1 - What’s the process if I order a Initial Grad School Essay Package?
With Accepted.com’s
Grad School Essay Package you will first fill out a questionnaire. Then your editor will interview you and ask you about your personal background, extra-curricular
activities, hobbies and interests, community service, goals, and reasons for
pursing a graduate degree …basically anything that could be used in a grad
school statement of purpose. Together you and your editor will decide which
experiences best present a multi-dimensional, compelling portrait of YOU.
After becoming acquainted with you during the interview, which typically takes
one to two hours, you and your editor will discuss a theme for your essay and
then your editor will send you an outline of the essay. The outline helps you
focus on your most powerful experiences by providing you with structure and
direction. Consisting of bullet points, it gives you the guidance you need to
focus on the most relevant and compelling elements of your story. It helps you
put that story down on paper with minimal blank-screen-itis and maximal impact.
After you write your statement of purpose, you send it to your editor who edits
it for grammar, spelling, style, and word usage – the nit-picky details of
writing. She returns the edited copy to you within two business-days of
receiving it. Typically clients request 2-4 reviews of an essay before they are
satisfied with it.
The outline consists of bullet points and sentence fragments. Its job: provide
you with the structure and direction necessary for you to start writing. It
provides guidance, but is not a straightjacket. The essay is at all times your
essay.
First we set up a telephone appointment. This appointment is usually lengthy -
typically lasting one to two hours. Its purpose is three-fold:
We get to know you, your goals, and your past experiences.
You choose a theme for your essay.
We consult with you regarding an outline for your essay.
If you live outside the U.S.A, we try to minimize your telephone expense by
asking for background information via e-mail and reserving the telephone for
topics where a dialogue is really necessary. We have found that the time
differences pose minor problems, and we have worked with people literally from
around the world – from Kazakhstan to Cameroon, Argentina to India.
After you receive your outline, you write the personal statement on your own,
but if you have any questions you can call or e-mail us. When finished writing,
you e-mail the draft to your editor; then she edits it and returns the edited
version to you. Subsequent essay drafts are transmitted via e-mail.
7 - What’s the process if I order
Grad School Consulting & Editing?
With Accepted.com’s
Grad School Consulting and Editing, you will submit the draft of your
statement of purpose to your editor, who will critique it on a content level.
Although we don’t interview you, we do request a recent résumé. As he reviews
your statement of purpose, your editor will ask the following questions: Do you
have a clear theme, a logical structure, an engaging opening and a conclusion
that concludes? Did you answer the question, if you have one? Have you made
clear why you need a graduate degree to achieve your goals? Have you revealed
something distinctive and interesting about yourself? Have you made effective
use of specifics to distinguish yourself from your competition, support your
main points, and add interest to your essay? If you submit multiple essays for
one school (statement of purpose plus an optional essay, for example), your
editor will also check that the essays complement each other. After reviewing
your essay, your editor will then provide you with feedback and suggestions for
improvement, and you will revise the essay.
After you revise your essay, you again send it to your editor who focuses now on
grammar, spelling, style, and word usage – the nitty-gritty details of writing.
He returns the edited copy to you within two business days of receiving it.
Typically clients request two-to-four reviews of an essay before they are
satisfied with it.
If you know what you want to write, have confidence in your writing ability, and
want to save money more than time, I recommend
Grad School Consulting & Editing.
In fact, that’s what we recommend. Purchase the Grad School Essay Package for the
essay you plan to use the most. After that, when you are customizing that essay
for subsequent schools, go with Grad School Consulting and Editing.
11 - Aren’t you expensive?
Not at all. The fees you pay to Accepted.com could be one of the best
investments you’ll ever make! Consider the possibility of increased earnings if
you attend a more highly ranked school as opposed to the cost of Accepted.com’s
one-on-one assistance. "Ah," you say, "but you don’t know if I would be accepted
without your help." True. And we cannot guarantee your acceptance. But a brief
look at our testimonial page will tell you that many of our clients are
convinced they would not be in their top choice schools without Accepted.com’s
editorial help. They repeatedly and emphatically state that we are worth the
money.
12 - Do you use a template? Don’t all Accepted.com client essays sound the same?
We don’t use a template at all, nor do we recommend one. We are dedicated to
bringing out the individuality and distinctiveness of our clients and strive to
make our clients stand out from the crowd by emphasizing distinguishing
experiences and details. We are convinced that portraying your uniqueness is the
primary task of the essays.
16 - What’s the process for a
Grad School Wait List Letter Package?
If you are a new client, when you purchase a
Grad School Wait List Letter Package, your editor reads your application essays and
interviews you briefly about your activities since you submitted your
application. The editor also reviews with you your reasons for wanting to attend
the school that wait-listed you. He then sends you an outline for a wait-list
letter.
If you are an existing client, your editor interviews you about your activities
since you submitted your application and any changes in your reasons for wanting
to attend the school that wait-listed you. He then sends you an outline for a
wait-list letter.
After you write the letter, you send it to your editor for editing. He corrects
it for grammar, spelling, style, word-usage, etc. and returns it to you.
17 - How do I get started? How is payment handled?
It’s easy. Go to our catalogue and choose the
services you
need. Click on the 'Buy Now' button next to the services you need and fill out
the order form. You will receive an email asking for academic information. Your
order will be processed within one business day. Your credit card will be billed
immediately.
18 - What is your Rush Service? I need faster turnaround! Can you help me?
Our Rush Service is for clients who need faster then two-business-day
turnaround. Before commencing work, we will determine if we have availability to
meet your deadline and set up a schedule with you. If you purchase rush services
and we don't have editors available who can work within your timeframe, we will
notify you before we start work. If at that time you no longer want
Accepted.com's assistance, we will refund your payment.
Your editor will serve as a sounding board and mentor as you go through
the process of applying. You need someone experienced saying that the
optional essay does not really add value to your application. You will
benefit from someone saying that you need to clarify the connection between
your internship and your goals. You will have an advantage if someone
knowledgeable tells you that you are focusing too much on a negative and not
enough on your achievements, or perhaps suggests that Experience A is more
impressive than Experience B, or reveals how you can weave both into the
application. To read what our clients say about our services, please visit
our Testimonial Page.
You will have a professional, seasoned editor making sure that you
present yourself articulately and correctly. One of Accepted.com’s strengths
is the professionalism and experience of its staff. You certainly do not
want writing errors. To judge our editors’ qualifications, please visit
About Us. All staff bios are listed there.
Using Accepted.com can save you time. Grad applicants frequently go
through multiple drafts, a lot of nail-biting, tearing up of the multiple
drafts, rewriting, hearing contradictory advice, rewriting again. You will
greatly reduce the amount of time you spend on your essays by choosing
Accepted.com.
"...you [Paul Bodine] did a wonderful job editing my essay. I really like the way it turned out, and
am very confident in submitting it my graduate schools.
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