Perhaps you don’t know what you want to do, or perhaps you’d rather not even think about it. But by the time you’re a junior, you really should start considering the options. A lot of help is available: You can’t avoid noticing the bulletin boards in the halls of Guion, overflowing with announcements of opportunities for summer activities and for graduate study. A google search can lead you all over the world in an afternoon.  Drop in to the Alumnae Office and ask them for contacts with alums graduating with a biology major, and use our biology alumnae webpage.

If graduate school is of interest, talk with faculty as soon as possible.  There are a wealth of programs in fields you may never have known existed.  Programs differ in their prerequisites, application deadlines and GRE requirements.   Applied graduate programs in many fields require that you pay tuition; applying early may make you eligible for fellowships or financial aid.  Research-oriented graduate programs usually pay you, through teaching or research assistantships.  Even if graduate school doesn’t sound like something you'd like to do right away, you can learn a lot from browsing on the web.

If you want to pursue a health-care career, be sure to meet with Professor Davies as early as possible. She has the special information you need to prepare for a profession in human or veterinary medicine, or in an allied health-care field.