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  1. As a first generation URM college graduate from an extremely impoverished background (i.e the real hood), I can tell you that you can go as far as your mind will allow. I am currently earning a PhD at an Ivy league institution and to be honest the most important thing is to find a good adviser. Stuck up people are everywhere, including state schools. The only pedigree that will matter in the end is the work that you produce. The relationships with fellow students will come as you get involved with different research teams and projects. With regard to admissions, your grades will be enough to get you past that part of the scrutiny but if you want to ensure that you get admission AND great funding you have to do well on the GRE. Prepare thoroughly and do not give up if at first it seems difficult--with time it can be tamed. Good Luck
  2. Actually the precious poster is INCORRECT!!!. Student loans can be taken out to cover Cost of Attendance. This includes tuition, room and board, health insurance, etc. Students loans are for Cost of Attending an institution not just for tuition. Read title IV.
  3. FYI All of Upenn admits know already
  4. So in my humble opinion as I was lucky enough to gain acceptance to Upenn GSE Phd program is that research experience, GRE and GPA are the most important things. The top schools particularly for PhD want to train people to become professors at research 1 universities--thats it. SO if you have 1 year of experience but it is heavy on research along with 1300+ gre scores 3.8+ gpa and maybe a masters degree 3.85+ gpa than you have a shot. Since there are a good number of folks who meet this threshold then it becomes a matter of fit with the departmental research interests. As someone said earlier, teaching experience only matter in terms of icing on the cake or if you are interested in a practictioners ED.D. program. One way to know what the program is looking for is to look at the faculty in the program you are interested in. If all of the professors have PhD's from research 1 universities than you should know their leanings. Hope this helps
  5. Just want to make sure it doesn't mean anything. Everybody here applying to Stanford got their admission results update email--saying results for PhD will be out by Feb 17. Reading tea leaves I know.
  6. Upenn Interviews Weekend Invitations have gone out already.
  7. @ favorfire Thats exactly what I mean. Try not to parse out areas that you do not like--any of the items or claims that I have made can be verfied by using JSTOR or EBSCO you could probably find some evidence on Google Scholar. The point is that you have to do the research. Take the arguement as a whole and attempt to understand, if you feel that my claims don't old up research and refute. In the end its whether or not you want to be open to something you may not like. Because you don't agree with something doesn't make it racist--it just means you don't agree. As I'm sure you attended or attend a reputable institution I won't attempt to belittle your accomplishments there but your statement about mine betrays your intractibility to things that are different. It's OK, its a free country. I hope you get in to the school of your dreams so hopefully you can shed those misplaced notions of racism.
  8. Wow So as an African American male I have been in and seen the outcome of these conversations. There is a logical argument for and against and I appreciate it when people argue from those places and not from emotion or vested interest. Affirmative action is biased against poor whites...and favors wealthy African Americans--this is true. However, what I've found is that the folks who are most upset by affirmative action are middle class/upper middle class whites or middle or upper middle class Asians. These 2 groups I've found place a lot of emphasis on this idea or meritocracy. Yet, seldom realize that meritocracy does not exist. Extremely wealthy people regardless of race get into whatever school they want-we can't lose sight of this fact as they are taking some of the coveted spots away from the rest of us. I wonder whose spot George Bush took at Harvard Business School--think about it. The middle and lower class argue over the scraps left behind, that's just the way our system works. When it comes to statistical analysis about who benefits, folks like to look at admission rates by applicant race and gender as an indicator of unfair bias in admissions. However this approach is flawed because it usually compares 2 vastly different numbers of applicants. If there are only 20 African American applicants and 100 White applicants for 4 spots and 2 White and 2 African American students are chosen--the African American acceptance rate is 10% whereas the white student rate is 2%. Some policy makers, lawyers, media outlets will argue that the 10% acceptance rate is proof that minorities are getting special treatment--never explaining the flawed logic behind their argument. The next logical question is why are there only 20 African American applicants? Well most student self select out of applying to certain schools. They may know that their GRE scores are too low or their GPA won't get it done. Based on GRE data alone there small number of African Americans, or other "under represented minorities for that matter, who meet certain testing thresholds--say the 1300 level. As such schools may view a minority student with a 1300 GRE similar to a White or Asian student with a 1500 GRE. They do this for the earlier reason of scarcity along with the knowledge that most research indicates that the tangible difference between a student with a 1300 and 1500 GRE score is negligible in terms of Graduate School GPA, publications, etc. No while we may think that extra 100 points means a whole lot, research shows it does not. The myth I get most upset about is usually based on insecurity. The myth that somehow I got into this school on some affirmative action kick. Well, when I'm in these discussions, I typically say yes I believe in affirmative action and yes I believe I am qualified and then I ask people for their stats. Most people assume that I will have low stats because I argue the merits of affirmative actions. I have a 1470 GRE 750 Q 720 V (in the social sciences) (taken only once) and 3.8 GPA undergrad and 3.9 Grad GPA both from an IVY league school. Typically that silences them. I say this not to brag but to solidify my point. For those who minimize the effect of diverse learning environments, find out what the research says about the benefits of a diverse school or work environment. I think you'll find that a diverse and inclusive environment benefits us all. I also think people should also be honest about losing out in competition. Sometimes you just lose. Since most of the folks on here are probably type A personalities who don't lose often it difficult to accept. We may want to find out what unfair external force led to our failures--because it couldn't have been our fault, RIGHT. Its OK take a deep breath, dust yourself off and get back on the horse. We all can't win all of the time. Now if you are poor and white--you got beef and I can't justify Affirmative Action to you;its not fair to you. You still benefit from White privilege but no where near a middle or upper class White person. That is why I am also in favor of socio-economic diversity--it matters. I also believe that wealthy African Americans/Minorities don't have it easy by any means (look at research on middle class and upper middle class African American college failure rates)-- however they should not have the same benefits from affirmative action that poor folks should have {that's just my opinion}. Peace
  9. Hey all. I've applied to Stanford, Harvard and Penn. Penn interview invitations have gone out already - (weekend of 2/5-2/7) Some folks were talking about it in another post. I'm interviewing at Penn but still waiting on Harvard and Stanford. My areas of focus are Child and Adolescent Development.
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