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I've been contacting the grad directors

Well if you want to get into a good program with your GPA, you'll probably need a good GRE score. What that is exactly, I don't know. But I would shoot for at least a 310 Q&V. But you can get in somewhere even if you don't meet that. Just see how you do on the GRE and decide where to apply from there.

I'm not entirely sure yet, but I'm planning on being there Wednesday.

Yeah!

I think I've been considering three main factors 1) Fit 2) Program quality 3) Quality of life

In three of the four times I've received an acceptance letter I realized I had an email from a school I applied to right after hitting the snooze button on my phone. Of course, when I saw the email notification each time I had to check it. And obviously I couldn't go back to bed after the excitement kicked in, so, in one case, I put on some jams and danced around my room for probably an hour.

Sorry Brooke But don't be demoralized, you still have another one to hear back from!

A few of us have found out about funding. They may be waiting to hear back from those who were offered funding but don't accept the offer so that they can offer those assistantships to other applicants.

There are a few potential reasons, but sometimes the lower ranked schools reject you if they think you're likely to be accepted to a better program and are applying to their program in order to set up a safety net. It's like applying to a job one is overqualified to work at.

http://www.adpccj.com/documents/2016survey.pdf This provides the average salaries of professors at universities with doctoral programs, so they are probably above average.Newly hired assistant proffessors salaries ranged from 28,000 to 110,000, with the median being about 65,000. If you work at RAND, maybe the most prestigous research corporation, you make about 158k with a PhD according to this site http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Employer=RAND_Corporation/Salary.

Anytime of the week is fine with me, how about towards the beginning? Are you presenting @HedgieLove?

Just a poster presentation

I simply do not agree that anybody here has displayed a lack of empathy. I mentioned Dr. Bloom as more of a side note, I thought it was it was interesting but it doesn't necessarily fit into the context of this conversation. But Dr. Bloom argues that empathy increases prejudice and discrimination because it is more or less is applied arbitrarily, people are more likely to empathize with people "like them". Something I think can be seen in segments of society in regards to the Syrian refugee crisis. He instead argues for using "rational compassion". So I don't understand how I'm making that assumption. But all of that is beside the point. I don't doubt that everybody here worked hard and is capable of fine scholarly work. I just don't know how accusations of lacking empathy and humility entered the equation. While I could see if you think that someone is being a little "braggy" or even somewhat arrogant would make you think they lack humility, I don't see how that's connected to empathy. Expressing your excitement about being admitted and feeling bad for someone who didn't get into their dream school are not mutually exclusive feelings. But again, I don't think anybody here was trying to show off per se. Rather, I think people are just joining the conversation and keeping it going because it is the thread where you post decisions. While I was certainly excited whenever I got an acceptance email or whatever, I joined this site with more of the intention to connect with other incoming PhD students, not to simply gloat. On a more sanguine note, I just want to express that just because you didn't get accepted into a school or offered funding doesn't make you less capable. Admissions is an imperfect process- full of politics, subjectivity, and ambiguity. And I agree with @HedgieLove, I wish funding was attached to admissions at all schools. All of this seems to be a big misunderstanding of intentions. Contentious definitions of the situation if you will. But, and I think I speak for everybody, nobody is rooting against anyone. It is not necessarily a zero sum game. And back to another previous point by @HedgieLove, if you want to vent it is totally fine. I think an expression of dismay or stress would be met with empathy from most people here.

Just to speak honestly, I don't know where this all came from. I do not think we have lacked empathy. We all congratulate each other when good news is received, and that is simply what this page is about. We post our results so that we may be congratulated, and in turn, we congratulate others who receive good news.But nobody has ever kicked anybody while they're down. I've been rejected as well. None of us would get accepted to every program with funding, assuming one of us did apply to every program. You may not be accepted to or get funding from every school you want, but I think we are all here to encourage everybody and give advice. I understand it may be difficult to stomach, but the purpose of this thread is to announce the decisions you receive, but not to necessarily rub it in anyone's face. Also, just to throw it out there, empathy may not be such a great thing according to Dr. Bloom of the psychology department at Yale.http://www.vox.com/conversations/2017/1/19/14266230/empathy-morality-ethics-psychology-science-compassion-paul-bloom

The free ETS guide was more helpful to me than any of those Manhattan or Kaplan books. What was also helpful, however, was YourTeacher app for your phone.