Graduate School Timeline 200809 GRE: http:www'ets'orggre

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Graduate School Timeline 2008-09GRE
http//www.ets.org/gre/

• Web registration deadlines
• Physics Subject/General
• 10/18/08 test ? Decatur/Bloomington closest
  center available
• 11/08/08 test ? Urbana test center available
• Physics General
• Register on-line for time (many available).
• Register early! Test centers fill up quickly!
• When registering, be sure that the spelling of
  your name matches the name printed on the
  identification document(s) you will present at
  the test center. If this information does not
  match, you will not be permitted to test, and
  your test fee will be forfeited.

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Computer-Based GRE General

• Scheduled (on-line) first three weeks of each
  month (Sep-Jan), morning, afternoon, evening, or
  Saturday
• Computer Based Testing Center of the Turner
  Student Services Building
• 610 E. John, Champaign
• For more info or to schedule
• contact Ann Wright of the Testing Center, 244-1342

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Fellowship Deadlines

• NSF November 10
• http//www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id62
  01orgDGEfromhome
• Hertz Foundation November 1
• http//www.hertzfoundation.org
• Soros for new Americans November 1
• http//www.pdsoros.org/
• Gates October 2008
• http//www.gatesscholar.org
• National Physical Science Consortium Aug. 25 -
  Nov 5
• http//www.npsc.org
• American Assoc. Univ. Women Fellowships various
• http//www.aauw.org/education/fga/fellowships_gran
  ts/index.cfm
• Many more fellowships http//www.physics.uiuc.ed
  u/education/graduate/Fellowships.html

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Graduate school application deadlines and links
Deadline
Schools
Berkeley, Cornell (Physics), Harvard, Stanford
(Phys) Applied Phys. is Jan. 8, UCLA, Santa
Barbara
Dec. 1115, 08
Chicago, Princeton
Dec. 2831, 08
Cal Tech, Columbia, MIT, Ohio State,
Rutgers, Yale (Phys App. Phys)
Jan. 15, 09
Cornell (App. Physics), Illinois, Johns Hopkins,
Michigan, Minnesota, Rochester, Texas, UC-San
Diego
Jan. 15-21, 09
Feb. 1, 09
Maryland, Purdue