barilicious
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Congrats UT acceptances! If you have any questions, feel free to PM me...
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Hmm. I really thought we might see UT acceptances today. On to next week, I suppose.. Monday is a holiday so I don't expect much happening for the next few days.
We were in the process of moving over winter break, which I'm sure put the admissions committee slightly behind...
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UT will be opening an urban ethnography lab next year:
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You're also at one of the top programs. I wouldn't say that sample is representative.
I completely agree, but most people on this forum are applying to top programs.
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I see. By "doing conferences," though, did he and you mean actively presenting papers or merely attending them?
Half of my first year cohort, including myself, will be presenting at ASA this year as well as at other conferences (some at PAA and so forth).
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I never said it was the case with all grad students. It obviously depends on the funding package. This has just been the standard in my experience, and I've been in graduate school a long time (six years).
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But if I remember correctly, you sounded pretty stoked to be at UT-Austin, right? Still happy nevertheless?
Yes, I'm beyond happy that I'm here and that I chose UT. That still does not negate the fact that the first year is not hard, especially if the required courses aren't really what you do, and if you aren't on fellowship or whatever else. Many students do TA their first year (and are expected to be productive with publishing and conferences), so not everyone is just getting paid to sit in classes.
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Seriously? Here's the life of a typical first year:
You take classes and get paid for it. That's it. You have about 500 pages of reading a week. You might have some response papers due, but it's mostly your job to generate discussions about the readings. You might have a midterm paper (not always true), you'll almost always have a final paper. Most of my classes aren't lecture based, they are discussions. I can't wait until my "first year" in a Ph.D., because after working throughout my undergraduate and two Master's degrees, it'll be the easiest year I'll ever have.
Wait until later when you're doing the same amount of reading AND grading 70 papers a week AND preparing for discussion sections that you TA for AND writing conference papers AND preparing for your exams. First year is a dream. :-)
Yes really. One, I am TAing during my first year, and I have discussion sections, and I'm grading 70 papers.
Two, I am presenting at 2 conferences this year, and I have a forthcoming publication, so no, I'm not just taking classes...
Those aside - it sucks because you don't really get to take classes you want. I got to choose 1 class my first year. Besides that I'm in theory for a whole year (aka reading white men) and in statistics a whole year (even though I do qualitative methods). I understand the point of taking these classes, so I don't need to be told about that, nonetheless, it sucks being in classes you don't care about. That, for me, is where it sucks!
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I would argue that UT-Austin has a strong qualitative presence - in fact, Qualitative Sociology (the journal) use to be housed here. Our chair Christine Williams is a renown qualitative researcher (and the former editor of Gender & Society), and we have Maya Charrad (an extremely famous historical-comparative academic), Javier Auyero (a renown ethnographer), Gloria Gonzalez-Lopez, Ben Carrington, Simone Brown, Sharmilla Rudrappa, and the list could go on and on. I think our demography program steals the spotlight at times, but UT-Austin also has very strong qualitative faculty and should not be over-looked!
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Everyone I know who "interviewed" the last 2 years on here, myself included, was accepted to Indiana a week later. The "interview" literally consisted of the DGS talking for like 40 minutes, and myself talking for maybe 5 minutes. They didn't have a recruitment day, so the phone interview was basically the DGS telling you everything about the program and allowing for you to ask questions and so forth. It is definitely nothing to worry about. Good luck!
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Evelyn, the graduate secretary, is the one who sends the official e-mail acceptances. Also, there is not a special application for the demography program, as anyone accepted into the Sociology department can essentially join the Population Research Center. If this person did get officially accepted, then I would assume s/he received an e-mail from Evelyn yesterday, as Evelyn doesn't work on the weekends. If this is so, then I'd say the first round of acceptances have gone out. However, this person, I guess, could have been contacted by their potential advisor today (that they will be getting an official acceptance soon), and that could maybe explain why s/he heard on a Saturday. Maybe s/he will speak up?
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Good luck!
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The UT Austin Sociology Department has a blog. Some of it is specific to our program, but a great deal of it is for the public as a whole.
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@avee You don't think that salaries from community colleges and lower ranked schools skew the average? If you are going to a research 1 institute, and will hopefully also end up at a recent 1 institute, I don't think 55k is the average tenured professor salary, that is ludicrous.
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There's enough money to get by, but by now you should know that your salary will never go over 100,000 unless you've had tenure for 40+ years or are in an administrative position. I have come to terms with what I will make, and I am damn happy to know where I feel I belong. Sociology is my home and my community.
Um, huh? My mentor from undergrad just got tenure (and got his PhD in 2005), and I know for a fact that he makes over 100k. It is also a small liberal arts college where you can't even get a PhD in Sociology anymore.
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Where are you applying to? And as stated numerous times before on this board, it is hard to gauge what committee's are looking for, so these types of post don't always produce the best feedback.
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If you don't mind stating, where else, besides Berkeley, are you thinking of applying? Berkeley lists their average GRE scores, and obviously, they are pretty high, but again, GREs are only 1 part of the admissions process.
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In my opinion, apply to programs where you truly want to go and where you are a good fit. I applied to 2 "safe" programs last year, and I wish I didn't. I actually got rejected by one, probably a lot because of it, and I wish I would have just applied to more top programs that I was interested in. I say apply to programs you want to go to and are a fit, and don't worry about this how "safe" school thing.
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Dr. Gloria Gonzalez-Lopez at the University of Texas studies sexual violence and teaches a graduate seminar on the Sociology of Sexual Violence. You may want to check her out!
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I honestly do not think an admissions committee really cares how long your undergraduate degree took you. People have many different life experiences that may "pro-long" them getting their undergrad degree than the traditional, I guess, 4 years. There are numerous other things that the committee I'm sure care about (research experience, SOP, GPA, GREs, LORs, and so forth) that I highly doubt they even look at how long it took someone to get their degree. And honestly, I had grad committee members tell me that people who don't take time off typically have a harder time getting in, as committees typically like people who took a break between undergrad and grad. In my cohort (of 15), only 1 person is straight from undergrad. All in all though, every committee is different, and best of luck!
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I have never heard of the school nor anything about the program. I don't even think it is ranked. However, I guess to gauge whether it is a "death sentence" would be for your boyfriend to ask himself where he would like to work post-graduate school.
Their recent PhD job placements are here:
http://pacs.unt.edu/.../phd-placements
Would your boyfriend be find at a university similar to those when he is done with his PhD?
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I own the book, but honestly it isn't very helpful, in my opinion. You can get WAY more information from the schools' websites. It literally just list EVERY sociology program in alphabetical order, then it list the professors and their broad areas of interests. I really don't think it is worth the money!
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I'd say possibly check out Northwestern.
UT-Austin 2013
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The recruiting event is really informal and rather relaxing. Wednesday night you just do a fajita buffet and lots of beer drinking while conversing with graduate students and professors. Afterwards, you go to the Dog & Duck with the grad students (and maybe a couple profs) to continue drinking and socializing. The alcohol is free at Scholtz, but not at Dog & Duck...
On Thursday, you will have a lot of different profs come and give a talk about something, and you can ask questions. You will also probably get a tour of our new building that we just moved into. Afterwards, you do lunch, and then you can go home or meet with professors in their offices. It is always on Wednesday and Thursday, though I don't know why. Maybe that is when faculty are most available?
Let me know if you have any other questions.