Kuriakos
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Although I am confident that no one will recognize me at Emory or Vanderbilt from the things I've posted on here, I recognize that what I did was wrong and want to apologize to the readers of this forum.
I apologize to everyone who experienced my tirade yesterday against the YDS admissions staff. In particular, I'm terribly sorry for the sexual favors I implied were exchanged between applicants and adcomm staff. While clearly hyperbolic, these statements tended to imply that others had not earned their place in New Haven.
Although it was an utter shock to be rejected after being offered near full-funding to two of YDS' peer institutions and being recommended by a board member, I'm sure, as someone pointed out above, that it had something to do with fit rather than qualification.
Btw, there was a previous poster who said something about how 'earning' a place wasn't a relevant category...haha ok Mahatma R. E. Hobart, humility is one thing, but people do, in fact, earn things like admission to YDS. Otherwise these boards wouldn't exist.
I want to say categorically that I am not 'entitled' to attend Yale - if anyone were there would be no such thing as an admissions process - but still want to communicate how devastated I am at rejection.
No worries. We all the lose the plot every once in a while. A life ought not be judged based on one semi-anonymous rant.
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It disturbs me that this is how someone applying to an MDiv, the ministerial preparation degree, would respond to being rejected. Especially the idea that "earned" would be a relevant category, and that any amount of work you do should get you what you want by manner of course.
I can imagine the horror that the pastor on the "distinguished alumni board" would feel if he saw someone he endorsed behaving like this.
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And enter non sequitur. Game. Set. Match.
You might want to look up the meaning of non sequitur.
- Macrina, Rabbit Run and marXian
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I just know when I've been denied something I've earned (and Candler and Vandy seem to agree).
You might want to look up the meaning of entitlement.
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YDS is sham. I got generous funding (80-90%) to Vandy and Candler (everywhere else I applied) and didn't even get into YDS. Did I mention that I do TFA, graduated with honors from a t-10 undergrad, and my pastoral rec came from a minister on their distinguished alumni board? Congrats to all who got in, please tell the rest of us who to fellate for those blue bloods in New Haven to send out an admit to someone without BullDog ejaculate all over their faces already. And I hope someone from their adcomm reads this because you all BLOW.
Maybe they picked up that you are an entitled baby from your application materials.
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I wrote a hundred page thesis for my ThM (although the rules have now been changed and that is no longer permitted).
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Thanks. I've tried that, but i know of current publications that aren't showing up.
In that case try other databases. I often find things on NT Abstracts and OT Abstracts omitted by ATLA. The same goes for the Jewish Studies database that my university subscribes to (can't remember the exact title). I don't know what your sub-discipline is, but there is probably something other than ATLA that you can try.
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This is the grammar I used for Ecclesiastical Latin: http://www.amazon.com/Primer-Ecclesiastical-Latin-John-Collins/dp/0813206677
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Going to Fuller means paying Duke-level tuition with an even higher cost of living than Durham. I loved my time there and the NT faculty are fantastic (and there are so many of them!), but it generally isn't worth it to go into massive debt to get an MDiv.
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You sent them an email asking what they will do if you back out of your acceptance of their offer?
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I was under the impression that UT was at $16k min, but I think perhaps Kuriakos goes there (?), so he'd know. Yale is around $27.5-29, Princeton around 26-28 (sub-programs can add $), Harvard around $25.5? This is just from current grad students. I think Duke's web site says $18k base, however, paralleling it to UVA, certain BU programs. I agree that the $15ish and under stipends are a bummer because they are just little enough to potentially force some outside work (on the DL?).
rabgogh06, what is your subsubfield within RAM? Or who is your PO(most)I?
Just for the record, I do not go to UT. That was just what I was told last year when I was waitlisted.
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Of the 9 people who came in my year, 6 were women. I've not seen anything that even hints at sexism. That said, a lot can change in ten years.
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If you could spell out to me exactly how I seem to be contradicting myself, I'll try to respond.
Do you consider Duke to be too "Christian" to be considered a "first tier" institution? Moreover, the comment that students at school X are people who didn't get in to Duke is virtually meaningless since Duke's low acceptance rate means that probably the majority of students at undisputed top-tier institutions are also people who didn't get in to Duke. Anyway, I feel zero need to defend the idea that Baylor is "top tier." The fact is that Baylor graduates usually get TT jobs but in small liberal arts colleges not in top schools. LLP I think is right that Baylor students aren't getting the same jobs as the classic first tier schools. I also agree with MBIGrad that the absence of Late Antiquity/Early Christianity faculty is a major drawback. All that to say, there are good reasons for someone to think that Baylor is not the right place for them, but Baylor supposedly being "conservative" is not one of them.
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I pretty much think of Baylor NT students as people who didn't get into Duke NT.
This comment seems to contradict your previous comment...
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I'm biased as much as the next person, but Baylor is enough of a Christian/Baptist school that I couldn't consider it belonging to the category of "first-tier."
Maybe I'm confused, but I think that a lot of people at what I would consider top tier places (e.g., Chicago, Yale, Princeton) would not consider someone from Baylor to be their peer. It's not so much that they'd think of the Baylor student as second-tier as much as they would think of that person as probably theologically oriented and somewhat conservative (compared to them). That's why it seems weird to me to consider it "first tier." Again, if you want that type of training, that's great. But it seems something else to me than top tier.
Baylor is very similar to Duke in terms of how "theological" or "conservative" it is. If you are basing your opinion of the Religion department on how the university markets itself to potential undergraduates, then you are not going to have an accurate picture of the department. There are no statements of faith to sign or anything like that, and I've never been pressured to maintain some particular definition of Christian orthodoxy. I fit in well at UNC/Duke (Bart was one of my favorite professors) and I fit in well at Baylor. Take from that what you will.
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Thanks for that info, I've been wondering about Baylor as well. Any idea when the interview invites might go out?
I have no direct knowledge, but if the past is any indication then invites should be out any day now. Again, I have not been told anything directly by my Profs, so that is just a guess. (Sorry to be repetitive and emphatic, but I remember waiting and I don't want to contribute to anyone's anxiety.)
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No. People come into PhD programs with all sorts of configurations in terms of degrees and years off and such. Don't sweat it. Just use the extra year to realllly work on those applications and to make connections.
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A strong academic foundation like believing the earth is 6000 years old.
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I've been thinking about earning a degree from a conservative school and at the same time take some classes at a non-conservative school in order to get a broader perspective.
I think Gordon Conwell might be your best bet, then. You can learn more about the Boston Theological Institute which allows GC students to take courses at a number of other institutions here: http://www.bostontheological.org/work_of_the_consortium.html
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I feel the same way about mine. I could edit it down to 70 and add a couple more chapters, and then it might be good for something.
P.S. My comment above makes it sound like the rule changed because of me. This is not so. I just squeaked by before it took effect!