The
Law School Admission Council
The
Law School
Admission Council (LSAC)
is a nonprofit corporation whose members are 201 law schools in the United
States and Canada. Of these, 186 law schools are located in the United
States; 15 are in Canada. Headquartered in Newtown, Pennsylvania, about 30
miles north of Philadelphia, LSAC is best known for administering the Law
School Admission Test (LSAT).
Graduate
Management Admission Council
MBA.com is the website of the Graduate Management
Admission Council, the people behind the GMAT. Their site is where you
sign up to take the GMAT and also where you can explore MBA programs and
find the resources to make decisions about them.
Official Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) Web
Site
The Official Medical College Admission Test
(MCAT) Web Site is where you
register for the MCAT and where you find resourced to take you through the
entire process of test taking, applying to and choosing a medical school,
and financing your medical education.
Graduate
Record Examination
GRE
Online is the home of the Graduate Record Exam and the
starting place for all things GRE including test taking strategies,
detailed information about your tests, registration and test venues and
financial aid.
The Dental Admission Test
The Dental Admission Test (DAT) is
conducted by the American Dental Association (ADA) and has been in
operation on a national basis since 1950. The Dental Admission Test is
administered on computer on almost any day of the year. The testing
program is designed to measure general academic ability, comprehension of
scientific information, and perceptual ability.
Advice for Undergraduates Considering Graduate
School
This article contains informal
advice for undergraduates who are thinking about graduate school,
specifically doctoral programs. It's written by Philip E. Agre,
Department of Information Studies, University of California, Los
Angeles.
How to Apply to Grad School
Linda J. Hayes & Steve C. Hayes lay out
the process for you in an article
tailored to psychology students, but relevant to all.
CAREERS IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
An
student planning guide to grad
school and beyond published by the National Academy of Sciences.
Gradschools.com
Gradschools.com
is composed of post-baccalaureate
educational information, including a unique directory with comprehensive
program listings categorized by curriculum and subdivided by geography.
Rank Graduate
Programs
PhDs.org has a
great utility that allows you to get
customized rankings of graduate programs based on National Research
Council data. These rankings are sortable for all disciplines and multiple
criteria.
How to Be a Good Graduate Student
This paper attempts to raise some
issues that are important for graduate students to be successful and to
get as much out of the process as possible. By Marie desJardins.
NAGPS
NAGPS
is the acronym for the National Association of Graduate-Professional
Students. We are the umbrella group for over two million graduate and
professional students currently studying in the United States. NAGPS acts
as a clearinghouse for graduate and professional student organizations,
serves as an advocacy group for graduate-professional student needs and
rights at all levels, addresses a broad range of issues via our national
committees (international student concerns, human diversity concerns,
legislative concerns, and employment concerns), and much more.