When you are working on your application for graduate school, you will inevitably reach this area: the Graduate School Personal Essay. This summary is an influential and powerful statement that may hold more influence than test scores or previous education. A concise and eloquent statement tells the admissions staff many things about you. This is your opportunity to highlight all your positive qualities. Are you attempting to further your career to help others? To open opportunities for communities or other areas that are currently in need? Are you determined? Ambitious? Would your drive match the demands of graduate school?
Today’s job market requires higher education, plain and simple. Students have to be ready for college, and colleges are watching their educational progress. In this age of instant information, colleges can accept or decline prospective students on a whim. So keep your high school student on the road to academic success by encouraging them to keep up their studies all the way to the end. A pitfall to avoid is the “senior slump.” Seniors tend to take it easy their senior year, especially when they’ve already been accepted to a college. An old tradition was to waste away that last semester in physical education and other electives, but those days are gone. Now, colleges want students who work hard all the way to graduation. |