Some students apply for admission only to their first-choice school, while others apply to several schools. Which plan do you agree with, and why? Be sure to include details and examples to support your opinion
A graduate school application process can be challenging, requires a lot time and commitment which causes candidates to be stressed a lot with the fear of getting a rejection. Also, this stress and fear of rejection limits their perspective and causes them to focus on what that single program wants rather discovering their own interests. To overcome this problems, students should apply several schools rather than sticking on their first choice. By creating themselves several options, they will reduce their risk of getting a rejection and have opportunity to discover new areas of interest by doing more research on other programs.
To begin with, applying only to the first program of choice is very risky since getting a rejection means loosing all the chance of attending to a graduate program at least for a year. This creastes a lot of stress and pressure which makes it harder to control the whole process. For example, I am currently applying for several graduate programs which of them are highly competitive due to their reputation and successful academics. I am aware of the fact that I might get rejected but by ensuring myself that even if I got a rejection from my top choice, I can still get into another program that is almost equally good. This helps me deal with stress and gives me more control over the overall application process.
Secondly, the fear of getting rejected from my top choice motivates me to do more research on my area of study and this way I discover more about the researches conducted in other US institutions in my profession. For example, I am applying to civil engineering graduate programs on energy efficient building design however as I do more research I realize that there are some programs that aims to make whole neighborhood energy efficient by integrating buildings with energy infrastructure system. Discovering such research and program focuses has broadened my perspective and I acquired new ideas that I can benefit during my whole graduate experience. My priority has not changed however, I discovered new things and realized that I will be equally happy in attending such programs.
To conclude, the stress arising from the competitive nature of the graduate program application progress and risks of rejection can limit the perspective of the applicants to fit exactly the program requirements if they have only one choice. Applying to several programs helps solving the problems and increases chances of getting acceptance.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 353, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'these'?
Suggestion: these
...vering their own interests. To overcome this problems, students should apply several...
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Line 7, column 278, Rule ID: ADVISE_VBG[5]
Message: The verb 'help' is used with infinitive: 'to solve' or 'solve'.
Suggestion: to solve; solve
...ice. Applying to several programs helps solving the problems and increases chances of g...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, second, secondly, so, still, at least, for example, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 15.1003584229 46% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 9.8082437276 82% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 13.8261648746 101% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.0286738351 100% => OK
Pronoun: 49.0 43.0788530466 114% => OK
Preposition: 55.0 52.1666666667 105% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 8.0752688172 161% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2090.0 1977.66487455 106% => OK
No of words: 408.0 407.700716846 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.12254901961 4.8611393121 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.49433085973 4.48103885553 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.83916219752 2.67179642975 106% => OK
Unique words: 202.0 212.727598566 95% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.495098039216 0.524837075471 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 648.0 618.680645161 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 9.59856630824 104% => OK
Article: 3.0 3.08781362007 97% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 3.51792114695 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.94265232975 81% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 20.6003584229 73% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 27.0 20.1344086022 134% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 53.3801461219 48.9658058833 109% => OK
Chars per sentence: 139.333333333 100.406767564 139% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.2 20.6045352989 132% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.4 5.45110844103 117% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 11.8709677419 59% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 3.85842293907 207% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.88709677419 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.175294779587 0.236089414692 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0704267698359 0.076458572812 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0604475243329 0.0737576698707 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.115146633097 0.150856017488 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.05112366583 0.0645574589148 79% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.3 11.7677419355 139% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.07 58.1214874552 76% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 10.1575268817 136% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.71 10.9000537634 117% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.81 8.01818996416 110% => OK
difficult_words: 99.0 86.8835125448 114% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.002688172 135% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 10.0537634409 127% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.247311828 137% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: conclusion.
So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:
reasons == advantages or
reasons == disadvantages
for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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