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Using the graduate school search feature, prepare a list of at least a dozen graduate schools that interest you. Discuss this list with your school advisor or a biology faculty member whose research area most closely matches your interests. They should be able to help eliminate some schools from the list or add others. Faculty members in your department may also be able to arrange personal contact with either faculty or graduate students in the schools that you want to pursue.

Using your list, contact the programs you are interested in and request additional information.  Remember that program catalogs are promotional items, they are trying to get you to apply to their program. Make sure you weed through the hype and get the facts.

You can also use this site to link to the programs that are of interest to you.  Many of the programs have an immense amount of information that is kept up to date, and you can help save a tree by not requesting numerous catalogs.

It is also a good idea to start your own spreadsheet of the pros and cons of each program so that you can make the most informed choice of one of your most important life decisions.

Graduate programs can range from strictly basic research labs to more applied research found typically associated with medical schools. If you are quite sure that you want to do research with human health as your primary subject, a program in a medical school may be a better choice.

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