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Getting In:
An Applicant's Guide
to Graduate School Admissions
Internet Links
Of course, the Internet is absolutely full of useful
resoursces for graduate study, far more so than when I began this guidebook
project several years ago. This website must be only begin
your researching. To help in your searching, I offer a print-friendly
links page (with full URLs listed) below.
Enjoy!
DECIDING WHETHER TO APPLY
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Faculty Advice for Undergraduates Considering Graduate School
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http://www.jobweb.com/catapult/pagre-g.html
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Drew University's Guide to the Graduate School Decision
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http://www.drew.edu/admin/career/career_info/grad_index.html
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Considering Graduate & Professional Schools
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gopher://minerva.acc.Virginia.EDU:70/00/pubs/career/handouts/1/16
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Movin' On: Tips About Graduate School
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http://www.wm.edu/csrv/career/stualum/graddir/gcontent.html
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The Unvalidated Graduate School Potential (UGSP) test
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http://web.indstate.edu/psych/ch5b.html
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Graduate School and Careers in Psychology
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http://www.rider.edu/users/suler/gradschl.html
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You Need to Go to Grad School - especially
but not only for minorities
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http://www.minorities-jb.com/gograd11.html
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Is Grad School for You? [article]
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http://www1.kaplan.com/view/article/0,1275,1812,00.html
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Grad School Decisions [article]
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http://www.student.com/article/getintograd1
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In's and Out's of Grad School [article]
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http://www.chem.duke.edu/~bonk/Careers/GradSchAdm.html
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Filling holes in your undergraduate education [article]
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http://www.salonmagazine.com/it/col/pagl/1998/11/04pagl.html
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Master's Degree Before Ph.D.: Help or Hindrance?
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http://psych.hanover.edu/handbook/masters2.html
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Academic Advising Resources on the Internet
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http://www.psu.edu/dus/ncta/
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Career Center
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http://career.berkeley.edu/
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THE PROCESS OF APPLYING
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General
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How to Apply to Grad School
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http://psych.hanover.edu/handbook/applic2.html
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Princeton Review's Guide: Choosing a Graduate School
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http://www.review.com/graduate/choosing.cfm
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Kaplan’s Guide to Graduate School Applications
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http://www.kaplan.com/gre/admiss_top.html
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International Students' Guide to American Higher Education
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http://www.bibl.u-szeged.hu/bibl/afit/menuw.html
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Study in the USA: A Resource for International Students
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http://www.studyusa.com/
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Chris Parks' Graduate Admissions Homepage
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http://www.uwm.edu/~ccp2/work
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UC-SD Guide to Graduate Admissions -
more than meets the eye
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http://www-csc.ucsd.edu/csc/Advicean.htm
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Applying to Graduate School -
especially but not only for psychology
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http://www.apa.org/ed/getin.html
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How to Apply to Graduate School -
especially but not only for psychology
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http://psych.hanover.edu/handbook/applic2.html
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Applying to Pyschology Graduate Programs
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http://www.cas.okstate.edu/psych/undergrad/gradbook/ApplyGradProg.html
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Essay writing
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Accepted.com - Writing Great Admissions Essays!
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http://www.accepted.com/
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AdmissionsEssays.com
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http://admissionsessays.com/
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Ivy Essays
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http://www.ivyessays.com/
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Preparing Graduate School Application Essays
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http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/writecenter/web/text/apply.html
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Writing an Effective Personal Statement -
especially but not only for social work
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http://www.socialworker.com/admissio.htm
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Writing the Personal Statement
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http://career.berkeley.edu/Grad/GradApply.stm#statement
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Taking the GREs
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The Princeton Review
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http://www.review.com/graduate/
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Kaplan Online
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http://www1.kaplan.com/view/zine/0,1282,2,00.html
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GRE Online
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http://www.gre.org/
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No. 2, Inc.
