I’ve applied to graduate school three times in my life — each time under rather different circumstances and with different goals. Because graduate school admissions can be quite opaque (I still have no idea why I did or did not get into any of the programs I applied to), I’ve decided to share all the materials from my three application rounds and their results here. I hope they can be enlightening and/or comforting to others who are currently going through (or have gone through) the admissions process.