The fully updated fourth edition of the go-to guide for craftingwinning 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 studentsand graduate admissions officers, Graduate Admissions Essays deconstructs and demystifies the ever-challenging and seeminglymore impersonal application process for getting into graduateand scholarship programs. The book presents 50 sampleessays in a comprehensive range of subjects, detailed strategiesthat have proven successful for some of the most notoriously competitive graduate programs in the country, as well as sampleletters of recommendation, essays for residencies and fellowships,and postgrad applications.