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What Should I Write About?
You could write about how you have wanted to be a doctor since
you were eight years old when a really nice doctor treated you
for a very painful throat infection
But I don't recommend it.
If you are one of those applicants who has to write only one
essay for your application or at least your initial application,
the AMCAS personal statement, for example, you need to focus
your essay sharply so it will have both uniqueness and coherence
Focus on what's most important to you and distinctive about you
That means you should not write:
- A superficial autobiography.
- A vacation itinerary.
- A vague, general essay full of superlative and vacuous
declarative statements.
- What you think the adcom wants to read.
Focus on the following:
- What you want the adcom to know that isn't found in the
rest of your application
- Insights gleaned from a transformative experience, be it
in your home town or abroad, or on the job or on vacation
- Lessons learned from a seminal research project, class, or
job
- The impact of an impressive accomplishment, leadership
role, or volunteer experience
Sometimes it is possible to weave 2-3 experiences into a
unified personal statement if you can unite the different
elements with a common thread,
your theme. (See "The
Anthropology Student" or "The Storyteller", for example.) But
other essays will be much more effective if they focus on the
impact of one event or experience.
Whether you focus your essay on one experience or try to include
more than one, remember to focus, focus, focus on what is most
distinctive about you and important to you.
If you want help with your personal statement, please visit the
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Editing Down an Application Resume
After you've brainstormed your work experience to find the
most effective material for your resume, you need to begin
hatcheting away so only the essential remains. The definition of
"essential" will vary with each school you apply to. Some will
want job responsibilities listed on your resume, some will not.
Some will want you to include your employer's industry rank;
some will want you to list all your employment since high
school.
Be strategic in deciding what content is absolutely essential
for your resume to complement your whole application and what
isn't. You may well find you have to jettison one of your
proudest accomplishments because it doesn't support the theme of
your essays or the culture of the school you're applying to. For
example, suppose that you're particularly proud of a highly
specialized and innovative bit of code you wrote for a
mission-critical application. But it was in no sense a team
project-you wrote it entirely on your own, its dollar impact on
your organization is unquantifiable, and it was essentially a
technical not a leadership achievement. In this case, if you
have been using your essays to escape the "techie" pigeonhole
and are applying to a school, like Kellogg, where interpersonal
skills are highly valued, you should probably omit this
"proudest moment" altogether.
Instead, include a bullet about the new process you initiated
that increased group productivity by five percent or the time
you led a team of four programmers in completing an understaffed
project on deadline. These kinds of achievements will do a
better job of positioning you as a leader rather than a
cubicle-dweller. This is where "techie" applicants who simply
cut-and-paste their work resumes-with all their specialized
languages, acronyms, and industry-speak-into their applications
run into trouble. They risk projecting the "propeller-head"
image they've worked so hard in their essays to escape.
Now set your resume aside for a few days and come back to it
again with "fresh eyes." Don't make the mistake of thinking a
typo in your resume is any less onerous than in an essay.
Misspelled words and grammatical mistakes are red flags in a
resume. Eliminate them.
--Paul Bodine is a Senior Editor at Accepted.com
Author of Great Application Essays for Business School
(forthcoming).
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