Can anyone give me advice on how to get into grad school and how i know what GRE's to take?

I'm the first to want to go to grad school in my family and i have no idea where to begin. I will talk to my advisor when i get back to school but i know i should be doing some research on grad schools and the field i want to go in to. I will be graduating spring 07 with a dual major in Social Psychology but i dont know what field to go into for grad school because there are too many psych programs to choose from. if anyone could help i would greatly appreciate it!!Can anyone give me advice on how to get into grad school and how i know what GRE's to take?
Spring 07, eh? Better start looking soon!





Figure out what you're interested in studying. Some of the best advice I received on how to do this was to go sit in the library stacks reading academic journals. Write down the titles or subjects of the articles that interest you the most. Also write down the professor's name and their school. After you compile a nice size list, you're going to come to hopefully two conclusions. First, did you like reading all the journals? If no, forget grad school in psychology. If yes, question two is what areas do your interests lie? Are there any repeated names?





Research names of those professors who interest you. Graduate school is very unlike undergrad in that you don't just apply to the school that sounds the best, you apply to work for/under a graduate professor. Check out their website and see if they're still doing research on the same or equally interesting topics. If they are, see if they are accepting any students into their labs in Fall 07.





Sometimes, even if you've fallen in love with a particular professor's research, they aren't able to take any students during the semester you will be applying because they're lab is already full (there are a limited number of spots in every program). If you still want to work for this professor and this professor only, email them and tell them of your interest. Ask when they will be accepting new students. See if you can volunteer in their lab in the meantime (yes, this means free work, but it gives you a leg up over other applicants during that acceptance period).





If you have any other questions, please feel free to ask me through the email link in my profile. I'm an undergrad psych major who took toyed with the idea of grad school for a while.





There's a list on Amazon with relevant books: http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/listman鈥?/a>Can anyone give me advice on how to get into grad school and how i know what GRE's to take?
1. Talk to your faculty advisor.


2. Graduate


3. With a major like that, land a high paying job in the upper $20,000 range.
www.gradview.com


Great site. To know what GRE to take, look into the programs at each university. Unfortunately, they all require different (or no) subject tests.