Graduate School

Exploration  |  Business & Law  |  Medicine  |  Psychology  |  Scholarships & Financial Aid  |  Testing  |  Local Web Links  |  Other Web Links  |  Software Resources  

Books And Web Sites

Search our catalog online at http://follettweb.vsac.org:9000/webopac/main?siteid=1. Patrons may borrow books either by coming to the Resource Center in downtown Winooski, or by making an interlibrary loan request through their local school or public library.

Exploration

The College Board Book of Majors (2006)	Call # 378.1 CEEB
Graduate Admissions Essays: Write Your Way into the Graduate School of Your Choice (2000)	Call # 378.1 Asher
Graduate School Admissions Advisor (2001)	Call # 378.1 Kaplan
Guide to American Graduate Schools (2005)	Call # 378.73 Doughty
Making a Difference College & Graduate Guide (2005)	Call # 378.3 Weinstein
Peterson’s Game Plan for Getting into Graduate School (2000)	Call # 378.1 Peterson
Peterson’s Graduate and Professional Programs (2006)	Call # 378.73 Peterson
Real Essays for College and Grad School (2000)	Call # 378.1 McKinney
U.S. News and World Report: America’s Best Graduate Schools (2005)	Call # 378.73 USNEWS

Business and Law

How to Get into the Top MBA Programs (2005)	Call # 378.1 Montauk
Law School Confidential: A Complete Guide to the Law School Experience: By Students, for Students (2004)	Call # 340.071 Miller
Peterson’s MBA Programs 2006 (2005)	Call # 378.73 Peterson

Medicine

Essays that Will Get You into Medical School (2003)	Call # 610.7 Dowhan
Essays that Worked for Medical Schools: 40 Essays that Helped Students Get into the Nation’s Top Medical Schools (2003)	Call # 610.71 Jones
Getting into Medical School: The Premedical Student’s Guidebook (2006)	Call # 610.71 Brown
Peterson’s Game Plan for Getting into Medical School (2000)	Call # 610.71 Jewell
Planning a Life in Medicine: Discover if a Medical Career is Right for You and Learn How to Make it Happen (2005)	Call # 610.69 Smart

Psychology

Careers in Psychology: Opportunities in a Changing World (2007)	Call # 150.23 Kuther
Graduate Study in Psychology (2007)	Call # 378.73 APA
Insider’s Guide to Graduate Programs in Clinical and Counseling Psychology (2006)	Call # 616.89 Mayne

Scholarships and Financial Aid

Cash for Grad School: The Ultimate Guide to Grad School Scholarships (2004)	Call # 378.3 McKee
Dan Cassidy’s Worldwide Graduate Scholarship Directory (2000)	Call # 378.3 Cassidy
The Graduate School Funding Handbook (2002)	Call # 378.3 Hamel
Paying for Graduate School Without Going Broke (2004)	Call # 378.3 Diffley
Peterson’s Getting Money for Graduate School (2002)	Call # 378.3 Peterson

• FastWEB bills itself as “the Internet’s largest free scholarship search.”— www.fastweb.com

• College Board has a scholarship search that uses information from its Annual Survey of Financial Aid Programs — http://apps.collegeboard.com/cbsearch_ss/welcome.jsp

• Scholarship Resource Network Express provides scholarship searches of over 8,000 programs — www.srnexpress.com

• The Cornell University Graduate School Fellowship Database lists hundreds of fellowships from non-Cornell sources — www.gradschool.cornell.edu/?p=132

• VSAC’s Scholarships pathfinder offers additional scholarship resources.

Testing

Barron’s How to Prepare for the Graduate Management Admission Test, GMAT (2004)	Call # 378.1662 Jaffe
Barron’s How to Prepare for the Graduate Record Examination, GRE 2006 (2005)	Call # 378.1662 Green
Kaplan GMAT Diagnostic Test and Practice Questions (2005)	Call # 378.1662 Kaplan
Kaplan GRE Exam, 2006 (2005)	Call # 378.1662 Kaplan
The Official Guide for GMAT Review (2003)	Call # 378.1662 ETS
Peterson’s GMAT CAT Success (2002)	Call # 378.1662 Peterso
Peterson’s Math Review for the GRE, GMAT and MCAT (2000)	Call # 378.1662 Peterso
Princeton Review Cracking the GRE, 2006 (2005)	Call # 378.1662 Lurie
Princeton Review Cracking the GMAT (2005)	Call # 378.1662 Martz
Princeton Review Word Smart for the GRE (2003)	Call # 378.1662 Curtis

• Web site for the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) — www.gre.org

• Web site for the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) —www.mba.com/mba/TaketheGMAT

• Web site for the Law School Admission Test (LSAT) — www.lsac.org

• Web site for the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) — www.aamc.org/students/mcat/start.htm

• VSAC’s Testing pathfinder offers additional resources.

• Visitors to the VSAC Resource Center can use the Learn-a-Test preparation software for the following graduate admissions tests: GMAT, GRE, LSAT, and MCAT.

Local Web links

The following Vermont schools offer graduate degrees:

• Bennington College — www.bennington.edu/acad_grad.asp

• Castleton State College — www.csc.vsc.edu/academics/graduateprograms.htm

• Champlain College — www.champlain.edu/master

• College of St. Joseph — www.csj.edu

• Goddard College — www.goddard.edu

• Green Mountain College — www.greenmtn.edu/graduate_studies

• Johnson State College — www.jsc.edu/AdmissionsAndAid/GraduateAdmissions/default.aspx

• Lyndon State College — http://lyndonstate.edu/Default.aspx?tabid=848

• Marlboro College — http://gradcenter.marlboro.edu

• Middlebury College — www.middlebury.edu

• Norwich University — www.graduate.norwich.edu

• Saint Michael’s College — www.smcvt.edu/graduate

• School for International Training — www.sit.edu/graduate/index.html

• University of Vermont — www.uvm.edu/academics/graduate

• Vermont Law School — www.vermontlaw.edu

• Woodbury College — www.woodbury-college.edu

Other Web Links

• Use this comprehensive directory to search for graduate programs, distance learning programs, graduate school fairs, and testing information — www.gradschools.com

• GraduateGuide is another comprehensive site covering all aspects of graduate study — www.graduateguide.com

• Peterson’s, a solid source of college information, offers its version of the online graduate school resource — http://iiswinprd01.petersons.com/graduate_home.asp?path=gr.home

• MBA Program Information offers details on over 2800 MBA degree programs worldwide, advice pages, and question/answer pages — www.mbainfo.com

• National Association of Graduate and Professional Students, a non-profit organization, acts “as a clearinghouse for information on graduate and professional student groups at all stages of development” — www.nagps.org

• Association for the Support of Graduate Students offers help for students writing thesis papers — www.asgs.org

• The Finaid financial aid site for graduate school provides helpful information — www.finaid.org/otheraid/grad.phtml

• Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance gives access to a database of all federal funding programs available to groups and individuals — http://12.46.245.173/cfda/cfda.html

Software Resources

VT Guidance Central

VT Guidance Central is a web-based, personalized, self-guided program that provides comprehensive career, college, and education planning tools

You can use VT Guidance Central as a tool to:

• explore career possibilities
• plan the training you need for specific careers
• search for colleges/universities that fit your desired criteria (e.g., location, size, programs/majors, activities, costs)
• prepare for the SAT and ACT
• learn about financial aid options
• and much more!

Other Software

Visit the VSAC Resource Center in Winooski to utilize other assessment, career, and education planning software tools.

Updated: August 2007

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