| Planning
Process |
Visit any Career
Services office and pick up the current Events
Calendar and Career Services Guide. Highlight
seminars in the Events Calendar pertaining to graduate study
and attend them. Review appropriate informational pages pertaining
to graduate study. |
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Meet with a career counselor
and/or faculty advisor to discuss your graduate school plans
and the decision making process related to these plans. |
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Attend the two-part program this fall: Graduate
and Professional School Seminar and
Graduate
and Professional School Day. |
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Attend off-campus graduate school events
such as Law School Admissions Day at Rutgers-Newark. Check the
bulletin boards at your regional Career Resource Center for
flyers advertising these programs. For pre-health professions
students, be sure to register with the Health Professions Office
at the Busch Campus/Nelson Labs or Douglass Campus/Voorhees
Chapel. |
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Research graduate and professional schools online. |
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Pick up GRE/GMAT/LSAT booklets at Career Services. Sign up for
and prepare for the appropriate exam. Consider prep courses
given through Rutgers and test preparation organizations such
as Kaplan and Princeton Review. Consider taking sample tests
on disk at the computer lab of your regional Career Services
Office. |
| Register
for the two-day prep courses for the GRE sponsored
by Career Services in conjunction with Spiegelberg Associates.
The fee is $250. Sessions take place on weekends in the Career
Services office in the Busch Campus Center. |
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Visit graduate schools in which you are interested and speak
with to admissions representatives. |
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| Application
Process |
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Request catalogs and application
forms from the programs of your choice as early as possible
- by early fall. Also request information about specific departments,
along with financial aid information. |
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Set up a credentials file using
interfolio.com.
Request letters of recommendation from three professors who
know you well. |
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For specific questions or concerns
regarding professional schools, visit pre-law, pre-med and other
preprofessional advising offices on your campus. |
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Have your application essay critiqued
by a career counselor, mentor, or departmental advisor. |
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Submit applications, official transcripts,
and other required materials on time. |
