How to navigate the Graduate School application/process?

NorthernMom61
Tue, 04 Jun 2019 11:15:44 +0000

Applying to graduate school can certainly add up in costs. There are application fees and fees for sending GRE scores. My daughter and her boyfriend went through the application process during this past cycle. They are both in STEM fields. They both applied to about 12 or so schools each hoping to land in the same city. That didn’t quite end up happening but they did end up with two schools within commutable distance. It was time consuming to figure out which schools to apply to, doing all the applications, and waiting for interviews and results. It was much more about finding potential matches with researchers. Each of their advisors at their school were helpful as were mentors at their summer internships in helping them figure out where to apply. I think two of my daughter’s application fees were waived, one because she was attending the school as an undergrad, and the other for an unknown reason.