Kuriakos
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I'm fairly certain that Duke does not usually offer more than 50% funding for MA students
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I did a ThM at Duke. It was ridiculously expensive, but every person I knew in the program who had the facility and inclination to do PhD work ended up in a program with the exception of two people who were Duke PhD or bust folks.
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7 hours ago, Marcion said:
Got invited to a second interview with Stanford University on the 24th... wish me luck...
Strength and Honor, D.
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22 minutes ago, Marcion said:
Guess I have been rejected... bugger me...
I have a buddy at Rice in EC, so if that is where you end up I can connect you two. Don't give up hope on the others, though. Nothing is settled until it is settled.
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On 2/8/2017 at 8:25 PM, Almaqah Thwn said:
You know, I skip this forum for two weeks so I won't build up anxiety checking it every three minutes. And then, when I finally log back on, there's absolutely no results for the programs to which I applied. The only thing new I've learned is that marXian and Marcion are two different users.
Soon enough, though...
I know their real names. I'll share them with you for a modest fee.
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4 hours ago, NT PhD ... Hopefully said:
Hey, thank you "wantingtogetinsomewhere" and "menge." I appreciate your responses. It's good to vent right, lol, and this is mildly cathartic. I would add that I am not at a Southern seminary, rather a divinity school at a Baptist "associated" university, though most of my professors are "pre-fall" Southern Seminary.
As to SMU, one of our MA/MDiv students got in there last year and is focusing on the Gospel of Mark. As for Baylor, many of the professors there are Southern trained, and Baylor is a Baptist school, lol. But I know they draw from many traditions. My mentor in seminary recieved his PhD under Parsons not too long ago. We recently got another OT graduate from Baylor, both of these got their MDiv from Gordon-Conwell. I hate the stigma that just because one is a Baptist, one is a uber-conservative fundy. My view is that being a Baptist makes me free from any doctrinal fundamentalism. I know UNC was a stretch, I was hoping for the MA-PhD track. I also realize Emory was a stretch, but what the hay.
I thought about U.K., but I used up my GI Bill getting a second undergrad and MDiv. Good advice though. I don't think my wife would let me drag us to Scotland, lol.
Does no no one have any thoughts on Fuller, Asbury, or Trinity??? One thing I have going for me is a rather large pension from the VA (for very nearly getting my ass blown off in Baghdad). Plus my wife has a full time job anywhere in the continental US, as she is a computer programmer and can work remotely (she has already been assured of keeping her current position). Therefore, I am in a better financial position than many of you whipper snappers, lol.
Thanks again for your responses. Good luck to all!!!
As a current Baylor student, let me just say that wantingtogetinsomewhere doesn't really know what s/he is talking about. There are current students from all over the map in terms of liberal to conservative. We've had incoming cohorts with students from Yale and DTS in the same group.
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I'm fairly certain that Baylor notifications have gone out already. If you were not invited, do not fret yet. The waitlist is not created at Baylor until after interview weekend is over. Sometimes people who did not come to interview weekend even make it higher up on the waitlist than candidates who did. Nothing is settled for a while.
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In terms of practical help, Metzger has a book that contains virtual all the contractions you end up seeing in minuscule manuscripts. Those are what make collating minuscules difficult.
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On 4/28/2016 at 5:01 PM, hotandfresh said:
I received a offer of place and recommended for enrollment this fall. The email said they are awaiting approval from the University which validates their PhDs. Does this mean I'm accepted and there's an extra administrative step or should I be worried that the validating university will reverse the committee's decision?
It is a normal step. You shouldn't be worried. In many schools, PhD admits are glanced over by the graduate school to make sure there are no red flags. It is basically a formality.
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On 4/20/2016 at 0:42 PM, tdwightdavis said:
I finally got my rejection from Baylor today. I knew the two acceptances had already taken the offer at least a month ago. Took them long enough to get official word to me.
I know it sucks to hold on that long, but a lot of schools like to wait until after the 4/15 deadline to send anything out to waitlisted candidates just to be sure.
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I have my connections within the community and they all have indicated to me privately that Daniel is being forthright. Furthermore, others have received tenure with less at Fuller. That alone says a great deal. In any case, I still have a lot of love for Fuller and what it gave me. You will absolutely get a good education there. Is it worth that much tuition and an LA cost of living? Not when something of equal quality could be obtained elsewhere for much less.
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As another Fuller grad, I'm going to agree with marXian's assessment. There seems to me to be a concerted effort to emphasize ministry resulting in the removal or dilution of several academically oriented degrees. I'm also disturbed by the firing of Daniel Kirk over doctrinal matters which I think signals a move to the right for Fuller. I doubt the denial of academic freedom will do Fuller any favors in terms of reputation. When you add in the fact that Fuller tuition is obscene and many other schools provide better assistance, I cannot in good conscience recommend Fuller to anyone however grateful I am for the good the faculty there has done me.
P.S. I also agree with marXian that your grouping of programs is weird. I suspect you put Yale with PTS and Duke because someone from Fuller got into Yale NT a few years ago, but that is pretty atypical. As for pairing Baylor with TEDS, egads sir/madam, you must not know much about one or the other. -
8 hours ago, Ms. V said:
thanks for the reply
so silence could be inferred as being waitlisted sometimes. well I wondered the inquiry since some applicants have been informed about their status already. if you don't mind my asking, are you currently a UT phD student?
Nope. I'm somewhere else. I'm pretty sure the reason they didn't notify me was because I was near the bottom of the waitlist. They went through 3 people and never got to me, so I think I might have been a safety candidate!
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The two people I know at Claremont received partial funding (I think 50% in one case and not sure how much for the other).
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I should clarify, though, that 3 out of 4 had an American master's degree
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At my school, we had several international applicants interview. We had two from the Netherlands, one from South Africa, and one from London.
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I don't know why, but this is earlier than they have done it in the past.
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21 hours ago, malakchris said:
Thanks for the reply! Asbury does actually offer decent scholarships what what I can see, it just comes down to getting them or not. I guess time will tell!
Sorry, I wasn't being clear. Evangelical seminaries tend to give a handful of people good funding (many of these at my seminary were explicitly marked for future pastors or earmarked in some other way) and a pittance to everyone else unlike say Yale where basically everyone accepted gets a somewhat decent percentage of tuition covered.
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On 1/9/2016 at 11:37 AM, malakchris said:
I'm fairly confident of getting accepted, but its the funding I'm worried about...
Whoops! I missed that part. From what I've seen in my experience and that of friends, evangelical seminaries don't offer much funding.
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I don't think Asbury is competitive at all, so I'm sure you will get in there.
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The NT colloquium rotates between Jewish backgrounds, Greco-Roman backgrounds, and early Christianity. For example, one year I had a colloquium on Josephus and Historiography, the next on Pompeii and Roman Domestic Life/Religion, and the next on the Adversus Iudaios tradition in the 2nd through 4th centuries. The specific topics change each year.