Acknowledgments
The author is grateful to the members of the Economics Admissions Committee at Northwestern University: Lori Beaman, Giorgio Primiceri, and Marcianno Siniscalchi for suggestions and discussion.
Notes
1 In the panel discussion, my colleagues provided several examples of content from convincing and not convincing letters. I believe they will include these examples in their discussion. So I will refrain from providing any examples to avoid duplication.