You can really present yourself  in four to five sentences everything in science is clear concise lucid I can name that tune in five notes this is not just techniques you’re not applying to be a technician if you say I did research I learn southern blots western blots northern blots that isn’t going to make me want to admit you if you don’t tell me the science and actually when you come into my lab I’m going to teach you western blots in one afternoon so it’s not that you know all of these techniques it’s good but that’s not why we’re going to admit you in the final analysis so for graduate school this is kind of the essay that recommend. Check out some essay examples with self presentation at Robotdon.

And I said step one is to produce a Polish cv step 2 I say write an outline for the essay and this does not have to be Roman numeral one Roman numeral two it can be words phrases short sentences whatever you want you’re wanting introduction and you want an introduction to catch the eye and make them keep reading so it’s not i was born in da da da da da no not milquetoast something interesting oftentimes about how you got interested in science or how you got interested in a disease process that you’re studying so that sentence maybe like a story but the rest of it isn’t one of the things is the application has your institution you transcript all of that but I like to have just students do name-dropping here so this got you interested in science then you had the opportunity to attend the University of wisconsin-madison where you had the opportunity to conduct research with dr. Theresa duello who does x y&z;

You’re going to spend a lot of time and most of your space talking about your research very richly you may or may not put extracurricular activities then okay this is not I’m on soccer team I was on debate if you’re gonna because you need the space for the science if you’re going to put in extracurricular activity it’s probably going to be science related maybe an honor society something like that but this is not Facebook and this is not a chat about everything that you have done you are selling the admissions committee on the fact that you understand what a research career is and you’re passionate about pursuing them here at the bottom I’m going to talk more about this in a couple slides but when you’re talking about this you don’t end us SI and say therefore i’m applying to your program you want to say why you and this program are a great match whose work you’re interested in it’s not a contract you want to show them you didn’t done some home work who’s poor the profs there what have they done who are you interested in and a great concluding paragraph that baby is what you would like to see yourself doing in five years.