anthropologygeek

There are alot of fellowships out there since I have applied to alot of them, non university specific. And all of them come with a tuition waiver. If adviser is shocked by lack of success why don't you show your adviser your materials before you send it in and get their advice? Maybe you are doing something you don't even realize that has been hurting you?

If you drop out you wasted one year and have wasted debt. No offense but its hard to imagine the university has no money at all even if its outside your department. Also, have you tried applying to fellowships in or outside the university? Have you applied at all the union colleges in your area to maybe adjunct a class or two which isn't alot but can help? I have found in our field most actually take the full allotment of loans even with an assistantship, not me I'm tring to be debt free when I get my phd. Every year I have been able to find sizable raises on my assistantship all the way to this year I have a fellowship instead that is five times the amount I originally started with. Every year I have change assistantships for raises or gone on fellowships so I find it is really hard to believe there's no money out there

Strud- limiting yourself to a certain away is going to be tough. I would expand my search. More schools better odds

Just remember, if you don't get in there's always next year. UCSD is tough to get into but not impossible

Hate to say the prof has all the power. And many anthro profs are late. I think it's almost a requirement of the field or profs know we need them more than they need us.

A think profs fill mandated to say encourage you to apply. A prof isn't positive that they won't take students if the right app comes in. It would be shooting themselves in the foot. Yes it's an encouraging sign but then again I've gotten rejections from profs with a response like that. And I've gotten acceptances from profs that never wrote back.

Radio- why should you not accept an offer without funding? I did but turns out they only didn't offer me funding due to department politics which was cleared up before I started with funding. Plus I got many more opportunities and now my stipend is more than double any of my other offers.

Emily, they post but if you look deeper you can find it. School has a min but department can overwrite that. My university post on front page they don't have a min, but in reality no one gets in under 1200. And I did find this number on my site. Each college has it in different spot but I know it's there or you could pm me and maybe it's a school I applied to or researched.

Every college has a magic number you must be above and every schools website I applied to had that number posted. Most of the time it took about 30 minutes to find this info though

I wouldn't put it on my cv. It makes it look like you don't have any relevant stuff so your trying to cv pad. I once saw where someone in a phd program had their high school diploma on their cv. You can have whatever but I save my cv for peer reviewed publications, awards and fellowships I have received, relevant experience aka teaching courses at junior college, my bachelors and masters degrees.

It's not my subfield of choice so I have no clue, but I figure there has to be at least one other good school besides UCLA I just always found this funny that's why I posted it as a lame attempt for a laugh

A professor of mine in undergrad said the only linguistics program that matters was ucla. I'm sure it was just because that's where he got his phd from.

Anytime after June is good, but remember alot of the profs do their research in the summer so I waited towards mid August. By then they should be back and it's still before they have to start teaching. To me it was the perfect time and I got quick responses.

Rising star- how I know is based on my opportunities here that would not be available elsewhere. Can't go into to much detail here without giving away where I attend but no other place can give me these opportunities. Well to me, I went on official visits and visits on my own and in my experience they were completely different. Like I said I didn't visit everywhere I applied because I was not rich but the places I really wanted I visited on my own and again on official visits to confirm I made the right choice.

I would concentrate on German is German is the easier language for most. As for visiting, I visited my top 3 schools i thought i wanted to go to and after which I didn't applied to one of them based on my visitation. And also, at least two students a year come and visit my university on their own dime. Just saying is it worth say 500 when the app fee is a 100 in itself and there's a chance you could be spending five years there? My current university was umber 3 originally but moved to my number 1 choice after visiting. By happen chance I got into the two I visited and if I didn't visit on my own my future would of been negatively impacted. Visitation all weekends are all the same. I preferred to be able to get the actual feel for programs versus seeing them at their best only.

You should start contacting profs the summer before you apply say not this July but next unless you want to visit then email them and set up a visit in the spring. One thing to keep in mind is conferences. I know two major ones are the end of February and middle of April for forensics and physical anthropology. Field school would be ideal for bioarch programs. I do research in the Middle East and I've learned if you need the language you can pick up what you need in the field. Most schools require a foreign language so my advice is pick the easiest one for you. If you want specific advice you can IM me.

Screen- what sucks is schools like mine claim you don't have to have a masters on their websites but in reality you do. I know lots of programs you don't so maybe ask right off the bat if you do

Yes I am and for some reason every school I applied to for phd has this requirement

Mp- some people say you don't need a masters for a phd but there are all alot of schoold that won't accept you without a masters so you cut down some schools without doing a masters

Keep teaching if you can. Teaching experience only helps your cv. Plus once your done at least you have some guaranteed income coming in.

There's alot of terminal masters program. What area are you interested in? What time period of that area? What type of things do you want to study? Also, in this field your career must take the priority. You most likely won't get to choose where the job is especially in academia. You must move wherever the job is. You should talk with your bf and figure out who's career has the priority and if its his, grad school may not be for you

No matter what area you focus on, schools that are best for that area will be spread out. And choose a place you don't want to end up at for a job since most schools, inbreeding, won't hire their own graduates. Being restrictive is that something you want to do because no school should be eliminated by location since it is very tough to get accepted to a program

A masters thesis gives you stuff to publish at the very least. Also, it shows schools you can do original research on your home. And getting a masters t NSSR gives you no advantage. Also, there's are a lot of funded masters. But then again, I wouldn't go to a school who accepted students without a masters for their phd. Just bad practice in my opinion. Yes, my current school will not accept phd students without a masters and if you get your masters here they will not accept you into the phd program. This is to prevent academic inbreeding and allowing the person the greatest chance at finding employment.

You will not have to repay anything

This is only for government loans and not private. And currently after ten years of not missing a payment your good with government loans. Private loans screw people. They are resold and resold and you can pay upwards of 20% interest. Crazy and seems illegal