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

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

References

Hopefully I've given you a good start here, but of course you'll need more advice and information to decide whether and how to complete this graduate school application process. Here then are some interesting resources with which to continue your efforts and explorations.

DECIDING WHETHER TO APPLY

Lento-McGovern, Diane. Life After College: So You Graduated - Now What? White Hall, VA: Betterway Publications, 1987.

Clark, Robert E. and John Palattella, eds. The Real Guide to Grad School: What You Better Know Before You Choose: Humanities & Social Sciences. New York: Lingua Franca Books, 1997.

Powel, John H. An Annotated Bibliography of Literature Relating to the Costs and Benefits of Graduate Education. Washington, Council of Graduate Schools, 1972.

Froilan, William Smith. Personality Characterisitics of Graduate School Bound Versus Non-Graduate School Bound Undergraduate Psychology Majors. M.A. thesis, Ohio State University, 1992.

Buskist, William. Preparing for Graduate Study in Psychology: 101 Questions and Answers. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1996.

Duffy, James P. How to Earn an Advanced Degree Without Going to Graduate School. New York: Wiley, 1994.

Accounting to Zoology: Graduate Fields Defined. Princeton, NJ: Peterson's Guides, 1987.

Leape, Martha P. Choosing an Academic Career. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993.

THE PROCESS OF APPLYING

Calvert, Jack. Graduate School in the Sciences: Entrance, Survival and Careers. New York: Wiley, 1972.

Lake, Dianne, et al. Getting Into Graduate School: Selection, Admissions, Financial Aid. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.

Jerrard, Richard. The Grad School Handbook: An Insider's Guide to Getting In and Succeeding. New York: Berkley Pub. Group, 1998.

Rold, Cynthia L. Real life Guide to Graduate and Professional School: How to Choose, Apply for, and Finance Your Advanced Degree! Chapel Hill, NC: Pipeline Press, 1998.

Finkle, Jane, ed. Graduate School: The Best Resources to Help You Choose, Get In & Pay. Seattle, WA: Resource Pathways, 1998.

Walters, Charles. How to Apply to Graduate School Without Really Lying. Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1980.

Greene, Howard and Robert Minton. Beyond the Ivy Wall: 10 Essential Steps to Graduate School Admissions. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1989.

Williams, Stephen. How to Get Into and Finance Graduate and Professional Schools. New York: Collier, 1982.

Strange, Marliss G. Apply to Graduate School: A Student's Guide. New York: Arco Publications, 1985.

Vernon, James R. The Role of Judgment in Admissions. Ph.D. dissertation, Rand, 1996.

Mumby, David Gerald. Graduate School: Winning Strategies for Getting In With or Without Excellent Grades. Proto Press, 1997.

Keith-Spiegel, Patricia The Complete Guide to Graduate School Admission: Psychology and Related Programs. Hillsdale, NJ: L. Erlbaum Associates, 1991.

Getting In: A Step-By-Step Plan for Gaining Admission to Graduate School in Psychology. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 1997.

Stewart, Mark A. GRE-LSAT logic workbook. New York: Prentice Hall, 1991.

Lurie, Karen. The Princeton Review LSAT/GRE Analytic Workout. New York: Random House, 1996.

Kaplan GRE 1998-99. New York: Kaplan Educational Centers: Simon & Schuster, 1998.

Stelzer, Richard J. How to Write a Winning Personal Statement for Graduate and Professional School. Princeton, NJ: Peterson's, 1997.

Asher, Donald. Graduate Admissions Essays: What Works, What Doesn't, and Why. Berkeley, CA: Ten Speed Press, 1991.

DETERMINING WHAT'S AVAILABLE

Dissertation Abstracts. Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms, [annually].

"America's Best Graduate Schools." U.S. News and World Report [annually].

Gourman, Jack. The Gourman Report. Los Angeles: National Educational Standards, [annually].

Hattendorf, Lynn. Educational Rankings Annual. Detroit: Gale Research, [annually].

The National Faculty Directory. Detroit: Gale Research, 1989.

Peterson's Graduate and Professional Programs, 1998. Princeton, NJ: Peterson's Guides, [annually].

Graduate School Guide: A Comprehensive Guide to Doctoral, Master's, and Professional Degree Programs. New Rochelle, NY: School Guide Publications, 1994.

GradSearch for Windows, Release 1.0. Princeton, N. J.: Peterson's Guides, Inc., 1995-1996. [A CD-Rom product, GradSearch provides detailed profiles of 31,000 graduate and professional programs at 1,500 universities in North America.]

Chemical Sciences Graduate School Finder. Washington, DC: American Chemical Society, 1991-.

Clark, Mary Jo. Graduate Program Self-Assessment Service: Handbook for Users. Princeton, NJ: Educational Testing Service, 1980.

Haworth, Jennifer. Grant Emblems of Quality in Higher Education: Developing and Sustaining High-Quality Programs. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1997.

FINDING FUNDING

Blum, Laurie. Free Money for Graduate School. New York: Facts on File, 1996.

