Graduate School

Articulate well your deepest desires in 500 words or less.

Tell us about your hardships but don't whine and show us how they have made you a better person.

Tell us why our school is a great fit for you...actually tell all 5-8 schools you are applying to why they and their staff fit your plans and why you fit our schools.

Get to know our professors who are busy this time of year so you should have started in your junior year.

Take the GRE so you will know words you should never have to use and prove that you can test in an unfriendly unnatural testing format and environment. Minorities we know you won't do as well on this test because you have never been exposed to adequate reading material much less the foreign words like insouciant.

But don't worry we use a holistic approach to evaluating you.

No matter how many times I see these directions I feel like applying to grad school is a process designed to weed me out not include me.

What drivel. The number of programs designed to help poor little minority me get into grad school are insulting. Teach me from 1st grade how to read and leave behind bush's no child left behind.

Teach me in high school the merits of education by recruiting teachers from the top not bottom of college classes and I may have had a more level playing field.

Allow me to use the language I know and exhibit the skills I have and THEN teach me new things. College has helped my intellectual development but life has made me interesting in the material I research. Let my life hold its own value without attempting to shape me into a researcher extraordinare.

I look forward to graduate school because I intend to change the rules, even if I have to create my own damn school to do it.