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    origin415 got a reaction from tovenusandback in Harvard Ph.D. w/o funding? Would you go?   
    The Harvard name is only good for impressing non-academics.
    What is much, much more important is the reputation in your field, which you are saying this other school has.

    Regardless, funding is vital, you need to eat, after all. Unless your earning potential is going to be vastly higher with a Harvard degree (and as above, it won't be), the debt is not worth it at all.
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    origin415 got a reaction from joops in Congrats you're accepted but um...   
    Maybe its a sign. Are you sure sports management isn't what you really wanted the whole time?
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    origin415 got a reaction from lily_ in Does this sound bad   
    They mean they can't give decisions over the phone. Its a department or university policy and it has nothing to do with your application.
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    origin415 got a reaction from psycholinguist in Would You Do This?   
    An admit is an admit. As long as you have funding I don't see the problem.
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    origin415 reacted to Summit_Bid in Red Ink!!!   
    An old Chinese legend says it's bad luck to write a name in red ink. They say that the person whose name is written in bad ink will soon encounter very grave misfortunes. I work for a Chinese company and write names in red ink all the time when no one is looking and nothing bad has happended. Don't sweat it.
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    origin415 got a reaction from slifty in MIT vs...   
    I doubt MIT would have a problem with your situation, and you should tell them about it. Tell them you want to accept, but if you get it, you'd like to defer a year.
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    origin415 got a reaction from psycholinguist in MIT vs...   
    I doubt MIT would have a problem with your situation, and you should tell them about it. Tell them you want to accept, but if you get it, you'd like to defer a year.
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    origin415 reacted to TMP in Practising spoken English   
    Let me guess, you learned British English. Drop the S and put in C.

    It's making my cringe.
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    origin415 reacted to gagga5 in 3 schools... Advice?   
    Please indicate your school name. Otherwise, we can't make a good worthy advices


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    origin415 reacted to urbanchic in Will people wait until April 15 for phd programs?   
    Yea, if schools would only make admissions and funding decisions before April, it would help out everyone.
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    origin415 reacted to socnerd in Taking out student loans to pay for a nice apartment   
    I was under the impression that you can't take out student loans to pay for anything other than school tuition. You can't just use that money for anything you want (like rent) even if it does have to do with going to school, that's fraud.
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    origin415 reacted to breakfast in Full Funding (GW) v No Funding (Georgetown)   
    This is an absolute no-brainer. Go with the funding.
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    origin415 got a reaction from ANP in EMORY vs. DUKE?   
    Those questions about atlanta might see a bigger response if you ask them in the city guide section. In fact, theres a lot of information there already:
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    origin415 got a reaction from ANP in EMORY vs. DUKE?   
    It seems that there are only two problems you have with Emory, that its overall reputation isn't as good, and its location isn't as good.

    As for overall reputation, I don't think this matters as much, as your research is going to be what people look at. If you enjoy the subject, your research is going to be better regardless of the perceived quality of the department as a whole.

    As for location, you already visited, can you see yourself living there? If you are going to be unhappy in Atlanta despite your department, then its a serious consideration, if its just that you would prefer Duke then I don't think its a deciding factor.
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    origin415 got a reaction from Russophile in Turning down the only offer   
    If the only thing that will be different about your application next year is that you are a year older, than keep in mind your application won't look any better, and I wouldn't count on having better luck then you've had this year.

    If you simply aren't crazy about it, rather than decide you wouldn't be happy there, then I would strongly consider going anyway unless you have something resume boosting like research or doing better on GREs lined up.
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    origin415 reacted to johndiligent in Second Thoughts   
    I think School A was honestly the better option and I think you're just experiencing a bit of buyer's remorse. And if it's about your girlfriend, she's only going to be a few hours away. Try not to stress, I think you made the right choice.

    No matter what choice you make, you're giving up the alternative, and as a result, you're going to feel a bit down about what might have been. But you can only pick one school and you can only make the best choice based on the best information you had at the time you made it.
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    origin415 reacted to Think_Positive in Down to the wire   
    Now that there's less than a month until April 15th... for better or worse, at least we all know the wait will soon be over.

    I was wondering how many people out there are still waiting and for which programs, or just what decisions people are trying to weigh between. I'm still waiting on U Pitt GSPH, but other than that I've only gotten rejected, so this one counts all the more.

