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  1. I've recently decided that I want to have a career in higher education. (Academic advisor would be my dream job.) Right now I'm in between my sophomore and junior year of college, and I don't have a lot of experience. This past year I tutored math to small groups through my school's tutor program, and I was an administrative assistant for about 6 weeks for the school's TRIO tutoring program (started after spring break). I didn't have any student contact or anything for that one - just working on organizing information about the program so a report could be made about the effectiveness of the program basically. Besides that, I haven't done anything remotely related to higher education. (No RAing, giving campus tours, working for any student affairs type departments or anything like that.) I'm going to be studying abroad for a full year this year, so I won't be able to get any experience doing that stuff this year either. I'm hoping to get involved my senior year by signing up for this online program where you "meet" virtually once a week with a high school student and help them with getting into college, and I want to get involved with the study abroad department a little by being a peer advisor to an exchange student. Writing this all out, I'm actually starting to feel like maybe I do (or will have) enough experience to get an assistantship, but I just feel like I'm kind of late getting the ball rolling since I didn't decide what I wanted to do until halfway through my undergrad career and I'm not sure how much the things I'm planning on doing my senior year will count since I'll be applying to programs and assistantships in the middle of that before I really get my feet under me. Basically, I'm just wondering how much experience one usually needs to land an assistantship in higher education (especially in something like advising since that's what I'm most interested in, but I'll take anything). Is it super competitive or do most people (even those without experience) end up getting assistantships? If it matters, I'm okay with pretty much any school in the country as long as they have a decent employment rate.
  2. Do sociology phd programs usually have a foreign language requirement? My college "strongly recommends" foreign language courses to students who are majoring in sociology and are considering graduate school. I haven't really seen much mention of this when I've looked online at different graduate programs, though. I'm not sure if I'm not looking in the right places or if a lot of places don't actually have a language requirement. As an undergraduate, I have to minor in something. Basically, if the foreign language requirement is quite common, I'd probably want to minor in a language. If it's not necessary, however, I'd much prefer to minor in something that's more interesting to me.
  3. I know it can probably vary quite a bit, but can anyone tell me what a sociology graduate student could expect to get for a stipend if they get funding? Or, if you don't mind, what do you get for a stipend? Do you have enough so that you could potentially work towards paying off your undergraduate loans while in school (whether or not you actually do)? Basically, graduate school is a long way off for me, but I'm probably going to graduate with my bachelor's degree with a lot of debt. I'd like to make some progress on my debt while I'm working on my master's/doctorate's degree. Would it be possible to have an extra couple of hundred dollars a month if I live very frugally? (Roommates, eating at home, living without a car, etc...) Also, sorry if this is in the wrong forum. I was just hoping to get responses from sociology students since I figure that different areas of study might get different amounts of funding.
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