MidwesternGuy

Everyone here is so helpful! Thank you!

I was told to post this year, so I thought I would ask and see what you folks have to say. This is my very first time posting and so I'm not sure exactly how this works, but I'll try my best. I'm looking to switch gears from a philosophy masters program at which I'm studying now, and am looking to get accepted at a theology MTS program. I have already done a fair amount of research, but I know very little of the field and so am just looking for advice from people who know it well. I don't have any intuition about what are safety schools and what are reach programs, and so I'm posting my information and am looking for the intuitions of those who have an idea. If you were applying with this, would you apply to this same range of programs, or would you not feel very comfortable? I'll have a 3.88 GPA in a masters program in philosophy, but no publications. I will however have good letters from three professors in that program. I also have a 162 in verbal and a 151 in the quantitative (I may retake this). Here are the programs I'm thinking of applying to: Yale, Duke, Marquette and Notre Dame. Any thoughts folks? I'm not looking for predictions, just basic intuitions about whether that is a selection of programs that seems wise.

I never knew that existed. Thanks!

This is my very first time posting and so I'm not sure exactly how this works, but I'll try my best. I'm looking to switch gears from a philosophy masters program at which I'm studying now, and am looking to get accepted at a theology MTS program. I have already done a fair amount of research, but I know very little of the field and so am just looking for advice from people who know it well. I don't have any intuition about what are safety schools and what are reach programs, and so I'm posting my information and am looking for the intuitions of those who have an idea. If you were applying with this, would you apply to this same range of programs, or would you not feel very comfortable? I'll have a 3.88 GPA in a masters program in philosophy, but no publications. I will however have good letters from three professors in that program. I also have a 162 in verbal and a 151 in the quantitative. Here are the programs I'm thinking of applying to: Yale, Duke, Marquette and Notre Dame. Any thoughts folks? I'm not looking for predictions, just basic intuitions about whether that is a selection of programs that seems wise.