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anna_M

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  1. I got into 6/10 schools with a 151 q.
  2. I emailed Cornell a week ago and answerd immediately.
  3. Christine, I think the only one who is acting REALLY unprofessional here is you. Would you have applied if UTK was not a GREAT department?
  4. Who wrote the disturbing message about Tennessee on the result page? I am still trying to decide where I want to go. For me Tennessee is by far the best fit, but I am pushed way to hard to make a decision right now (without having the results from other universities). That's why I have second toughts. Anyone in the same position? PM me.
  5. I contacted CSU. They won't will notify their first candidates in March. So we need to be patiet for a while.
  6. What did Princeton's rejection mail say? Just curious....
  7. I applied to Duke too! When did he contact you? Who is your POi?
  8. Yes! Many universities don't use interviews at all.
  9. Congratulations everyone! Must be such a relieve!
  10. The answer is very often it depends. 1). What kind of research are you doing for your professor? How good is your professor? Is it relevant to what you want to do as a PhD ? 2). It depends. Are you ready for gradschool? What are doing these 2,3 years? 3). Luck is an important factor. Is there faculty available for your topic? How good are the other applicants that year? Don't underestimate the GRE, especially if you are not a native speaker. Also, LORs are very important. Many foreigners don't know how to write them (and even some Americans don't know how to write them). Even if they are very positive about you, they may not be great writers. 4). Depends on what you want to study. It won't help much if what you are stuying now is irrelevant to what you want to study as a PhD. 5. Yes! Getting a PhD is not about getting a title from a top 10 program. You should be passionate about your research and apply to schools have a great reputation in your subfield. Don't go to the websites of sociology programmes and check whether they have faculty that you like. It is the wrong approach! Only apply if you have read a substantial amount of work by scholars in your subfield and then check whether they are at universities with a PhD program (what their graduate students think of them, where their graduate students ended up, if they have funding, what the school offers etc).
  11. Congratulations! Now, I am curious too! Please tell us!
  12. Breaks0, don't overthink it. Grades are very subjective and maybe she is a hard grader. A B+ doesn't mean that she wrote a bad letter of reference. We are all stressed out about applications. Hang in there!
  13. Yes, adjuncts are surviving on $3.000 per course (overloaded with 6 courses a year), because the job market is great. The fact that there are many of them, especially in the social sciences, is not worrisome at all. But I am just sensationalizing, of course.
  14. Don't worry to much, these scores aren't terrible. It is gonna depend on the committee of course, but if your research proposal issnt quatitivative it shouldnt matter that much. Also, with american it is much easier to be admitted than IR of comparative. More important is fit, good SOP, writing sample. LOR etc. Did you contact POis? I would be worried about the number of schools you applied to. Many deadlines are Jan 15. Why not apply to a few more?
  15. post docs, ajuncts, jobs outside academia, jobs at community colleges. However, sometimes people do find tenure track positions after working for a while as a ajunct or post doc. But lets not have illusions, the job market for social science or humanity PhDs is not assuring at all.
  16. I saw the ASA stats, but there are also many more people graduating with a PhD than in the past. According to other stats only 18% finds a tenure track job. Although, many have carreer goals outside academia nowadays, the job market for social science PhDs issn't good.
  17. Honestly, I think that both your TOEFL and your GRE scores (verbal and writing) are too low to be admitted. Many schools have a cut off, and even if they don't I think most committee members would consider theses scores a red flag. I see that your TOEFL writing score is actually acceptable (for TOEFL, less competitive schools the cut off is usually 25 for each section). Is there any change you could retake TOEFL and GRE? I think that it is extremely unlike that any school would admit you. I wouldn't spent the money on applications. Why do you want a PhD? I know, being an international student myself, that the education system can be very different. Would it be an idea to apply to master programs? There are a few master programs that fund their students. This way, you would have time to improve your English and you would be able to transfer some credits to a future PhD program.
  18. Why would your LOR not be strong? If you have a publication in a peer review journal in your field of intrest, I assumed you got some help from someone in that field? Seems like you have a really got shot (if you have a good SOP and LOR of course).
  19. I think, besides the institution, the professor is very important. If he or she has a good network and reputation, it may make the difference. Anyway, there are too many PhDs and not just in sociology.
  20. I am applying to programs related to economic sociology and environmental sociology
  21. I contacted all my POIs as well as their grad students. I Skyped with most of them, but they don't know about my terrible GREs
  22. I won't be able to breath until I get a funded acceptance letter. Just curious.. What are your research interests? Where did you apply? Did you contact POIs?
  23. I wrote my SOP for social science programs, anyone willing to give feedback? I am more than happy to exchange SOPs!
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