Program Components
- Graduate School Prep Seminar
- Offers aid in locating Graduate Schools
- Provides assistance in locating and applying for numerous types of Graduate School funding
- Offers help in filling out applications for Graduate School and completing the various parts of application requirements
- Summer Research Experience
- Paid summer research on your choice of topic
- Program assists in research experience
- Provides experience with public speaking and research presentation in McNair Symposium at end of summer
- Academic Workshops and Support
- Tutors available
- Mentoring advice available through program and faculty mentors
- Personal Development Workshops
- Learning to negotiate the diverse world of academia
- Public speaking
- Self-confidence
- Etiquette
- Interviews
- GRE support and materials
- GRE Prep class required in summer for all three sections of the GRE
- Program provides free Test Prep materials and instruction
- Provides 50% fee-reduction waiver for GRE
- Offers test scheduling assistance
- One on one instruction in vocabulary, basic algebra and geometry, and essay writing
- Local, regional and national conferences
- Provides funding for attending conferences in your discipline
- Guidance applying to graduate school
- Offers help in finding and selecting graduate school
- Helps improve networking between universities and McNair Programs that will aid you in your search for the right Graduate School
