Many of the students working in our lab are planning to pursue a professional degree of some sort (medical school, vet school, dental school, pharmacy school, etc), but we always have a few who have “caught the bug”, so to speak, and consider graduate school in the biological sciences. In talking with them, many have a strong passion for the subject matter, but have very little idea of what the process is like to apply to graduate school, nor what graduate school is really like. I have been meaning to put together an advice FAQ to answer some common questions for a long time, and when Gail passed on Joan Strassman’s advice it finally spurred me to collect the other pieces of internet wisdom I’ve seen on this topic, and make a new page. I’ve got points of view from 6 faculty now, which should definitely serve as a good starting point for anyone who is considering graduate school, especially in the sub-fields of evolution or ecology.