The best book I bought for my application process
Review: This is definetely worth every penny you spend on it. It helped me a lot in my application process, and the tips I got helped me a lot to get into all the top Canadian universities I applied to with full scholarships. This book explains why it is important to go to grad school, who should go, how you should plan your application process, and it guides you through writing your essay. It also gives information about what a reference letter should contain, which is very useful as well. It has 50 samples of essays in a wide variety of grad programs, from history and anthropology, to medicine and molecular biology. I applied in biochemistry, and I found a couple of good related samples. It includes samples of post doc applications as well. It is very methodical, and it contains the experience not only of applicants, but also of the people in the admission committees who read the essays. I would pay 100 dollars for this book, because with it I got 6 offers with scholarships each of about 30,000 canadian from both the chem and biochem departments of Toronto, McGill and UBC!!!

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Summary: A Complete Reference for a Graduate Application!!
Review: This wonderful grad admission essays book not only explains writing an essay for graduate school, but also covers the topics of choosing a program and financing it, planning your application, requesting recommendation letters, and dozens of samples of essays and recommendation letters. Just from looking at the cover, I didn't expect a book with such a large content when I bought it. This book was written as a complete reference for the applicants of the top grad schools. Contains internet links and many helpful examples. I didn't have oppurtunity of viewing the other books in this subject, but I think this book would be adequate by itself to the prospective grad students.

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Summary: A book for everyone
Review: Wow! What a great resource! Every word in this book helps, regardless of where you are in the application process. It definitely helps to calm you down, and get you focused...not to mention its positive tone that ameliorates those last minute doubts, etc. Probably its best asset is that it doesn't mince words... I read it from cover to cover in one night, unlike most books on the subject that I usually put down after chapter 2.