kahlan_amnell

I'm so glad I'm done taking the GRE, ETS is out to make money any way they can.

Why would you take out student loans that you don't need? The amount you make in interest is not enough to justify the risk of taking out a loan. As for emergencies, most universities can provide small loans for emergency situations. Also, credit cards can help you deal with emergencies, though you will owe interest if you don't pay them off right away. However, there are special credit accounts for some types of emergencies, like Care Credit for medical care (or veterinary care for pets).

Many graduate schools will pay for your health insureance, particularly if you are a TA or RA. You may need to pay some fees, mine are around $900 per semester. Books can be quite expensive, I spent a lot on mine, but I'm in the Humanities and like buying new books. I get paid around $1,500 a month. This is in a small town, not a big city.

Ummm it often takes a month or longer within the US, and it takes a while for mail to get from the US to the UK. Yes ETS is terrible, and I wish they would disappear from existence, but your experience is not unusually bad.

Ah, that's the problem. Ok, now I know. It really is more complicated to quote with this system.

You might even want to ask about sending a CV, unless there is a section that asks if there is anything else you would like to add. (Many applications have this, it is a good place to put an addendum if needed.)

I agree. I do find it odd that some schools don't ask for a writing sample, even for Ph.D. applications. One school I applied to was that way, and I didn't send them a writing sample.

That is indeed a critical flaw, one they should not have let the current version out still containing. Here's hoping it gets fixed soon. Also, I can't get multi-quotes to work. I just clicked two posts to quote in this post, and only one appeared. Perhaps I'm doing it wrong somehow?

This is unusual for graduate school applications. Most department want to to visit once you have applied, once you are in serious consideration, or once you are accepted. If this school seems serious about you visiting earlier, then go for it if you can afford it. Good luck!

When I read all the posts in a forum, it still says there are unread posts until I mark all posts read in the "view new content" section, or use the link to "mark this forum read". It does not do this automatically when all posts in a forum have been read. This is somewhat annoying.

Hum, that makes sense, though it is not as easy as in the old system.

I also had to reset my password.

It is not at the bottom of the main index, where I would argue it is most needed. Also, how do you quote more than one person in the same post in this new system?

It turns out the mall wasn't so bad after all. I found a wool coat at Old Naby and some other clothes at Christopher Banks.

I posted that back in the Spring, when I was looking for an apartment. At that time, you had no one bedrooms available, so I had to rent from another company. However, I might consider moving once my lease is up. What is meant by a "modified" two bedroom apartment, and is it smaller than a regular one bedroom apartment?

Ph.D. programs are difficult enough when you know for sure you want to be there, if you aren't sure you should wait to apply until you are sure. That was not an "asinine answer" and you won't get very far by being rude to people.

How do you tell if a forum has new posts with this new layout? I don't see any key to what the graphics mean, and I can't tell where the new posts are at a glance. It looks nice, but isn't that functional for me, at least until I figure out how it works. EDIT: Ok, I've figured out how to tell if there are new posts, but I still like the old look better.

As others have said, fit is really important. No one can really predict admissions results because fit is such a big factor, and there are so many other factors involved. Good luck. If you are worried, consider applying to some MA programs in addition to Ph.D. programs.

There are a number of schools with World History programs, including Washington State University. I'm an Americanist, but we have a strong World History program here, and world is one of my secondary fields.

There is a pretty strong sense of community among students in my department, not just my cohort, and we interact a lot. We had one orientation meeting for a few hours at the start of the semester, but I don't think that had anything to do with it.

They don't ask for official transcripts to be sent as well? I've seen some schools that ask you to scan transcripts, but then they also want them sent in the mail. As for them not being ready, well, lets just say I've been through the application process a few times (MA and Ph.D.), and it was amazing how many things they lost. I think that doing anything out of the ordinary increases the chances of things getting lost.

Ask people in the kind of business you want to get into how much name recognition of the school you get your MBA at matters, and if the more recognizable name would help you. I would think the answer would be yes, the more expensive program would help you more, but I'm not in business, nor am in in the UK.

Almost all applications have a few things that can't be submitted electronically, like GRE scores, transcriptions, and sometimes LORs. These are the sort of things that most often get lost anyway, so I'd think that sending in an application early, when they might not be ready to receive applications yet, might mean a higher chance of things getting lost. However, someone mentioned applications due in November. If that is the case, then I'd say it is ok to send them in now. I was thinking of December, January, and February deadlines, which is mostly what I dealt with.

Unless it is rolling admissions, I would say it is too early. You can still work on your applications and improve them. Even if you don't want to work on them anymore, I'd say sending them in this early might mean they get lost, so wait a while.

That's a decent score. Mostly GRE scores can keep you out, they don't get you in. That score shouldn't keep you out.