Kuriakos
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Just today I was accepted off the waitlist at Duke's Graduate Program in Religion!
Congrats, thats a hard program to get in to.
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Just heard from Duke, got in to the ThM program. They are calling early this year.
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GRE 790 verbal, 800 math, 4.5 a.w.
GPA 3.69 from the University of Chicago. My major GPA was a bit higher, about 3.8-something, and since the undergrad religion major is teensy at U of C, most of those classes were at the Div School.
I haven't published, no significant religious employment except for an internship with an interfaith organization in college, but I was very involved with half a dozen religious organizations on campus, including Lumen Christi (I was the token non-Catholic
).I had very good recs from profs at the Divinity School too -- worked very closely and eventually did an honors ECS thesis with a highly respected NT/ECS prof, who is now dean of the Div School and also happens to be Catholic. I was really active at the Div School (for not actually being a student there) -- often found myself the one undergrad in a room full of MA/MDiv/PhD students. I didn't mention this in my application, but I imagine my advisor did (I was at her ECS workshop all. the. time).
I also opted to send Notre Dame a writing sample (called Cheron Price beforehand to ask if I could).
I haven't been asked for "my stats" before, but I hope that about answers your question. Again... while I didn't realize it when I applied... my interests line up really well with the Biblical Studies program.
This is actually quite uplifting. It is nice to be beaten by someone who clearly deserves it. I sort of fell into biblical studies originally, and my unimpressive undergrad with mediocre GPA is like an anchor dragging me down.
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Thanks! MTS in Biblical Studies.
May I ask your stats? Just curious what it takes.
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Rejected for Notre Dame MTS.
MA GPA: 3.6
GRE: 760 V, 660 Q, 5.0 AW
The rejection email said there were 190 applicants and they only took 20 this year instead of the usual 150 with 30 acceptances. It hurts to not even make the waitlist.
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Haha! Nice
The stress is eating at me so much I am going to go see Battle:LA to pass the time.
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My first performance went well, but there's still no HDS word! I'm gonna stay up late, because maybe it will happen in the middle of the night, like Santa coming! :-)
BTW, what time zones are we? I'm Pacific.
Also Pacific
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I didn't want to add to the MTS results thread because it would look like there had been results. I know a lot of us are waiting on HDS results, which could happen Real Soon Now. I've been reduced to refreshing my email and checking the app site. I'm also in class where we're talking about Hobbes' Leviathan. Oh,a nd I have that performance in 3.5 hours! What are yall doing to pass the time?
I'm with you on the refreshing and logging in to applyyourself. I was told ND would send out decisions by the end of the week so every day has been progressively more anxious. I'm going to go study Hebrew so I will stop thinking about it.
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My results:
1. Orthodox Quaker (100%)2. Seventh Day Adventist (98%)3. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (97%)4. Eastern Orthodox (86%)5. Roman Catholic (86%)
Apparently they don't know what to do with a Baptist that holds to a Constitution view of the body and thinks Genesis and science don't need to contradict each other.
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It sounds like they are disorganized but they've been doing things so far to a T -- so this has me thrown for a loop. I am wondering if this happened to anyone else who didn't get invited to Leadership Candler? Maybe the person ended up with a stack of thank-yous and had the wrong list of people to send them to. And the thing is, it wasn't from an admissions person -- it was from someone else who clearly knows where I currently go to school, what I study, and what I want to study at Candler-- all of which would be available if you were looking at an admissions profile. So odd! I feel like I need to contact them -- if I don't find out about this then I'll go nutterbutters!
I don't like getting false hope about funding, lol. =[
In the words of rainbow earth-Jesus Captain Planet, "The power is yours!"
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I'm glad I'm not the only Baptisty person out there. I grew up very conservative, and am just graduating from a very conservative seminary, but the process made me lose some of my conservativeness
Now I'd identify myself as a background Baptist with a huge love affair with Anglican and Eastern Orthodox theology. Weirdness, check.High-five! If there was a Zwingli-loving Anglo-Baptist church out there, I'd be set.
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You are a credit to your kind
.My in-laws on both sides are all Baptists all around (that is, my wife's mom's family and my wife's dad's family). But ironically, despite my drawing on many traditions (as noted above), the Baptist tradition is the one with which I have least affinities (or sympathies), hehe
.Not all Baptists are lost -- God forgives
.No worries, the closer you get to the ideal church polity the fewer people who can handle it.
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Right now, my friend. Looks like you have at least one place to go to in case Duke backs out. Since you were admitted, you can rightfully and courteously ask the peeps in your department about the funding situation. Good luck there!
I don't have any insider knowledge, but this sounds right to me. You are in already, so I can't imagine what difference it would really make. It would be really petty for a school to not fund you because you called to ask in the face of a pressing and legitimate reason.
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Anathema!
As a Baptist, I pride myself on being weird. For example, I love liturgy and the practice of spiritual disciplines. Not very Baptisty.
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Baptist of the moderate Evangelical variety.
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For those also waiting on Notre Dame MTS results, I just talked to Cheron Price and she said results should be out by the end of this week. I'm an extremely placid person, but this anticipation is killing me!
UT New Testament, Christian Origins, Ancient Christianity
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I'm going to apply to this program as well. I've heard good things, and I've been a fan of Friesen's work for some time. Are any current students open to exchanging PMs or emails?