Graduate School: Winning Strategies for Getting in With or Without Excellent Grades

If you follow the advice in this book and take advantage of the helpful information available at MyGraduateSchool.com you will greatly improve your chances of getting into the graduate school of your choice with or without having excellent grades. Applying to graduate school can be quite the challenge for any student, but it can seem particularly intimidating if you are one of the many students that do not have spectacular grades. Although grades are an important component of your application, grades alone will certainly not get you a free pass into the graduate school or program of your choice. There are many other important factors that no one tells you about, ones that can make or break an application. If you take the time to learn about and understand why you are being evaluated in a variety of ways in the first place, you can then use this to your advantage. This book will take you through, in a clear, step-by-step fashion, all of the measures that you will be evaluated upon and how you can take advantage of each one of them to come out ahead of the competition.

Dave G. Mumby, Ph.D. obtained his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Concordia University and a member of the Center for Studies in Behavioural Neurobiology (CSBN) Dr. Mumby supervises graduate students and has served on graduate admissions committees at Concordia University. He is also an academic advisor for the Psychology Department and holds frequent workshops on graduate school and the application process. Dr. Mumby s research area includes the functional neuroanatomy of memory systems, and cognitive impairments in a rat model of transient global cerebral ischemia.