Marcion
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2 hours ago, seung said:
Anyone here know anything about the funding at Union Theological Seminary in nyc? I know they only give 4 years, but wondering if it provides a stipend that allows you to survive in the city.
The Seminary is going through tough times and the money seems to be a problem. Here is a brief write up from a few years ago.
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46 minutes ago, Entangled Phantoms said:
"A PhD is a PhD." This attitude is why there are so many unemployed PhD graduates out there. Nobody thinks a PhD is a PhD. Not applicants (who almost always pick the best program they get into), not academia (who hire almost exclusively from elite institutions), not even your average person on the street.
This is the sad truth of the matter.
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11 minutes ago, Eshtah said:
Well, it's not so obvious to me which programs provide exactly that; hence the question:
Which program gives me a chance of a job (in academia)?
And also: What's good funding (in the US)?
The schools become very clear once you start googling random schools and seeing patterns... and sadly, they are predictable patterns: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Duke, Stanford, UPenn, UChicago, etc. Basically the elite schools.
As for good funding, I would say good funding is `1) all tuition covered, 2) a stipend which makes the cost of living doable in that area and 3) some extra perks like conference and research expenses.
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57 minutes ago, Almaqah Thwn said:
i got rejected by rice! my roommate was handing me his leftovers, when I grabbed it and it fell all over the floor. and, this on the heels of my top school choice rejecting me this week!
I'm sorry I use humor to cope with the hard realities of the graduate school process.
Sorry mate...
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1 hour ago, seung said:
Anyone here know anything about the funding at Union Theological Seminary in nyc? I know they only give 4 years, but wondering if it provides a stipend that allows you to survive in the city.
It doesn't. My friends are Union have struggled since day one due to the lack of funding. It also seems to only be getting worse.
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The best and most advice was this: only go to a PhD program with good mentors, in a place you want to live, with good funding, and gives you a chance of a job.
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1 hour ago, Rabbit Run said:
ThMs seem to me to be dependent on what you put into it. People I know who've been intentional about getting to know professors early (over the summer), for instance, seem to do very well on the whole. I see this all the time in my school's Th.M. program.
Exactly.
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Just now, menge said:
Exactly.
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1 hour ago, NT PhD ... Hopefully said:
So I would really appreciate some comments and advice, if you guys don't mind. I applied to PhD programs in NT this year. I will graduate with my MDiv this spring, so I just have an undergraduate and MDiv. I have been rejected at SMU, waitlisted at Baylor, and have yet to hear anything from others except TEDS. The grad director called me and advised me that the committee felt I needed more preparation. Therefore, TEDS offered me a spot in the ThM program, which would lead to the PhD. I know that most will have more than one grad degree so I am thinking getting the ThM would be a good move, especially for future applications. Any advice on the ThM? Good move? Better prep? Stronger applicant next time round? Etc?
I would second the STM at YDS. They have a lot of money to give (always good if you have to do it). Avoid HDS as they have no funding for the ThM.
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11 minutes ago, rheya19 said:
What kinds of questions should I expect in my interview next week? I'm assuming I'll get "Tell us about your research" and "Why do you want to come to this school," but are there other specific things I should be prepared for?
Expect to be asked where else you applied. Other questions will be like, "Do you see yourself more a researcher or as an educator?" I was asked, "How do you describe your work, what "type" of scholar do you consider yourself?" You might get asked, "What have you been reading lately?" One of my friends was asked that recently.
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Has anyone heard anything from Vandy's PhD in Historical Studies?
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57 minutes ago, seung said:
Just heard from POI @ Yale. Though being recommended for admission, I was ultimately not admitted by the graduate school. Very disappointed. the thing I don't know is if I've been rejected or waitlisted.
That sucks
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5 hours ago, rheya19 said:
YAAAY! Finally! Interview with Iowa next week!!! YAAAAAY!!!!
Good luck!!!
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6 hours ago, marXian said:
Wow. I'm assuming this is an American school? I have never, ever heard of an administrative body regularly turning away admitted students, let alone a whole group of students, recommended for admittance into a department. I have seen, on this board (for other disciplines, not RS) horror stories of people who were promised admission and then rejected at a higher administrative level--so I don't mean to suggest that it is impossible for this to happen. But these stories are, as I say, horror stories. And there is usually something fishy about them--like the person who has been rejected isn't telling the whole story or something.
If there is a reason to reject someone after a department has recommended them for admission, it's going to have to do with funding, which is to say either the technical details of your application (your transcripts, GPAs, GRE scores) or the funding a department actually has available. Regarding the first, unless you have exceedingly below-normal GPA and GRE scores for grad school acceptance, your BA/MA are from unaccredited institutions, or your transcripts turn out to be fake or something, you probably don't have anything to worry about. Degrees from unaccredited institutions and low scores probably raise a flag at the administrative level that require more investigation, and it's entirely possible that those kinds of red flags could slip past an adcom if they thought an SOP and letters were really exciting. Regarding the second, it's also possible that a department offers more spots in its program than it actually has funding for. This is a regular practice of some departments, usually lower tier schools, because they know they're chasing after some of their admits who will likely also have offers from top tier schools. For top tier schools though...I'm not sure. My institution is an elite school (though maybe not considered a top tier RS department, idk) and I know my department does not do this. They always make sure they'll have enough money to fund anyone to whom they extend an offer. If they make ten offers and all ten accept, they're likely not going to make that many offers the following year because they won't have the money. But there's no rule or law that says they couldn't take a gamble in the hopes some people would turn down their offers.
But the second thing doesn't sound like what your POI is saying. I honestly have no idea what he could be talking about. From my experience in multiple graduate programs, I've never heard of an administration arbitrarily deciding not to take some or all of the students recommended by a department. Though if anyone else has more concrete information than I do, I would be very interested to hear.
I can confirm that my low GRE but my high grades, good recommendations, and publications raised concerns at Stanford. My advisers were called personally and asked why the gap. I am not sure what other schools do or have done but that is my antidotal experience. It's possible some schools have rejected me outright due to my poor GRE score but who knows.
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Got invited to a second interview with Stanford University on the 24th... wish me luck...
- Averroes MD, Kuriakos, ibn daoud and 1 other
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*gulp* FAS Will Cut Grad Student Admissions by 4.4 Percent
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/2/13/fas-reduces-graduate-admissions/
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Oh John Harvard, guide my admissions, make my statement true, my research original, and my acceptance assured. Amen.
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6 minutes ago, rheya19 said:
Did the professor mention an applicant named Andrea? Like did he say something like, "You sass that froopy Andrea and her project on early Christian art? There's a frood who really knows where her towel is" or something of the kind?
Did they mention how many limbs we would need to cut off?
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13 minutes ago, rheya19 said:
I got my first rejection email! Woo-hoo! Finally, something!
Sorry, not sorry? But seriously, sucks it is bad news but I agree that getting *something* is better than nothing.
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4 minutes ago, rheya19 said:
I'm going to wait until the first week of March. It will be difficult to wait that long, but it seems like the schools might need February to sort out acceptances (did the admitted students accept or turn down their offers?).
You are right, *sigh*
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PhD at average Grad School: What's even the point?
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Which school?