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Application Checklist

Here is an Application Action Plan to help you stay on track to pursue your graduate school ambitions.

Fall and Spring of your Junior year

  • Research areas of interest, institutions, and programs.
  • Talk to advisers about application requirements.
  • Register and prepare for appropriate graduate admission tests
  • Investigate national scholarships.
  • If appropriate, obtain letters of recommendation.

Summer between Junior and Senior year

  • Take required graduate admissions tests.
  • Work on your application materials.
  • Visit institutions on interest if possible.
  • Write your application essay.
  • Check on application deadlines and rolling admissions policies.
  • For medical, dental, osteopathy, podiatry, or law school, you may need to register for the national application or data assembly service most programs use.

Fall of your Senior year

  • Obtain letters of recommendation.
  • Take graduate admission tests if you haven’t already
  • Send in completed applications.
  • Complete the FASFA, if required.

Spring of your Senior year

  • Check with all institutions before the deadline to make sure your file is complete.
  • Visit institutions that accept you. Send a deposit to your institution of choice.
  • Notify other colleges and universities that accepted you of your decision so that they may admit students on their waiting lists.
  • Send a thank-you note to people who wrote recommendation letters, informing them of your success.

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