Grad Admissions essay help

MmeZeeZee
Tue, 22 Feb 2011 14:17:35 +0000

Okay, mine was the same. I had to submit a CV as well as a Statement of Purpose. I felt that because my CV was quite detailed, I could focus on the parts of my CV that were most relevant to what I wanted to study in grad school, and go into more detail, linking them to my goal. (That’s what I meant by narrative, NOT creativity, per se.) I certainly hope the omission of this or that work or degree will be considered inconsistent. I think they will get the point that these were the salient parts of my studies and career that led me to choose my field of study.

However, your prompt is slightly more specific than the prompt I had in its requirement for you to describe your work history. So it would have been a lot more difficult to turn it into a more narrative, less detail-focused essay. I would have been irritated by that prompt.