Resources for Applying to Graduate School
Slides
Grad School Application Advice
- Astrobites timeline for grad school applications
- Astrobites grad school application advice 1
- Astrobites grad school application advice 2
- Astrobites European grad school application advice
- Grad school application timeline and advice (including advice for undergrads of all years)
- Unsolicited advice: how to get into graduate school
- Statement of Purpose advice
- Example Statement of Purpose Prompts
- Personal statement advice
- UT Austin Application Tips
- Grad school shopper for information about schools
- Physics GRE Requirements for US/Canadian Astronomy & Physics Programs
Financial Advice
Fellowship Application Advice
Grad school visits
- Good questions to ask everyone during grad school visits (maybe a tad out of date but still useful as a start)
- Good questions to ask professors (maybe a tad out of date but still useful as a start)
- Unsolicited advice: choosing graduate school (also helpful if you are deciding whether to go to graduate school)
Exam Prep Resources
- Physics GRE Flashcards: these are flashcards!! Use right arrow to get to cards from the homescreen
- Alex Lang's Website on Physics GRE (including past exams)
- grephysics.net forum for discussing solutions
- OSU PGRE prep (including links to practice problem sets and solutions, made up of questions similar to old exams broken down by topic)
- Astrobites summarizing an article on the (lack of a) link between GRE and future research accomplishment
Other
Resources gathered by Annastasia Haynie, Johanna Teske, Sal Fu, Alex Ji