drumbum

Hi all, I recently graduated from a US top 20 school as a Finance and Chinese double major this past May. I had realized halfway through my studies that business isn't really my thing whether it be studying it or choosing to work in it, but I felt it was too late to switch at that point. After much thinking, I've decided that it'd be much more meaningful and fulfilling for me to pursue a PhD in Anthropology that focuses on China and Hong Kong, but not much of my background really supports that so I am sort of lost on how to approach this. Things going against me are my low undergrad GPA (3.18) and no relevant letters of rec from anthro professors. The only thing that stands out is having written an honors thesis on social identity in Hong Kong which focused on a mixture of culture, history and politics and my native fluency in Mandarin and Cantonese. My questions are: - Is it a big negative to work in business for a year or two so that I can pay off my loans (roughly $10k) before applying? - Would it make better sense to apply for a masters program before a PhD program because my undergrad has nothing anthropology related? - What's the best approach to finding a suitable program once I've narrowed down research interests? Or is it better to start broad and narrow it down later? I feel that I have interests in multiple areas (globalization, urbanization, ecology) don't even know what I should start googling as I search for professors with these areas of focus. Thanks so much for reading.