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PREPARING SUCCESSFUL APPLICATIONS FOR GRADUATE SCHOOL ADMISSIONS

PREPARING SUCCESSFUL APPLICATIONS FOR GRADUATE SCHOOL ADMISSIONS. APPLICATION HINTS. Make your application easy to read. Keep your essays to a reasonable length. Convey a sense of focus and excitement. Emphasize your ability and potential for Creativity Integration Research Synthesis

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PREPARING SUCCESSFUL APPLICATIONS FOR GRADUATE SCHOOL ADMISSIONS

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  1. PREPARING SUCCESSFUL APPLICATIONS FOR GRADUATE SCHOOL ADMISSIONS

  2. APPLICATION HINTS • Make your application easy to read. • Keep your essays to a reasonable length. • Convey a sense of focus and excitement. • Emphasize your ability and potential for • Creativity • Integration • Research • Synthesis • Get your application in early.

  3. APPLICATION HINTS • Convey the societal importance of your work. • Get great letters of recommendation from faculty members.

  4. APPLICATIONS • Graduate school and fellowship applications are your personal business plan. • Successful professionals are extremely good at convincing others to invest resources in them. • You must apply to have a chance to win. • Do not self-select yourself out of the race.

  5. COMPONENTS OF A GOOD BUSINESS PLAN • Transcript • GRE general scores • Essay/biosketch • Letters of reference • MS/Ph.D. intent • Research area

  6. QUALIFICATIONS:GEORGIA TECH ADMISSION • GPA > 3.3 (Mechanical Engineering) • GPA > 3.0 (Nuclear Engineering /Medical Physics) • Graduate Record Exams • Verbal  153 (500-old scale) • Quantitative  155 (700-old) • Analytical writing  4 to 4.5 • GRE Engineering is not required

  7. QUALIFICATIONS:GEORGIA TECH GRA • GPA  3.7 • Graduate Record Exams • Verbal  156 (600-old scale) • Quantitative  155 (700-old scale) • Analytical writing  5

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