Getting In: An Applicant's Guide to Graduate School Admissions

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

Faculty Advice for Undergraduates Considering Graduate School

http://www.jobweb.com/catapult/pagre-g.html

Drew University's Guide to the Graduate School Decision

http://www.drew.edu/admin/career/career_info/grad_index.html

Considering Graduate & Professional Schools

gopher://minerva.acc.Virginia.EDU:70/00/pubs/career/handouts/1/16

Movin' On: Tips About Graduate School

http://www.wm.edu/csrv/career/stualum/graddir/gcontent.html

The Unvalidated Graduate School Potential (UGSP) test

http://web.indstate.edu/psych/ch5b.html

Graduate School and Careers in Psychology

http://www.rider.edu/users/suler/gradschl.html

You Need to Go to Grad School - especially but not only for minorities

http://www.minorities-jb.com/gograd11.html

Is Grad School for You? [article]

http://www1.kaplan.com/view/article/0,1275,1812,00.html

Grad School Decisions [article]

http://www.student.com/article/getintograd1

In's and Out's of Grad School [article]

http://www.chem.duke.edu/~bonk/Careers/GradSchAdm.html

Filling holes in your undergraduate education [article]

http://www.salonmagazine.com/it/col/pagl/1998/11/04pagl.html

Master's Degree Before Ph.D.: Help or Hindrance?

http://psych.hanover.edu/handbook/masters2.html

Academic Advising Resources on the Internet

http://www.psu.edu/dus/ncta/

Career Center

http://career.berkeley.edu/

THE PROCESS OF APPLYING

General

How to Apply to Grad School

http://psych.hanover.edu/handbook/applic2.html

Princeton Review's Guide: Choosing a Graduate School

http://www.review.com/graduate/choosing.cfm

Kaplan’s Guide to Graduate School Applications

http://www.kaplan.com/gre/admiss_top.html

International Students' Guide to American Higher Education

http://www.bibl.u-szeged.hu/bibl/afit/menuw.html

Study in the USA: A Resource for International Students

http://www.studyusa.com/

Chris Parks' Graduate Admissions Homepage

http://www.uwm.edu/~ccp2/work

UC-SD Guide to Graduate Admissions - more than meets the eye

http://www-csc.ucsd.edu/csc/Advicean.htm

Applying to Graduate School - especially but not only for psychology

http://www.apa.org/ed/getin.html

How to Apply to Graduate School - especially but not only for psychology

http://psych.hanover.edu/handbook/applic2.html

Applying to Pyschology Graduate Programs

http://www.cas.okstate.edu/psych/undergrad/gradbook/ApplyGradProg.html

Essay writing

Accepted.com - Writing Great Admissions Essays!

http://www.accepted.com/

AdmissionsEssays.com

http://admissionsessays.com/

Ivy Essays

http://www.ivyessays.com/

Preparing Graduate School Application Essays

http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/writecenter/web/text/apply.html

Writing an Effective Personal Statement - especially but not only for social work

http://www.socialworker.com/admissio.htm

Writing the Personal Statement

http://career.berkeley.edu/Grad/GradApply.stm#statement

Taking the GREs

The Princeton Review

http://www.review.com/graduate/

Kaplan Online

http://www1.kaplan.com/view/zine/0,1282,2,00.html

GRE Online

http://www.gre.org/

No. 2, Inc.

http://number2.com/gre/index.html

Educational Testing Service

http://etsis1.ets.org/

Recommendations

Hanover's 8 Steps to a Good Letter of Recommendation

http://psych.hanover.edu/handbook/rec_letters2.html

How to Receive an Unenthusiastic Letter of Recommendation

http://psych.hanover.edu/handbook/peeves2.html

Getting a Good Letter of Recommendation

http://www.psychwww.com/careers/lettrec.htm

Letters of Recommendation

http://career.berkeley.edu/Grad/GradApply.stm#letters

PsychSource Guide to Letters of Recommendation

http://acklen.belmont.edu/Humanities/Behavioral.Sci/PSY/PS08

Recommendation Wars [article]

http://www.salonmagazine.com/it/feature/1998/09/24feature.html

Questions to Ask When Visiting Schools

http://www.cs.oberlin.edu/~csmc/gradschool/questions-for-visiting.html

Are Graduate Admissions Fair? (Adobe Acrobat Reader required)

http://www.tulane.edu/~aau/942-1.pdf

Related Newsgroups (Usenet):

soc.college.admissions

soc.college.grad

soc.college.gradinfo

soc.college.financial-aid

alt.grad-student.tenured

DETERMINING WHAT'S AVAILABLE

Yahoo's Admission Offices on the Web

http://www.yahoo.com/Education/Higher_Education/

College_Entrance/Admissions_Offices/

Graduate School Guide

http://www.schoolguides.com/

World Wide Graduate School Directory

http://www.gradschools.com/

Graduate Studies Directory

http://jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu/~dsilver/GSDPage.html

