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I personally am using Magoosh Advanced plan + going through Manhattan + using everything I stumble upon for practice questions. 4 essays per day is crazy (and so are 2 per day). I would rather suggest to make sure you've written an essay (not just written, but mastered, killed it) on all of the big topics - government, education, environment, society. Group all the topics, and then just make sure you have a bank of ideas/examples/approaches for each one. I also find writing plans without actually writing an essay immensely helpful.

First of all, read about imposter syndrome, because you definitely have it. Then - nobody gets admitted for not being good enough. Now, the most important advice: CELEBRATE. Go to a bar with your friends / family / special someone / yourself. Make it a memorable night. You need a mark in you mind that something has changed, that you are your own hero, that nothing will ever be the same. Get happy. Go for a picnic. Spend a week preparing for it, and then give yourself a big night. Then, get over it. You deserve it. You have worked for it, hard. If you feel you did not spend enough hours working on it hard - whatever, it's not about time, it's about the results. Do not defer, by all means (even if it somehow becomes possible). Go for it. Panic is normal - I was all panicky too when I moved. Things that help: * travelling there often (at least thrice), checking the place out, making friends; * watching movies about great universities; * sports. You need another accomplishment to make it roll - sign up for a 5k run or something like that; * go travel somewhere new and exciting. Be ready for a month of organizing work when you are in grad school, it's ok. Just make yourself busy, join one club or another. In a month into grad school it will be all right, regardless of how you feel now! I would advise against reaching out to nameless community from your school - better ask people who you make friends with / like. Nameless community gives all sorts of feedback, and it's impossible to get prepared.

Why, the Harvard website does, and UMich website, and UPenn's, too. As for reading and searching - yes, sure, I have done all that. I know where the professors who work in the same field mostly reside, and have contacted a few. Peabody is one of the safeties for me, as the list of schools where a person with my interest can apply is rather short, and the school has a PhD program with a possible concentration in Higher Education - not so common a thing. Another point - sometimes a professor is not officially working in the school of education, but in, say, the department of history. That is another reason why I asked the community here whether they know someone. Also, I might have missed a professor; he or she might have been a faculty member in another place when writing a paper, and so on. Btw, looking for different programs, I found Higher Education: A Worldwide Inventory of Research Centers, Academic Programs, and Journals and Publications by Boston College Center for International Higher Education immensely helpful. https://www.bc.edu/content/dam/files/research_sites/cihe/pdf/Worldwide_Inventory_full_2015_08_11.pdf

Yes, but what do you mean by 'different neighborhoods'? Would the price of $700 mean one lives in a really bad neighborhood which is far away from the campus?

Are the rent prices really that high?! That seems insane. And what does a 'house for 4 people' mean, anyway?..

Being a theorist does not mean only creating theories, but also critiquing and applying them. Also, we do create theories - look at Ronald Barnett, for one. Peabody's website does not have a 'search by interest' option, hence one has to read each and every professor's profile in order to understand who is who. Ergo, the question.

So I have been looking for different PhD programs. I am interested in PhDs in Higher Ed specifically, and it seems like Canada has at least three (U of Toronto, UBS, U of Alberta). Does anybody have any information? I am particularly concerned about financial aid for international students. I have written to them, of course, but their e-mail was beyond cryptic (although very nice), and, subsequently, not really informative. Hence, the questions: Is anyone here currently attending any of the Canadian schools? How do you feel about your experience? Do they fund PhD students? Does the funding cover the expenses? How does the application process differ to the one is US?

Hello. I am planning to do theoretical work in the domain of Higher Ed research. Does anybody know whether Peabody, Vanderbilt has any notable professors who work in the field of higher ed, theoretical dimension, specifically?

Thank you. I ended up simply chatting with the professor, but I am not sure it can always be done. According to my observations, in most cases professors prefer to talk about their work first, and about everything else next.

I'd like to start a thread on how to acquire information from grad schools on education. They are all very different, right? And most of the good ones are highly competitive. And my problem of today - I have a connection with two grad schools, but not with my potential supervisors. Still, I feel I should be using these connections to get acquainted with the schools. In fact, I am going to talk to one of the professors today. Do you have any advice on the questions? I have two goals: 1) to understand the atmosphere, how the school functions; 2) to become familiar to the professors.