Taking classes between senior yr & grad school?

Graduate School
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<p>I plan on enrolling in grad school in fall of 2014. I can graduate in spring 2014 pretty easily, but I want to take a few extra classes. By doing so, I would probably need to take classes in the summer of 2014 to graduate. Would graduating in the summer affect my enrollment for grad school in the fall in any way?</p>

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<p>It might depend on your school, but I’m in a summer course now with people who are actually in grad school now (started in summer semester) taking extra undergrad classes that they needed to take. They are in grad school at the same place they did undergrad though.</p>

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<p>When you get accepted to a grad school and you applied for the fall, do they expect you to start working the summer after spring or the fall? I know classes don’t start until the fall, but idk about research and all that.
I don’t think they have the right to ask you to start working in the summer when you applied for the fall.</p>

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<p>As long as you graduate before you start grad school in the fall, no, it wouldn’t. But why don’t you graduate and then take those few extra classes as a non-degree student?</p>

<p>And as to when they expect you to start working, that depends. Most programs don’t expect you to start working until the fall, but I do know some people who chose to begin working on research in the mid-to-late summer before they began classes - at least to get settled into the lab.</p>

<p>Whether they have the “right” to do so is irrelevant. As a friendly suggestion, I submit that you need to kick that “right to” attitude to the curb. Part of graduate school (and a successful academic career) is jumping through the right hoops and pleasing the right people. Also, try to think of things more positively instead of negatively. Let’s say you start in the lab in July instead of September - that’s two additional months you have to get settled, start your experiments, get the equipment you need, get to know people, etc. That means you can be already settled in when classes start - instead of scrambling to learn the lab, a new campus, AND a new classroom environment all at the same time.</p>