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Hello, and welcome! That is wonderful advice. I've also send out my declinations, etc. Have you decided where you want to go?
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Congrats on Michigan! You'll get used to the cold, and I need to get used to the heat, because I'm going to go to FSU. This pasty-white Wisconsinite is going to be very sunburnt... Welcome!! Did they give any indication as to when they'd get back to students after the interviews? It has been a while, and if you're waiting on other offers it would probably be OK to email them and politely ask about when they hope to give decisions.
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Congratulations!!!
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Just got back from Cinny--it was an action-packed weekend, and I couldn't have been more impressed! It was intense and I'm exhausted. With that said, how are all of you holding up toward the end of this harrowing application cycle?
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Hey again, everyone! I'm attending a prospective student weekend at the University of Cincinnati tomorrow/this weekend, and I was wondering if any of you have good interview/first impression advice? Any questions you can think of that they may commonly ask about? Anything you shouldn't do/should avoid doing? Thanks, and best of luck to everyone still!
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Hey everyone! I'm attending a prospective student weekend at the University of Cincinnati this weekend, and I was wondering if any of you have good interview/first impression advice? Any questions you can think of that they may commonly ask about? Anything you shouldn't do/should avoid doing? Thanks, and best of luck to everyone still!
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I agree. To me education is priceless, but in the long run. In the short run, you need to have somewhere to live, food, and other necessities, and having to worry about those things has been hard enough as an undergraduate, let alone as a graduate student! I still have my interview weekend in Cincinnati for their Classics PhD this week, and they offer 7 years of funding, plus a stipend, etc. if you are accepted. If I do not get in there FSU sounds like it will be a great choice.
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I agree. Their faculty do have a lot of good links to research I'm interested in, on top of the funding. I'm also emailing the faculty asking for more information about certain things that I'm interested in doing (e.g. GIS) and how I can gain experience in that at FSU. Some of their faculty are in to landscape arch., which I'm happy about. As for Boulder, the reason I'm having trouble considering it is because they can't guarantee funding. Money is a huge issue with me given my financial situation, and so if I can get a good education in my MA for nearly free versus being in debt, that would be cool.
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New update. So I got into Cornell's MA program in Archaeology! The problem is that they can only offer a $2,500 fellowship...Kind of disappointed because their research is what I'm the most interested in, but I don't think there's any way that I could afford living there unless I were to receive much more funding than that. FSU is offering me full funding, with a job as a TA and a small health insurance package. So if I do not make it into the University of Cincinnati's Classics program then that's probably where I would need to go. Being as poor as my family is and with our bad credit taking out loans isn't a possibility, and so it would be silly to turn down full funding. I know FSU has a good program and that the money is great, but I can't help but be a little disappointed still...I'm trying to look on the bright side regardless.
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Also as an update: I've gotten into FSU (don't know if I said that already) and Boulder! Right now Boulder can't guarantee funding. But, FSU offered me a full funding package with a stipend and a small health insurance package. I'm really not wanting to live in Florida by preference, but it's hard to turn down a good deal like that... Still waiting because I have my Cincinnati interview next week, which if I got in would blow everything else out of the water. Plus waiting to hear from Cornell's MA still. Have you guys heard any pros/cons about the Classics programs at FSU and Boulder?
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My interests are in Roman Provincial archaeology and GIS/Statial analysis/landscape archaeology. My interest in getting a PhD is my own personal goal on top of helping with the job market. My interests in GIS will help me in the end even if I can't get a job in academia, though. Consider what skills you would get through the PhD and then consider it.
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Awesome, maybe I'll see you there next week then! My profs consider it to be a top program given their research projects in Pompeii, etc. I guess it depends on what your field of study is (I'm archaeology). And this is all despite that one big problem. Are they any issues you know of other than the big elephant in the room?
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Welp, didn't make the shortlist for Cornell's Classics PhD. I'm disappointed because that was my top choice because I love the research they are doing there and felt really connected to it. However, I did put the Archaeology MA as my second choice, so they're sending my app to it. It just looks like in the past they haven't really offered much--or any funding--to the MA students. I guess we'll just have to see!
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Congrats!! That is really interesting. I guess I would check out the facility at those places to see if you'd be happy cross-registering. I'm afraid I have no idea, but best of luck! I don't know if I've asked, but what are your research interests, @ploutarchos? On a side note, I was accepted at FSU (MA in Classics) with funding! Anybody have any further knowledge about their program? (any info that has made its way down the grapevine?)
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Sorry if this posted before (with the site being weird). Who was the lucky soul(s) who got the UCLA and Cornell interviews? I'm waiting to hear from Cornell still so my hopes are dwindling...
