Essay Edit: How to Transform Your Master's Personal Statement

Most personal statement drafts already have the right material in them somewhere: the problem is usually that it reads like a narrated resume instead of an argument for why this program. This workshop works through an existing draft the way an editor would, cutting the opening that just restates an application, finding the actual through-line buried in paragraph three, and tightening the ending so it doesn't just repeat the intro. Melanie has reviewed personal statements across MBA and other graduate programs for years, and she's developed a clear sense of what separates a statement that gets remembered from one that reads like everyone else's. Bring a current draft if you have one: seeing a real edit happen, not just hearing advice in the abstract, is what tends to make it stick.