Admissions Guides | Help Me Bro
Free guides for applicants writing their own documents
These guides are free. Ahsan wrote them for applicants who are drafting their own admissions documents and want to understand the task before they start, or while they revise. Each one stays on a single question, so you can read only what you need.
Statement of purpose guides
The four guides below belong together, though each stands alone. If this is your first statement of purpose, the first one is the natural place to begin.
- Statement of purpose guide: what the document is for, what a reader looks for in it, and how to approach your first draft.
- Statement of purpose examples: a look at how a working statement is built, so you can study its structure and then write your own.
- Statement of purpose format: how to lay the document out, with a reminder to check each program’s own instructions before you finalize it.
- Statement of purpose vs. personal statement: how the two documents differ, and how to tell which one a program is asking you to write.
A suggested reading order
Start with the main guide to get the purpose of the document clear in your head. Move to the examples when you want to see structure in practice, and keep the format guide open while you tidy the final version. The comparison guide is worth a few minutes whenever an application uses a term you are not sure about.
The guides explain; they do not write anything for you. The words in your application need to be yours, and a guide is only useful if it helps you find them.
When you have a draft and want feedback
Some applicants finish a draft and want a careful reader before they submit. Help Me Bro offers editing for drafts you have written yourself, and the services are listed here by document type.
- College essay editing
- Personal statement editing
- Statement of purpose editing
- MBA essay editing
- Scholarship essay editing
I read your draft and leave margin comments and questions on anything substantive. Tracked changes are limited to mechanical fixes such as punctuation, citation format or a missing word. Your draft stays your own, and I make no promises about admission or scholarship outcomes.
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