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  1. This is what I use for Greek text crit: http://www.ifao.egnet.net/publications/publier/outils-ed/polices/#grec TLG also has a pretty full list of fonts if the above doesn't work for what you need: http://www.tlg.uci.edu/help/UnicodeTest.php
  2. Well, when I did interview weekends a few years ago, roughly 2/3 of the prospective students weren't accepted at each school-- so it happens all the time. I really don't think there's anything you can do to avoid it, any more than you can avoid a regular rejection. The schools know how many spots they can fill ahead of time, and they fly in more students than they have places: so someone is going to get rejected. I think the key is to try not to take it any more personally than you would a standard rejection. I mean, obviously it feels different, because you met people and you hope that you made a good impression and that they liked you. But ultimately, they are deciding on the merits of your application as a whole, and it is entirely possible that (even if they like you) they don't think you're the best choice for their program. It's just life, and this type of thing will keep happening over the course of your academic career-- grant applications, job applications-- so it is a good idea to figure out how to roll with it.
  3. With regards to program strength, I was given an interesting piece of advice when I applied to graduate school. It is this: look at/ ask about what types of dissertation research and dissertation writing fellowships and grants graduate students are receiving. Most top programs only guarantee 5 years of funding (although many have possibilities of additional year(s) from internal fellowships), but obviously many people in our field take more than 5 years to finish a PhD. So, strong programs have ABD grad students receiving competitive external fellowships with some regularity. This is particularly relevant for archaeologists and some types of ancient historians, who tend to apply to external fellowships and grants to fund fieldwork more than philologists, I think. Finding out about at dissertation fellowship recipients is not an easy thing to do. For one thing, isn't a compilation of such fellowships-- and there are a lot of them, depending on geographic research area or topic or temporal frame. Furthermore, not every department provides up-to-date grad student bios, and not every fellowship makes public the list of recipients. But, nevertheless, it's worth at least noting what fellowships the dissertation-phase students are receiving, when that information is available. External fellowships, particularly the more competitive ones, can be one telling indicator of how well a department is preparing its students for the wider world in their final years of grad school.
  4. I would also say not to worry about this at all. When I applied several years ago, I had no idea that contacting faculty was a thing, and I didn't email anyone- but was admitted into established programs for archaeology. And honestly, so many of the US programs tend to admit students without a pre-determined advisor or a very specific research plan, and so are looking for people who work well within the context of the department rather than within the research program of a particular faculty member. This differs from UK and even Canadian systems. Also, I know how long it can sometimes take (as an ABD student even) to get a response via email from professors in my own program, so I'm not at all surprised that they don't always write back to applicants. Don't let it stress you out.
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