Your Statement of Purpose is the most important
document in your graduate school application
- ABD Strategies
Working with Graduate Students to Complete their Dissertations
Your statement of purpose is your last and best chance to present yourself directly, vividly and personally to an admissions committee. Because more than 50% of the 1.4 million applications to graduate programs were rejected last year, you have to distinguish yourself to be noticed by overworked admissions committees.
As a former graduate school dean I speak from experience when I advise students about graduate school applications. My 95% success rate with clients across a broad range of schools and disciplines means I will help you get into the program of your choice.
Every consultation begins with a conversation! Because I have found from experience that a personal and collaborative editing process leads to the best essays, I want to talk to you about the draft of your statement of purpose, your graduate school goals, and about how we will work together to insure that your application is as good as it can be.
Once I have returned your edited draft we will have a second phone conversation. I will explain my suggestions and revisions to the essay, and why I think they are advantageous. We might continue working together—talking or emailing—until you are satisfied with the essay, or if the essay suits you, our work together will have ended successfully.
Working with me you are choosing a mature, experienced academician, not an anonymous, relatively inexperienced editor assigned to your application from a bullpen of writers.
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