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jaejae88 got a reaction from sm96 in Unrelated undergrad degree but good test scores, will I be accepted anyplace for a Linguistics MA?
I'm going to be brutally honest- you can get into MANY programs with those stats. BUT TESOL and Applied Linguistics at the graduate level are absolutely useless in the USA. I graduated from a program in 2012 (very reputable in my area). My classmates are all struggling and have multiple jobs just to make ends meet trying to teach at the college level and their contracts are not guaranteed to ever be renewed. They have no job stability and little to no benefits. Several of them moved back home to their country of origin if they were foreigners. The major is really hyped up as a gateway to an interesting career but there is no career to be had. I live in an area with dozens of community colleges and adult education and nothing is honestly out there that is stable. There are no positions in language documentation left, and you cannot get a tenure track job without a PhD. PhD's are a dime a dozen so the competition is brutal and your chance of being hired even with a PhD into a tenured track position is less than 1%.
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jaejae88 got a reaction from sarahma789 in Unrelated undergrad degree but good test scores, will I be accepted anyplace for a Linguistics MA?
I'm going to be brutally honest- you can get into MANY programs with those stats. BUT TESOL and Applied Linguistics at the graduate level are absolutely useless in the USA. I graduated from a program in 2012 (very reputable in my area). My classmates are all struggling and have multiple jobs just to make ends meet trying to teach at the college level and their contracts are not guaranteed to ever be renewed. They have no job stability and little to no benefits. Several of them moved back home to their country of origin if they were foreigners. The major is really hyped up as a gateway to an interesting career but there is no career to be had. I live in an area with dozens of community colleges and adult education and nothing is honestly out there that is stable. There are no positions in language documentation left, and you cannot get a tenure track job without a PhD. PhD's are a dime a dozen so the competition is brutal and your chance of being hired even with a PhD into a tenured track position is less than 1%.