Preparing ahead for scholarships might seem daunting and exhausting, and you may have questions like, “Where do I start?” “How do I find the best school for me?” “How do I get funding for my grad studies?"
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I will attempt to give guidelines based on different experiences, in the hope that it help makes your task easier.
With proper planning, you can navigate this seemingly difficult path and find that it is pretty straightforward.
School Choice
One of the toughest things about applying for grad school is actually picking a school or picking schools. As a rule of thumb, you should apply to as many schools as you can afford to apply to (most schools will demand an application fee).
One of the toughest things about applying for grad school is actually picking a school or picking schools. As a rule of thumb, you should apply to as many schools as you can afford to apply to (most schools will demand an application fee).
Three to five schools are ideal; some people may apply to two schools if that is all they can afford. As much as you can help it, DO NOT APPLY TO ONLY ONE SCHOOL.
It’s simple. The more schools you apply to, the greater your chances of being admitted into at least one of them. Increase your chances by applying to more than one school.
There is a ranking system of schools in the U.S. that is arbitrary but may become important depending on your test scores (I’ll talk about tests and test scores in later). For simplicity, I will classify these schools as top tier, middle tier and low tier schools.
Top tier schools like the ivy leagues (Harvard, Stanford) and other high ranking schools are usually highly competitive and you need to be a near perfect candidate to get admitted.
Middle tier schools are not as competitive as top tier schools, but are pretty competitive in their own right, while low tier schools tend to be the least competitive.
(but be warned, employers know this, so there are some schools you will graduate from and it will appear as if you didn't go to school at all, you get? So, choose wisely).
Of course, this is a general ranking system. Programs within schools can be ranked too. Therefore, a middle tier school may have the best business program, or music program, or biology program in the entire country even though it is not an ivy league school.
In such a case, that particular program is very competitive to enter. This is why I think the ranking system is somewhat arbitrary, since a program ranking within a school may be different from the school’s overall ranking as a whole.
Even with the classification, there are still A LOT of schools to choose from. And this is where a certain level of planning and knowledge of what you want comes into play.
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