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http://number2.com/gre/index.html
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Educational Testing Service
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http://etsis1.ets.org/
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Recommendations
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Hanover's 8 Steps to a Good Letter of Recommendation
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http://psych.hanover.edu/handbook/rec_letters2.html
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How to Receive an Unenthusiastic Letter of Recommendation
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http://psych.hanover.edu/handbook/peeves2.html
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Getting a Good Letter of Recommendation
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http://www.psychwww.com/careers/lettrec.htm
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Letters of Recommendation
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http://career.berkeley.edu/Grad/GradApply.stm#letters
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PsychSource Guide to Letters of Recommendation
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http://acklen.belmont.edu/Humanities/Behavioral.Sci/PSY/PS08
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Recommendation Wars [article]
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http://www.salonmagazine.com/it/feature/1998/09/24feature.html
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Questions to Ask When Visiting Schools
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http://www.cs.oberlin.edu/~csmc/gradschool/questions-for-visiting.html
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Are Graduate Admissions Fair? (Adobe Acrobat Reader required)
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http://www.tulane.edu/~aau/942-1.pdf
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Related Newsgroups (Usenet):
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soc.college.admissions
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soc.college.grad
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soc.college.gradinfo
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soc.college.financial-aid
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alt.grad-student.tenured
DETERMINING WHAT'S AVAILABLE
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Yahoo's Admission Offices on the Web
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http://www.yahoo.com/Education/Higher_Education/
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College_Entrance/Admissions_Offices/
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Graduate School Guide
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http://www.schoolguides.com/
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World Wide Graduate School Directory
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http://www.gradschools.com/
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Graduate Studies Directory
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http://jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu/~dsilver/GSDPage.html
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American Colleges Directory
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http://www.clas.ufl.edu/CLAS/american-universities.html
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The University Pages
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http://isl-garnet.uah.edu/Universities/
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Critical Comparisons of U.S. Colleges & Universities
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http://www.memex-press.com/cc/
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CollegeEdge's Going to Grad School
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http://grad.collegeedge.com/
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ScholarStuff's All About Grad Schools
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http://www.allaboutgradschool.com/
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Ph.D. Org - especially (but not exclusively)
for science, math, and engineering
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http://www.phds.org/
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Peterson's Guides to Graduate School
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http://www.petersons.com/graduate/gsector.html
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U.S. New & World Report's Program Rankings &
Search Aids
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http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/beyond/bchome.htm
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NRC Graduate School Rankings
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http://alfredo.wustl.edu/nrc_rankings/view.cgi
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Wehrli’s Law, Business, Medical, Graduate, and Undergraduate
Rankings
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http://wehrli.ilrg.com/
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FINDING FUNDING
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Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA)
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http://www.ed.gov/offices/OPE/express.html
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Financial Aid Info Links
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http://www.finaid.org/
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Grants in Graduate Study
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http://www.nyu.edu:80/gsas/fininfo/gigs.html
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Graduate Fellowships Database
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http://www.grad.nd.edu/gfd/
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Peterson's Guide to Financial Aid
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http://www.petersons.com/resources/finance.html
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"Financing: Impossible," by Kaplan
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http://www.kaplan.com/gre/finaid-home.html
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Graduate Fellowships
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gopher://gopher.cornell.edu/11/.dirs/GRFN
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Fellowships Awarded in National Competitions
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http://www.grad.uiuc.edu/financial_aid/fellowship.html
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Graduate Fellowship Newsletters
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http://www.grad.nd.edu/gfn/
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Graduate and Professional Fellowships for Minorities
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http://www.black-collegian.com/Oct96/fellow96.html
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London Times Research Opportunities - by discipline
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http://www.thesis.co.uk/
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SUCCEEDING WHEN YOU GET THERE;
OR, WHAT TO BE AWARE OF EVEN BEFORE YOU APPLY
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How to Succeed in Graduate School
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http://info.acm.org/crossroads/xrds1-2/advice1.html
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Graduate School Survival Guide
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http://www-smi.stanford.edu/people/pratt/smi/advice.html
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How to Succeed in Graduate School
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http://info.acm.org/crossroads/xrds1-2/advice1.html
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How to Be a Good Graduate Student
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http://www.cs.indiana.edu/how.2b/how.2b.html
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Characteristics of Graduate School Superstars
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http://www.psychwww.com/careers/suprstar.htm
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H-Grad
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http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~grad/
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Association for Support of Graduate Students
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http://www.asgs.org/
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Recent Research on Graduate Studies (Council of Graduate
Students)
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http://www.cgsnet.org/vcr/
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The Chronicle of Higher Education
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http://chronicle.merit.edu/
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Survival in the Academy
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http://www.cs.indiana.edu/docproject/handbook/part1.9.html
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Levine's Guide to Writing your Dissertation/Thesis
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http://www.msue.msu.edu/aee/dissthes/guide.htm
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Robin Lampert’s Advice for Graduate Students
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http://www.crew.umich.edu/~lampert/grad-advice.html
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You and Your Research
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http://www.dsp.rice.edu/publications/hamming/
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PHinisheD: To help folks finish their dissertations
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http://www.bluemarble.net/~amyloo/phinished/phin2.cgi
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Graduate Student Advice and Research Survival Guide
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http://www-smi.stanford.edu/people/pratt/smi/advice.html
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Black Collegian Online's Guide to Graduate Schools
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http://www.black-collegian.com/gradprof.html
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Information Resources for Graduate Students
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http://www.eecs.nwu.edu/~jmyers/gradstudent.html
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Graduate Study Guide - especially (but
not exclusively) psychology
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http://www.gasou.edu/psychweb/psychweb.html
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Tips for a Massive Education Job Search
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http://www.mills.edu/ACAD_INFO/MCS/SPERTUS/job-search/job.html
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Landing an Academic Job: The Process and the Pitfalls
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http://quattro.me.uiuc.edu/~jon/ACAJOB/academic_job.html
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New Career Paths for Ph.D.'s
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http://career.berkeley.edu/PhDs/PhDcareer.stm
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The Tenure Chase Papers
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http://www.phds.org/Reading/TenureChase/index.htm
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Median Salaries for New Doctorates
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http://nextwave.sciencemag.org/survey/survey6.dtl
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Mathus and Graduate Students: Checks on Burgeoning Ranks
of Ph.D.'s [article]
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http://www.the-scientist.library.upenn.edu/yr1996/feb/malthus_960205.html
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The Great Ph.D. Scam [article]
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http://www.bostonphoenix.com/alt1/archive/styles/97/03/06/DEGREES.html
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Suicides Prompt Harvard to Make Changes [article]
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http://www.boston.com/dailynews/wirehtml/293_lr/
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Suicides_prompt_Harvard_to_make_cha.shtml
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Out of Academia [article]
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http://www.salonmagazine.com/it/career/1998/11/06career.html
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