jotun26

I very much agree with this. I rushed into a PhD program straight from undergrad and it was totally wrong for me. I floated around there for two years, then began an MA program in a different field to figure out what it was I truly was interested in, and it is only now, two years later (finishing that degree) that I feel like I have a very strong grasp on my interests. The problem is that I now have little to no experience to show in my transcripts for my fields of interest, which I think has been a tremendous weakness in my applications.

Things have been similar for me...I've found myself re-focused and able to really evaluate what my weaknesses are/were. I'm intrigued by the fact that you had some success e-mailing the schools you were rejected from and getting information about weaknesses in your application--this is something I've considered doing, but have been worried that it may be inappropriate.

yeah, I'm having an existential crisis and I don't know where else to take it, so I guess I'm just checking to see if I'm not the only one.