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rav989

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  • Application Season
    2013 Spring
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    Princeton U; Yale; Harvard

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  1. It was Princeton, ancient med. I don't want to state the second-choice (if I go there, I wouldn't want anyone to know that's how I felt, and it's a small field so it'll be easy to figure it out... plus if I go I'll probably end up being convinced it should have been my top choice all along).
  2. I'm sorry if this has been treated already somewhere else ,but want to probe gradcafe about something. I was waitlisted at my first-choice school. Apparently slim chances of getting in, but they encourage to apply again next year. Was a bit disappointed and thought about giving up the whole PhD thing (I realize this might be immature... but this is my first time in the application season). I did get into another school that I'm not as excited about which cheered me up. Do you think I should go to second-choice school or perhaps, now having a bit more confidence because at least one place wants me, I can wait for next year to try first-choice school again?
  3. wait-listed at princeton poi wrote an e-mail. applicants admitted off wait-list "on rare occasions"... on to law school i guess.
  4. All submitted... let the waiting begin! hope Kuriakos is right
  5. i think i'm completely wrong about this
  6. could he possibly have meant they don't guarantee 5 years of *fellowship* funding? as far as I understand very few schools (Stanford, Princeton, maybe Chicago) guarantee that whereas most others (Harvard, Yale, maybe Duke) guarantee 5 years of funding but some of that funding is contingent on teaching.
  7. i have three apps, and i'm not done yet. #alreadyfeelingbehind
  8. In one of the programs I am applying to, the person I'd like to work with is very junior (09 phd). The intellectual fit is perfect, and I think by the time I'm finished he'll be established enough, but I'm worried that my admission chances will be lower because the more senior profs will pick people who want to work with them. Should I emphasize in my SOP that I can, and want to work with the senior people as well? That wouldn't be lying, but it would require me to change my project description quite a bit.
  9. I'm applying even to less -- either two or three. This is my first application season, and honestly, if I don't get into schools I really want, I might try law school. It's not that I think I won't learn a lot from other schools or that it won't be a generally rewarding experience. But my other love is law school, I have a good chance getting into a really good one (maybe not YLS but very possibly Columbia, Chicago or Stanford), and I think that I'd like that more than going into a school that was my second choice. My interests are actually very similar to OP: Rabbinic literature in its late ancient context and secondarily Christianity in the Roman East and the Sasanian Empire. My top schools are Princeton and Yale, and I'll definitely be applying to them; I'm also thinking of possibly applying to Harvard or Columbia.
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