kw_geographer2018

Cool! Yeah honestly once the offers all come in and you're looking at your real options, its different than what you imagined the decision was going to look like. For me, I got no funding from USC, still waiting to hear about any sort of funding from UGA (not holding my breath), but I got a full TA stipend and out of state tuition remission for UNCW Geoscience (Masters) and my POI/future advisor's research interests line up with mine the most out of any other professors at the other schools. Its kind of the one school that doesn't seem to have a huge reputation in Geography, but I think I'm gonna take it because its just the right fit for what I want to do and the funding offer is right there on the table. I think with WVU you may have had those same feelings I did of "well their X Program isn't top ranked/what they are best at". I think if you got a good vibe from the human geography faculty there and the research areas are close enough for collaboration/seeking guidance for research methods, then it sounds like one of your best options you have (plus the funding is there).

So its getting pretty late in the cycle and I still haven't heard back from the one school I'm most hoping to attend, but they said I'd hear from them late February/ early March. Not much longer! Who here has made a decision? Interested to hear where everyone ends up.

Just saw someone post an Acceptance for UGA's MS Geography on the 10th. Anyone want to claim it/anyone else waiting to hear from Georgia??

University of South Carolina seems to send out decisions relatively early from what I hear of last year's cycle at least. I visited Penn State in the fall and everyone there confirmed that Penn State sends their decisions out ridiculously late usually, like to the point where you may have already made a decision otherwise. Good luck!

Major(s): BS Geographic Science at a good state schoolGPA in Major: 3.98Overall GPA: 3.52Type of Student: US Male Research Interests: Impacts of climate variability on agrarian livelihoods and how people adapt/could adapt in the future; looking to integrate GIS/Remote Sensing, ecological modelling, and ethnographic field work methods. Also really into indigenous traditional ecological knowledge and its value for collaborative environmental management. Professional experience: Internship at a medium sized environmental non-profit doing community outreach Research and teaching assistant jobs while in undergrad GIS Technician at an big consulting firm currently (and I fucking hate it) GRE Scores: 154 Quant, 160 Verbal, 4.5 Writing Applied to: University of Georgia, MS Penn State, PhD University of South Carolina, MS University of North Carolina - Wilmington, MS Geoscience I'll basically take anything I can get that is reasonably well funded. Top 2 choices are UGA and UNCW due to very positive conversations with my choice PI's and their locations. Though UNCW seems to objectively be the weakest program of the 4, the one PI that I have spoken with basically embodies everything I hope to do in 5-6 years down the road, so if it seems like (s)he could actually be a good adviser/mentor then I think I'd go for UNCW. If I get accepted by UGA and UNCW with comparable funding I don't know how I'll choose. UGA also has 3-4 professors who collectively cover all of my conceivable research interests, plus since its a larger geography program I imagine there are more academic and career connection opportunities.