McWade, Patricia. Financing Graduate School: How to Get the Money for your Master's or Ph.D. Princeton, NJ: Peterson's, 1996.

Cassidy, Daniel J. The Graduate Scholarship Book. Clifton, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1993.

Cassidy, Daniel J. Dan Cassidy's Worldwide Graduate Scholarship Directory. Franklin Lakes, NJ: Career Press, 1995.

Lichtenstein, Ellen. 10 Minute Guide to Paying for Grad School. New York: Alpha Books, 1997.

The College Blue Book: Scholarships, Fellowships, Grants, and Loans. New York: MacMillian, 1993.

Hamel, April Vahle. The Graduate School Funding Handbook. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1994.

Kirby, Debra M. editor. Scholarships, Fellowships, and Loans. Detroit: Gale Research, 1994.

Lerner, Craig A. The Grants Register. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994.

Peterson's Grants for Graduate and Postdoctoral Study. Princeton, NJ: Peterson's Guides, 1994.

Schlachter, Gail Ann and R. David Weber. Directory of Financial Aid for Minorities, 1993-95. San Carlos, CA: Reference Service Press, 1995.

Schlachter, Gail Ann. How to Find Out About Financial Aid. Los Angeles: Reference Service Press, 1987.

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

Stockwell, Anne. The Guerrilla Guide to Mastering Student Loan Debt. New York: HarperCollins, 1997.

Peters, Robert. Getting What You Came For: The Smart Student's Guide to Earning a Masters or a Ph.D. New York: Noonday Press, 1992.

Hawley, Peggy. Being Bright Isn't Enough: The Unwritten Rules of Doctoral Study. Springfield, IL: C.C. Thomas, 1993.

Moore, Richard W. Winning the Ph.D. Game. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1985.

Cambra, Ann E. Graduate Students' Survival Guide. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., 1984.

Dukelow, W. Richard. Graduate Student Survival. Springfield, Ill.: Thomas, 1980.

Sanford, Mark. Making it in Graduate School. Berkeley, CA: Montaigne, 1976.

Mitchell, Lesli. The Ultimate Grad School Survival Guide: Getting In, Getting Money, Exams and Classes, the Profs, the Thesis/Dissertation. Princeton, NJ: Peterson's, 1996.

Castrovilla, Mari and Jeanne Marie Healy, eds. Graduate School Guide: 1996. New Rochelle, NY: School Guide Publications, 1996.

Rossman, Mark H. Negotiating Graduate School: A Guide for Graduate Students. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1995.

Barner, James. Conquering Graduate School: What You Need to Know. Plainfield, IL: Wishbone Pub., 1995.

Phillips, Estelle. How to Get a Ph.D. Philadelphia: Open University Press, 1994.

Allen, George. The Graduate Student's Guide to Theses and Dissertations. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1984.

Bowen, William and Neil L. Rudenstine. In Pursuit of the Ph.D. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University, 1992.

Gustafson, Melanie. Becoming a Historian: A Survival Manual for Women and Men. Washington, DC: American Historical Association, 1991.

Anderson, Melissa S., ed. The Experience of Being in Graduate School: An Exploration. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1998.

Pittman, Von V. Surviving Graduate School Part Time. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1997.

Hammon, Darrel L. Completing Graduate School Long Distance. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1998.

University of Iowa Video Center. What is Expected of Graduate Students in the United States [videorecording]. Washington, D.C.: National Association for Foreign Student Affairs, 1982.

Rittner, Barbara. The Women's Guide to Surviving Graduate School. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 1997.

Jones, Jessie M., Margaret E. Goertz, and Charlotte V. Kuhn. Minorities in Graduate Education: Pipeline, Policy, and Practice. Princeton, NJ: Educational Testing Service, 1992.

Isaac, Alicia. The African American Student's Guide to Surviving Graduate School. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1998.

Willie, Charles Vert. African-Americans and the Doctoral Experience: Implications for Policy. New York: Teachers College Press, 1991.

Hauptman, Arthur M. Students in Graduate and Professional Education: What We Know and Need to Know. Washington, DC: Association of American Universities, 1986.

Meyer, Katrina Anne. Graduate Education Study. Olympia, WA: Higher Education Coordinating Board, 1991.

Pelikan, Jaroslav. Scholarship and Its Survival: Questions on the Idea of Graduate Education. Princeton, NJ: Carnegie Foundation, 1983.

Nerad, Maresi, Raymond June, and Debra Sands Miller. Graduate Education in the United States. New York: Garland Pub., 1997.

Storr, Richard J. The Beginnings of Graduate Education in America. New York, Arno Press, 1953 [reprint, 1969].

Smith, Bruce L. R., editor. The State of Graduate Education. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1985.

Council of Graduate Schools in the U.S. and the Graduate Record Examinations Board. Recent Developments in Graduate Programs. Washington, DC: The Council, 1982.

Karolyi, Margaret S. All But the Dissertation: Perceptions of ABD Level Attrition among Faculty, Alumni, and ABDs in a Graduate School of Education at a Large, Public, Midwestern University. Ph.D. thesis, Kent State University, 1993.