Blog — graduate school application

Let’s be real for a second—writing a statement of purpose or personal statement is freaking hard.

Not because you don’t know yourself (you do). Not because you don’t have goals (you’ve got dreams for days). But because boiling your life, your vision, your past, and your potential down into one tight, convincing document? That’s a whole different kind of pressure. One wrong word and it feels like your entire future could go sideways.

And so, like a lot of smart, overwhelmed people, you find yourself Googling: