“Is Grad School for Me?” Authors Reveal Secrets of Successful Applications

In this episode of the Admissions Straight Talk podcast, Dr. Miroslava Chavez-Garcia and Dr. Yvette Martínez-Vu discuss the challenges faced by underrepresented groups in graduate school and provide advice for all grad school applicants. They emphasize the importance of finding a good fit in a program and building strong relationships with faculty. They also discuss the concept of imposter syndrome and its role in the admissions process for first-gen applicants. The guests highlight the benefits of taking a gap year (or more) before applying to graduate school and offer advice to their younger selves.
In this episode:
02:08 Welcome to Admissions Straight Talk.
02:35 What are the good and bad reasons for pursuing a grad degree?
06:01 How should applicants go about choosing a program and schools to apply to?
13:46 How should applicants prepare academically for grad school?
15:47 Could you give an example of an experience being relevant but surprising?
20:18 More and more programs, especially in the US, want students to have good grades, especially if they're applying for research-oriented programs. How are they supposed to prepare experientially?
26:17 What are your top tips for the most common writing components of the application?
33:39 Can you tell us a little bit about the challenges you faced in applying to graduate school?
36:02 What is the role of imposter syndrome in the admissions process for first-gen applicants in your opinion?
42:25 How does a gap year or more help or hurt applicants?
46:30 What advice today would you give to yourselves for when you were applying to graduate school?
51:48 What do you wish I would've asked you?
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