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4 hours ago, zephyri said:
I applied for Arabic but didn't get an e-mail about a visa. Anyone else here doing Arabic? Did you get an e-mail yesterday like the others?
I think the countries with the Arabic institutes (Morocco, Oman, Jordan) are also easy for Americans to get visas. When I was in Morocco, we got our passports stamped and that was it.
Having travelled to and studied in Oman and Jordan, I can tell you that yes, visas are very easy to get for these countries. And having studied in Oman with CLS, it was the easiest process ever as CLS does everything for you. In Jordan, you simply buy your visa at the airport. You'll have to extend it with the Department of Residency and Borders after one month (which is easy to do), but CLS will help you with everything.
Good luck everyone!!! Today has gotta be the day!! I hope everyone gets some great news. Having made it this far in CLS is an accomplishment unto itself and you should all be proud no matter the outcome!
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Here's to hoping it is a trend this year!
I had to send IIE a scan of my passport a couple of weeks ago because the US Embassy in my Fulbright country wanted it. Hopefully that was for a visa or something and April 29th notifications are a thing of the past!
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2 hours ago, nevermind said:
I'm in a very interdisciplinary field (not anthro) and I'm going to wear a pencil skirt ensemble with flats (probably lots of walking). If you're female, something like these may work:
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/543317142523796297/
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/526499012658610143/
http://www.polyvore.com/grad_school/set?.svc=copypaste&embedder=3415147&id=44634375
I LOVE this last look! It is perfect for interviews, I think!
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I visited CUNY this past week and wore a pretty and uniquely-printed (yet casual) dress with a casual blazer, black tights and black Toms! A few of us girls wore Blazers but no one was wearing super business formal with pressed pants or high heels or anything. It was definitely the paired-down-anthropologist-slightly-formal wear. My dress was also printed in a style somewhat similar to the area I want to work--this is really just my personal style coming out, but don't be afraid to let your personal style shine! I would say not to wear jeans, at least, but perhaps a nice pair of slacks--and blazers are not necessities.
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1 hour ago, maybe said:
Hi all,
As other people had already posted, I did not post my results, but I wanted to write to give a sense of the schools I have heard from. This is my second round and I hope that my results would give those of you who didn't make it this year some hope. Last year, I was waitlisted at Cornell, which did not work out. Here's what happened this year:
I received offers from Harvard (last Friday), Northwestern (yesterday), Cornell (Feb. 17), and Johns Hopkins (Feb. 11).
I am also waitlisted at Columbia, which I have learned through website on Feb. 12. I was also sent an email from a prof. in de department on Feb. 15. I also know that admitted students are invited for campus visit that's taking place this week.
If this round did not work for you, please don't give up. I wish all of you the best!
Congrats, maybe! That's amazing! Thanks for sharing and the words of encouragement. Do you mind me asking what you did in the year in between application seasons?
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12 hours ago, Swingin_Sween said:
Happy March everyone! This is a big month for a lot of us. Unfortunately, I think I am going to be waiting until mid-April =/
Me too, Swingin_Sween! Last year the person who was accepted for my same award was notified April 29th... 29th....... ............
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20 hours ago, BlueberryScone22 said:
@Busy Bee @Horb I was told today that I could not defer, and that the April 15 deadline was not flexible –– fair! So now I have to be prepared to make a decision, and while, yes, it does make sense that one could get into better schools after receiving a Fulbright, I already got into my top choice... waiting for the euphoria to wear off before I make any decisions. If it doesn't wear off, there's my decision!
I'm really happy for you that you got into your top choice school! That's amazing. I'm having more luck than I thought I would this graduate season. I've applied for PhD programs with five schools and have been contacted for interviews with three of them, rejected by one but will likely receive a funded offer for their master's program, and am waiting on the last one still. I'm not sure what my top choice school is anymore; I am visiting two schools within the next few weeks and I'm hoping this will help me figure everything out, although I have been in the States now for about two months and I am really hating it here and would love to get the hell out to my favorite region of the world via Fulbright! The graduate process is a remarkably liminal and painful one.
