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Craigb

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  • Location
    Hong Kong
  • Application Season
    2013 Spring
  • Program
    HGSE Ed.L.D.

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  1. My PLAN B: If the Ed.L.D. thing doesn't work out, I'm heading to grab some big bucks teaching English for Saudi Aramco for 2 years, coming back and funding myself. I just got invited to an interview (not THAT interview!!!) in Manila almost the same week as HGSE's. And my boss here in Hong Kong said at lunch today that I'll always have a job here no matter what Harvard decides.... Of course, being a ripe old fart of 57, I never expected to get in but having grown up a stone's throw from Harvard Yard, figured it might me a nice place for a mid-life crisis and I have enjoyed the process - especially taking the GRE with about 75 mainland Chinese...and now stumbling at this late date onto this site. The Elmore reference reminded me to try to remember the names of the 3 profs I said I could see myself working with, google them and even order a couple of their books. No internet when I did my Master's or my unfinished Ph.D. , so the waiting was a bit more solitary back in the day...heck, my diplomas are probably older than all of you. I do hope the admissions board gets together for Friday cocktails and laughs their butts off reading some of the stuff here. Take it from me kiddies, degrees make nice wall paper and may even open a few doors, but ultimately it's what you can DO that determines whether you stay or get voted off the island! p.s. How did you answer the app question about TEST SCORES being accurate predictors of my true capabilities or something like that? With a whopping 7% on the math, of course I said NO!
  2. It's probably a double check on your ENGLISH proficiency, since international applicants sometimes pay others to write their essays and application materials. If you flunk the speaking and listening during a SKYPE chat, there's no sense flying all that way to provide them with the same data they are seeking.
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