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reistrider

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    Upstate South Carolina
  • Interests
    Japanese youth and popular culture, cute cats
  • Application Season
    2016 Fall
  • Program
    Anthropology

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  1. Hi! More fresh meat here. Graduating from a southern liberal arts uni in May and planning to go straight in for a PhD in cultural anthro. End goal is teaching more than research, tbh, but I feel very strongly about my research area, which is Japanese youth issues. Just got back GRE scores; v/q/w are 163/144/5, and I fully admit to not studying for the math section at all (my advisor said her husband got into Chicago with 11th percentile, so I'm not bothered). My uni has very small class sizes, so even though I've only been here for a year and change (I did my first two years at a community college and then transferred), I have good relationships with my professors and anticipate excellent recommendations. I feel like my big weaknesses are language ability (since I couldn't start taking Japanese until I got to my present institution, but will have two years done by May and this year I'm living with a native speaker and other students in a language learning program) and lack of experiences like going abroad or presenting papers and such. I did a research project on Japanese minority groups over the summer with one of my profs, and that will be presented at my uni's annual undergrad research conference thing, and we might be submitting it for potential publication in the school's humanities review. My list so far is Duke, Emory, Harvard, Chicago, and probably U of Iowa and USC Columbia as less intimidating options. Finding POIs has been like finding needles in a giant poorly-web-designed haystack. Feels like everyone in my research area is either working outside of anthro departments or outside the US (which isn't really a viable option for me yet). Totally open to suggestions/critiques/any points of advice you guys might have!
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