{"id":1293,"date":"2020-12-02T14:22:40","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T14:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mitcommlab.mit.edu\/nse\/?p=1293"},"modified":"2021-10-26T16:44:21","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T16:44:21","slug":"three-tips-applying-to-graduate-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mitcommlab.mit.edu\/nse\/2020\/12\/02\/three-tips-applying-to-graduate-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Tips for Your Grad School Personal Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Getting into graduate school requires more than an outstanding GPA and rock-solid letters of recommendation. Whenever I meet with clients to work on their grad school personal statements, I make sure that we cover these three best practices:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Applying to Graduate School\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dY3UHduiILs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 0.9em\"><em>Robbie Stewart is a PhD graduate student working with Prof. Koroush Shirvan. He is also a Communication Fellow.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 0.9em\"><em>Published December 2, 2020<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Related articles:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mitcommlab.mit.edu\/nse\/commkit\/graduate-and-fellowship-applications\/#Overall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Graduate School Application Strategy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mitcommlab.mit.edu\/nse\/commkit\/graduate-school-personal-statement\/?preview_id=72&amp;preview_nonce=1ec8ee0675&amp;preview=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Graduate School Personal Statement<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mitcommlab.mit.edu\/nse\/2020\/10\/02\/how-to-ask-for-letters-of-recommendation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How to Ask for Letters of Recommendation<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For customized feedback on your application, <a href=\"http:\/\/mitcommlab.mit.edu\/nse\/make-an-appointment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">schedule a time<\/a> to speak with a Communication Fellow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getting into graduate school requires more than an outstanding GPA and rock-solid letters of recommendation. Whenever I meet with clients to work on their grad school personal statements, I make sure that we cover these three best practices: Robbie Stewart is a PhD graduate student working with Prof. Koroush Shirvan. He is also a Communication&#8230; <a class=\"view-article\" href=\"https:\/\/mitcommlab.mit.edu\/nse\/2020\/12\/02\/three-tips-applying-to-graduate-school\/\">View Article<\/a>","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitcommlab.mit.edu\/nse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitcommlab.mit.edu\/nse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitcommlab.mit.edu\/nse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitcommlab.mit.edu\/nse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitcommlab.mit.edu\/nse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mitcommlab.mit.edu\/nse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitcommlab.mit.edu\/nse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitcommlab.mit.edu\/nse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitcommlab.mit.edu\/nse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitcommlab.mit.edu\/nse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}