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  • Published: 15 August 2012
  • ISBN: 9781607743217
  • Imprint: Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $49.99

Graduate Admissions Essays, Fourth Edition

Write Your Way into the Graduate School of Your Choice



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.

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.

  • Published: 15 August 2012
  • ISBN: 9781607743217
  • Imprint: Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $49.99

About the author

Donald Asher

DONALD ASHER is one of America's premiere career consultants and is the author of The Overnight Résumé, Cool Colleges, Graduate Admissions Essays, and Who Gets Promoted, Who Doesn't, and Why. He speaks at over 100 colleges and universities every year.

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Praise for Graduate Admissions Essays, Fourth Edition

Praise for Graduate Admissions Essays:

  • "Contains very practical advice . . . exactly the information that graduate admissions professionals would like applicants to consider." --National Association of Graduate Admissions Professional Journal
  • "You'll learn a great deal about tactics and strategies that will help you increase the odds of getting into the graduate or professional program of your choice." --Dr. Robert Greenberg, NACE fellow