Archive for September, 2008
Ways of Saving Money on Textbooks
Saving money on textbooks will ease your budget as a student. As grants respond to your tuition needs, there are also ways of decreasing textbook expenses. Book exchange You can start a book exchange with friends and classmates. In a book exchange, you will pool together your current textbooks. This will work well for students [...]
Habits of Highly Unsuccessful Students: A List
You’ll find tons of self-help articles for students who are having a difficult time just trying to get by every single day in school. So instead of giving you tips on how to breeze through college and graduate school, what we’ll give you is an idea on what makes a student inefficient and how not [...]
The Rewards and Challenges of Becoming and Being a Medical Doctor
The ambition to become a medical doctor is a goal that must be steadfastly followed. Medical school itself, with its demands on one’s physical and mental abilities, may already be too stressful for many. The end of it, however, is still not the end of the road for some. If you want to be part [...]
Getting to Know the Top Ten American Law Schools
The ranking of law schools in the United States depends on several criteria, including both qualitative and quantitative data. Some lists focus on only one criterion. However, after putting together the results of surveys, the top ten law schools turn out to be schools that are consistently making the lists of the best. If you [...]
Making Use of One of the Three Most Common Types of Personal Statements
Because a personal statement must make an applicant noticed, its 3 most common types revolve on engaging topics. The personal statement or school admission essay must reflect the applicant’s personality. This is a must because the admissions committee wants to get to know you first, the applicant, even through ink and paper alone. The needs [...]
Using Examples of Personal Statements as Guides
Copying someone else’s work as your own is considered criminal, which is something akin to violating someone’s intellectual property rights. Using a sample as your guide, however, is helpful. Because the members of the admissions committee read hundreds of personal statements every year, the chances that they will read a plagiarized essay is not that [...]
Top 7 misconceptions about financial aid
There are many misconceptions about financial aid. Many people are afraid to request for financial aid because of these, especially because of the top 7 false beliefs. Financial aid is actually more easily granted than most people give it credit for. It is a purely defeatist attitude to say that it is just too impossible [...]
Balancing Humility and Self-promotion in Personal Statements
Striking a balance when it comes to writing the admissions essay or the personal statement is very important. Though arrogance definitely has no room in your admissions essay, it is still advisable not to be overly modest. Excellent examples of admissions essays present a balance between humility and self-promotion. If you have been trying so [...]
Using the right personal statement to get into the law school of your choice
You may think that it is over when your GPA is lower than what is required by the top law schools. But, do you know that your personal statement can save the day? Your personal statement is a requirement for your admissions anyway. For some schools, they are valued higher, giving you a chance to [...]