    Got all my fingers and toes crossed.
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    origin415 reacted to boneh3ad in Facial Hair, Shaving & Grad School   
    Shoot, I just subscribe to the practice of not shaving for a week or two at a time regardless of how it looks. I don't really care. Then I shave down to almost being clean when it starts getting annoying to me and repeat the process. This process is what I have lovingly referred to as "I am too lazy to really care."
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    origin415 reacted to Kathryn in Deadlines and stuff...   
    I think it's perfectly fine to ask about decisions on other schools. My advisor just suggested that I state it nicely that I'm still interested in the program and ask when I should expect a decision on my application.
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    origin415 got a reaction from Kinkster in Harvard Ph.D. w/o funding? Would you go?   
    The Harvard name is only good for impressing non-academics.
    What is much, much more important is the reputation in your field, which you are saying this other school has.

    Regardless, funding is vital, you need to eat, after all. Unless your earning potential is going to be vastly higher with a Harvard degree (and as above, it won't be), the debt is not worth it at all.
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    origin415 got a reaction from LeeLeeLove in What do you do when you get an email from a school you applied to   
    As a general rule of thumb, ambiguous titles like 'Admissions decision' are bad news, good news will sound like 'official offer of admission' or 'offer letter' or something like that, at least in my experience.
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    origin415 reacted to Sparky in The PhD Applicants Bill of Rights   
    Programs should be explicit about where to send GRE scores, with the webpage providing the appropriate university code and the department code.

    If a department knows that it will not be considering applications for a specific subfield, it should announce that when it knows, not after the application deadline.

    If a department's application procedure has radically changed between last year and this year, the website should be updated to reflect this. (For example, if the dept has decided to interview finalists this year, for the first time ever.

    Weekly updates might be a bit much, but I'm all for having programs send a note after the deadline saying whether or not all materials have been received.

    (Note: this should be the "Grad Applicants' BoR," not just PhD )
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    origin415 reacted to waytooold in The PhD Applicants Bill of Rights   
    After testing, writing, gathering LOR's from professors who were kind enough to look at twenty year old transcripts, stamping, mailing, notarizing and confirming, I find the application process sorely wanting. I don't think any of the items below are unreasonable, and I would more than love to hear an institution argue against such things being the simplest of civil society behavior and more than manageable, yet in my experience thus far, these things are sadly rare.

    1. Applications should be acknowledged by e-mail or letter.
    2. Inquiries as to whether the application is complete should be responded to before the application deadline, unless program has posted a statement that no news= a complete application, and means it. In particular, programs that state that students are responsible for inquiring as to the completeness of their application should have sufficient resources to respond to such inquiries prior to the deadline.
    3. If the program assures people they will receive some sort of notification by X date, this should be true.
    4. Programs should post or communicate status of the application process 60 days after the deadline, with weekly updates.


    What would you add, keeping it reasonable and realistic?
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    origin415 reacted to psycholinguist in possessive determiners   
    Yeah, this is an old debate in sociolinguistics. The problem is that 'his' is inescapably associated with the male pronoun. There's no getting around the fact that, like it or not, the same combination of phonemes (and letters, in writing) also serves as the male possessive pronoun in English. It's no help that no one wants to be seen as espousing traditional patriarchial views, which can seem the case in many contexts with the 'him'. (Consider something along the lines of 'None of the students in the engineering-department was late handing in his homework'. It sort of looks as if the writer is either unaware of or in denial about the existence of female engineers.)

    The weird thing is that 'their' has actually been used as a gender-neutral third-person possessive pronoun for centuries. I think it was even the dominant one in the mid- to late eighteenth century. Then a prescriptivist grammarian (a female one, at that!) began publicly criticising this use of 'their' and proposed very outspokenly that 'his' be used in lieu of it. That was the 'correct' form for centuries, until the feminists protested. (And they do have a point, as mentioned.)

    So, yeah, there are no easy answers here about whether 'his' is gender-biased or gender-neutral, but I suggest that anyone uncomfortable with both 'their' and with 'his' simply use (as herself the elf mentions) something such as 'his or her'.
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    origin415 reacted to glasses in possessive determiners   
    Because "his" is not gender neutral?
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