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Planning ahead is essential to the graduate school application process. Begin the summer before your senior year of college or at least a year before you plan to attend graduate school. Our timetable can be used as a guide for the steps you need to take. No generalized chart provides the specifics you will need to meet your personal timeline. As you refine your own timeline, carefully examine each application for deadlines as they may vary significantly. Keep your timeline updated and be sure to follow it. Below are additional resources to help you in your application process.

Graduate School Essays and Personal Statements

Meet with a Career Educator to identify resources for helping you craft the perfect essay or personal statement to include in your graduate school applications. Sign up for a meeting through Handshake.

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Grad school can take a toll on mental and physical health, particularly for women of color. Yet there is no denying that it can also play a role in advancing economic mobility. That’s why this episode is all about the …

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U.S. News analyzes more than 2,000 graduate programs to provide resources and tools to help you find the best program for you, …

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OnlineMBAreview.org helps you comb through the hundreds of Online MBA programs and learn the differences and similarities between them. From an MBA …

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Gradtrek.com has built a user interface that allows you to quickly get the information you need to amp up your grad …

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GraduateGuide.com allows you to search graduate school programs in the United States and Canada. This site will help you compare and …

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Explore scholarship opportunities for Native and Indigenous students from Native Forward Scholars Fund.

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The term Student Outcomes refers to undergraduate outcomes within the 6-9 months following graduation, providing a snapshot of Arcadia undergraduates’ success following degree completion. The data is collected through a survey distributed to students at graduation, and again in the months following, along with knowledge gained from faculty, LinkedIn, and phone calls to our graduates, in accordance with national standards. The knowledge rate of outcomes for each class was 79.8% for the class of 2023, 86% for the class of 2022, 79% for the class of 2021, 81% for the class of 2020, and 87% for the class of 2019, though response rates vary among colleges and departments.

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