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Are you dreaming of being enrolled into the graduate school, then you probably want to know what graduate schools want from their applicants. If I am right, I recommend you to read this article and to know all the secrets of being enrolled into the graduate school. I managed to take the interview from one of the admitters and now I am going to share this information with you.

Of course, admitters are aimed on finding such applicants who will be working hard and making deep researches at the filed. Admissions committees are trying to identify the most promising applicants and to enroll them. You may say that all this you know even without me, but do you know what do admission committees mean under the word promising?

Promising student is that one who is gifted, who is eager to work hard and to learn, and highly motivated, of course. He or she is able to make the research without being controlled, he or he is able to dig deep and if failure happens, he or she is able to start from the very beginning and to succeed, at least.

However, this is an ideal applicant, and you know that there is no ideal people in the world, so if you have some of the above-mentioned features, do not be afraid and apply.

Graduate school, what is it? This is a school, which presents advanced degrees, masters and doctoral ones; sometimes it is also called “grad school”. The main requirement of enrolling graduate school is as follows – applicants should already possess bachelor’s degree (undergraduate one). The educational process in the graduate school presupposes making own research and writing thesis and dissertations. The term of graduate school in considered to be North American. It is not referred only to the medical school as it is said to be.

Students who attend graduate schools are called graduated students, or if speaking about the norms of British English, they are called postgraduate students, or postgrads in colloquial speech.

The degrees earned at such schools are as follows: master’s degrees, doctoral degrees, and professional degrees.

In order to be admitted into the graduate school for master’s degree receiving, one has to have a bachelor’s degree in the same field, and a high graduate as B+ (at least). If the applicant is from country where English language is not a native one, such applicants have to pass TOEFEL, which stands for Test of English as a Foreign Language. In order to be admitted into the graduate school to receive a doctoral degree one has to have a master’s degree in the same field.