In addition to copies of your transcripts and personal statement, graduate admissions often also require a resumé or curriculum vitae (CV). Your resumé or CV is an important component of your application materials; it is an opportunity for you, the applicant, to list for the admissions review committee what you've accomplished. It is also a great place to list things like service or work experience that won't fit into the application form itself or the personal statement. But when preparing this document, you have to decide which document will be most conducive to your application. More importantly, you have to think about what to include and how to present this information.
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For three or four months, you've obsessed. And now, applying is over.
Or not....
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The decision to go to graduate school is perhaps one of the biggest decisions in a student's life. Choosing a graduate education is fraught with a number of challenges much greater than those encountered when applying to college at the end of high school. Some of the questions you'll have will remain the same at the core, but are often much more complicated.
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For the seven years I've been legally allowed to work, my occupation has always been listed as "student". This is a status I will retain for at least five-and-a-half more years as I evolve from mere holder of a BS into a PhD candidate. This means that I will have been a student for the majority of my life until I am 40. I'm what you could call a professional student.
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