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November 18, 2019

How to Easily Keep Track of Your Grad Schools Applications

How to Easily Keep Track of Your Grad Schools Applications

When you’re applying to grad school, one school just isn’t enough. Somewhere between five and ten is a more sensible number to apply to. It’s also a more difficult number to keep track of. Grad school applications tend to have several parts and different grad schools can have different requirements. But, there’s an easy way […]

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March 21, 2018

GRE to LSAT Conversion Matrix

A Rough Guide In its continued effort to attract law schools and law school applicants to consider respectively accepting or taking the GRE, ETS has created a tool to give a rough conversion (± 5 point margin of error!) between given GRE scores and LSAT scores. The margin of error says it all: it’s hard […]

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August 9, 2017

The GRE and LSAT: The Big Picture

Birds of a Feather? Both are grad school admissions exams. Both are aptitude tests. Both have been around forever. Both test reading comprehension and critical reasoning skills. You’ve seen one standardized test, you’ve seen them all? How similar are the LSAT and the GRE after all? You may have guessed the answer to this one: […]

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March 9, 2017

GRE vs. GMAT: The Swiss Army Knife of Tests

The Swiss Army Knife of Tests: With the news yesterday that Harvard Law School will join the pilot program of accepting the GRE for admissions, now is a good time to revisit the status of the GRE for business school admissions and the seemingly unstoppable expansion of the GRE into ever broader graduate admissions uses. For the purposes […]

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June 24, 2016

How to Ace Your Grad School Application Interviews

This is our last post in the “Gearing up for Grad School” series, and we hope you’ve learned a lot over the past 10 weeks! For our final installment, we’re talking about grad school application interviews. Unless you’re applying to medical school or business school, it is fairly unlikely that a formal interview will be […]

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June 17, 2016

Additional Documents to Submit with Your Grad School Applications

Applying to grad school can sometimes feel like a maze where documents are requested, fees are paid, tests are taken, and essays are written, all without any seeming rhyme or reason. How can you make sense of it all, and be successful in your quest for admission to a graduate program? We’ve been breaking it […]

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June 10, 2016

How to Request, Submit, and Explain your Transcripts to Grad Schools

Applying to grad school can sometimes feel like a maze where documents are requested, fees are paid, tests are taken, and essays are written, all without any seeming rhyme or reason. How can you make sense of it all, and be successful in your quest for admission to a graduate program? Today’s post is pretty […]

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June 3, 2016

What is a Curriculum Vitae Include?

We’re on week 7 of our “Gearing up for Grad School” series, and this week, we’ll talk about your CV. Although not all grad schools will request that you submit a résumé or curriculum vitae (CV) with your application, many will. It is important to know what to include, what not to include, and how […]

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May 26, 2016

Statement of Purpose: What is It and How Should I Write It?

We’re up to our 6th article in our “Gearing up for Grad School” series. This week, we’ll talk about your statement of purpose: What it is and how you should write it. The statement of purpose is one of the primary elements of your grad school application. In it, you directly address why you want […]

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May 20, 2016

What are Letters of Recommendation and Why Do I Need Them?

We’ve been breaking down the grad school application process, step by step, for the past few weeks. This week, we’ll talk about letters of recommendation: What they are, who should write them, and what they should talk about. Letters of recommendation deserve just as much attention as any other part of your application, for two […]

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