B. Blumenstrauss

What about Princeton (and these posts)? We just have to wait until March 6th?

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Dear Chair, I want to marry you and have papers with you.

I've made this for fun... ... and let me add these... 6. Berkeley 7. Brown 8. Texas at Austin 9. NYU 10. Harvard (if extra US admitted, I would probably put Toronto between 3 and 4) What do you think?

If you had to create a "top five list" with your classics/classical studies dream programs, how would it be? Mine: 1. Princeton 2. Stanford 3. Columbia 4. Yale 5. Chicago

I had four professors interviewing me from NYU! They all were kind and extremely nice, and asked me A LOT of questions about Plato (but since I love to talk about him, I had a great time).

Welcome, salvoquat! You can add all that info in your signature by going to profile, edit, signature. It looks sharp.

Nice! Right now my fianceé is being interviewed by Oxford and, from what I am hearing, there are three or four interviewers asking him mathematical definitions, posing problems and hearing how he resolves them. IT SOUNDS REALLY STRESSFUL.

The person that decided to send today an email through the Graduate Admissions mailing list from the University of Chicago (name of sender is University of Chicago) entitled "Choosing the Right Graduate Program" IS VILLAINOUS.

Oh, yes! I got curious too.

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As I said before, I simply loooove this forum .

(But only if they really know well your plans and your work, of course)

Wait. You have an MA in Columbia (CS), don't you? I think there's a reasonable possibility that they skip your interview if they know what you want to do and how will you do it...

Oh, good to know... I guess. Still, I am not going to let it go until I see my rejection email. And we all should do the same! There's no point in feeling bad a priori.

Completion rate? Wow, that sounds useful. Where did you get the data?

I posted another of Columbia's Classical Studies interview... in fact, I was about to draw a <3 after "Chair" (love her, love her work, love her kindness) and I accidentally hit the enter button.

Well... 32° and 33° are really common, but in our worst days (one week ago, while I was having my interview with Stanford) we've suffered 38°. And don't forget our high humidity! You feel like walking through warm soup. Oh, good! I am also afraid of guns in general... (what a good idea to study in the USA)

Well... places like Toronto, Chicago, New York or Massachusetts are quite a challenge for me: I've seen snow only three or four times in my life. Hence working, living and walking around snow can be a really new situation. On the other hand, California seems more climatic-friendly to a person that comes from a place where temperature stays between 12°C and 32°C. Yesterday my thesis advisor pointed me out that Texas could also be a challenge, but "ideologically" speaking: I am not that comfortable with the idea of capital punishment, for example. And the fear of being discriminated for being "latina" is always in the air. But maybe I'm over-reacting...

Oh, I understand. I've never been to the USA in my life...

Wow, what a risk to apply to unknown universities. I spent hours and hours surfing around every department of every university: programs, courses, professors, graduate students, activities, campus, maps, local climatic conditions... :freak:

University that will never accept me: Harvard. Reason: I hate mathematics and I never made any course related with numbers in my undergraduate degree (ergo the part of "math courses" was empty). And you?

Congratulations! Princeton is a dream. In my interviews I wore a "decent dress", but I think no one really cares: they are focused on your face and on the things you say. What can they ask you? Whatever they want. Background, interests, career plans, your broader intellectual project, causes of your application, why Princeton is the one... and much more. Just be yourself, read carefully your application to Princeton and try to relax a little. By the way, in your free time you can go over here http://www.thegradcafe.com/survey/index.php?q=classics&t=a&o=&pp=25and submit your results.