jalison

When a tailoring a CV to a grad school app. I am listing my education and awards (obviously) but I'm wondering if I should list my work experience if it just random summer jobs like working at country clubs?

Professors/PhD students who do research tend to (98% of the time) only choose honours students to help them with their research - its not a requirement but because honours students always apply to help with research they prefer them. Edited: You also have to be enrolled in a research-topics class to undertake your own research - graduate and honours students are given priority for these classes.

For my school, the only way to be involved in research is to be an Honours student and with my major and double minor it was suggested that I don't do Honours because of my course load - also I don't think that a good reference from a community college would look better than an average reference from a prof from one of the top 30 schools in the world. As mentioned above, to do research at my school you have to be in the Honours program, ditto for TAing Again, to do an Honours thesis I had to start a different curriculum in my second year which was discouraged because of my course load. Thank you for the link!! I really appreciate all the help and time that you guys put in to answering my query! I should clarify that its not that I don't have anyone to ask, its just that I don't have a strong relationship with anyone that I think would improve my application exponentially - the letters I could get would be more neutral and not application-enhancing. I believe that the rest of my application is strong (despite not being in Honours) due to my school's good reputation, my above-average GPA, my ECs, my various merit-based scholarships and grants from international governments, and my international experiences. I was honestly just asking for advice on who of the 4 options I should ask for a reference, not asking for advice on whether or not I should apply to grad school. If you have advice on that I would be open to it.

I go to a really big university that is known for treating its UG students as "numbers". Most of my classes have been 200 students+. Also, I went on exchange last year so wasn't able to solidify any connections with professors at my own school during the second half of the year. I am applying to European schools so I have to submit most of my apps by early January. I basically have no one to ask for an LOR because none of my profs are accessible - if you went to office hours you were either there to ask a specific question or you were wasting your professors time. I am also applying to ~10 masters programs so this would be asking a lot of the prof. I have a few decent options but nothing outstanding, I'm wondering if someone can offer some advice. Options: 1) asking a professor from my exchange school - PROS: the classes were small and I did good work (especially in comparison to many other exchange students who slack off), I think it might look good to have a letter from my international experience? CONS: I only knew the professors for a short period of time, I didn't participate as much as I should have, no personal relationships (they didn't even have office hours at this school), I live on a different continent so coordinating the letters might be more difficult 2) I did a one month long summer language course (for which I received a grant) - PROS: I participated a lot, was always there, had the best mark in the class, might be a good way to show off the fact that I got a semi-presigious grant CONS: the teacher wasn't a professor so its not very academic, was only a month long course, I'm not actually sure she speaks English because we only communicated in the language of study... 3) last year I had to ask a professor for a LOR for the program for which a received a grant... - PROS: I did really well in his class, he is a well known academic and tenured professor CONS: I took the class in my second year BIG CON: when I asked for the LOR last year he made a HUGE deal about me not ever coming to office hours and now being annoying and asking for an LOR (which he eventually gave me) - he basically made me cry it was so terrifying 4) a prof from a seminar this semester PROS: the class is only 25 people (hallelujah) so I can participate more and he can get to know me academically CONS: I don't want to come off like I'm only coming to his office hours in order to get an LOR - these are due kind of soon so I would have to forge a relationship ASAP and I feel like it comes off annoying to be like "hey wow so interested in your research, btw can you please help me" TL;DR: I have no one to ask! I know this is my fault because I never reached out but at my school it is hard to do so. Please help me in any way possible

Thanks for the help! Definitely not taking an extra test if I don't have to haha

Hi! I've been researching applying to sociology grad programs mostly in Western Europe. I've noticed that most of them don't list GRE scores among their requirements. For those who know - is this normal? Are there opinions on whether or not I should still take the GRE in case they suddenly ask for my score and it doesn't exist! HELP Thanks in advance