<p>Is it more or less competitive, since the admissions are more specialized rather than looking for superachievers in a lot of different areas. Will all graduate schools require recommendations, even if it's a lower-ranked school that didn't require them for undergraduate admissions?</p>
<p>extremely varies on the field and degree you are interested in...</p>
<p>thanks for the great answer, huskem</p>
<p>you've got to be kidding me.....if you knew anything about grad school admissions, you would know that there is no one answer. as i politely stated above, it depends on what field and what degree you want.</p>
<p>no, you're kidding yourself</p>
<p>I said it was a great answer.</p>
<p>One can safely say that grad admissions resemble undergrad only in that they both contain the word "admission".</p>
<p>They can be <em>very</em> competitive. In my field, Classics, the top programs admit something like 10-15%, expecting fewer than half that number to accept and matriculate. Unfortunately, few universities publish exact figures. One exception is U. Minn.:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.grad.umn.edu/data/stats/gs.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.grad.umn.edu/data/stats/gs.html</a></p>
<p>Virtually all grad schools will require:</p>
<p>GRE or other standard test
Minimum of 3.0 undergrad GPA
3 LORs
A Statement of Purpose</p>
<p>Also, the department you are applying to may have additional requirements to those of the graduate school as a whole.</p>
<p>masters programs are usually pretty easy to get into. phd programs on the other hand can be as low as a 1% acceptance rate (yale clinical psych).</p>
<p>also, a school that is not considered to be extremely competitive for undergrad may be one of the tops for grad school, and vice versa (i.e. temple has an amazing clinical psych program, while harvard's is laughable)</p>
<p>That's WAY too generalized. There are PhD programs that are relatively easy to get in to. There are lots of tough master's programs.</p>