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Suddenly, the grizzly beast started dancing vigorously. There was an acromantula nearby. It challenged the preconception that magical mushrooms were magical. Sparkling, the magical mushrooms were spreading throughout town. Nobody with pyromania thought grilled cheese would spontaneously erupt into nine identical squirrels! Nevertheless, the penguins elucidated the benefits of sparkling water from Iceland. Suddenly, Iceland exclaimed, "Enough!!! No more penguins. Kill all of the arcades on Monday because King Arthur suffered from sphenisciphobia." Tragically, everyone forgot lasers cure bug madness, meaning none of

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One year a long time ago, there were penguins who didn't wear hats when swimming. This made their mothers livid. "Unacceptable!" Frightened, they screamed, "Bears!" Nobody seemed convinced so instead of going swimming they tried juggling. Their mothers tried everything they thought would teach her a skill. However, she couldn't even make oatmeal without disastrous results. So, the penguins gathered money (obviously) trying to purchase a bear. Towering over them, a grizzly beast danced, devouring all bears with such ferocity that even God enjoyed it. Afterwards, God congratulated the penguins and applauded them. "You did it!" Suddenly, the grizzly beast started dancing vigorously. There was an acromantula nearby. It challenged the preconception that magical mushrooms were magical. Sparkling, the magical mushrooms were spreading throughout town. Nobody with pyromania thought grilled cheese would spontaneously erupt into nine identical squirrels! Nevertheless, the penguins elucidated the benefits of sparkling water from Iceland. Suddenly, Iceland exclaimed, "Enough!!! No more penguins. Kill all of the arcades on Monday because King Arthur suffered from sphenisciphobia." Tragically, everyone forgot lasers cure bug madness, meaning

Several of the programs I applied won't get back til Feb/March but I am still checking all of their websites a few times a week anyways. Anxiety is a funny/but not fun thing.

Thanks for the update. Sorry for the bad news...I am still hoping no news is not bad news. We have to rememer, afterall, that not everyone posts their results AND that programs don't do things the same every year (Stanford's phone acceptances today are a recent example of that).

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One year a long time ago, there were penguins who didn't wear hats when swimming. This made their mothers livid. "Unacceptable!" Frightened, they screamed, "Bears!" Nobody seemed convinced so instead of going swimming they tried juggling. Their mothers tried everything they thought would teach her a skill. However, she couldn't even make oatmeal without disastrous results. So, the penguins gathered money (obviously) trying to purchase a bear. Towering over them, a grizzly beast danced, devouring all bears with such ferocity that even God enjoyed it. Afterwards, God congratulated the penguins and applauded them. "You did it!" Suddenly, the grizzly beast started dancing vigorously. There was an acromantula nearby. It challenged the preconception that magical mushrooms were magical. Sparkling, the magical mushrooms were spreading throughout town. Nobody with pyromania thought grilled cheese would spontaneously erupt into nine identical squirrels! Nevertheless, the penguins elucidated the benefits of sparkling water from Iceland. Suddenly, Iceland exclaimed, "Enough!!! No more penguins. Kill all of the arcades on Monday because King Arthur suffered from sphenisciphobia." Tragically, everyone

So if patterns hold from years past I should hear from 6 of the programs I am still waiting on before Friday...some of them I should have heard from last week...but in this world no news isn't bad news. Best of luck to everyone and here's to hoping for good news this week

We have to stop saying that we need to "not sound political". Being political and debating those opinions are a vital element of a democracy. When we stop doing that we have problems. We have Trump today because we stopped debating, because we all stopped being political. Yes this is absolutely political. Most of us are not xenophobic jerks scared of what the future holds, most of us fully support bright and talented people from all over the world coming into this country, most of us support saving the lives of thousands of families (who are in part forced to leave because of US interference in their part of the world). This is a forum of educated people who will have differing opinions from my own, but I think we can offer our support to international students w/o disclaimers of not being political. Supporting them is political, and that's ok. Otherwise I too stand with you all. As a hispanic American I too have some uncertainty, but not nearly the kind that an international student must feel after this week.

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One year a long time ago, there were penguins who didn't wear hats when swimming. This made their mothers livid. "Unacceptable!" Frightened, they screamed, "Bears!" Nobody seemed convinced so instead of going swimming they tried juggling. Their mothers tried everything they thought would teach her a skill. However, she couldn't even make oatmeal without disastrous results. So, the penguins gathered money (obviously) trying to purchase a bear. Towering over them, a grizzly beast danced, devouring all bears with such ferocity that even God enjoyed it. Afterwards, God congratulated the penguins and applauded them. "You did it!" Suddenly, the grizzly beast started dancing vigorously. There was an acromantula nearby. It challenged the preconception that magical mushrooms were magical. Sparkling, the magical mushrooms were spreading throughout town. Nobody with pyromania thought grilled cheese would spontaneously erupt into nine identical squirrels! Nevertheless, the penguins elucidated the benefits of sparkling water from Iceland. Suddenly, Iceland exclaimed, "Enough!!! No more penguins. Kill all of the arcades on Monday because King

