5 Tips for Building Your Grad School Application List

The exterior of Sonia Sotomayor Hall photographed from University Place.
Sonia Sotomayor Hall, home of the Center for Career Development, which I visited as I built my graduate school application list.

So you’ve decided to apply to graduate school. Congratulations! Now comes the next step: deciding where to apply. As someone who just completed the Ph.D. application cycle, I was surprised to find that this was one of the hardest parts of the process. Researching programs was challenging, and I didn’t know where I would be admitted, so it felt like each school on my list needed to be somewhere I could actually see myself attending. Here are five factors I considered that helped me build a strong application list.

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