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maxmarx

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  1. I'm just finishing my third year of my graduate program at a top 30 school (between 20 and 30). I came here to work with a certain faculty member and have just been informed that he is leaving after this summer. I actually turned down a higher ranked school (ranked 15-20) to come here largely because of him and I feel deflated right now. He's currently the chair of my Master's committee (which is optional in my program), but i won't finish it until this summer or fall due to data access delays. I developed a good report with him and am currently funded on his NSF grant for this school year, which I hope will still result in publications. I'm just about to start my desertion work at the beginning of next year. I should mention that I am also working on a couple of other projects with highly regarded senior faculty, but I'm not nearly as close to them. I just feel so down about this, worried that I won't be able to get that R1 job I dream of. We are also losing another faculty member (didn't get tenure) in the same area of interest, which means that we have 1 faculty member who will be serving about 8 students. I was just curious if any one else had gone through something similar? Am I blowing things out of proportion? Is there any bright side to this?
  2. I'm just finishing my third year of my graduate program at a top 30 school (between 20 and 30). I came here to work with a certain faculty member and have just been informed that he is leaving after this summer. I actually turned down a higher ranked school (ranked 15-20) to come here largely because of him and I feel deflated right now. He's currently the chair of my Master's committee (which is optional in my program), but i won't finish it until this summer or fall due to data access delays. I developed a good report with him and am currently funded on his NSF grant for this school year, which I hope will still result in publications. I'm just about to start my desertion work at the beginning of next year. I should mention that I am also working on a couple of other projects with highly regarded senior faculty, but I'm not nearly as close to them. I just feel so down about this, worried that I won't be able to get that R1 job I dream of. We are also losing another faculty member (didn't get tenure) in the same area of interest, which means that we have 1 faculty member who will be serving about 8 students. I was just curious if any one else had gone through something similar? Am I blowing things out of proportion? Is there any bright side to this?
  3. Anyone else commited to SUNY-Albany yet?
  4. I've been on the fence about contacting professors, I got conflicting opinions on the matter from a couple of my undergraduate professors. Lately I've been leaning more towards doing so. The problem is most of the deadlines are approaching and I don't want to seem like a slacker if I contact them right before or right after the deadline. Is this a rational fear or should I just going ahead and contact them deadline or not?
  5. Hey, I feel for you and wish you the best of luck. I'm in a similar boat but I'm a Quant Sociologist so the verb and quant scores are reversed. My analytical score was a 3! and I just got the score this Friday. I sent out a bunch of emails to my prospective schools asking how important the AWA section was. I'd recommend doing the same. I'm still waiting to here back but it won't be until Monday so I feel as if I am in purgatory. I'll post something to let you know, but again I'm Sociology and I think it goes department to department. I really hope schools can over look such a dumb section, especially since my writing sample should be top notch.
  6. Most of them do. I am finishing preparing the writing sample as we speak. It is the findings of work that I presented at a larger regional conference on the west coast in which I was the only person to present who did not a phd or was in grad school.
  7. Sorry I mixed them up just got the bad analytical score news so I'm kind of flustered. Vocab (530/%70) Quant (720/75%)
  8. It should be on the score they sent you right next to your score.
  9. In my humble opinion I would think Graduate GPA because the GRE is just supposed to serve as a way of judging if you are capable of handling a graduate program.
  10. So I just received my test scores my Vocab (530/70%) and Quant (720/75%) are both fine but my analytical score is atrocious (3.0/10%). I know I can do better but don't have time to retake it unless I want to delay my application for another year. I am applying for Scoiology and I know that for example Texas doesn't even factor in the analytical section, does anyone know if their are any other programs out there where it isn't counted or where it carries very little weight. I want to study Crim, race, and strat so that would be my prefered program interest.
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