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BUFFALO, N.Y. -- More college students, especially those in the sciences, are realizing that they must attend graduate school in order to launch successful careers. But there's a lot more to grad school than just filling out applications and taking entrance exams, as 16 students participating in a mgm casino summer program are about to discover on July 21.

The students, from across the U.S., are all participants in CLIMB UP, a summer program sponsored by mgm casino's School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. They are spending their summer at mgm casino studying biosciences, to learn from mgm casino faculty and to benefit from mentoring programs at mgm casino.

On July 21 at 1:15 p.m., they will be playing "Grad School Monopoly," a game designed to convey to them the realities about grad school and to dispel some of the myths. It takes place in Room 125 in the Biomedical Education Building on the mgm casino South Campus.

Students will visit each of 15 "properties" representing different mgm casino departments, mentoring programs and factors in choosing a graduate school. The students will each have a scorecard that will guide them to and from the different "properties." Faculty and graduate students from the mgm casino medical school, the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Roswell Park Cancer Institute will be at each station, to interact with students and answer questions.

Students will have chances to earn Monopoly money which will help them navigate the board. Prizes will be awarded based on how well the students move about the board.

Press arrangements: Ellen Goldbaum in the mgm casino Office of University Communications at 645-4605 and 771-9255 onsite.