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  1. Hi everyone, I'm wondering if this has happened to anyone else at another school. I'm a humanities PhD student at a large urban private university. The stipends aren't stellar considering the area's cost of living (15,000 per year). I applied for and won a huge outside fellowship of 15K. So, in my mind, I was about to become a rich grad student: outside fellowship + my current school provided fellowship = a cool 30K. However, I didn't realize that the school had its own bylaws that forbade me from stacking my school fellowship with outside funding. They are instead going to keep me at 15K, funded by the outside fellowship, and give my other 15K back to the department. Do other schools operate like this? I realize that money is short in humanities departments, but my acceptance letter years ago said I was guaranteed the school-provided fellowship for 5 years. It seems this rule disincentivizes applying for prestigious funding sources from outside the institution. Other anecdotes are welcome! Thank you.
  2. Congrats on your acceptance too! I'm leaning toward not accepting as I have another option I like a little more. But I'm a little torn.
  3. I got into Bryn Mawr with the GSAS fellowship. Its $15,000 for the school year and another $2500 for the summer...so comes out to $17,500 for the year.
  4. I'm one of the IU waitlists. Sorta weird that they waited this long to finally email me....I hope they don't make me wait until April 14th to reject me like they did last year when I was on their waitlist.
  5. The Ancient History result is mine. Yesterday morning i received the email from the department. Definitely relieved since a lot of my schools had accepted within the first week of February. I was getting nervous O_o
  6. Haha I just noticed that, how ironic. I wonder what's going on over there at IU...this whole process is so mystifying. I was waitlisted there last year on February 14th, so I was hoping for good karma that today would be the day.
  7. Yeah I'm remaining hopeful that it is a good sign. But who knows. Maybe they are making the cuts in waves.
  8. Hey everyone...I've been lurking on this thread for a long while, sorry I haven't said anything. Does anyone have any idea when Indiana is going to make its decisions? I've seen several rejections on the results board, but no acceptances for the Ph.D program.
  9. Penn claims that you need an "intermediate" level of both languages to be accepted into the post-bac. But I know they have accepted some people who have had 0 in one language or the other. The MA's typically want you to have 1-2 years of both. And as I said, the funded MA programs are as competitive as the Ph.D programs. I don't know what the other post-bacs require. All I can say is...you need more languages, and you have a year to do it. So whether that means taking more Latin at that community college or something else, I'd recommend you to do it. Check if your school offers Koine Greek if it has a Divinity school. I got into the Penn post-bac with Koine Greek experience, and I integrated well into Attic and Homeric.
  10. Hi there Chris. I'll answer your question real quick, and then give you some suggestions on what you could do based on my own experience. Unless you have 3-4 years of experience in both Latin and Greek with a high GPA, you will have an extremely difficult time getting into a Ph.D program in classics (and by extremely difficult, I mean the chances are close to nil...if you have 2 years of both, you may have a slight chance). I too graduated with a BA in history from a school that had no formal classics department. I had 3 semesters of Latin and 2 semesters of Greek...which was just barely enough to get me into UPenn's post-bac. The post-bac has done a wonderful job catching me up with my languages and teaching me the finer points of Classics. Since I was a general history major...I was still surprisingly ignorant of the Classics despite my own reading on the subject. It sounds to me that you need to look into post-bac programs and terminal MA programs. It will be the most efficient way to get caught up on those languages (unfortunately reading Latin on your own doesn't count for much to graduate committees...they want to see a GPA and specific coursework). I can vouch for Penn's post-bac. It is very difficult, but the professors whip you into shape, and if you perform well, they will write you a good recommendation letter. Other post-bacs you can consider include: UCLA, Georgetown, Columbia, and UNC. I believe any one of these would set you on the right track (unfortunately they are all unfunded...Penn's costs about 10,000 for tuition). You should also look into terminal MA programs. Many of them are guaranteed funding: WashU in St. Louis Notre Dame Vanderbilt These are all well funded with a stipend...which means they are almost as competitive as the Ph.D programs! I know Vanderbilt only accepts 2 or 3. Some are not guaranteed funding, but are worth applying to, ie. University of Georgia. If I were you, I would apply to 5 or 6 MA programs and 3 post-bac programs. If you apply to Ph.D programs, you will be competing against applicants with an MA and 4-5 years of experience in both languages. Best wishes! Andrew
  11. I'm wondering the same thing. A friend of mine recently was waitlisted to their new classics MA...and I am assuming the Early Christian MA is under the same department's budget. Perhaps this implies they have their funding packages all worked out for the coming year? Judging by this and the lateness in the season, I am starting to write off hope.
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