If you have to make the choice between your top choice school and a Fulbright that is an incredible choice to have to make! Congrats again!
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On February 20, 2016 at 11:10 AM, BlueberryScone22 said:
Has anyone else applied to both Fulbright and graduate school for the same year? I am very shocked to have been accepted into my first choice school, and also to be a Fulbright research semi-finalist. I'm going to speak with MIT about my situation soon, but am wondering if anyone has thoughts on this matter. I think they will let me defer, but it seems doubtful that I'll hear if I'm awarded the grant before the April 15th deadline. And in a way I might be more excited about MIT than Fulbright, but deferring wouldn't take away the opportunity. This is the best kind of problem to possibly have and I am truly overwhelmed! All thoughts welcome.
I also applied for both Fulbright and PhD programs. In my interview with Brown, I was told that it is unlikely I could defer.
I'm in the same boat, too, regarding the deadlines. According to the spreadsheet, in past years finalists for my country have been notified in late April! I was emailed by an IIE program officer asking me for a copy of my passport, and when I asked him in the email about this, he told me unfortunately he had no way of knowing about the dates. I'm not quite sure what to do myself.
Congrats on MIT! My department director told me that at the very least, I could write "Fulbright Fellowship 2016-2017- Declined" on my CV.
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5 hours ago, intellect954 said:
I have been interviewed by two different POIs at Emory. Fingers crossed! They seem interested in my research and want more China scholars at Emory, so I may be a shoe-in! The first interviewer said I have his vote, the second one called my research 'fascinating', so only time will tell!
Good luck, intellect954! I hope to see you at recruitment weekend!
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1 hour ago, DYOH87 said:
First-time caller, long-time listener who is not sure that actually registering an account here was best (already spend too much time stressing over the results page as is!) but went ahead and did it anyway. Waiting to hear back from medical/psychological/cultural anth PhD programs at Harvard, NYU, UCLA, UCSD and U of Chicago (Comparative Human Development + Sociocultural). No luck so far but here's to hoping!
I've been sort of second-guessing my decision not to apply to any "safety" schools, but I do have confidence in my resume. Bachelor's in Anthropology from a top twenty American university and a Master's in Medical Anthropology from a top five UK university. Graduated with distinction from grad school. 7 years of NGO experience at a youth organization in America and 1.5 years of teaching experience in Asia. Have carried out relevant fieldwork experience on mental health treatment modalities in Asia as part of my Master's dissertation (which also got awarded distinction). Pitched a project, piggybacking off my experience living/working/researching in Asia and working with younger populations in general, on psychotherapy in Asia in youth/young adult ethnographic contexts. Secured four letters of recommendation from professors who know me well. 164/153/4.5 GRE score. All programs seem to present a good fit with my research interests, and made contact with 1-3 potential advisors (at all but one program) who echoed that sentiment. Wondering if others who applied to those programs have similar profiles?
CHD at U of Chicago is currently my top choice, so it stung a little to see that people had started getting interviews. Does anybody know if no interview = rejection from them? I asked my POI, who said that they were unable to disclose any information about my application but that I'd be hearing relatively soon.
Anyway, hope everybody gets some good news!
I have to echo MAnthroAA in that no interview means a rejection. I emailed my POI in the CHD program today who confirmed that for me, no interview means no acceptance. He also told me that the program is accepting only five candidates this year (he said this number was "cut down"), and that many faculty members need students who can also work in their labs. I have heard that Chicago is broke. I also applied for psychological anthropology with CHD, for which there are few anthropology professors and accompanying labs.
As for sociocultural at Chicago, I retain a tiny glimmer of hope, but assume my fate likely to be the same as CHD due to the interview announcement the week prior. I also emailed my Sociocultural POI to confirm but have received so far no response.
