Personal Statements: How to stand out in your application

This interactive symposium will consist of two sessions and a workshop. During the first session, you will receive an orientation about graduate school and how to know if graduate school is a good choice for you, and will receive an overview of the graduate school application. During the second session, you will learn how to effectively write a personal statement. This will be followed by small group workshops in which the attendees will have the unique opportunity to meet and work in their personal statements with the help of the YCA fellows and other resources.

Agenda:

12:30pm Registration

1:00pm Session I: The why, when, and how of graduate school?

2:00pm Session II: How to write a personal statement

3:00pm Workshop: Work in small groups

Note: In order to successfully participate in the writing session at the workshop we require that you submit your personal statement and CV before September 18, 2016, to ycaworkshop@gmail.com