Veteran higher-education consultant Donald Asher demystifies the graduate school application process and offers a detailed action plan that has proved successful for some of the most competitive programs in the country. The 50 sample essays-selected from thousands of candidates-showcase the best of the best, while the Essay Hall of Shame identifies common pitfalls to avoid. Sample letters of recommendation and essays for scholarships, residencies, fellowships, and postgraduate and postdoctoral applications cover all stages of the application process. Teaches how to craft a winning essay with 50 state-of-the-art samples to inspire, instruct, and all but guarantee a top-of-the-pile application. Updated third edition includes an entirely new chapter dedicated to online applications and how they're managed, processed, and considered. Previous editions have sold 100,000 copies. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Graduate Essays: What Works, What Doesn't and Why

Education & Teaching

Asher, Donald

Schools & Teaching

Ten Speed Press

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

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College & High School

Veteran higher-education consultant Donald Asher demystifies the graduate school application process and offers a detailed action plan that has proved successful for some of the most competitive programs in the country. The 50 sample essays-selected from thousands of candidates-showcase the best of the best, while the Essay Hall of Shame identifies common pitfalls to avoid. Sample letters of recommendation and essays for scholarships, residencies, fellowships, and postgraduate and postdoctoral applications cover all stages of the application process. 
<li>Teaches how to craft a winning essay with 50 state-of-the-art samples to inspire, instruct, and all but guarantee a top-of-the-pile application. </li>
<li>Updated third edition includes an entirely new chapter dedicated to online applications and how they're managed, processed, and considered. </li>
<li>Previous editions have sold 100,000 copies. </li>

The fully updated fourth edition of the go-to guide for crafting winning essays for any type of graduate program or scholarship, including PhD, master’s, MBA, MD, JD, postdocs, DDS, DVM, Rhodes, Marshall, Fulbright--you name it. Based on thousands of interviews with successful grad students and graduate admissions officers, Graduate Admissions Essays deconstructs and demystifies the ever-challenging and seemingly more impersonal application process for getting into graduate and scholarship programs. The book presents 50 sample essays in a comprehensive range of subjects, detailed strategies that have proven successful for some of the most notoriously competitive graduate programs in the country, as well as sample letters of recommendation, essays for residencies and fellowships, and postgrad applications.

Graduate Admissions Essays, Fourth Edition: Write Your Way into the Graduate School of Your Choice

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Graduate Essays: What Works, What Doesn't and Why

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

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

Graduate Admissions Essays, Fourth Edition: Write Your Way into the Graduate School of Your Choice