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Congrats to everyone on their offers! FeministCorgi, glad to hear you are going to your top choice!! Yay! Does that mean you officially said no to IUB? You seemed so excited about IUB--can I ask if something at your visit turned you off about the school? Or were they both great and Minnesota was just better?

It's a bit unfair that they don't send a rejection email or change our application status online at least, so we don't have the tiniest sliver of doubt about it.

Hi all Did anyone get a call with an interview offer from Emory? They said they were supposed to call yesterday or today, but maybe they're just a bit late…is there still hope?

anotherapplicantanotherapp, what schools did you apply to? And which one is the one that sent the rejection so quickly? It may just be a bad fit for the program, don't lose all hope!!

Thanks for the reply, hj2012! That is very helpful advice about taking time before applying to grad school--I had only ever considered it in terms of taking a break (like you said, avoiding burnout) but I had never considered how my application might be much stronger after graduation. I have considered some Literature and Media Studies programs that allow some overlap with Gender Studies, because I'm pretty sure I could study within my research interests in any of these programs, but I thought a more specialized PhD may make me more "marketable." Although i know there are less positions available teaching in Gender Studies, there are also less people pursuing PhDs in it than Literature or Film. But I go back and forth on which is the better option all the time! My research interests are mainly in media/entertainment representations of gender, specifically horror film. I had a feeling that teaching experience would be valuable in my growth as an individual and an educator, and I'm glad you can confirm that. A lot of people suggest that the teaching styles/goals for university are so different from high school that it might hinder my performance, but I never spoke to someone who had secondary teaching experience and then went for their PhD. Thanks again for your help! What are you researching and writing about?

Hi all, It's been a while since anyone has posted in here, but I figured I'd see if anyone who received admittance/funding for a Gender Studies PhD could give me some advice. I'm an undergraduate going into my senior year in the fall and want to apply directly for PhD programs. I know not having a Master's may hurt my chances, but I really know what I want and hope I can get straight to it. I ultimately want to be a Gender Studies professor. I basically want to maximize my chances of getting into a program by making everything else in my application outstanding. I'm a triple major in Gender Studies, English Literature, and Film Studies and I have a 3.99 GPA. I just took the GRE and got 165Q and 165V. Are these competitive enough scores? If people wouldn't mind sharing their scores with me--scores that either got them accepted or not--it would be so helpful. I want to know if I need to try to take them again. Also--on a somewhat "getting ahead of myself" note--does having high school teaching experience strengthen a PhD application? If I don't get into the PhD program right away, I'm thinking about getting my teaching license and teaching high school English for a few years to gain some experience with students.