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  1. Based on the information you provided, I would say that your chances of getting accepted into a program are very high, it just depends on where you want to attend and with whom you would like to work. I would recommend finding professors that are doing work you find exciting, and contacting them directly to tell them you are interested in doing your PhD at their institution. If grade averages and publications were enough to keep one from getting into PhD programs I wouldn't be in one today. The point is to make it clear in your personal statements and conversations that you have research goals and have the means to attain those goals; everything else is secondary.
  2. Here's an interesting opinion piece on the way in which GRF awards are skewed: http://johnhawks.net/weblog/topics/metascience/grants/nsf-graduate-fellowships-underrepresented-2015.html
  3. Faulty, you're absolutely right and I am honestly not worried about any kind of career suicide. I have (to my knowledge) good rapport with all of the PIs I applied to work with, and they are all familiar with my situation. I can't speak for them, but I'm sure they would all love to be able to offer me some kind of funding (and they still might). The flip side of that is that I would love to work with any of the 6, so funding being equal, my decision would still be incredibly tough. Whatever happens, I will notify each of them with my decision and an explanation thereof. I've found that a little honesty and clear communication go a long way, and if not, then the person might in fact be an asshole as you said.
  4. Thanks, mmmcheese. It's good to hear that they were able to give you at least an estimate. I hope you get good news, however you choose to define that!
  5. I definitely don't want that. I am still very open to the MA option as I am also new to anthropology and love the work I would be doing with that professor. That having been said, if I get a funded PhD offer, I think I will take it and play catch-up with my anthropologically-trained cohort (I mean I love this stuff, so that shouldn't be too painful). Like I said in the other thread, I will be reaching out to departments when I know spring break season is over. I can't imagine un-accepting is a thing, especially not over someone trying to find out whether they will have net income or a mountain of expensive loans waiting for them at their new institution. The next four weeks should be pretty interesting.
  6. Thanks again, Faulty. It's my first time at this rodeo, but I agree that it seems a bit uncouth to potentially wait until after 4/15 to make funding offers. Obviously there are a multitude of factors that go into funding students, and sometimes late funding possibilities come up, but programs have to know that places prospective students in a difficult situation. I haven't reached out to anyone yet, but I've gotten a couple "funding decisions will be announced in the coming weeks" emails. I know some departments are on spring break this week and next, and that could affect funding announcements. I'll give it until the week of the 3/23, and then I'll start reaching out to my programs. I really can't complain too much; there are worse problems to have than having my pick from a half-dozen PhD programs, but I know better than to pay to play (especially out of state).
  7. Thanks for that info, Faulty. I posted in the other thread, but I'm still kind of waiting to hear whether or not any of the PhD programs I got into are going to offer me funding before 4/15. I have what seem like strange circumstances: I was accepted into every PhD program I applied to in two fields, but only the Masters program I applied to has offered me a funding package. Does anyone know if funding offers this late in the game are common, or do they typically come closer to being accepted?
  8. I'm just wondering if anyone else is in a situation similar to mine. I have several acceptances straight into PhD programs as well as an MA program, but I only have a funding offer from the MA program. I'm a little confused as to how things will work from here with April 15th approaching. Some of the programs have told me that they might make funding offers after 4/15, but don't I have to accept or decline admission by that date? It seems a little crazy to accept admission to a PhD program and just hope that I get funded between April and August. Would I be obligated to a school that I accepted admission to without funding if another funding offer came in later? And wouldn't I have to accept multiple schools' offers to wait it out and hear about funding (which seems deceitful if not flat out wrong)? The timeline of all this is driving me nuts.
  9. I think 300 is actually a little low, because that would put you somewhere in the 40-45th percentile [1]. I guess it's possible though that they use 300 as the even-if-this-person-seems-great-they-just-don't-cut-it line. Of the schools I've researched that post their average GRE scores for admission, most are looking for around 70th percentile and up, which should be closer to about 310-312, assuming equal performance on verbal and quant. The GRE of course isn't everything, and I'm sure there are sub-300 GRE scorers that have been accepted into programs. [1] https://www.ets.org/s/gre/pdf/concordance_information.pdf
  10. Hello! I applied to 4 anthropology programs, and am now waiting like most of the rest of you. I haven't been active on the board prior to this, but I wanted to chime in on the "should I contact my potential PI" discussion. I think DanJackson hit the nail on the head. You are an adult applying to a job, and there's no reason you can't reach out to your potential supervisor if you have a reason to do so (a good test for necessity is to type out the email, and then read it as if you were the PI receiving it). If doing so were to cost you your position in that person's lab (and really, it probably won't), you most likely wouldn't want to work with them anyway. Anyway, thanks for all the postings here, it's been a great resource while I wait things out.
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