Letters of recommendation are a vital part of your application, but people often don’t treat the process like it! Even though your recommender is doing the writer, you still have real work to do in order to make sure that it is a strong letter...

Math If x>0, which of the following is equal to 1.25 percent of x ? A \({\frac{{x}}{{80}}}\) B \({\frac{{x}}{{8}}}\) C \({\frac{{x}}{{4}}}\) D \({\frac{{5x}}{{8}}}\) E \({\frac{{3x}}{{4}}}\) Correct Answer - A - (click and drag your mouse to see the answer) Question Discussion & Explanation

I have mentioned the importance of contacting potential professors at the schools to which you are applying. It’s vital that you both contact particular professors with whom you might want to work and mention them in your Personal Statement. Today I will say a bit more about what to...

Applying to doctoral programs can be stressful and mysterious, and one of the real challenges is that most of the advice that you’ll find online about the application process comes from people whose experience is in the world of business school, law school, or undergraduate admissions. This advice isn’t...

If you are applying to a PhD program, it’s important to understand how the admissions process works once your application gets sent. Many people offering expertise on admissions writing come from the world of undergraduate, business school, or law school admissions, but these areas of expertise are of very...

Once you’ve decided to pursue a Ph.D., one of the challenges that you’ll face is that, unlike undergraduate, medical, law, or business school applications, there isn’t really a robust ecosystem offering lots of guidance to would-be applicants. Part of this has to do with subject matter fragmentation. That is,...

Verbal Serling’s account of his employer’s reckless decision making (i)_________ that company’s image as (ii)_________ bureaucracy full of wary managers. Blank (i) Blank (ii) A. belies D. an injudicious B. exposes E. a disorganized C. overshadows F. a cautious Correct Answer - A and F - (click and drag your mouse to see the answer) Question...

Math The table above shows the frequency distribution of the values of a variable Y. What is the mean of the distribution?Give your answer to the nearest 0.01.   Correct Answer - 1.29 - (click and drag your mouse to see the answer) Question Discussion & Explanation

Verbal A ten-year comparison between the United States and the Soviet Union in terms of crop yields per acre revealed that when only planted acreage is compared, Soviet yields were equal to 68 percent of United States yields. When total agricultural acreage (planted acreage plus fallow...

Math y=2x2+7x−3y=2x2+7x−3 Quantity A Quantity B xx yy A)The quantity in Column A is greater.B)The quantity in Column B is greater.C)The two quantities are equal.D)The relationship cannot be determined from the information given.   Correct Answer - D - (click and drag your mouse to see the answer) Question Discussion & Explanation