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ahhh, I felt like I was at Harvard again

I'm also applying to NT and haven't received a rejection. No news is usually good news, but this probably just means they haven't got around to sending the NT rejections yet

one thing you might also consider is that the big name scholars will typically have to rank you in there recommendations. If this big name scholar has had brilliant students for 30 years already, they might be less inclined to say that you are in the top 1% or something like that. One of my writers was the doctoral adviser of half the people I applied to work with at the various Ivies... so they left that part blank when they could.

I consider myself rather moderate, and I had a pretty rough time at HDS. Between Unitarians (including married women) laughing about their weekend trips to male strip clubs in NYC, Catholics apostatizing themselves (I mean that literally) by holding female run masses in the chapel, Jews surprised by my surprise about their "S&M Haggadah," the Queer Thanksgiving (well, queer everything really), and the official community wide email blast calling for protests against a pro-life speaker coming to Harvard ...this isn't your grandfather's divinity school. All that said, the faculty, at least the one's I worked with, were all superb and denominational diversity in those context was certainly an asset.

I'm pretty familiar with the ins and outs of HDS and there is no such Master's program that leads to a PhD. As for the master's level, HDS is very good with funding and is up to 100% tuition remission for most of its students, though if you're wealthy enough to own a company with 250 employees they would probably give you 0%, or much reduced.

How are your chances for what?

yeah my Syriac class at Harvard had 6 students, and that was pretty big! I'm convinced summer intensives are the best way to learn languages but you won't find any of those. Do you have all your modern research languages? HDS offers French, German and Spanish for reading in the summer

Just got my invite to interview at Notre Dame!!!!!!

actually it's just you. you must have some major defect.

I used Koester... but he was teaching the course. I'm not a super big fan of Ehrman, despite his best efforts to be neutral, he still comes off as a bit anti-theology/izing to me. I'm teaching an intro to New Testament right now and I just picked an assortment of articles for reading, there's no shortage.

mine too, at 8am @_@ thank God! I have kind of high (unrealistic) hopes for ND...

Faculty is effectively identical. Money is virtually identical, with the exception that FAS has a couple more perks like a cheaper gym membership. For Hebrew Bible NELC would probably be your best shot, since if you're applying through the Committee or Div School you're competing with all the applicants for all religions and periods and are much more into post-this or that studies. Then again, the ThD, with the same coursework, requirements, funding and professors tends to get fewer applicants because it says "ThD." Rule of thumb, apply to all of them. ...like I said, mostly a bureaucratic mess.

they just emailed me as well saying they're missing one of my recommendations

Monday as in the 28th of January. The whole ThD vs PhD thing is a bit bureaucratic so I'm not sure if the same committee meetings address both, or if NELC is handled by separate committee either. I was also given the impression that, even after their meeting, they might not be sending offers for a little while yet.

I got an invitation for a Skype interview at U Michigan FYI, Harvard committee for New Testament is meeting Monday, and the other sub-fields will be next week as well I presume.

Yale and Austin do, I don't believe Harvard does

I just spent the last 20 minutes trying to find my last reply to this topic but there have been hundreds of replies since and I can't seem to find it. I was recommended to the Germany scholars Fulbright. I was wondering, since I'm also applying to PhD programs, when Germany will announce its recipients. I'm worried, that if I only have a few weeks to accept or turn down the Fulbright, I will not have heard back from many of the PhD programs that I'm applying to. Does anyone know when Germany normally announces winners?

Recommended to Germany! Anyone know when they notify for acceptance? I'm also applying to PhD programs, and if I only have a few weeks to decide whether or not to accept the Fulbright I might not have heard back on all of my PhD apps yet.

in person

for the love of God (pun!), I hope so

I got a 640 which was 92% at the time. Cracking 700 was 97%+ IIRC

IIRC Yale only started doing interviews last year and did them via skype

yep

and it will only take you 10 years to finish!

I finished all 14 of my apps (with the exception of mailing a couple finished applications because I'm waiting on transcripts) on the 1st of December, including Duke's. *fingers crossed* I had to get them all done early because I'm teaching three classes next semester and I have to get to work on my lectures, gah!