Morgenstern

This article may be of interest to those following this thread: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/12/08/gre

Also, a word on the funding issue: there are people who are accepted into PhD programs in the Humanities as full time students without funding. In my opinion it is madness to do this given job prospects on the other side (especially in Philosophy of Religion/Theology). If you're rich, have a trust fund, or a partner that's willing to support you then maybe it's another story. Most of the programs that people on this thread are curious about offer full funding with admission. I've heard that Chicago admits a few PhD students every year without full funding, although I think this has changed (maybe someone more familiar with Chicago can speak to this).

You can assume this at Emory, but not at most other places.

My friend had the impression that it was precisely because they hadn't taken many internal candidates in recent years that this year there were so many. This is, however, hearsay.

My friend and I applied to Emory. He was invited to campus for an interview that took place this past weekend. He said that something like 4 of the 5 final candidates in Theological Studies were internal, i.e. had done MDiv or MA degrees at the Candler School.