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As a general rule it's tough to get great funding for an MA at a top rated Ph.D granting institution. The other problem is that many faculty at these types of places will be focusing their time on their Ph.D advisees. I'm not saying that you can't get funding and good advising at a top comm ph.d program, I'm just saying that you ought to think about going to a standalone MA program as well.
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RT @HistoricalPics: Einstein and his therapist. "Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know." http://t.co/4XTFOHU2m7
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I disagree. Ranking should play a significant role in your decision making process in those cases where you are choosing between schools that are ranked significantly different. For example, I wouldn't recommend going to a school that is traditionally ranked in the last couple of schools ( i.e. you should not go to south central louisiana tech) if you have an acceptance from another school that is ranked higher. The exception might be if the school is "known" for a certain sub-area that you're super interested in (i.e. you know you will be doing that sub-area.) However, most people change their interests during graduate school, so even in that case it seems problematic. The reality is that prestige does matter to a lot of potential employers. In some disciplines more than 50% of the tenure track jobs go to graduate of only 5 schools.
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Honestly, it's pretty difficult to know what schools mean when they talk about "being at the top" of a waitlist. If you have an acceptance elsewhere at a decently ranked program then you might use it as leverage to ask exactly where you are on the waitlist, especially if it gets into April and you haven't heard anything. I hope that it all works out for you!
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USC vs. UPenn (Comm PHD)
The Pedanticist replied to leipop's topic in Communication and Public Relation Forum
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Yeah, if I accept my offer at USC then I'll likely just bring my motorcycle. A car doesn't seem terribly necessary.
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Science and Technology Studies - Fall 2015
The Pedanticist replied to ChocoLeibniz's topic in Interdisciplinary Studies
I work in the rhetoric and philosophy of science and have interests that spill over into this area. I applied to mostly comm studies programs and will work on the area through comm. -
When I got the e-mail from my POI at UT-Austin about the funding situation there he said that there was almost no funding whatsoever this year for new admits. Even a lot of people who were accepted won't get funded offers. (I got a one year fellowship, but am wait listed about full four year funding.) Sorry to be a kill joy, but I wouldn't want people to get their hopes up about funding.