anthropologygeek

About gre scores- look and see what the cut offs are for each school. Every anthropology department has this info somewhere on their websites. If you meet the minimal your fine. Profs could care less about the gre but departments and schools won't let you in if you don't meet the min. And most likely poi won't even see you app if you don't meet the min. About Personal Statement- Talk is cheap. Saying your awesome doesn't mean anything. Proving your awesome is so much better. Don't say I'm interested in apples when you can prove your interested in apples. As for Ivies who cares. Their not the end all. In anthropology, it's all about who's your advisor is and connections. I know for a fact my dissertation would be impossible if I went anywhere else. Also, if you look around hardl any of the top people in most fields actuall work in an iy league school. Culture might be different since I know basically nothing about that field but any of the others I know that this is the case. Find the best school that fits your interest and go for the best in your specialty. Some people here will disagree with this because they are blinded by the ivy league and school name but this is reality. Think of any sub-field and find who's the best in that subfield and they won't be teaching at an ivy. Again my disclaimer is I don't know much about culture anthropology besides taking the minimal in that subfield

Max- depends on school and department. Most have committees who weed out the auto nos and then pass it along to the desired prof

How you do on the gre will be very important. Try to make sure your above 3.0 when you apply due to that being most magic number at least. Be prepared for no funding since most schools fund people off old gpa and gre's. Depending on how much student loans you have I would think hard about taking more. I know people with over 200k and I just feel bad for them. They will be paying it their whole lives and will struggle.

The same as undergrad. Every school is different but don't count on it before the semester

By stating what you want to study basically should explain in itself the reason for switching fields

Usmiv- your data is old. Romney has a 7 point lead in Florida based on a yahoo article today.what I mean is. Maybe not at this exact moment but it's momentum. Every yahoo article was pro Obama and anti Romney along with the indi vote. Since the first debate, a lot of indi votes are going Romney instead. And since the debate every article on yahoo has been pro Romney. Americas believe what they see on yahoo. I'm sorry I offended you but get ready for Romney as the next president. Obama even apologized for sucking in the debate and ryans vs Biden is tonight and Ryan is a great debater. Romney already has 135 electoral votes in the bag so much so media outlets aren't even doing exit polls in those states vs Obama 35. And that does not count forida or Iowa which will go republican this year due to democrats losing 8.6,Florida, and 6.8,iowa, percent of their registered voters and republicans actually gained registered voters in those states.

I'm all for new candidates but the trend right now is Romney will win based on the numbers. Obama was in the league till he laid a goose egg in the debate and then Ryan will destroy Biden Thursday since oaken almost beat him and according to a lot of people did beat him four years ago. For polling you on,y need to look at one number independents. Combine that they are leaning Romney way now with the fact more and more democrats are switching to independent and republicans than vice versa you know Romney will be our president in 2013 for better kor worst.

Reading this at first with just isotopes I thought of asu. However, there are more universities that do this.

What is that compared to on the old one? If above 1100 you should be fine for this schools.

Are you applying for masters or phd? I am pretty sure all three require a masters before you can apply for the phd program and at least one of them you must agree that if they want you for a phd your go there but if they don't then you can go elsewhere.

American students also get a master first. All the phd programs I applied to required a master first. And at those places it varied 4-10 years. Some phd programs require 4 years of just classes while others it's two years. It's up to your adviser on how long it will take.

Different schools have different policies so check on the schools website

I'm in a different field but for me I wasn't given anything.

If it has rolling admissions yes you can hear before deadline, if not then no you won't.

Now you can cherry pick in the past every score went

Some fields/universities have rolling adminstrions. Besides that it doesn't matter. And ga isn't a separate app but fellowships can be

I don't know much about new gre but if that's what th equal on old one I think your good.

Go to any school you can think of and go to the anthropology department and look at all the profs profile and see if their interest align with you. I know it's a lot of work but it will be worth it.

It depends on your program. I knw programs it will take a min of ten years to graduate and I know I will be done within four years but I did enter with a masters already. It's really up to the university on how long your there and then your drive to graduate.

Forgot to put into my comment you need a bs in the field you go into for hard sciences which isn't easy to do. But one you do, there's so many universities with so many spots I would say it's easiest. But then again a lot of the programs wil, lead to jobs you could of gotten with a bs

I'm going with hard sciences

People with masters only can only be an instructor, you must have a phd and luck to be a professor

I would find the programs I would want to go to with perfect fits and only apply there. The point of a phd is to be marketable afterwards or why else get one.

Well, do you just want a phd or a phd that leads to a good job. You should only apply to programs that will make you grow in whatever specific area you are interested in. I know universities outside of the USA where if you apply and will pay the tuition your in.

The only true rankings were done in the early 90s and only ranked the university that signed up to be ranked which meant a lot of universities were left out.