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  1. Hi all, I applied for the DDIG Biological Anthropology section for the November 2015 deadline. I had a review date of 2/18/16, so based on past experiences I'll probably hear in 2-3 weeks. Does that sound about right? Anyone else apply/hear anything yet? This is my second time around, so fingers crossed!
  2. Hi all, I've been gearing up to apply to the ACLS/Mellon fellowship, but looking at past successful applications I'm not sure I'm in the target field. I do bioarchaeology in an anthropology department, and I'm pretty focused on disease, ecology, diet, etc. So I'm solidly on the "science" side of "social science". By contrast, all the successful proposals for the fellowship are in parts of social science very closely allied with the humanities (sociocultural anthropology, Classical archaeology, etc., and not a single biological anthropology project that I could see). What do you y'all think? Worth applying or should I focus my energy elsewhere? Thanks!
  3. Just signed in and saw "pending", wrote to Rebecca Ferrell and she responded quite quickly... not funded I'll read the reviews and try again next round!
  4. Where do you see those status updates? Are they in fastlane? I still haven't heard anything
  5. Hi all, Thought I'd start a separate thread for the Bio Anth section of the DDIG. I applied for the March 12th deadline. The response times seem to be quite varied, depending on when the review committee meets. Anyway, I'm not expecting to hear for a few months, but it can't hurt to start worrying now....
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    SDE/GWIS 2015

    As a follow up: a week or so after the deadline when I hadn't received an email response, I called the office again and this time I got a very polite and helpful confirmation that they had received my application. Phew!
  7. elunia

    SDE/GWIS 2015

    Thanks so much Secret_Ninja! That does make me feel better! I sent them an email today as well, so they'll have a record that I applied before the deadline. Fingers crossed!
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    SDE/GWIS 2015

    Hi all, I just submitted my applicaton for the Sigma Delta Epsilon/Graduate Women in Sciences National Fellowship. I'm confused about the online application portal. I hit "submit" and was taken to the payment page for the application fee (I'm a member so it was $0). Once I went through that, I just got a page thanking me for my "order" and an email confirmation for my "order" of the $0 appication fee. No email confirming that they received my application itself. I called to check, and spoke to someone in the office who said she would get back to me. I'm worried because it's due at midnight tonight. Anyone else have this experience? Thanks!
  9. It arrive at 11:30 AM. My main issue is I can't know what my study sites/populations are until I arrive in person at the collections in China (no central database, no way to know for sure what's there without literally walking through the collection room). So there won't be any point in applying againin May, since I won't be in China till June. Good luck everyone!
  10. Tomorrow it was. Just got the rejection email - didn't make the first round cut. The main point of the reviewer comments was that I wasn't detailed enough in my methods and study population, which makes sense. But it also says I used only half the space in the application, which I did not realize I had done. In fact I thought my essays filled the entire space on the application form? Congrats to anyone who did make the cut!
  11. I applied as well, since as you said Cicero it wasn't much extra work. Yeah bummer that it's such a long time till we hear. I will be on my way to the field already at that point!
  12. On the one hand, of course want to advance to round 2, on the other hand, if I don't advance I won't have to wait until April for a deifnite answer!! I'll just do my best not to think about it until we hear. Incidentally, anyone have any experience with the Lewis and Clark?
  13. I'm a bioarchaeology grad student with a project in China. How about yourself? Does anyone know when the first-round decisions went out last year?
  14. Hi huntress, Is there a reason you want to get an MA and not go straight to a PhD? An MA can be the right move for some people, but if you skip the MA you will avoid tons of debt an shave some time off your total grad career. But, it can also help to sort out your interests and boost credentials before the PhD applications. I went straight to PhD, so that's just my opinion. If you do this option, I'd also consider taking some time off before grad school, it can keep you sane and give you perspective. When I started applying for bioarch places I looked at the AAPA's website's list of programs and went to every single school's website to narrow down where there were people I was interested in working with. You should consider what kind of training you want: some schools are straight up bioanth/bioarch, and others incorporate training in archaeology and anthro more generally, which obviously gives you a different perspective. (I'm in the latter type of program.) If you have only done labwork so far, I would VERY strongly suggest you do a bioarch field school. Even if you don't plan to be a field researcher, you need to see how excavations work to understand the biases/problems/issues of the material you'll be seeing in the lab, and it will help in your grad apps. Also check out Arizona State, Ohio State, the NYCEP consortium in NYC (all heavily bioanth programs) - there are plenty of programs out there, but again the focus might be different in each.
  15. I agree with aforman1 that you should take a break when it feels natural. The correlate of that is not to feel pressured to hurry into grad school. Especially PhD programs are a LONG slog (the most apt metaphor I've heard is a marathon), and you will not be as successful or happy if you are burned out. I was a traditional undergrad, and did two years off (AmeriCorps and nonprofit work), and I'm so glad I did. I wouldn't even have known what subfield to apply for if I'd tried to go straight out of college. My work experience has been very helpful for my personal development and perspective.
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