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Lesson Two: Graduate Statement Themes The best way to approach your personal statement is to imagine that you have five minutes with someone from the admissions committee. How would you go about making the best case for yourself while holding the listeners interest? What would you include and omit in your story? Figuring out the answer to these questions is critical to successfully preparing an effective statement. To arrive at these answers, you should begin by asking yourself some more specific questions: • Why have I chosen to attend graduate school in this specific field, and why did I choose to apply to this particular schools program? • What are my qualifications for admission? • What is special, unique, or impressive about my life story? The answers will not necessarily come easily to you, but this exercise will have great practical benefit in readying you to write an outstanding personal statement. By answering each question thoroughly, you will have given much thought to yourself, your experiences, and your goals, thereby laying the groundwork for formulating an interesting and persuasive presentation of your own personal story. Select One: • Why Graduate School? • Why Qualified? • Why Unique? • Explain Blemishes EssayEdge Extra: The Future Over the Past First, they should tell me where theyre coming from--what it is in their background that leads them to apply to a program like ours. Second, they should tell me what it is they want to get out of our program. Third, I want to know where they hope our program will eventually take them in their career. - The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University Usually a straight autobiography should be avoided, although