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Rhetgirl

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    2014 Fall
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    Rhetoric & Communication

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  1. Hello Y'all, Best of luck or this time of emails and answers! For those who have questions about UT Austin, Department of Comm Studies, please do not hesitate to contact me! I'll be glad to try to answer any question you may have!
  2. Hey everyone! I've seen that some of you are applying at UT Austin. I am there in the Department of Communication Studies, so if you have any questions, please feel free to contact me!
  3. Hey ! I'm at UT Austin (Comm Studies) if you have any questions!
  4. Hey y'all! I'll also be at UT Austin next Fall, Communication Studies PhD. How are you doing for the housing? As an International student, I don't really know how to do, and I find it tricky!
  5. Hey, I follow VioletAyame on this one: you should go with your best fit. At the end, isn't it the most important in a PhD program? Besides, when reading your post, I think you already made (unconciously?) your choice!
  6. Good idea Violet! Thanks y'all for your support, your advice and your presence! (it's good not to feel alone in this process, particularly when you're not in the US!) I'll be finally going to UT Austin! (same reason as Meanyus: too many cool things there to pass up! )
  7. Hi! I'm an international student too (applying for PhD in my case) so I totally understand what you're feeling right now. I think looking at the programs and contacting the professors (seeing if they would be willing to work with you) is an excellent option. But since I guess you may be willing an opinion (at least, I'll die to have someone telling me what they would do in my position!), here is what I think (and it's just an opinion, so take it or drop it): you are balancing between 2 excellent universities, so you cannot make a wrong choice. As an international student, I would say that UW Madison has a stellar reputation, both inside and outside the US. If, as you write it, it is also less expensive than PSU, then it made be your place. Don't forget that you're going for a MA, so it is just one or two years, and you may be willing to save some money for later. Nothing prevents you from contacting PSU professors, see if you get along well with them and if you would like to work with them after your MA, and then (if you want to go to PhD) apply to PSU and aim to go there with funding as a PhD student! PSU and UW Madison are both worth going to, but UW Madison looks like a real opportunity from my point of view (and I say that even if they would not have been a good fit for me). Then, again, it is your choice and no one but you can know what's best for you!
  8. Rejected by UW Madison. It seems that the official emails of notification will be coming soon, for those interested...
  9. I'm in the same situation of balancing options, and really, I do not know what to do, or which criteria are the most important. It is truly too tricky! Hell, who could have guesses that making a decision could be so hard?
  10. Congrats! How did you contact Pitt? Or did they contact you? I did not get any news from them either but I'd like to know...
  11. LIGAF? (Sorry, I'm not American!) I see what you mean! Maybe your perception is different because Communication Studies are so specialized in the US, between PR, advertising, rhetoric, mass communication... Whereas in France for example, you have classes of pretty much everything in a College of Communication (even if you are more specialized in an area than in another).. So the feeling toward Comm students is sort of global!
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