The forthcoming issue of Education Life, the quarterly supplement that will be published in this Sunday’s Times, is devoted to the subject of graduate schools — and in that spirit I was asked to take a general look, in my regular column, at the admissions process for such institutions.
I did so through the prism that I, and many readers of The Choice, know best: that of the undergraduate admissions maze. While there are clearly fundamental differences — including that the weeding out of grad school applicants is often done by faculty members — I saw many similarities that should give applicants some comfort.
For example, Lisa Giannangeli, director of M.B.A. admissions for the Stanford Graduate School of Business, told me something that should sound familiar to anyone who has recently applied to an undergraduate program:
We need to understand your entire story: your background, your future aspirations. Your personal qualities and contributions — everything about you that makes you who you are? suggests how you see the world and what shaped the perspective you will bring to future classmates.
The other voices quoted in the piece, which examines the holistic side of graduate school admissions, are those involved in the process at well-regarded programs of law (Yale), English (University of California, Berkeley) and engineering (University of Texas, Austin). I also spoke to a counselor at Hamilton College who advises undergraduates on their graduate school aspirations.
You can read a preview of the full article here. Afterward, I hope you will use the box below to offer some advice or perspective of your own.
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