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Help with Applying to Graduate School

Improving your chances for admission

• Contact professors with whom you'd like to work. Show that you have knowledge of his/her work, and express your own interest along those lines.
  

• Contact the Graduate Diversity Coordinator. Introduce yourself to me by giving a personal and academic account of who you are and why you'd like to pursue graduate school.

• Go to your letter writers and provide a well-organized packet of information. Provide a deadline at least a week in advance of the due date. As a courtesy, give them at least a month to write. In the information packet, provide a short statement on how you've prepared yourself for graduate school as well as what you plan to pursue in graduate school. Be specific.
  

• Squeeze out blocks of uninterrupted time when you can devote yourself to the application process.
  

• Never leave things for the last minute.