Graduate Admissions Essays, Fourth Edition Write Your Way into the Graduate School of Your Choice

Based on thousands of interviews with successful grad students and graduate admissions officers, Graduate Admissions Essays deconstructs and demystifies the ever-challenging and seemingly more impersonal application process for getting into graduate and scholarship programs. The book presents 50 sample essays in a comprehensive range of subjects, detailed strategies that have proven successful for some of the most notoriously competitive graduate programs in the country, as well as sample letters of recommendation, essays for residencies and fellowships, and postgrad applications.

Donald Asher is a veteran career and higher-education consultant and a featured speaker at more than 100 colleges and universities from coast to coast every year. A contributing writer to the MSN home page and for the Wall Street Journal's CareerJournal.com and CollegeJournal.com, he divides his time between northern Nevada and San Francisco.