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SamajChinta

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  1. According to current students, Brown seems to do a pretty good job of placing its graduates in tenure track positions (although these universities are nowhere near the top 20). A large number of graduates have accepted postdoc positions at Princeton, Yale, Harvard (I’m an international and not entirely familiar with the US higher education system, so am not sure how to interpret this - does accepting postdoc positions reflect the difficulty of graduates in obtaining a tenure-track position right after graduating?). Wisconsin Madison is off the list because of personal reasons. The program is pretty awesome, no doubt about that, although I do agree with avatarmomo that their funding package isn’t the best. @avatarmomo- Congratulations! Good to see another Brown admit on this forum. Will PM you soon. Thanks for the suggestions, everyone! Both schools have their strengths, so I probably need to think a little more about this.
  2. My interests are inequality, demography and development. I have been accepted to a few sociology Ph.D programs (see signature) and have narrowed down my choices to UCLA and Brown (both have offered full funding). Brown has offered me a better financial package (more money and less work obligations), is a better research fit to some extent (more faculty members carrying out research in developing countries), and being a private university, offers more funding opportunities for travel, research, etc. But I am concerned about the fact that its rankings (overall, and in sociology) have been slipping over the years (USNews, Times). UCLA is in the top 10 and has better student placements. I am finding it difficult to decide between the two programs . How much importance should I place on rankings? Do the rankings reflect the fact that the quality of graduate education at Brown has deteriorated? Any advice is most welcome. Feel free to pm me.
  3. Thanks for your suggestions, SocioEd. I would've taken another shot at the GRE, but I suppose it's too late now. Plus, all the slots in my country have been full since September in my country and it'd probably be crazy to fly out somewhere else at this stage to take the GRE
  4. Thank you very much for your advice, RandomDood and Seeking! Yes, I suppose it all comes down to the SoP at one point. I will definitely look into CUNY, and some British universities as well
  5. I'm an international applicant with interests in gender, work and family (in particular- intrahousehold bargaining and resource allocation, child welfare outcomes), social networks, migration and remittances and social demography. I'm interested in mixed-methods research (more inclined towards quant methods, though). My undergrad GPA is 3.7 (engineering degree from somewhat obscure university back home), and I have a masters in development from a top school in the UK . I have almost 3 years of research experience at an econ policy research organization (one peer reviewed lead-authored publication, one under review, a couple in the pipeline, and one presentation at an international statistics conference). My GRE scores are V: 163, Q: 158 and AW: 5. I hope to have good references from a UPenn demography alum (my graduate supervisor), and a Cornell econ alum (my co-author and supervisor at work) and an Anthropology alum from Purdue (undergrad professor). I’m hoping to apply to sociology PhD programs at Princeton, Michigan, UPenn, UCLA, Brown, Cornell, UMD, UC Davis, Vanderbilt, North Carolina State and Michigan State. I was wondering if my choice of universities is too ambitious- especially since my quant score isn’t stellar. Would love some candid opinions here- if applying to top ranked schools isn’t worth it, I could save some resources (mainly financial) too ! Should I look into some more lower ranked universities (names, please) as well? I’m really excited about the applications process, and really terrified at the same time! Thank you!
  6. Hi all, I have been lurking around this forum for the last couple of months, finally joined as a member today, and am really looking forward to your advice as I start the application process (I would like to apply to PhD programs starting in 2014). At the moment I have only one single- authored paper (my master's thesis) that could be submitted as a writing sample. However it does not quite reflect my current research as well as methodological interests (my thesis was qualitative, but I am keener on quantitative methods. And I do not have a sociology background) I would have liked to have come up with a single-authored quantitative writing sample, but I am very busy at the moment, working on a number of potentially publishable papers (quantitative) with multiple authors. Since there is really no clear consensus on the importance given to the writing sample by adcoms, I am quite worried about my paper. Will the writing sample be considered just as proof of my ability to write a well-articulated research paper, or will it be used as an indicator of my research/methodological interests as well? Or should I have a quantitative paper ready, just in case? Any advice would be much appreciated. Thanks!!!!
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