The Office of Career Development is set to host their first ever Grad School Planning Week from March 27 to the 31.
The week will consist of three events all aimed at helping prepare students for grad school and tips and tricks for applying.
The first event is ‘To be or not to be: Graduate school is the question,’ on Tuesday, March 28, from noon to 1 p.m. in the Carl DeSantis Building room 1047. This event will be an interactive workshop focused on discussing strategies to help students decide if they should go to graduate school or not.
Emilio Lorenzo, Assistant Director of Career Advisement, said “We will be exploring a little bit on how to ask yourself those tough questions after graduation and to reevaluate if you need graduate school or is your end goal something we need to gain experiences on, and how we can take the most advantage of the graduate school process.”
The second event is ‘Acing the App,’ on Wed., March 29, from noon to 1 p.m. in the Carl DeSantis Building room 1047. This event will concentrate on applying to graduate school and navigating the application process.
Lorenzo said, “Whether you are going to medical school, that MCAT process or any professional school, or a master’s program, or MBA, we are going to go over everything: how to build your resume, your personal statement, letters of recommendation, the actual application portal itself. Basically anything you would need to keep in mind as you get ready for the graduate school application process.”
The third event is ‘Getting personal: Crafting a distinctive admissions essay,’ on Thurs., March 30, from noon to 1 p.m. in the Carl DeSantis Building room 1047. This workshop will focus on how to write an effective personal statement for graduate school.
Lorenzo said, “One of the hardest parts of the grad school application is the personal statement. We will be talking about how to brainstorm and develop the personal statement: what should you include in your personal statement? What are the admission folks looking for in these personal statements? How personal should you get in your personal statement?”
Along with this event, Career Development will also be holding personal statement drop-in sessions from 1-5 p.m. in the Carl DeSantis Career Development Office.
Nia Bryant, a senior nursing major, said that she is very excited for this upcoming week of events.
Bryant said, “I want to know, or get an idea of, what my next move should be after graduation – if I should go to graduate school right after nursing school or if I should work first, or do both. I also want to see if they can provide me with tips to get into graduate school.”
Lorenzo said that students’ needs are what drove Career Development to put on these events.
“I think applying to graduate school can feel like climbing a mountain, especially when you are still managing your course load… as a college student, so why not have someone else who can help you out with it…,” said Lorenzo. “So, whether you feel you have a good application or you’re wondering if graduate school is for you, why not have someone who is going to ask you the right questions and really cares about you as an individual help you to make the best decision for yourself?”
The week of events are open to all NSU students, both professional and undergraduate. To attend the events, please RSVP at at nova.joinhandshake.com/events.
