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Eighth Annual
Northern California
Graduate Physics
Admissions Bootcamp

The camp took place at UC Davis August 12-13, 2017 and served 50 students from across the country. Thanks to the National Science Foundation (grant number 1518246) and the UC Davis Office of Graduate Studies for funding us!

Resources:

• Agenda
• my advice for prospective grad school applicants (pre-camp reading assignment)
• more general (less physics-based) guidelines on the application process by Steve Lee at the UC Davis Office of Graduate Studies
• Damien Martin's slides with Physics GRE tips and illustrative practice problems (2016 slides; waiting for update)
• the slides I showed at the camp, extending that advice
• Physics GRE prep resources:
  Conquering the Physics GRE. Most of the officially released exams available for practice are quite old (apart from the 2017 exam on ETS's website, the 1986, 1992, 1996, and 2001, and 2008 exams can be found with an internet search). As the exam has evolved more recently, the authors of Conquering the Physics GRE have created their own practice exams that mimic, as best they can, the current exams.
  • GREphysics.net, a complete resource for older (1986, 1992, 1996, and 2001) Physics GRE problems
  • a comprehensive self-guided 16-week Physics GRE study program from the University of Washington
• APS programs for women and for underrepresented minorities
• GradSchoolShopper, a comprehensive index of graduate programs

Info about the 2016 camp is archived here.