Want to learn how to make your graduate, medical or law school applications stand out? What if your application made such an impact that you landed yourself a full scholarship in the process? We’re going to dive into how to write a memorable personal statement to get accepted!
In this episode of SheRocks@College LIVE we chatted with Shawna-Kaye Lester, a graduate school admissions expert who’s helped students get into schools like Columbia, MIT and Amherst while also helping them earn over 3 million in scholarships.
How to Write a Memorable Personal Statement to Get Accepted
What we talk about in this episode of SheRocks@College
LIVE:
- The one thing every college woman should do before applying to graduate school to increase her chances of success
- The 3 steps to writing a memorable statement
- Why storytelling is so important to your essay
- How taking courses outside of your major can help you get into graduate school
- The power behind having a mundane, uninteresting life and how it can help you get accepted
- What’s more important than being the top student if you’re trying to get into graduate, dental, medical or law school
About Shawna-Kaye Lester:
- Shawna has helped over 400 clients win more than US$6 million in scholarships to top schools around the world.
- Her graduate school clients have cracked the code for schools that include the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies; Cornell School of Hotel Administration; NYU Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service; Teachers College, Columbia University; and University of Oxford. Their scholarship wins include the Consortium Fellowship (NYU Stern School of Business) and the Schwarzman Scholars program (Tsinghua University).
- For the 2017–2018 application season, 75% of her private graduate school admissions consulting clients were admitted to one of their top two programs with a partial or full-tuition scholarship.