What steps do you take to get into Graduate School?
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Before you complete your Bachelors start looking for funding! Also, find schools you would like to attend. Make a list of 10 schools: 2 "reach" schools, 4 "average" schools, and 4 "absolutely" schools. The reach schools are schools that you would love to go to but your credentials are below their average for admittance. The 4 average schools are schools that admit students in your range of abilities/scores/etc. The absolutely schools are schools you know you can get in to without any problems. Be sure to take your GRE! I STRONGLY suggest that you pick up the Princeton Review study guide for it. It tests knowledge you haven't used since junior high or before! There's no calculus on it, I promise! Apply to all 10 schools. If you feel you can do better on the GRE, take it again, but be prepared to explain why in your application. You will be asked to do so. This almost guarantees you will get in somewhere. You /might/ even get into a reach school. I did.
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well, first you have to be accepted to the program, and will probably be asked to do further studies. Then you write your report as a Dissertation. Often this is a 200 pg volume, OR MORE. You can't just present the report and automatically get a PhD. You have to enroll and follow the guidelines set forth by the university. However, your report can get you IN to the program.
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Well, the first thing you should do is try to look for some student exchange office in your country. Check if you have some sort of a student exchange program for post-graduate study. I think one of them is called Socrates (I'm not too sure it covers post-graduate, too). \n\nIf there is no possibility like that, search a couple of European states for the university and the program you would like to participate in. Then write an e-mail to that university and ask if it is possible for you to attend it and what exactly do you need for it. They will tell you if they take foreign students and what papers you must have or requirements you need to fulfill.\nGood luck!
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Your first steps will include putting out money.  \n\nFirst of all, take the TOEFL to prove your English knowledge.  Then take the SAT (or GRE if you are graduate student).  Once you have both of these exams, you can apply to a university, sending your high school transcripts and an application fee as well.  \n\nWhen a university accepts you, they will send the I-20 form to apply for the student visa.  \n\nThe best place to start is with the Embassy, and with the TOEFL exam.
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Sorry Eddie, your question is much too general... what goals do you feel you need to reach for your Ph.D. to be "good"?\n\nFrom your question, I'm going to assume that you are not currently in graduate school.\n\nPh.D. Program: As a minimum, you should expect the Ph.D. program you attend to give you a tuition waiver and living stipend.  Some of these stipends are tiny ($5-10,000/year) and many have T.A./teaching requirements attached to them.  Working a part-time job is next to impossible so be prepared to be poor.  Depending on the program, you can often pick up extra money your 2nd or 3rd year working on a grant-funded project or doing other degree-related work.\n\nBeyond the minimum, go for the highest "ranked" program you can get accepted to.  If you are accepted to more than one similarly ranked programs, visit and try to get a feel for the academic culture - are the students cutthroat? Is it a "pressure cooker"?  Do any students have difficulty getting access to their advisor?  How long is the time to degree? Are the students getting jobs after graduating?\n\nAdvisor: Select a graduate advisor you feel comfortable talking to and make your post-graduation goals clear from the outset.  A good advisor will shape your training to fit those post-graduate goals.  \n\nThesis: In general, it is better to have a decent completed thesis than an awesome uncompleted thesis.  Many graduate students spend years (literally) doing a fantastic dissertation.  However, for many of their career goals, they should have done a simpler thesis (in half the time).\n\nBy the way, no matter how excited you are about your thesis to begin with, you'll hate it by the end.  That's just the way it works.\n\nSorry I couldn't offer more specific advice, but I hope this helps...
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With a 2.36, it is questionable whether you could get into grad school.\n\nTake the GRE, including the subject test.  That will be a better indicator than your GPA.\n\nThen, talk to the professors in your department about where you could go, or call the IR Depts. of some universities.
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You can get your Masters Degree.
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you shoud finish your degree because you have more than 1 year to go.  After completing, apply for a graduate school (to earn master or Ph.D degree...)
