The Grad School Resume or CV

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Welcome to the November edition of the GradSchool Fully Funded newsletter. Happy Thanksgiving in advance to readers in the United States who are celebrating this Thursday.

This newsletter is my monthly conversation with you about all things graduate school admissions. If you aspire to attend graduate school in the United States to obtain a master's or PhD, and to do so with full funding, then you are in the right place. And if not but you know someone who does, please feel free to share this with them. If instead you are interested in our program for prospective undergraduate students, please start here.

Every month we will discuss at least one thing that will help you along that path. As a newsletter subscriber, you will also get access to exclusive special offers and discounts.

Strategy in Graduate School Admission: Your Grad School Resume or CV is its Own Genre

In the last edition of the newsletter I discussed the importance of strategy in graduate school admissions, starting with building your graduate school list. Strategy is one pillar of the framework we use in GradSchool Fully Funded, our grad school admissions coaching program, in which we work with our clients to secure admission into U.S. graduate programs with full funding.

Another dimension of strategy in our GradSchool Fully Funded framework is writing your grad school resume or CV. Most grad school applications will ask you to write a resume or CV. While this is a common document that you may have written many times in the past, the grad school resume/CV is its own beast. And writing a good grad school resume or CV is certainly important in gaining admission into grad school fully funded.

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The most important consideration in writing a grad school resume is demonstrating how your prior education and experience have prepared you for graduate school. If you are applying for a professional master's degree, highlight the relevant work experience that will make you a great addition to the program and enhance the learning of your fellow students.

If you are applying to a Ph.D. program, highlight your research experience that demonstrates you are a good researcher who is ready to take on the challenge of producing original research and advancing your discipline.

Therefore it is more important to list items on your resume/CV in the order of relevance rather than chronologically starting with your education. Any other experience you have that is not necessarily relevant but that you want to list can be grouped in a category of its own at the end such as "Other Experiences."

We cover this extensively in GradSchool Fully Funded, including the opportunity to have your CV resumed by trained Ph.Ds. You can join us, to get help crafting the proper grad school resume and CV as part of a whole program that helps you find, apply, and secure admission into grad programs of your choice fully funded.

I look forward to having you in the program. If you have any questions about the program, you can book a 15-minute call here.

To grad school fully funded,

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Dr. Faith Okpotor Founder and CFF Head Coach National Center for Higher Education Access Award-winning academic and tenured professor

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