How to select Grad Schools to apply to

 Grad School admissions largely depend om establishing   a match with your research or career interests.


 It is important to do  your research before applying to schools. Often there are excellent programs at unexpected universities where financial support may be easier to obtain.

 Lets look at this   through a case study.
 Student J wanted to apply for a program n Computer Science with a strong reseatch  interest in Artificial Intelligence.( AI)



 Naturally  the  premier C institutes namely, Stanford,  MIT, CMU  have excellent graduate programs and  strong AI  groups.

 I helped J identify the main AI  organisation - namely the AAAI - American Association for AI.
 On the AAAI website - www.aaai.org   we found the list of AI fellows -   researchres who had been honored for their contributions to the field:

 Buy studying the list  we found that while several were from the expected universities - CMU, Stanford,  MIT and  Berkeley -  many other universities - namely USC, Maryland, Pittsburgh and Rochester  hd strong research groups for AI.
 J was accepted at one f these with strong financial support.

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The Graduate School application

 The Graduate school application is  very different from  an undergraduate application or an business school application 

   A graduate degree is typically seen as  being researcg oriented or  job oriented.
 The main task of the applicant is to   describe his or her research interests or career  goals and    explain  how the graduate degree fits  will help achieve them.

 Welcome to the   ClearSky  Grad School Admissions  Blog

 So far  I have been blogging mostly about Undergraduate University Admissions.
 See the blog at this link:

As I also have an MS degree  I occasionally help friends with their Masters  admissions.
 At university  I was also involved in helping the admissions office  during my time there and continue to volunteer for them.

 I will be focussing on  grad schools in the sciences and social sciences. I have a separate MBA admissions blog  as well.

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