FemaleScienceProfessor

Yes, I know that Acceptance is Stage 5 in the evolution of grief, but in the academic context of graduate admissions, it is Stage 2(ish), i...

File this under: I had no idea students did this. In my so-called normal professorial existence, students considering applying to my depa...

Letters sent to me as a prospective advisor of prospective graduate students who are prospective applicants to the graduate program in my d...

It turns out that I have one more thing to say (for now) on the topic of e-mails from prospective graduate students to potential grad advi...

Just the other day, a colleague who teaches at a very small college asked me what I want to see in an e-mail message from a prospective gra...

In 2007 , I wrote about the different types of e-mail messages that I receive from prospective graduate students. I've received a heap ...

Prologue . This post is motivated by the fact that I am already getting emails from prospective graduate students, so I started thinking abo...

At this time of year, some of my colleagues and I like to show each other our favorite "rejection letters" from the recent crop of...

April 15* is the traditional deadline for paying the previous year's taxes in the US, and is also the deadline by which applicants to gr...

** warning: This blog post contains anecdotal information involving the statistics-of-small-numbers ** In my field, it is typical for gradua...

Here's my recent essay for The Chronicle of Higher Education . I must admit I was not too happy about the title, and in particular the ...

When I advise undergrads about graduate schools, I take into account the usual things, such as what the student thinks might be his/her spec...

An e-mail question from a reader: What's the best (most diplomatic?) way to reject an admission offer from a school? For most places, yo...

All this talk of grad school admissions, reasons for rejection, and whether it is possible to be rejected in a good way reminds me of an inc...

Dear Applicant, All indications are that you will do very well in a graduate program in Science. Your academic record shows that you have wo...

There have been several requests lately for a post on interviewing at or visiting grad schools as a prospective student, along the lines of ...

The GRE contains an "Analytical Writing" section that is supposed to be a good indicator of .. something. But what? This is what I...

Years ago, a friend of mine had a highly unsuccessful interview for a faculty position. According to the legend, the department chair, who h...

Like many of you who are university professors in the US, I have recently been poring over grad applications. These applications typically i...

This is another example in the continuing saga of Choosing Excellent Grad Students . Of course, prospective grad students go through a simil...