All applicants to graduate school are required to submit one or more admission essays, sometimes known as personal statements. These admission essays allow the admission committee to see you as a person apart from your GPA scores. This is your chance to make a difference and to make sure that your admission essay truly reflects you.
A well written honest essay can increase your chances of acceptance but a poor essay can eliminate opportunities.
After you have received your test score and selected the school, the application process has to be followed timely. It also depends on the degree program but three months ahead of time is a great way to start an application. However, if you start prior to the deadline, it gets a little difficult in terms of time constraints.
Keep in mind that applying to school is a detailed and difficult process whether you work with a consultant or on your own. The essay writing requires writing, rewriting or sometimes distancing yourself and then coming to the essays. If you have to take an exam, then get your tests done early, so when you apply, you are satisfied with your test score.
Acquiring admission in graduate school is going to change you for better. Still, there are applicants who stick to their past and fail to understand that whichever school they will apply would prepare them effectively for the future.
- Emphasizing Too Much on Score:
Ranking is important but you should focus on your future goals and how the program will help you achieve these objectives. Your adjustments with school culture and your personal preferences (do you want urban or rural geographic location etc.)
- Not having Clear Objectives:
Attending the wrong program can cost you tens of thousands of rupees, so applicant direction is important to most graduate schools. The universities ask for goals, essays or statement of purpose because they want you to have clear objectives in life and it shouldn’t sound meaningless.
- Supposing that an Elements in Your Profile will Get You In or Out:
Do not rely on your laurels, every prestigious graduate program looks for more than just a test score. Similarly, there have been many applicants who had an undergraduate record of test score which is not pleasing, have performed and shown that they had changed. Their chances of admission have improved. Similarly, when it comes to writing an application, start with essays or other types that you may need to write.
Do not lie and remember that there is always the possibility of being discovered even after you get accepted or graduate.
- Writing What Admission Committee Wants to Hear:
This is one of the most common complaints which admission committee states. Write what you want them to know, what you are proud of. What will make them thrilled to have you as part of the community? If you write what they want to hear, you will have a tough time standing out.
- Focusing on Sophistication and Not Being Clear:
The goal of writing your essay has to be clear. Don’t impress university officials with flowery words. Show your motivations, dedication, communication skills and goals clearly.
Focus on word limit. Those application essays that don’t have word limit tend to be draggy and no one wants to read them. You don’t need to say, I had the opportunity to do A, B, C, instead you can say, I did A, B, and C.
- General Flattery won't Impress Anyone:
Instead of saying, “I want to join school because it has a great campus, excellent faculty, and great student body.” It is better to highlight the specific elements of the program which attracts you and why. Focus on why until you find the specifics of the answers.
- Not Being Able to Answer the Question:
Make sure you answer all parts of the question. Read the essay carefully and focus on the question to see if you can answer the question entirely based on what you just read.
- Choosing Those for Reference Who Hardly Know You:
This is a major mistake and choosing the senior executive who hardly knows you isn’t going to help you much. You need people who know you personally and have personal experience of supervising, mentoring, or working with you.
- Do not Go Unprepared for the Interview:
Every interview requires preparation, so do not go without preparation. Take notes and start from the things you are proud of and figure out what things you are proud of and anything worthy, since you applied.
- Being Rude to University Official:
Do not be rude to any school official as it is an application killer.
Avoid these mistakes and do your best to make your admission successful in a graduate school.
Good Luck!
