Graduate School: Winning Strategies for Getting In, written by one of our graduate school experts, Dave G. Mumby, Ph.D, is the most complete educational guide for college students and professionals, like yourself, who are thinking about getting a Masters or Ph.D. Whatever your field of study may be, the BOOK as well as the eBOOK cover the commonalities across most disciplines, making it relevant to most prospective graduate students. Intended for students in most disciplines within the Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, and Humanities, the BOOK & eBOOK also contain valuable insight for students of Engineering, or Fine Arts, and for those seeking a degree in Business, Law, or Medicine. The author is a university professor whose advice has helped hundreds of students get into graduate school.
BOOK & eBOOK BREAKDOWN:
In chapters 1 – 4 several misconceptions about graduate school are revealed and dispelled, including the most common myth – that you must have excellent grades to get in, and that excellent grades are all that you need. Certain factors that can play an even bigger role than your GPA in determining the fate of an application are discussed, and you will also discover how the process of selecting applicants actually works in most graduate programs; it is not the way that most people think! Students with outstanding grades will discover why they need more than just their grades to get into grad school and succeed once there. These other requirements are explained, along with numerous tips and suggestions for making sure that you are organized and prepared when it comes time to apply.
Chapters 5, 6 and 7 go step-by-step through all stages of the application process, focusing on ways to maximize the quality of each of the five main components of a graduate school application: 1) application forms, 2) transcripts, 3) letters of recommendation, 4) standardized tests, and 5) the personal statement. Pitfalls of the application process are also revealed, and you will be shown how to avoid many of the costly mistakes that most graduate-school applicants unwittingly make.
The later chapters, beginning with chapter 8, discuss how to go beyond the basic application requirements and take extra steps to stand apart from the crowd. Included are such topics as making pre-application contact with a prospective supervisor, writing proper cover letters, and preparing for interviews. Many of the ideas outlined in these chapters do not occur to most students, but those who understand and incorporate them into a strategy for applying to graduate school are almost always successful! The final chapter examines the many ways that you can find the money you need to afford the cost of graduate school. See more in the Table of Contents
The Abridged Version (pdf) is available for a limited time as a FREE DOWNLOAD! Use the "Pay with a Tweet or Facebook" button found above to automatically post a comment on your facebook or twitter page and your download will begin right away! Organized into 4 sections, the Abridged Version covers many of the requirements of a graduate school application as well as providing many educational resources to get you started. The Abridged Version is intended to give you a general sense of what is involved in applying to graduate school but in no way can substitute for the full BOOK or the eBOOK.
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