Are themes good or bad? That depends on whether you are talking about a theme for your application or for your essay. For the former, bad. For the latter, good. If you are applying to a top program, you don’t want your application to have a nice, neat theme that simply labels or tags you:…
GRAD SCHOOL ADMISSIONS
Common Sense Isn’t So Common in Admissions
MBAAnonymous questions in "Admissions consultants?" why applicants use or think they need admissions consultants. After briefly providing her background, she adds, I’m just an applicant. I have however worked as a writing consultant where I edited, among other things, MBA applicants’ essays to places like HBS, Stanford GSB, and LBS. Looking back on that experience…
Penn Prevents ABD: Provides Dissertation Bootcamp
Dissertation Bootcamp Rules: Four hours a day for two weeks, starting at 9:00 AM Only a 30-minute break. No emailing. Internet use for academic purposes only. $50 fee back if you complete the process. The Writing Center at Penn is serious about focusing its grad students on their dissertations. Uninterrupted time for researching, structuring, writing…
More Jobs for PhD’s in History
Inside Higher Ed reports more job postings for PhD’s in history than ever before. Quite a switch from recent history. However, the paper hastens to add that most of the jobs pertain to Asian or African history. Furthermore more and more positions are part-time and non-tenure track.
Graduate Program Options: Merge or Close?
Inside Higher Ed reports on a possible merger between the German departments at Duke and UNC Chapel Hill, two small struggling programs. According to Inside Higher Ed: "In so doing, the two universities believe that their programs could catapult to among the largest — if not the largest — in the country, with 18 full-time…
Essay Tip: What to Do If You Procrastinated.
I was looking for something on the old blog and came across a post that I thought was timely and worth repeating. I wrote it in early January 2005, when my daughter was applying for grad school (She got in and then decided she didn’t want to go.) It gives advice for those of you…
Personal Statement Tip: Dealing with Hardship
A friend of mine was recently going through a hard time. Things were going wrong, seriously wrong in her life. She wryly labeled these experiences "character building." It is a sad truth that tragedy and trial build character strength and develop wisdom. Most of us would rather be weaker and stupider than have character building…
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