graduating in 3 years?

b_r_um
Tue, 20 Dec 2011 08:30:24 +0000

Personally, I would not pay tuition to take a couple of graduate classes that don’t count towards a degree. A semester at Emory is like… $20,000 for tuition alone? That’s insane!

At one of my former universities, there were several auditors in each of the first-year graduate classes in my field. Some of them were graduate students from other departments, some were members of the local community who wanted to prepare for a graduate education themselves. The professors didn’t mind the auditors, and were in fact happy to give them letters of recommendations for their grad school applications.



I’m just worried that if I apply to grad school … they’ll look down upon it or see it as rushing through college, especially since I’ve heard that a lot of schools look for signs of really mature, well-rounded people in their applicants.

What do you actually want to go to graduate school for? The PhD programs I am familiar with don’t care about well-roundedness - they want students who are willing to make a commitment to a very narrow specialty.