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karennakamura

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    Berkeley, CA
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    Anthropology, Disability Studies
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    Anthropology

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  1. Always, always, always try to contact your POI before applying. The worst that can happen is that your e-mail falls into a black hole. Before contacting your POI, make sure you have a pretty good idea of what you want to do -- and what your POI does. But speaking as a POI, I'd rather have an unprepared scholar contact me and walk them through putting an application together, than getting an application from someone who clearly needed more mentoring and wouldn't be able to get into programs with the portfolio they submitted. Furthermore, with some programs receiving hundreds of applications, the first evaluation of applications is often made by faculty outside of your particular regional/topical specialty. If a POI knows to lookout for an application, they can often rescue someone who was passed over in the first round. But if they don't know about you, your application can get lost. This has happened at all the schools I've been at, so it's not particular to my current position.
  2. Some programs have no cut-offs, others are more variable. Some places use it to do the first "cull" of files, others ignore it completely. Some use it to determine fellowships and other merit fellowships, others ignore it. It's hard to make a blanket statement. Something I've noticed though is that graduate schools are increasingly telling us NOT to rely on GREs because of the correlation between GRE and economic status of the applicant. So more and more, we've been deprecating its use.
  3. Writing as a faculty member who has sat on admissions, your profile would put you in the top quarter of applications. At this point, the only things you can do to improve your portolio would be to work on your statement of purpose and to make sure that your letters of recommendation are the best possible.
  4. Just a data point but at Yale we had 150 applicants and made offers to 8 in sociocultural.
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