Colleen Reding

This "guide" to graduate admissions essays is 90% made up of sample essays. Granted, these are essays that received successful admittance to the given schools, and examples are often the most important part of learning how to write these essays, but I was disappointed with the dearth of actual writing tips or steps in a book called a "guide." Each essay does include sidebars with tips from the individual writers, but these tend to be short, obvious, and often too abstract to be helpful. Most of the essays are for admittance into medical, law, and business schools also, which I tend to consider separately from graduate schools. There is a separate section for "general graduate studies," but I would think this book would be more useful to an aspiring law or business student than an aspiring humanities student. The essays also tended to be very personal in nature, which my master's program gave me to understand was NOT what was desired, at least for Arts & Sciences PhD admissions. Overall, this might be helpful to that law or business student, but for those who really need a step-by-step writing guide or are seeking insight into what to write for a humanities graduate program, look elsewhere.… (plus d'informations)