Referencing the school in your PS. Forum

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Does the name of the school appear in your PS.

Yes.
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33%
No.
7
39%
I did for a couple exceptional schools.
5
28%
 
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ahduth

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Referencing the school in your PS.

Post by ahduth » Sat Nov 20, 2010 2:36 pm

Did you either write school-specific personal statements, or alter them to include the school's name each time? Just curious.

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Re: Referencing the school in your PS.

Post by ahduth » Sat Nov 27, 2010 11:42 am

Bump for my curiosity. I'm just mailing these bad boys off for the most part.

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Re: Referencing the school in your PS.

Post by Lwoods » Sat Nov 27, 2010 11:54 am

I inserted a "why x" paragraph for most schools and tweaked the rest of the PS to make it flow well.

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Re: Referencing the school in your PS.

Post by 03121202698008 » Sat Nov 27, 2010 12:19 pm

The last paragraph of my PS was devoted to the school and why I wanted to go there. It should be really specific though, not just a place you can drop the name of any school in and have it work. I pulled info on each schools pro bono projects off their site and talking about them.

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