Undergrad/Grad admissions

molliebatmit
Tue, 20 Mar 2007 19:10:23 +0000

Graduate school (masters, PhD) is different from professional school (law, medical, veterinary).

Professional schools tend to care strongly about GPA and test scores. Graduate schools tend to care more about your research experience or other experience in your field and about the letters of recommendation you get from professors.

Professional schools sometimes care about your extracurriculars (for example, medical schools like it when students job-shadow physicians), but graduate schools are completely uninterested in extracurriculars – many don’t even have space on the application to list them.