AKCarlton
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Don't know much about BU funding, but do know a bit about the city as I just moved here last year to start my program. If you have any questions regarding expenses for living in Boston, let me know.
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Thank you for the input! I'm meeting with a professor tomorrow whose research interests align with mine and will discuss it further.
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My backup plan if I cannot find Academic employment by 2025-ish is to raise hogs and make moonshine out in the bush and wait for the impending planetary meltdown.
Can I join? I'll start the organic garden...I promise to pull my weight!
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Agree with the others, you seem well-prepared to compete for a place in a good program...just make sure you apply to more than just your top choice...find the professor(s) that are willing to work with you and have similar research interests.
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My top two favorites right now are the university of michigan and penn state. I was also thinking about uchicago but I don'the think it's right for me.
what do you think about this?
I am personally interested in all aspects of anthropology but mostly archeology and cultural. Also, I'm really interested in mesoamerica, asia, premodern/ancient and classical civilizations.
Northern Arizona University, Arizona State University and University of Arizona?
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I'll say this, my dad told me a while ago that a bachelors is the equivalent of a high school degree in today's world...and I feel like we're at the point where it's like that for a masters...I feel in this field a PhD is necessary to be taken seriously as far as research.
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Also, as silly as it may seem, you may want to have some Grad Cafe anthro folks read over your SOP. A lot of people who post regularly, or used to, will be at top-notch programs, so they may be able to offer pointers specific to your SOP, based on their own experiences. I'm of the opinion that the more sets of eyes & opinions you can get on such a critical component of your application, the better, though. I think I had at least 5 people (2 were close friends) read mine, & every single person had something different to say: whether my "hook" was successful, what I didn't include or shouldn't include, the logic flow, & so forth. If you have friends who are editors or literary types, they'd be a great resource for "line editing," i.e., spotting mechanical errors.
I've said it before, I'm willing to read and help edit your SOPs...I love editing...I'm a grammar nerd.
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Thank you both! Yes , I do have a MA in archaeology specifically , but the MA thesis was not on the topic that i wanted to study as a PhD applicant (at least the location is different). Next time, i will definitely post my SOP here...this is a great idea, thank you. What i am wondering is if i am to contact the POI, should i do it NOW or later? does it matter?
I have a question on this matter...I've been told to not worry about my MA thesis topic as far as it affecting my acceptance to a future PhD program...is this true or not? I'm at the proposal point so I want to make sure I do what's best for me in the long-run.
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NOWAYNOHOW,
anyway you can reach the department and let them know your concerns?
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At this point I would call and check up...that's what I did cause it got close to April deadline for me and still hadn't heard and needed to know to let other programs know, so then they could let others know...domino effect!
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hey i just saw this ! Thank you for all of your comments, new and old. Following these tips, i got my first acceptance yesterday!
Congrats Daisy!
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Congratulations to those who have been admitted, best of luck to those who are interviewing and keep your chin up to those who are wait-listed...I was a wait-list candidate and found out I got in pretty late, so you're never out of the game!!
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Make sure you have questions prepared for them to show that you are interested in their program and research opportunities.
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I thought I was the only crazy person looking at real estate rentals! I have an apartment all picked out for Northwestern, within walking distance of the anthropology building, and convenient to Trader Joe's, and they take cats. It's probably not healthy, but I can't seem to help myself.
Too bad none of you are coming to Boston...the 2nd floor apartment in my building just became available!
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I wouldn't worry for the same reasons listed here. I also would add that people read things multiple times and still manage to overlook grammar and spelling errors.
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I didn't hear back until April for nearly all my programs, and most of them I had to contact for my results. They hadn't even emailed me at that point!
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Definitely don't look too much into it...the semester has just ended and it's the holidays.
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This is so strange. I've never heard of anyone going through the applicant to talk to letter writers..... or any of this really. I don't think it's really a fail cause none of it is your fault and it's really not something you should have been prepared for. It's really just weird. Good luck with it.
I can only wonder what the entire educational experience will be like if accepted to this program.
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So today I learned that it pays to be early. Really, really, reeeeally early.
It really does...not just for instances like this, but instances where you're nearing the deadline and your letter writers still "haven't got around" to writing your letters for you. I understand, the fact that they can be electronically submitted now should be less stressful, but it isn't. I emailed my letter writers almost every other week to just check-in and let them know the deadline was approaching. My previous journalism education and experience made me a deadline writer myself, but the entire grad school experience untrained me of that mentality.
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I baked!
I wasn't aware that you can or should send gifts in along with your applications. Does that really help?
I'm honestly and sincerely curious about this for the future if I plan to apply to PhD programs.
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Just let them know you forgot to include some pertinent information and I wouldn't see why they wouldn't be understanding about the circumstance.
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I hope you did your impression of Binford entirely in third person passive voice.
I'm curious, what's your "worst concept?" Nazis notwithstanding, I would have to pick Darwinian archaeology. Nothing like flogging a metaphor to up the ol' publication count...
I actually did pretty well, but did not go so far as to refer to myself in the third-person passive voice. I'll let the lucky first-year next Fall know that he/she should do so...
My worst concept will be structuralism. We get to write the paper from the standpoint of how it would or would not work well in the research we would like to see ourselves conducting one day.
I would have to admit though, it's peculiar to see Darwinism slowly finding its way into Historical Archaeology.
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Why dont you like Hodder?
I never said I don't like him...I'm saying his Entangled book is not liked very much at my school for some reason. If you even mention it you get ::sighs:: and huge ::eye rolls::, but I didn't have to read it.
I had to personify Binford in a debate in one my courses this semester, and one of the guys in my cohort personified Hodder...so he decided to read that and is now actually using that theory as the "worst concept" for our final paper on the "best/worst concept" in theory.
Anyway, I had to defend "myself" as Binford by attacks from the kid who personified Hodder, and it just seems like Hodder and his post-processualism includes theoretical viewpoints that just don't make a lot of sense...but so does processualism.
Anyway, I should clarify that I'm don't NOT like him, but I don't love him either.
Rejected from Everywhere- and applying again next year
in Anthropology Forum
Posted · Edited by AKCarlton
The irony is that in the subfield of archaeology I want to venture into, we are pushing to go beyond the United States and go even farther because we've been stuck in the U.S. for what many consider as "long enough" ... it's amazing how there are so many different ways that anthropology is changing, transforming and thinking of itself.