The personal statement is a very important part of your professional school application. You will address important issues about yourself, usually related to why you want to enter a particular career.

The personal statement is often required in standard graduate, medical, and law school as well as most fellowship or scholarship application forms. Some schools allow you maximum freedom in what you ...

Graduate and professional schools often require some sort of written statement — often called a “statement of purpose,” “personal statement,” or “letter of intent”– as a part of the application. Some ...

Writing a strong personal statement can help medical school applicants stand out from a crowded field. In 2022, there were more than 55,000 applicants to allopathic medical schools, with 22,700 ...

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Long gone are the days of staring at blank Google Docs — or Microsoft Word; to each their own — when tackling graduate school applications. As deadlines draw closer, students may struggle with how to ...

You may be almost done with high school and are getting ready to apply to your dream college. Or maybe you are already enrolled in your undergraduate studies and are in the process of applying to ...

Associate Pro Vice Chancellor for Student Inclusion and Professor of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, University of East Anglia Prospective students will no longer be asked to write personal ...

Support of Undergraduate Research and Creative Endeavors (SOURCE) will host a session titled “The Graduate School Application Process (for STEM students) and Writing Those Pesky Personal Statements” ...

Graduate school admissions essays are an opportunity to stand apart from other applicants. Follow these tips for crafting a strong statement of purpose and personal history statement. (Karin ...

The quality of an applicant's personal statement is very important at LSE. The School does not interview for places so this is an applicant’s only opportunity to demonstrate they are a good fit for ...