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You would likely have more luck by emailing current graduate students. I personally had 6 prospective students email me about my department at UCSD, and I happily provided them with the information they asked for.

Ofc this all depends upon what you want out of your life while you go to school, but, I would say La Jolla (UCSD) is a nightmare without a car. 2021 or something like that they are building a train station on campus, that will help a lot. You can get to a supermarket, the beach, and a mall on public transit. But it is more or less not feasible to go anywhere else in San Diego without a car.

UCSD does a pretty good job of hodgepodging together a full ride through varied employment, GSR/TA. From what you said in your post I would think you have a very strong chance of getting in there, provided you have professors in mind that fit your research interest. I don't know how much funding UCLA's program offers, but they do offer scholastic merit fellowships that cover tuition + stipend. They may have additional funding through GSR/TA, but I don't know cause I didn't elect to go there. Apply for the PhD's you want to do, and apply to a few LAS MA's as backups. At least at UCSD, applying to a PhD in one department and an MA in another is no problem at all. There is a current LAS master's student finishing her thesis at UCSD that has interests that align with yours. If you would be interested in being put in contact with her PM me. I don't log into grad cafe often though, so apologies in advance if I don't respond in a timely manner.

After being in the program for two weeks, I now realize this has absolutely no bearing on the course. There is really no guarantee that it will stay at Yale either. The course is first and foremost through IDIEZ, which is great and should offer the program longevity! The course is very good! I would suggest those seeking it out have very strong spanish, as 2 out of the 3 classes each day are taught exclusively in spanish.

d Thanks for the advice. I've been here for more than two weeks now living on dwight and chapel (and driving around new haven, west haven, milford, orange, and hamden). My three intial thoughts: The Yale campus is outrageously beautiful. New Haven is a complete shithole aside from Yale. It seems like the rundown areas around where I'm at are less dangerous than they would appear on the surface. It is definitely an interesting place with the cloistered castle style colleges on one side of the street and the green full of homeless people sleeping on cardboard less than 50 feet away.

I did terrible on the math portion (worse than 50th percentile: 150) and I don't think it negatively impacted me, but then again I'm not going for a PhD yet. Age doesn't matter. Do what you love as long as you can make it work!

The LAS coordinator sent an email about registration being open about 3 days after I first logged in and registered for classes. That was weeks ago now, most of the classes I wanted filled already. Maybe you will have more luck than I did for courses.

Agreed. Plus, applying to grad school is horribly expensive and excruciatingly time consuming. 5 applications/1 gre/ and a dual campus visit trip to SoCal (in which I had free housing) cost me about $1,500. At $60-110 per application 15 apps is a small fortune, if you can swing that and not even wince you may not even really need funding lol.

Be aware of the political turmoil in Wisconsin. Funding that existed before the application deadlines for my program disappeared after Scott Walkers "super education killer" plans emerged. It's a really sad situation because UWisconsin is one of the best public universities in the world. *i just named the massive budget cut and potential removal of tenure within the state of Wisconsin. This is by no means the actual name of what is going on, but damn is it ever serious.

I had a professor that studied this same thing (women/gender/gender roles in the south, esp during the civil war) who came out of the PHD program at LSU. Definitely look into it.

Interesting! Thank you for the clarification.

They called me when I was in a Best Buy. My move in date was Aug 1, but my lease starts July 18th because that is what they offered me. Sucks a bit cause I'm at Yale in class until August 7th and then I'm driving across the entire country from CT to UCSD. So I have to pay about 1 1/2 months of rent without even being on campus. But that is better than not having an apt. When you are offered you have 48 hours to accept/decline the offer. If you accept you have 24 hours to digitally sign your lease. If you decline the first offer you lose priority placement status. I was offered my 3rd choice.

I believe if you re-read the post it does not say how many people applied, rather it says Brown accepted 30, ~10 chose to go to Brown.

Not yale, but UCSD's program that I am in gave similar stats. 30 were accepted they only expect about 10 to come. (I think our cohort ended up being 8)

I received my housing offer last week Tuesday for those of you with SHORE. So if you haven't gotten your offer yet, it will be coming soon. $1122/mo for a 2bdrm in one miramar.

Update on this, the program manager position at Yale in the Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies was eliminated a few weeks ago. I'm not sure what that means for the program for future years.

I believe San Diego State University teaches both Modern Nahuatl and Modern Mixtec during the academic year. UCLA is also starting a Nahuatl program.

I found a news release a while back from 1998 discussing the rise of the Nahuatl program at Yale. The release spoke of the year long courses they intended to create. I assume none of these materialized.

Absolutely. In my experience public universities have all of these documents available on their website. However, there is often no link leading to the document unless you know how to get to it. If you really were curious you could probably FOIA each school, but that will only work with public schools in the USA.

This is certainly true. While I was at UCLA's open house I was given the impression that I was the only admit with funding (based off the questions others asked, though I could certainly be wrong). However, UCSD outrightly told me that every student they have ever had has been funded through employment (w/ tuition waiver). It certainly varies by program.

With a Q at 40th percentile and verbal at 87th percentile UCLA gave me a full tuition fellowship ($31,000 no work obligation, for a masters), UCSD offered me even more.

Remember to return them on time! Its $600 if you don't.

150 Q was 40th percentile this last cycle, which is still really bad lol. I haven't taken math since 11th grade in HS, that is what I got on the GRE.

Thanks for the advice. I don't expect to be robbed during the day unless it's at gun point. I'm a pretty big upper-Midwest guy (6'3 250, we are huge Norse people ).

Dissertations were 100-215 pages at NDSU (University Wide), with significant charts/figures included in those page lengths. Source: My girlfriend was the disquisition processor, so she edited them all to fit the guidelines of the university. There was not a single dissertation that was 400 pages. But she only processed one graduation cycle.