Graduate School Information
This page contains resources to help you answer questions about going to graduate school. The two most important things you should know are that you need to start thinking about graduate school during your junior year and that your academic advisor is your best source of information and advice.
- Should I go to graduate school?
- Talk to your MCS academic advisor.
- Talk to a professor who knows a lot about your work and your abilities.
- Get a taste for doing research by participating in an internship or undergraduate research program.
- Summer programs:
- Gustavus First Year Research Expierence For first year Gustavus students.
- Presidential Faculty-Student Collaboration Grants Open to all Gustavus students
- Carleton and St. Olaf CollegesFor first and second year students
- George Washington UniversityFor third and fourth year students
- Summer Institute for Mathematical Sciences at Berkeley
- Do some research with one of the professors at GAC.
- How do I decide where to go?
- Talk to your advisor.
- Attend the fall seminar on going to graduate school.
- Look in the department library for information that graduate schools send us.
- Check with the Gustavus Career Center
- What are the good schools in my area?
- Check the Gourman Report, available at the Gustavus Career Center
- Ask your advisor
- US News Graduate School Rankings
- List of Mathematics Departments (US)
- Computing Research Association Information Rresources
- List of Statistics Departmental Servers (Duke University)
- StatLib List of Statistics Departmental Information(Carnegie Mellon)
- What do I need to do to apply?
- Start early (spring of your junior year).
- Attend the seminar given every fall, early in September, that will give you most of the information you need.
- Take the GRE
- Financial aid
- Letters of Recommendation
- Recent Gustie grads who are in school
- Ask your advisor for suggestions, or
- Sign up for the Career Mentoring Program through the Center forCareer Developement.