| The Graduate School Search Process | | | | programs that best match your graduate school |
| Once you are close to achieving your | | | | preferences. |
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| search is to write down exactly what you want | | | | environment can play an important role in your |
| from a graduate program. Location, internship | | | | final decision. |
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| list of priorities. | | | | take a minute to compare your field of choices |
| Consult an online graduate school search guide - | | | | once more. Now that you have additional |
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| contacted via the graduate school search guide, | | | | search has ended! If you still need more time, or |
| you can perform a comparison based on your | | | | more information, go back to the programs you |
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