5 Tips to make your Graduate School application Stand Out

After lots of time spend browsing for universities, talking to current students, friends from college, Orkut community friends, you will have shortlisted some schools that you strongly believe and of that some schools, might be little tough to get admission considering the academic credentials, GRE, TOEFL score and other credentials.

Did you ever imagine every student will be almost doing the same process and some of the schools get large number of applications. So, there must be certainly something you can do to make your application stand out.

Have you ever though about what additional information that can be sent along with application packet that will make your application stand out. There are so many creative ways to send the documents, resume, project report and other things. But. before talking about the creative ways, I’m going to talk about 5 import things that you can do to make your application stand out.

Usually, students will send Transcripts, SOP, Recommendation Letter, Application, Application Fee, Bank Statement and few other mandatory things universities ask for.

Additional documents and idea I’m going to say are not hard to get. All it takes is few extra days of work, time and effort. That might be what graduate school admission committee will be looking to give admission. If you have 50/50 chances, maybe idea I’m going to propose will increase your chances to 60/40. So, here are those 5 most important tips that you can include within graduate school application to make your application packet stand out.

• Additional Documents
• Be original in College Essay
• Extra Curricular Activities
• Contact professors
• Include project reports

There is nothing in the above 5 things that you cannot have access to while applying for graduate school and colleges in America. Let’s dig deeper into each topics.

Additional Documents:

If you have the question in you, what additional documents that I can send other than what Universities asks for. You can send certificates, even if its small achievements. Something like participation in Essay writing, debate, stamp collection, computer training courses, and so on.

Be original in College Essay:

Its very tempting and easy to copy someone essay and send it. But, its very easy for the graduate school admission committee to identify that. They receive so many number of applications and each application have statement of purpose. If college has database of all the SOP all it takes to hit the search button and it will spit out the results. And, if you copy the college admission essay, its very easy to figure out, by comparing your AWA, TOEFL writing score. If you have 5 backlogs and say I was in top 2% in class, its very obvious its an copied essay.

So, make sure you write in own words, 30% copying is tolerated to get nice quoted and catchy sentences. But, the way the essay should be framed must be your own idea expressing your background and need to apply for graduate school admission.

Extra Curricular Activities:

If you good at sports, arranging functions, to other events where you have proved your leadership skills, make sure you include some kind of proof as part of your college admission packet. That will make your application stand out from other who have similar profile, but no leadership skills.

Contact professors

I have written a very detailed article on how to contact professor, with email format and what type of contents to include. Makes sure you contact the professors. It doesn’t matter if you have already applied to colleges for admission. If you applying for PhD makes sure you contact Professors before applying for schools.

Include project reports

Including projects done in soft copy format will definitely prove the you have worked on the project. you can include, readme file on how to run the project. If you own a website, make sure you send the link to the site. If you have presented paper’s, make sure you include paper’s abstract. Not more than 2 pages for each paper.

If you do the above, I’m 100% sure it will make your graduate school application stand out and increasing your admission chance by more than 100%.

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