normajean

Hi fellow Canadian Yes, it's fairly easy, and it takes about 10 minutes! Yay for being Canadian.

I've been invited to join Kappa Tau Alpha, a national honor society for journalism and communications students. There doesn't seem to be any hurt in joining -- the membership fee is a small, one-time payment of $30 -- at the same time, I don't really know if there are any benefits -- especially because although my undergraduate degree is in journalism, I'll be attending graduate school for public policy. Any ideas? Also, are there graduate honor societies? Does membership in a college honor society preclude one from joining another one?

I did 100 points better on both sections on the real GRE than on the practice test ETS gives you!

This is what's reported. I have always heard (from messageboards like autoadmit and collegeconfidential) that these figures are highly inflated. Obviously, I could be wrong.

I have gotten NO info from UChicago about what I'm supposed to do now about my student visa. I have e-mailed and called them a ridiculously large number of times. I am getting VERY frustrated!!! Don't I need to start the process, otherwise I won't get stuff processed in time? I am going crazy here.

I got sent a shitload of stuff. RIT bombarded me with e-mails. And I got mail and e-mail from random schools I'd never heard of. I even got stuff from MIT, Penn, etc. I don't think it means they're particularly interested in you (no offense) so much as they send stuff automatically to people with certain scores and interests.

It's really easy to accuse people of immaturity as a response to any criticism. I am only pointing out that there is no need for you to so blatantly advertise your delight that you're not going to Ford, as if you were saved from some terrible calamity. I'm sure there's people on this board who are going and/or who would love to go there. We all appreciate information about the shortcomings of programs -- but not if they are accompanied by smugness and disdain. To me, this disdain on your part was very obvious, so yes, I am calling you out on it. Since I'm not going to Ford, nor did I apply there, this is not coming from defensiveness on my part. It's just an observation.

This is really obnoxious. The 75% stats at Chicago and Georgetown are highly inflated and include graduates from dual MBA and JD programs. Most top law schools don't even really have 75% placement rates at graduation. There's really no need to be so smug that you got acceptances elsewhere -- it's really not that hard to get in without funding, considering that both Harris and GPPI admit almost half of their applicants. If I recall, you didn't get accepted to the Ford School.