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Putting all the information in front of me

Posted by Kitkat, in Researching Schools 03 November 2010 · 80 views

This is my basic form for info for each school so that I can have all the information that I need for each school. So far for the 10-12 schools that I am looking at has come out to 2-3 pages for each. I like this in a way, because it means that each time I want to find some information, I have it all in one place, rather in some hard to find places on a l...

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More research experience

Posted by Kitkat, in Researching Schools 10 October 2010 · 49 views

I've been finding myself trying to look to see if I can find other opportunities for research for next summer. I want to find a research opportunity that is more closely aligned to what I think I want to do in grad school, not that what I am doing right now for research isn't interesting. And it's one of the things about my application that I...

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What to look for in graduate schools.

Posted by Kitkat, in Researching Schools 29 September 2010 · 74 views

So since I am at the point in my application where I have a long list of schools that I am looking at for very general reasons, and soon will be trying to see if I can narrow that down to fewer (don't know if that will actually happen yet, we'll see), I wanted to write for others what I have been looking at, and will be looking at, with picking ou...

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Schools - but first with a rant on application fees

Posted by Kitkat, in Researching Schools 24 September 2010 · 86 views

So the way that I am approaching this whole process, and I dunno if this is best for me or not, is to start with a large list of schools and work my way down to fewer. Mainly because applying to schools can end up being so very expensive. Before I get into which schools are presently on my list, I would like to just rant a little bit about this. The schoo...

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