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  1. Boolakanaka
    @ChristoWitch87 Thank you again-your comments and insights are most helpful. As to your question, I am a fairly progressive Catholic, and as such the remnants of the Doctrine of Discovery are of great interest to me and I hope to more scholarship around this topic. Funny story which speaks to my age—I attended the prospective student event in the fall, and had a nice 30-40 minute one-on-one conversation with Dean Goettler (arranged by a friend of mine who is his colleague) and one of the prospective students was waiting on the side and approached us after we finished our conversation—we both assumed she was waiting to speak to the Dean, but she interjected—oh, pointing at me, is he not on the faculty here, I wanted to speak to him about a couple of tribal issues?? Buahahahahahahah......
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    @ChristoWitch87 Thank you for those comments and let me wish you the best during your own application process! My SOP was centered around the factual story of Henry ʻŌpūkahaʻia. In short, he was an orphaned Native Hawaiian who ended up on a merchant/whaling ship in the early 1800s and was found several years later on the steps of Yale Library lamenting the fact he could not read or write, and then subsequently lived with the then-President Timothy Dwight. He lived with the Dwight family and although he did not attend Yale, he was educated personally by Timothy Dwight and eventually turned to Christianity and was intent on becoming a missionary—but died of typhus right before he was to sail back to Hawai’i. Subsequently, and the very next year, Yale’s first missionaries to Hawai‘i were formed via the American Board Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM). Being native Polynesian I think I made an interesting connection to these events and how they compelled not just my current application to Divinity School, but also inspired my life’s work. Given that the story has a direct nexus back to Yale, I’m thinking it might give me an inside tract to that school and I also previously worked there—I’m hoping two things: one it resonates with Yale and two, it’s universal and portable enough to also provoke the remaining three schools—thoughts?
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    @newbietheologian Much thanks. I expect the next several weeks to be eventful, and I will attempt to keep a positive frame of mind (e.g. medicinal portions of premium bourbon-wink). Again, I most appreciate the input and I look forward to reporting back!
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    Rabbit, thank you for your input, it is greatly appreciated. I was hoping that my experience and my area of interest (the syncretic relationship between Christianity and Native culture) would separate myself from other applicants. I visited three of the schools mentioned and I have to say, I think my visits and my specific area of interest were fairly well received. On a couple of the applications there were sections to explain academic records, given that so much time had passed since my last degree, and given that I was a practicing attorney for over 20 years, I thought it would be a bit gratuitous to make such explanations — hope I was right! Again, thanks and keeping my fingers crossed for the next several weeks.
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    Good Afternoon all: Was hoping to receive a bit of feedback about my application. I am older applicant, mid 50s, and having not been involved in academics for almost 27 years, I am a bit unsure on how my application will be viewed/evaluated. That said, I’ll place features about my application in two camps-potential weak areas and potential strong areas. WEAK: My GPA in both undergrad and law school are probably below average relative to contemporary applicants...approximately 2.7 for undergrad and 2.8 for law school. I am a member of three different bars. STRONG: 25 plus years working with Native American communities, positions include being General Counsel to the US Senate Indian Affairs Committee, Senior Advisor to two federal agencies on Tribal Affairs, Director of Tribal Programs at an Ivy University, Director of Policy for a former Governor, and service on the board of directors of several major non-profits that serve Native communities. Unique admission essay on the Doctrine of Discovery and it’s intersection with Native peoples. Strong recommendations from two law school deans and another a dean of Native Programs at a university. Applied to Yale, Harvard, Duke and UTS, in MDiv. I do not seek to be an academic but rather want to go back to social justice issues and probably take the helm of a related non-profit. I have been invited to attend UTS for their Intersections event in two weeks and have received a couple of emails from Yale encouraging my application from current students. Any thoughts or feedback? Much thanks in advance , as I am feeling a tad anxious.......
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