E-CHAPTER 9

E-Chapter 9 : Little Steps Where Most Students Stumble

Proper Timing and Follow Up

Includes Information On:

Keeping track of what you have done

When you are finally ready to submit

When is it appropriate to call

Curriculum Vitae and resumes : Who needs to prepare a c.v., the format and content of your c.v., the appearance of your c.v.

Excerpt from E-Chapter 9

Admissions committees get irritated by having to consider incomplete application files. In fact, many programs strictly adhere to their deadlines and will not consider an application if any of the required components are missing or late. Even when you are applying to a program that allows a little bit of leeway, perhaps a few days or even a week or two past the published deadline, you should never miss that deadline. For one thing, you usually do not know in advance which programs have absolute deadlines and which ones allow a bit of flexibility. Even when they allow you to get away with it, being late makes a bad impression, and as I have stressed repeatedly, negative impressions can be difficult to reverse.

It is your responsibility to make sure that all of your application materials have arrived and are in your file by the deadline. It is not the responsibility of the graduate program staff to track down missing materials. Although some programs send postcards to applicants prior to the deadline, indicating the components that have or have not yet arrived, this is more of a courtesy than an obligation. An irritating tendency of some graduate school applicants is that they do not allow themselves enough time and then expect to receive some kind of special consideration when they miss a deadline. No matter what the excuse for being late is, they are unlikely to get much sympathy.

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