radquish7

i'm so glad i found this thread, im from psych but we dont have anything in the psych threads like this! i really needed a place to wallow in my despair beat this: i got rejected across the board from all 13 schools i applied to, well, waitlisted at one school but im not letting myself get my hopes up.(it only makes the way down longer) now im in that horrible place of uncertainty/scrambling trying to decide what in the name of jesus im gonna do next year...job? masters? try and do more research for peanuts?

i dont know about social darwinism, but this process certainly makes me think of cultural hegemony...anybody notice how the majority of grad students in the social sciences (within the ivies anyway) are white and have parents with summer homes? i feel like its so hard to prove to ad coms that you are worth their investment when you come from an underprivileged background and from parents sans social capital...

-rad

ok, so you obviously dont get it. thats the point...that class affects graduate admissions in NON CONCRETE WAYS. there have been studies in social psychology that show the effects of social class on choice...blue collar workers preferred products that allowed them to blend in with their peers whereas white collar workers preferred products that differentiated them from their peers. you see, class or (sub)culture if you will, influence our whole psychology and sense of self. that is what i was trying to say by mentioning that i didnt know how or even thought i could approach professors. social environment influences cognition. and the problem with graduate school is that because higher education has been associated and run by a fraction of society for so long (initially rich male whites), the very way it is structured leaves people out simply because it assumes a way of thinking already.

ok, so you obviously dont get it. thats the point...that class affects graduate admissions in NON CONCRETE WAYS. there have been studies in social psychology that show the effects of social class on choice...blue collar workers preferred products that allowed them to blend in with their peers whereas white collar workers preferred products that differentiated them from their peers. you see, class or (sub)culture if you will, influence our whole psychology and sense of self. that is what i was trying to say by mentioning that i didnt know how or even thought i could approach professors. social environment influences cognition. and the problem with graduate school is that because higher education has been associated and run by a fraction of society for so long (initially rich male whites), the very way it is structured leaves people out simply because it assumes a way of thinking already.