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In order to pursue a Master's degree in ANYTHING, a student must have both strong undergraduate preparation in the subject or in a closely cognate area, and a passionate interest in that area of study.   If you cannot imagine your life without further study in some area, then you should be looking into graduate schools.  If not, there's no reason for you to attempt to pursue graduate study.  \n\n(Unless you're just looking to increase your income potential, in which case you should consider getting an MBA.)
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I am a Chemical Engineer going into my Senior year also at state school. The main things to work on are maintaining or increasing GPA, obtaining good recommendations, writing a good essay, studying for the GRE, and networking! As for your summer, take a couple of classes you can relax in and study for the GRE. Grad school admissions will probably ask what summer experience you've gotten so its best to either volunteer or work for something computer-related, in your case. I would try to find a local computing company willing to take a volunteer worker with your CE knowledge or apply for a technical aide position. The key is to make the best of your experience this summer. If those don't work, try to obtain an undergrad research position at your school under a professor. Research might be also to pay for your hours of work or you can do it for volunteer, whatever will take up a lot of that free time you have. Stay busy and you'll be able to make the best of your time.\n\nTo improve your chances in graduate school, follow the suggestions I spoke about and try talking with grad students you might know and professors. Invaluable experience can often be made inexpensive just by talking with them!
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Do you mean University of California at Berkeley?  Do you mean get in as an undergraduate majoring in Mathematics?  Or do you mean get in the graduate school?\n\n  If undergraduate, the Math department has nothing to say regarding your admission to the school.  Without the great grades, get great letters of recommendation from people with a degree or two from UCB.  What makes you different?  What makes you stand out?  What will you bring to the student body that few others will?  Answer those questions in your letter and essay.  And be likable at the interview.\n\n   If graduate school, without a great GRE and great grades, you frankly don't have much chance.  But a couple letters from guys with PhDs in Math from Berkeley who'll say you're great will help a lot.
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1. Talk to the school Student Aid office. \n2.  Be in the top of your graduation class. (better grades means better scholarships)\n3. Get recommendations from two of your professors.\n4  Apply for as many scholarships that you qualify for and get the paper work in on time.\n5. Appearance can make a difference, make sure paperwork is neat and your spelling and grammar is correct.\n\nLook into graduate research assistants (GRAs) and teaching assistant positions. (TAs) as well.
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Well if u want to get into GRAD program, most of the university requires you to give GRE/TOEFL, these exam are their admission requirements, apart from ur regular Accads.
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Your master's degree does not have to be in the same field as your bachelor's degree.  So you can study "anything you want" at the graduate level.\n\nHowever, a graduate program expects the students entering that program to understand what should have been learned at the undergraduate level.  So if your graduate degree is in a field where you did not focus in your undergraduate work, you might need to do some "levelling" work to prepare.\n\nIt really depends on the degree you are wanting to pursue, and how different it is from your undergraduate major.  Check with some graduate schools for the field you are interested in and see what sort of levelling work they would require.
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Nothing...you can't do anything practical with your degree because it is too vague, and you don't have enough experience.  \n\nDo one of three things:\n\n1. Go to grad school\n2. Intern/Volunteer where you think you could use your degree\n3. Get a job doing something completely unrelated
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As a recent Grad School graduate who did my undergrad over a period of 16 years, my advice is:\n\ncontact your school.  they should accept your existing credits, but will probably require you to do at least 30 hours with their institution to recieve a degree.  Some colleges (the one you were attending?) will allow you to finish up a small number of credits with another institution and still award you a degree.\n\nSo, you should check with the school you were going to, and the one you want to go to.
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It depends how high in the grad school ladder you want to go. If you want to go to a prestigious top 20 University, you probably won't get in unless you have top grades. If you want to go to something like University of California-Davis, you will be able to do so with about 3.3+ GPA plus. Your best bet to get into a really good program is to do your Masters at say a state school like San Jose State University, and you apply afterwards to a Ph.D program. Everyone I know that done this has been able to enter a good school, and if you did really well in your masters (3.6+), probably University of California-San Diego (top 10 in biological programs) will take you.