Your personal statements, application essays, and statements of purpose are suffering. It’s serious. And could be fatal to your application.
This latest epidemic of vacuous, declarative sentences that either state the obvious or make non-credible claims has reached epic proportions in applicant essays, personal statements, and statements of purpose.
The cure? Substance and specifics. Stories that reveal your experience, your world, your motivation, your vision.
For more details, please see “Applicant Epidemic,” the latest video in Eye on Admissions, Accepted video series.
[…] YOU. Not the details of your GPA, or the technical facts of what you researched in the lab, but a STORY that makes the reader sit up and say, “Ah! An interesting human being, with a voice!” For […]