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  1. Congrats!
  2. Here's what I think about during this process. One important thing all of us ought to work really hard to come to terms with is the fact that there are more qualified applicants than spaces. That means some people who have excellent credentials will not be admitted. When that happens, you just try again next year. The stress of disappointment and the worry about the outcome is based on expectations, based on attachment to that outcome. It may be hard, but it's important to let go of the expectation because it is a decision that is out of your hands, and whatever the result, it doesn't close any doors. It's just one thing, in this moment. Consider for a moment, the extremely qualified applicant who doesn't get admission this year, spends a year doing a number of other things and applies again. That gap might result in experiences that change the outcome of life for the better. We wish for a certain outcome, become attached to it when it doesn't happen - but who is to say really that one out come is necessarily better in the long term than another? Patience, long game, big picture - life is huge, this is one thing, one moment, one small year. And if it's what you want to do, you apply again. There are lots of things in life that will require trying more than once, surviving them is a way to learn.
  3. More Emory and Notre Dame results coming in... So far, schools with Dec 1st and Dec 15th deadlines are starting to report back, it seems.
  4. Two more updates just posted: Duke: interview Notre Dame: not an acceptance Anyone else heard from Duke or Notre Dame? Anyone apply?
  5. A few more updates posted: two Emory interview invitations posted one update from Oregon State that adcom is meeting the first week of February
  6. (Another update someone posted in results today is an interview at Washington University In St. Louis.)
  7. Congrats!!!
  8. Its an online, for-profit "university." They're not giving anyone a PhD in Anthropology, let alone an international student who would be "coming to America" to study at a school that doesn't really exist. I tagged it as spam, others probably did, and it's gone. I suppose instead of spam, we might call it a joke. It is funny if you understand what University of Phoenix is.
  9. Don't submit an updated CV. Email your POIs and copy the graduate admissions contact in the department to let them know your update.
  10. There's now a University of Phoenix admission result, which is obviously spam...
  11. It could be Oklahoma, Oregon, Ohio, who knows. I would just reply to his tweet and ask him.
  12. Here's an admission for Ohio I just found by searching Twitter (assuming Ohio based on location): (@richardblargh) tweeted at 3:23 PM on Tue, Jan 14, 2014: Accepted into OSU's PhD program for anthropology, and nominated for a fellowship! Woo! (https://twitter.com/richardblargh/status/423188698092421120)
  13. Though since the CGS resolution only applies to funding offers - and many schools offer admissions first with funding information later, couldn't you accept an admissions offer and later reject it without the school's release, so long as you hadn't accepted a funding offer?
  14. On the topic of international applications...Anyone else's department at UBC require them to mail printed physical copies of application documents? So frustrating and expensive (international)... all my other schools accepted digital docs.
  15. It's quite interesting to read the actual resolution, which I looked up last year: http://www.cgsnet.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/CGS_Resolution.pdf When you do, you'll notice April 15 only applies to offers of funding, not admission as is often claimed in the forums here.
  16. Congratulations!!
  17. Two new PhD acceptances were posted today, both University Of Illinois - Champaign, one linguistic and one anthro...
  18. I haven't seen one yet. Thanks for starting it. I've applied to a few anthropology PhDs in Vancouver and Toronto.
  19. So, Jump, are you doing applied anthro?
  20. What rising_star said. Just because the programs are at Yale & Columbia doesn't make them "top programs." Where are the scholars, the researchers that you want to work with? Where do they teach? Where is the best program with an area studies focus in your region + FLAS? That's where you want to focus your attention. When people apply for PhDs at Columbia but don't make the cut, they often offer them a position in the MA program. That's, in part, what they mean when they call a program a 'cash cow.' The programs are perfectly good, but they will admit students who can pay. New School is another good example of this. You're much better off working with great faculty at a school in Michigan, Hawaii, or Washington with good FLAS for your area than getting an ivy MA just to get an ivy MA.
  21. Does it involve any fieldwork or human subject interaction? If so and you aren't doing it as part of an institution, journals may be concerned about not having IRB oversight of the project. In which case you might want to avoid anthro journals, write it as a more thought piece, remove references to any people or information that isn't publicly accessible and try to publish it in a culture studies, literature, or interdisciplinary journal. This is a good place to read for advice about understanding the goals and effectiveness of publishing: http://www.csulb.edu/colleges/cla/departments/anthropology/docs/BoellstorffHowtoGetanArticleAcceptedatAmericanAnthropologist.pdf Also, this book (this is a review) is full of good ideas: http://studentanthropologist.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/macdougall-2013.pdf
  22. I can't imagine a worse idea. These things seem funny to us (I've typed similar things and then deleted them) because we are working on SOPs and emailing POIs and paying hundreds of dollars to apply for MAs/MDivs/MTS/PhDs that may not lead to anything. In light of all that, it seems hilarious because it's just as arbitrary as all the other reasons they might or might not accept us. But to them, it would seem unprofessional, like you aren't taking the process seriously, or at worst like you're dismissing their program and their ability to choose candidates based on qualifications - or trying to relate your application to the horribly corrupt world of college sports - something no faculty want to hear about in SOPs for graduate degrees. So, don't. And read this: http://www.edcentral.org/tar-heel-scandal-myth-university
  23. Yes! But here's how I would do it. Apply for something. Doesn't matter what, little scholarship, grant, something - and ask three people to write you letters. Get your letter writers for your PhD program now. When that's done, thank them, tell them you would like to use them as references for PhD in 1-2 years, so save the letter. Send them nice cards saying thank you and then stay in touch, an email update every few months letting them know what you're up to or asking them for advice,,, something to keep you alive in their minds. And when you do apply they will need to update the letters anyway, and you might have new people you want to ask by then, but just in case - I agree it's smart to get them to write now.
  24. That's so funny - I kept thinking this thread was basically all archaeology...
  25. I'll just throw out again that ShavedIce wrote: "I would like to attend school full time and my church wants me to attend a conservative school. I'm looking for something that is academically rigorous. I wouldn't mind the challenge of confronting different points of view." This last sentence should be ShavedIce's mantra - and ShavedIce should say this over and over again every day. It's the most christian thing said here so far. If Jesus hadn't thought that way, and considered the difference between what his 'church' wanted for him and what He wanted - well all the evangelicals would still be going to synagogue.
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