Applying to Graduate School

Applying to graduate school is, after college, the most important educational decision you will make. Doing it right matters a great deal. This book’s objective is to simplify the processes of finding and applying
to the right graduate schools and to increase the likelihood that your applications will be successful. Using a careful and informed procedure to find the programs that best suit your needs and match your qualifications
is the first step. The first half of this book, Assessing and Choosing Programs, will insure that you have begun the application process in a focused and expeditious manner.

The book’s second half, A Systematic Approach, addresses the other critical element of the application process, the statement of purpose. It will help you to confront the challenge of writing about yourself by
inviting you to think about your accomplishments, your career goals and college achievements in a different way. It will help you to organize your various academic and personal accomplishments effectively and help you to write a vibrant, concrete and interesting statement of purpose that will distinguish you from other candidates to your prospective graduate program[s].