Thanks Matthew, that's actually pretty helpful. What I've done so far is make an outline that includes the following questions/headings:
Overall Goal
Specific Career Acheivement Goals, short and long term
Ways that I believe Grad School can aid me in these goals
Why I am choosing Grad school over just more professional experience
I am trying to find a way to show that grad. school is the right choice for me at this time, and not sound the same as the many many others . . .
I'm just not sure how long the Statement of Prof. Goals needs to be. I don't want to be too short, but I also don't like to ramble on needlessly just to fill up space.
KC - I think U/RTA's are a great way to go to hopefully be able to talk to a bunch of people at once, however my top two choices are actually not even going to be at the audition site I plan on attending! Numbers one and two on my list (in no particular order) are Rutgers - Mason Gross School of the Arts, and Yale School of Drama. Other than that, the only two programs I know much about and are apparently very good are University of Iowa (supposedly an EXCELLENT program, but probably not for me as I would prefer to be near a major theatre city, ie Philly, NYC, DC, Chi, etc) or University of California at Irvine. If you'd like I'll follow up and let you know how the URTA process works out for me and what school I end up at.