American Colleges Directory

http://www.clas.ufl.edu/CLAS/american-universities.html

The University Pages

http://isl-garnet.uah.edu/Universities/

Critical Comparisons of U.S. Colleges & Universities

http://www.memex-press.com/cc/

CollegeEdge's Going to Grad School

http://grad.collegeedge.com/

ScholarStuff's All About Grad Schools

http://www.allaboutgradschool.com/

Ph.D. Org - especially (but not exclusively) for science, math, and engineering

http://www.phds.org/

Peterson's Guides to Graduate School

http://www.petersons.com/graduate/gsector.html

U.S. New & World Report's Program Rankings & Search Aids

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/beyond/bchome.htm

NRC Graduate School Rankings

http://alfredo.wustl.edu/nrc_rankings/view.cgi

Wehrli’s Law, Business, Medical, Graduate, and Undergraduate Rankings

http://wehrli.ilrg.com/

FINDING FUNDING

Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA)

http://www.ed.gov/offices/OPE/express.html

Financial Aid Info Links

http://www.finaid.org/

Grants in Graduate Study

http://www.nyu.edu:80/gsas/fininfo/gigs.html

Graduate Fellowships Database

http://www.grad.nd.edu/gfd/

Peterson's Guide to Financial Aid

http://www.petersons.com/resources/finance.html

"Financing: Impossible," by Kaplan

http://www.kaplan.com/gre/finaid-home.html

Graduate Fellowships

gopher://gopher.cornell.edu/11/.dirs/GRFN

Fellowships Awarded in National Competitions

http://www.grad.uiuc.edu/financial_aid/fellowship.html

Graduate Fellowship Newsletters

http://www.grad.nd.edu/gfn/

Graduate and Professional Fellowships for Minorities

http://www.black-collegian.com/Oct96/fellow96.html

London Times Research Opportunities - by discipline

http://www.thesis.co.uk/

SUCCEEDING WHEN YOU GET THERE;
OR, WHAT TO BE AWARE OF EVEN BEFORE YOU APPLY

How to Succeed in Graduate School

http://info.acm.org/crossroads/xrds1-2/advice1.html

Graduate School Survival Guide

http://www-smi.stanford.edu/people/pratt/smi/advice.html

How to Succeed in Graduate School

http://info.acm.org/crossroads/xrds1-2/advice1.html

How to Be a Good Graduate Student

http://www.cs.indiana.edu/how.2b/how.2b.html

Characteristics of Graduate School Superstars

http://www.psychwww.com/careers/suprstar.htm

H-Grad

http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~grad/

Association for Support of Graduate Students

http://www.asgs.org/

Recent Research on Graduate Studies (Council of Graduate Students)

http://www.cgsnet.org/vcr/

The Chronicle of Higher Education

http://chronicle.merit.edu/

Survival in the Academy

http://www.cs.indiana.edu/docproject/handbook/part1.9.html

Levine's Guide to Writing your Dissertation/Thesis

http://www.msue.msu.edu/aee/dissthes/guide.htm

Robin Lampert’s Advice for Graduate Students

http://www.crew.umich.edu/~lampert/grad-advice.html

You and Your Research

http://www.dsp.rice.edu/publications/hamming/

PHinisheD: To help folks finish their dissertations

http://www.bluemarble.net/~amyloo/phinished/phin2.cgi

Graduate Student Advice and Research Survival Guide

http://www-smi.stanford.edu/people/pratt/smi/advice.html

Black Collegian Online's Guide to Graduate Schools

http://www.black-collegian.com/gradprof.html

Information Resources for Graduate Students

http://www.eecs.nwu.edu/~jmyers/gradstudent.html

Graduate Study Guide - especially (but not exclusively) psychology

http://www.gasou.edu/psychweb/psychweb.html

Tips for a Massive Education Job Search

http://www.mills.edu/ACAD_INFO/MCS/SPERTUS/job-search/job.html

Landing an Academic Job: The Process and the Pitfalls

http://quattro.me.uiuc.edu/~jon/ACAJOB/academic_job.html

New Career Paths for Ph.D.'s

http://career.berkeley.edu/PhDs/PhDcareer.stm

The Tenure Chase Papers

http://www.phds.org/Reading/TenureChase/index.htm

Median Salaries for New Doctorates

http://nextwave.sciencemag.org/survey/survey6.dtl

Mathus and Graduate Students: Checks on Burgeoning Ranks of Ph.D.'s [article]

http://www.the-scientist.library.upenn.edu/yr1996/feb/malthus_960205.html

The Great Ph.D. Scam [article]

http://www.bostonphoenix.com/alt1/archive/styles/97/03/06/DEGREES.html

Suicides Prompt Harvard to Make Changes [article]

http://www.boston.com/dailynews/wirehtml/293_lr/

Suicides_prompt_Harvard_to_make_cha.shtml

Out of Academia [article]

http://www.salonmagazine.com/it/career/1998/11/06career.html

Internet Links

DECIDING WHETHER TO APPLY

THE PROCESS OF APPLYING

DETERMINING WHAT'S AVAILABLE

SUCCEEDING WHEN YOU GET THERE; OR, WHAT TO BE AWARE OF EVEN BEFORE YOU APPLY

SUCCEEDING WHEN YOU GET THERE;
OR, WHAT TO BE AWARE OF EVEN BEFORE YOU APPLY