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How to Write a Winning Personal Statement for Graduate and Professional School
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Perfect personal statements : law, business, medical, graduate school
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Books
Getting What You Came For: The Smart Student's Guide to Earning a Master's or a Ph.D.
Peters, Robert L.

The Grad School Handbook: An Insider's Guide to Getting in and Succeeding
Jerrard, Richard and Jerrard, Margot

Graduate and Professional Programs
(a series of 6 volumes: Arts and Architecture; Social Sciences; Psychology; Physical Sciences; Humanities; and Health Professions)

Peterson's Guides, 2003.

Graduate Schools in the U.S.
Peterson's Guides, 2003.

Negotiating Graduate School : A Guide for Graduate Students, 2nd edition
Rossman, Mark H.
Sage Publications, 2002.

Pathways to the Ph.D.: A Handbook for Undergraduate and Graduate Students, and Their Mentors
Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network, 2001

The Ph.D. Process: A Student's Guide to Graduate School in the Sciences
Bloom, Dale F.
Oxford University Press, 1998.

Research Doctorate Programs in the United States : Continuity and Change
National Academy Press, 1995.

Graduate School and You: A Guide for Prospective Graduate Students
by the Council for Graduate Schools




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