Guide to grad school
Melissa Enaje, Staff Writer
Issue date: 11/19/08 Section: Features
If the decision is worth a try, take note that the process and experience is completely different than the undergraduate process.
According to The Real Guide to Grad School, What you Better Know Before you Choose, the first scholarly task is to do exactly what you're doing right now.
Put together all the advice you're receiving along with what other guides offer and analyze which graduate school works for you.
Review scholarly journals and quiz professionals and search the Internet. Deciding where to attend is a step towards molding your professional identity.
However, make sure you are absolutely certain you are ready to make such a huge commitment to education.
"Only go if you're 100 percent committed," Rodrigo Tordecilla said, a recent St. John's graduate who attends Hofstra Law School. "If you're only 99.9 percent committed, don't go."
Once you have decided you want to go to graduate school, you have to decide what subject you will pursue.
This is important because this is where the "labor of love" stems from, affecting their studies over the next few years.
The application process is next and requires one to apply to a single department.
A committee made up of faculty who will be educating the specific program will then evaluate qualifications.
If they choose to accept you, congratulations. This entitles a newfound freedom. That means fewer hours in a classroom and, two or three courses a semester, which might meet only once or twice a week.
The joy even includes infrequent exams. Yet, the trade-off is that you will have few built-in-forces to keep
tasks on schedule.
"Medical school is rigorous, law school is rigorous and business school is rigorous as well," said James Patrick Abulencia, from The Princeton Review.
"So be sure that you're going to be willing to put in time, effort and in some cases the money, where you have to pay for school."
Don't let financial issues be the burdening factor against the decision to attend, either. Kathleen B. Davis, director at the office of Graduate Admissions at St. John's University offered some advice.
According to The Real Guide to Grad School, What you Better Know Before you Choose, the first scholarly task is to do exactly what you're doing right now.
Put together all the advice you're receiving along with what other guides offer and analyze which graduate school works for you.
Review scholarly journals and quiz professionals and search the Internet. Deciding where to attend is a step towards molding your professional identity.
However, make sure you are absolutely certain you are ready to make such a huge commitment to education.
"Only go if you're 100 percent committed," Rodrigo Tordecilla said, a recent St. John's graduate who attends Hofstra Law School. "If you're only 99.9 percent committed, don't go."
Once you have decided you want to go to graduate school, you have to decide what subject you will pursue.
This is important because this is where the "labor of love" stems from, affecting their studies over the next few years.
The application process is next and requires one to apply to a single department.
A committee made up of faculty who will be educating the specific program will then evaluate qualifications.
If they choose to accept you, congratulations. This entitles a newfound freedom. That means fewer hours in a classroom and, two or three courses a semester, which might meet only once or twice a week.
The joy even includes infrequent exams. Yet, the trade-off is that you will have few built-in-forces to keep
tasks on schedule.
"Medical school is rigorous, law school is rigorous and business school is rigorous as well," said James Patrick Abulencia, from The Princeton Review.
"So be sure that you're going to be willing to put in time, effort and in some cases the money, where you have to pay for school."
Don't let financial issues be the burdening factor against the decision to attend, either. Kathleen B. Davis, director at the office of Graduate Admissions at St. John's University offered some advice.
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Jonathan
posted 11/20/08 @ 3:18 AM NA
Win the lottery. JK. Mann this article was in depth, for real. I like the bright future choice.
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