GRADUATE AND PROFESSIONAL SCHOOL APPLICATION ESSAY GUIDE By Suzanne Zilber‚ Ph.D. Former Coordinator of the Career Exploration Program‚ Student Counseling Service‚ Iowa State University. Other helpful information is available on the Student Counseling Service Web Site http://www.iastate.edu/~stdtcouns/ Introduction Applications to graduate and professional school often require a personal or autobiographical statement. Although your grades and test scores are probably more important criteria
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the law schools at the University of Missouri and the University of Texas to be integrated in Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada‚ 1938‚ and Sweatt v. Painter‚ 1950. Neither case had made the frontal assault needed to overturn the Plessy standard. However‚ the 1950s brought a new wave of challenges to official segregation by the NAACP and other groups. Circumstances of the Case Linda Brown‚ an eight-year-old African-American girl‚ had been denied permission to attend an elementary school only five
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I am pleased to submit my résumé for the open position of Admission Counselor within the Admission Department at Baldwin Wallace University. I truly believe that my extensive professional and personal experiences provide the perfect combination of knowledge‚ insight‚ and life lessons that make me uniquely qualified for this position. As a middle school teacher with over 20 years teaching experience‚ I know how to work within an educational environment to motivate‚ mentor‚ and inspire students of
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By working to provide the best opportunities‚ best education‚ and best experience‚ Lehigh is willing to put in the work needed to be considered a top university. Lehigh also has its rivals. The university’s famous rivalry with Lafayette shows the schools competitive spirit one-on-one. Aiming to beat Lafayette in everything from academics to athletics to campus lifestyle‚ Lehigh’s rivalry is what helps push it to be its best. Similarly‚ my personal rivalries push me to excel. In the classroom‚ I have
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ETHICAL/LEGAL ISSUES IN COUNSELING PRCATICE ETHICAL STANDARDS The importance of knowing the contents of professional codes of conduct and the purposes and limitations of such codes is essential to the understanding of ethical and legal issues in counseling. school counselors should have at least a basic understanding of their ethical responsibilities ‚ necessarily provide answers to the many specific dilemmas that practitioners will face. When the standards do not
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Throughout this program I plan to develop new strategical skills that will ***. In addition‚ through public health‚ ***. The *** reputation for excellence in developing new teaching technologies is the catalyst for my decision to attend graduate school in the first case. I am particularly interested in pursuing the New Teaching Models track‚ and I’m considering writing a thesis on the
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It is sad how my expectations have gone down with every year of high school‚ but I guess that is just what the real world is all about. I started my freshman year out talking about wanting to be a doctor or a scientist or a millionaire. I am about to leave high school not having a clue on what I want to do with my life. I has been hard to observe my grades going from practically straight A’s as a freshman to the sad state of nearly having my credits denied this senior year. But now that I know that
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will not change my work ethics‚ if anything they will improve.My goals and expectations for college will change to focus on my career and grades‚ instead of getting good grades to get into college. My education is extremely important to me and I take school very seriously. I have have work hard and done my absolute best. I have done everything I could to be academically successful‚ so that I could say I deserve a PHSC Foundation Scholarship. So that I could earn this scholarship.I deserve this scholarship
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years. During this time my family was getting ready for another vast transformation that brought us to America. Just two days after coming to this land‚ I was sitting in a large classroom trying to recite the pledge of allegiance in a large public school. My life in America took me by shock and I felt unprepared. I struggled with basic academic courses initially while my peers glided through easily. Moving to America has been one of the great challenges I have faced and still continue to struggle
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If I were to tell my younger siblings and friends one piece of advice upon entering high school to overcome this difficulty‚ I would advise them to be themselves. Although it is a cliche and it’s often overlooked‚ hearing this was crucial for me. High school is the time when most students discover their place in the world and being someone who they’re not makes that journey exponentially harder. High school has become more than just academics. People have the ability to be focused on sports‚ clubs
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