Career Services offers many opportunities to help you prepare for graduate and professional programs.  If you are planning to go to graduate school immediately following graduation from Wabash, we suggest you start the process in your junior year.

For detailed guidance, download and read our comprehensive Graduate School, and Medical School Preparation Guide and Medical School Preparation and Admission Guide.  Note that the application timing will depend on the specific type of graduate or professional school program.

To conduct an effective graduate school search, you will need:

-       Resume

-       Reference Letters

-       Personal Statement/Statement of Purpose

-       Test Preparation and Results

-       Money for Testing and Application Fees

-       Writing Samples or Portfolio (depending on the type of program)

-       A Definite Idea of why you want to go to graduate school and what you want to do with your graduate degree

-       A Plan B (and C, D, …)

Career Services staff members are here to help you at any point in your graduate school search, and with any of the requirements listed above. You should also let us know what types of opportunities you’re seeking.  The beauty of a small school is that we can give you individual assistance, and refer you to specific opportunities we hear of.  If we know you we can help you, if we don’t, we can’t.

Graduate School Services

Individual Graduate School Assistance
Our staff members are available to help you identify graduate programs in the area you’d like to study.  We can help you with the testing process, application process, personal statements, and reference letter preparation.  Stop by anytime to see us to get this process started.

Test Prep
We offer testing preparation for the GMAT, LSAT and GRE tests through our office.  We schedule practice tests or reviews at your convenience, both for groups and individuals.  For a schedule of test prep workshops and practice tests, see the WabashWorks Calendar.

Graduate School On-Campus Information Sessions
Throughout the year, individual graduate programs will schedule informational meetings with interested students.  These are usually rather informal events that allow you to meet admissions representatives and check out a number of different programs. An RSVP via WabashWorks is required to attend.

Graduate School Bootcamps
In conjunction with Scott Himsel, the Pre-Law Advisor, we offer an LSAT Bootcamp twice a year, which allows you to prepare for the LSAT for a vastly reduced price (thanks to alumni donations) when compared with private prep programs. Career Services offers a Graduate School Bootcamp each January, to prepare students for the application and testing process for all graduate school programs.

WabashWorks
The specific resources in WabashWorks of interest to students going to graduate school are the Wally NetWorks system and the Portfolio Creation System. Wally NetWorks allows you to connect with alumni for graduate school preparation advice.  Participating alumni are identified by their graduate program and school.  The Portfolio system provides you with lifetime access to samples of your work, statement of purpose, etc.  The system helps you create and distribute a professional portfolio.

Pre-Health and Medical School Advising
Jill Rogers, our Pre-Health Advisor, offers a full range of counseling, test preparation, alumni connections and application assistance to students interested in applying to Medical, Dental, Optometry, Physical Therapy, etc. schools. For more information click here. Jill offers pre-MCAT testing as well.  Contact Jill at rogersji@wabash.edu, or x6171.

School Site Visits/Graduate School Fairs
Based on student feedback, we select one or two graduate schools to visit each year.  Our visits allow you to sit in on classes, and talk with professors, students, and admissions reps. Each fall, we take a group of students to the Indiana University Law School Day, to meet with representatives from over 100 national law schools.  We also take a group to Purdue University for the Big 10+ Graduate School Expo, which allows students in science or math to connect with representatives from nationally ranked programs across the US.

Graduate School Fair
Each fall, we partner with DePauw University to host a Graduate And Professional School Fair held at DePauw.  Students who attend graduate fairs often have application fees waived. We provide transportation.

	For those students interested in law or business school, Vault, housed in WabashWorks, is an additional resource.  Vault features graduate
school message boards and information on application and school choice issues.

Graduate School Resources

Web Resources
We have gathered, for your convenience, the web links for most types of graduate school programs on our CareerLinks (link) page.  Scroll toward the bottom of the page for this section.  You will find test prep resources, information on school financing and personal statements, and Peterson’s, the premiere resource for identifying colleges with specific graduate programs by subject.

Print Resources (Graduate Schools and Fellowships)
We have a number of books and materials in our Career Resource Library to help you identify schools and programs, manage the application process, and prepare for entrance exams. The books are available for checkout.  We also manage extensive graduate school files that contain detailed information on hundreds of individual schools and programs. These files also contain fellowship resources and updated program and financial aid information.

Interfolio
We have partnered with Interfolio to allow you to create and manage an online credential file containing your letters of reference and other application-required materials for safekeeping and ease of delivery.  Interfolio charges a nominal fee.