I have also heard that Chicago is a real crap shoot, and that a handful of spots in sociocultural are reserved for MAPSS alumni. I wouldn't be surprised if it was the same for CHD, and along with professors seeking students for their non-anthropological lab work, the chance of nagging perhaps the 1 spot for psychological anthropology in the CHD program is probably around 1% . Don't sweat it, DYOH87.
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On Monday I received a hit on my academia.edu page from Washington DC, yet I've applied to no graduate schools anywhere nearby DC.
Could this be the committee checking on my background?
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14 hours ago, Meglet said:
Now that I've gotten a second acceptance (Indiana!) and I know the first one wasn't just a fluke, I'll share. I'm pretty un-anonymous in my username, picture, etc, so I'm not too concerned about sharing.
Undergrad: Pretty unrelated (technical theater, German studies, minor in Art History), respected small liberal arts college, 3.68 GPA, finished 12 years ago (ouch)
MA in Middle Eastern Studies from SOAS in 2007, with distinction
GRE: 170 V/156 Q/5.0 AW
At the two schools where I've been accepted so far, plus two others, I proposed research on belly dance and cultural appropriation, and I'm a semi-professional belly dancer with 13 years of dance experience. At three of the schools I applied to, I proposed researching why Muslims in Scotland are highly likely to identify as Scottish, when very few of them in England identify as English, suggesting that it has to do with particular narratives of history and identity constructed to highlight their difference from the shared colonizer (England). I don't have much on my CV that ties me to Scotland, just a personal obsession and 3.5 years living in the UK, so it will be interesting to see if I get any acceptances on that project.
Congrats, Meglet!
I am curious about which languages you speak and to what degree? After interviewing at one of my schools with a POI, she told me that one of the reasons she liked my application (verses other applicants with interests in the same area) were my foreign language skills. I got the impression that for anthropology admissions, language and experience in your country/region are crucial elements. It might help some on the forum to hear more about this.
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10 hours ago, masculinities said:
Ah, fair enough! Congratulations on the acceptance!
I'm just going off of Irvine's tendency to interview all their finalists, the fact that Berkeley sent out a mass email to all finalists, and that Brown's sociocultural professors usually reach out to all their finalists within a few days of each other. Here's to hoping I'm wrong!
If you applied to medical anth at Berkeley, they are not planning on conducting interviews. I am not sure about sociocultural there, but based on the grad cafe information posted, it seems like if you haven't been asked to interview, you have been "rejected." (I use scare quotes because this is such a pejorative term and has no bearing on the actual candidate. From what I have learned during my application experience on grad cafe, admission is not necessarily based on who is "most" qualified, as many qualified people apply, but has a lot to do with fit, contact with POIs, the number of slots they have for the year, what kind of interests the department is looking for in candidates, departmental politics, etc.)
An informal interview is part of the process for Brown admittance, and they do interview all finalists for each subdiscipline slot (not just sociocultural). If you have not been asked to interview, I would assume the same as the sociocultural track at Berkeley.
However, I am not sure about wait listed spots, and I simply could be wrong about all of what I just wrote!
Disclaimer: I'm just an applicant, not a tenured professor on an admissions committee. So there may still be a glimmer of hope for these two schools, I think. Don't give up hope. Don't count your chickens before they have hatched!
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I'll claim one of the Brown interviews for cultural. It was from my POI specifically.
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35 minutes ago, intellect954 said:
Where did you apply to? If I already asked you this, I apologize. ;P Glad you're safe after the fire!
I applied to Brown, Berkeley, Chicago, CUNY, and Emory. I applied for medical anth at Berkeley. Someone just posted they received an interview request for "anthropology" at Berkeley. Not sure what that is specifically, but I'm not too worried. That doesn't mean anything necessarily.
Thanks! I'm glad too. It definitely helped put things into perspective.
