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How to Add Luster to Your Resume and Grad School Apps
Polishing diamonds now will pay dividends after graduation!
As a senior you might think that your resume and graduate school application are already in  the “gemstone” family.   You’ve worked hard to be selected for that competitive internship you...
December 1, 2011 · 8:30 AM
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Admission Tests for Graduate and Professional Schools
Get ready for GRE, DAT, MCAT, LSAT, GMAT, OAT or PCAT!
Most graduate and professional schools require applicants to take a standardized test to demonstrate their readiness to enter the program. Almost all the tests have acronyms that end in “AT,”...
November 18, 2011 · 11:22 AM
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Connecting with Professors at UMBC
Profs are more than lecturing robots (prof-bots)!
Just like students, professors come in a variety of shapes, sizes, and styles.  Some are seasoned veterans and others relatively recently arrived from completing their own educations.  Some have...
November 17, 2011 · 8:27 AM
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Educate Yourself! (like Abe Lincoln did)
Information, insight, and inspiration are everywhere at UMBC
Here you are in college, enrolled in official college courses, earning college credits, fulfilling college requirements for a bachelor’s degree.  Sounds serious and impressive, doesn’t it?  But...
November 7, 2011 · 6:36 PM
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Internship/Research/StudyAbroad Can Help You Post-Graduation
Ward off a scary future with experiential learning!
Are you horrified at the prospect of an uncertain future after graduation? It is not too late to strengthen your application profile with some real world experience. Experiential opportunities at...
November 1, 2011 · 9:22 AM
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Visiting Graduate and Professional Schools
Fall is the perfect time!
If you think back to the process you used to choose your college, it might have included  collecting factual data on line about costs, majors offered, location, etc., consulting various rating...
October 25, 2011 · 1:48 PM
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Use On-Line Tools to Track your Progress Toward Graduation
Set your “academic GPS” to destination: graduation!
UMBC provides two on line tools that are critical to your academic planning:  degree audit and what-if degree audit.  These tools are available to you in myUMBC under the topic “Advising and...
October 18, 2011 · 9:59 AM
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Time to Start Looking at Grad and Professional Schools
Why and how to be the early bird!
If your plans call for heading into a graduate or professional program right after claiming your bachelor’s degree at UMBC, you will be in good company. The majority of UMBC students say they plan...
October 13, 2011 · 8:31 AM
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Obtaining Strong Letters of Recommendation
Build rapport! Ask early! Thank often!
The first thing to know is that professors expect to write letters of recommendation for their students. It is part of their role.  In fact, they are even happy to do it if you have been a strong...
October 3, 2011 · 4:25 PM
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Life Beyond Wikipedia
There's more than coffee available at the AOK Library!
If you wait until you are a junior or senior to check out what is on offer (and included in your UMBC tuition) at the library, you are making a big mistake.  You are probably too young to remember...
September 26, 2011 · 8:53 AM
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