FaultyPowers

Yep. I'm rejected as well. Oh well, that's the way it goes I guess.

I have a BA and MA in anthropology, three seasons of fieldwork, one season of international lab work, six conference presentations, three publications, five years of professional museum experience and two years of volunteering at another museum. It is a TOTAL crap shoot, and Brown is very, very highly selective. Also, judging from my conversations, they are very reluctant to take on students in general because they only get one shot...so if they offer a position and the position is declined they don't get to replace that person with their next favorite. They just don't get a student that year.

If you're waiting for a Brown decision don't wait for an email, just go online. They haven't bothered to email me yet but when I logged in there was a link to my decision letter, which was a rejection. I put my results up but I put them under Archaeology by mistake. I was just Anthro. Oh well, Brown is the color of poop, etc...

So am I!! And I applied to regular ol' Brown, not the Joukowski. So I'm still twiddling my thumbs and waiting.

For all the Boston Archaeology applicants, I'm curious as to what your thoughts are on future placement. Assuming we get in....which I feel is a HUGE assumption at this point since no one has heard anything from anyone!!...do any of you have misgivings about the fact that we'll be graduating with PhDs in Archaeology, rather than Anthropology? Do you think, or have you been advised, that this will make us any less employable in the future, for those departments looking for four-fields instructors?

At least some Pittsburgh decisions should be coming out now; I just got a rejection! It was the most awkward fit of the bunch so I'm not devastated but it's also the first notification of any kind so...meh.

Someone just mentioned in the 'Archaeology Applicants' discussion that they had received a rejection, but I'm not sure whether they meant from Anthro or from the Joukowski Institute....

Boo! Was this for Anthro or the Joukowski Institute?

I dreamed that I woke up, checked the results page on my phone and saw that people were posting from my top choice school. So then I checked my email and didn't have anything! But the anxiety from that made me ACTUALLY wake up, at which point I grabbed at my phone and tried to check the results page but I was too tired and couldn't focus my eyes or see what I was entering in on my touchscreen! The whole saga took about a half hour and revealed absolutely nothing. My life is ridiculous!

What I hate is the period of perfect clarity that you get AFTER you apply (or don't apply) as to what isn't actually a good fit afterall, or what would have been a good fit that you didn't actually apply to. Oh well.

Heard NOTHING! Actually, I haven't heard anything from any of my schools and I'm going completely nutterbutters about it. You?

Yes! I did. Long time lurker, first time poster...