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15 hours ago, intellect954 said:
Has anyone put in applications for cultural anthropology PhD, and have you heard back from any schools yet? Emory wrote all applicants to say interview invites will go out after February 8th, but it's not one of my top picks, to be honest.
All my apps are for cultural or medical anthropology, and I have heard nothing official yet. I was a bit bummed about Emory's announcement, and then we had a pretty bad house fire last week (all humans and animals are safe) so I am now thoroughly distracted with insurance and things. One bizarre positive of the house fire is how distracted I am from worrying about graduate school (how twisted is that? We are a crazy, passionate lot).
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4 minutes ago, Meglet said:
An acceptance! I got into University of Arkansas! Funding is TBA, but after straight rejections last year, this is super exciting!
Congrats Meglet!!!!!!!!! That's amazing!!!
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Anyone else apply to Emory? They usually send out interview invites by now, based on what I read on the results page. I called today but the grad coordinator was in back-to-back meetings. Waiting is quite awful, indeed. The closer it gets to the average notification dates of the universities to which I applied, the more nervous I become.
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I'm also an ETA Semi-finalist. Congrats everyone!
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A friend of mine just called saying she received an email.
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AH! I just submitted my final application! I am so amazed that I pulled this off--five applications to PhD programs and a Fulbright application all while studying abroad (and earning in my courses, most likely, all As to boot!). But I couldn't have done it without people on this forum, so thank you all so much for your advice and support. @catcatcatdog Thank you especially for all your advice and friendship.
Good luck to everyone finishing their applications. Enjoy the holidays, relax, and reward yourself for all your hard work!
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44 minutes ago, zephyri said:
Morocco, what was yours?
Ah, I was in Oman. It was absolutely amazing. Good luck this year!
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@zephyri I did CLS Arabic in summer of 2014 as well! What was your placement site?
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On 12/8/2015 at 9:40 PM, anthrostudentcyn said:
kinda freaked out I won't get in anywhere, because I know that's very common, especially coming right from undergrad. Applications are mostly submitted but I feel like it's somewhat an exercise in futility
Truly, the only place where I have seen any hesitancy about applying to graduate school as an undergraduate student has been this forum. Never has a professor said this to me when discussing graduate school with them, and current graduate students have assured me this is not a big deal--many students among their cohorts came straight from undergrad.
Even if we don't get in anywhere, this application process has not been a lesson in futility. Personally I've learned a lot about myself as an academic, researcher, and person. Enjoy the holiday season, anthrostudentcyn, and try to relax! Maybe get off this forum for a little bit, and come back at the end of January. As an obsessive-perfectionist myself, and a great, passionate lover of anthropology and academia and research, my brain easily can go crazy on here with all of you other obsessive-perfectionists (with whom I really enjoy talking nevertheless, my peers!). Therefore, I limit myself to only a couple of hours a week, or else I can quickly fall into the rabbit hole and spend hours obsessing over stats for the past three years of who got into my schools, when decisions came out, did I screw up my chances by writing "Dear Professor X" in my email instead of "Greetings Professor X," because puppydog12345 said "greetings" in his email to the same professor, etc. etc. (just really nutty stuff). Instead of doing that, I am going to read a bunch of ethnographies and novels over my Christmas break, and maybe re-watch Arrested Development or Man in the High Tower. I may also work on my thesis, a bit, and turning it into a publishable article. If I don't get in come late January-February, I'll have spent my time being productive rather than obsessing about something totally out of my control at this point. By the way, it sure would make an interesting piece to study the superstitions and rituals of anthropology applicants while they wait to hear about graduate school admissions, don't you think?
Anyway, cheers to everyone and happy holidays. Let's be proud of the work that we've done! I know I sure am.
- catcatcatdog, bioarch_fan and knp
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It's possible I was asked because my country wants to do a background check on me. It is not a European country. They arrest Americans and Europeans in my country from time to time. I'm hoping it's for a good reason, though.