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Ninth Annual
Northern California
Graduate Physics
Admissions Bootcamp
The camp took place at UC Davis August 11-12, 2018 and served
about 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)
- the slides I
showed in the session on admissions process
- more general (less physics-based) guidelines on the application process by
Steve Lee (UC Davis Office of Graduate Studies)
- Physics GRE prep resources:
- Damien Martin's
slides with Physics GRE tips and illustrative practice
problems
- TA Jessie Hirtenstein's solutions
to problems in atomic physics, relativity, and lab methods for
the 2008 PGRE practice exam.
- 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 2017 camp is archived
here.