One year a long time ago, there were penguins who didn't wear hats when swimming. This made their mothers livid. "Unacceptable!" Frightened, they screamed, "Bears!" Nobody seemed convinced so instead of going swimming they tried juggling. Their mothers tried everything they thought would teach her a skill. However, she couldn't even make oatmeal without disastrous results. So, the penguins gathered money (obviously) trying to purchase a bear. Towering over them, a grizzly beast danced, devouring all bears with such ferocity that even God enjoyed it. Afterwards, God congratulated the penguins and applauded them. "You did it!" Suddenly, the grizzly beast started dancing vigorously. There was an acromantula nearby. It challenged the preconception that magical mushrooms were magical. Sparkling, the magical mushrooms were spreading throughout town. Nobody with pyromania thought grilled cheese would spontaneously erupt into nine identical squirrels! Nevertheless, the penguins elucidated the

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One year a long time ago, there were penguins who didn't wear hats when swimming. This made their mothers livid. "Unacceptable!" Frightened, they screamed, "Bears!" Nobody seemed convinced so instead of going swimming they tried juggling. Their mothers tried everything they thought would teach her a skill. However, she couldn't even make oatmeal without disastrous results. So, the penguins gathered money (obviously) trying to purchase a bear. Towering over them, a grizzly beast danced, devouring all bears with such ferocity that even God enjoyed it. Afterwards, God congratulated the penguins and applauded them. "You did it!" Suddenly, the grizzly beast started dancing vigorously. There was an acromantula nearby. It challenged the preconception that magical mushrooms were magical. Sparkling, the magical mushrooms were spreading throughout town. Nobody with pyromania thought grilled cheese would spontaneously erupt into nine identical

One year a long time ago, there were penguins who didn't wear hats when swimming. This made their mothers livid. "Unacceptable!" Frightened, they screamed, "Bears!" Nobody seemed convinced so instead of going swimming they tried juggling. Their mothers tried everything they thought would teach her a skill. However, she couldn't even make oatmeal without disastrous results. So, the penguins gathered money (obviously) trying to purchase a bear. Towering over them, a grizzly beast danced, devouring all bears with such ferocity that even God enjoyed it. Afterwards, God congratulated the penguins and applauded them. "You did it!" Suddenly, the grizzly beast started dancing vigorously. There was an acromantula nearby. It challenged the preconception that magical mushrooms were magical. Sparkling, the magical mushrooms were spreading throughout town. Nobody with pyromania thought grilled cheese would spontaneously erupt

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Here's to hoping with you!

I hope you are right! It is sure a crazy process of not knowing what programs are looking for.

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The primary reason having an MA helps is because it gives us more research expierence, especially if we completed programs that require a thesis. For mine I created an administered a survey to around 750 individuals and recieved 390 back for my data. I also conducted ~45 interviews (average length 1hour 13 minutes) as well as over 300 hours of participant observation and internship working with my participants. I had 3 interns to help with data entry from the survey and used SPSS and R for the analysis, did most of the transcription on my own (1 intern helped with this but she quit after 3 transcriptions), developed a code book with the help of my advisor and did all of the coding in Nvivo....I am just finishing up my thesis, it is around 200 pages and will have several articles ready to send into journals when I am done as well as a book with my advisor....that took me 2 and 1/2 years. It was A TON OF WORK, but all of that experience is why my advisor told me I stood a good chance of getting into a PHD program despite my lackluster undergraduate GPA that nearly kept me from getting into an MA program. That's a lot more research experience for me, the MA student, than for my interns who could also claim research experience during their undergrad but who didn't do the entire project. In fact, I've already written lettters of rec for some of them to grad programs....so undergraduate research experience just isn't the same as doing it as an MA student and what the shows PHD programs your potential is. Also some programs, like mine, let you teach undergrad classes- I taught a lower level intro class 6 different terms...that's super different from TAing for a course. I mean I gave lectures, wrote tests, graded papers, led discussions, did the whole thing by myself. I should add that despite all of my experience I am yet to get in ANYWHERE. Part of this is that I am switching fields (anth to soc) and part of that is also that I didn't have a thesis to send to them (I could send it to them now but early December I was still deep in edits and so I used a conference paper). Point of this post is that yea the MA is supposed to help, but it isn't a magic bullet if my experience so far is any testimony. It might take me another round to get into a program- another year to actually publish, have a finished thesis to show programs, and another year to give more papers at more conferences (I have 3 under my belt and one poster). It stands to reason that someone with a BA who has published will have a good chance of getting in over me, who has higher GPA or GRE, who has a better written writing sample, who also has been to conferences with posters.... Ok this is getting long and the whole point is that from what I can tell and MA helps, but a really solid undergrad application beats mine on merit because I have some parts of what they are looking for but maybe not others. That's my insight into what an MA does to help, but how a BA can beat it.

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One year a long time ago, there were penguins who didn't wear hats when swimming. This made their mothers livid. "Unacceptable!" Frightened, they screamed, "Bears!" Nobody seemed convinced so instead of going swimming they tried juggling. Their mothers tried everything they thought would teach her a skill. However, she couldn't even make oatmeal without disastrous results. So, the penguins gathered money (obviously) trying to purchase a bear. Towering over them, a grizzly beast danced, devouring all bears with such ferocity that even God enjoyed it. Afterwards, God congratulated the penguins and applauded them. "You did it!" Suddenly, the grizzly beast started dancing vigorously. There was an acromantula nearby. It challenged the preconception that magical mushrooms were magical. Sparkling,