PrisonerofEmail

I feel your pain. I only applied to 4 schools and I was rejected from all. I wish I had known this year was going to be so tough! Good luck on your remaining schools

Yeah, I know...27 months. It is something that I have always wanted to do and my desire to join the Peace Corps has kind of sculpted my educational goals (ie; cultural anthropology). Yeah, the application process takes about 9-12 months. A HUGE commitment, but so is working towards a PhD. Plus, it will force me to learn a new language which I have been pretty lax about. I have been a constant emailer checker since mid-December. This was my first foray into applying for grad school and it hit pretty hard! Although the outcome doesn't look good for me, at least I know what to do next time around!

Spoonfed...you and I are totally in the same boat. I only applied to 4 schools due to the small fortune this whole ordeal has cost. I have been rejected from 3 (UCSC being one of them) and now am waiting to hear back from my final school. I have my B.A. and have not done any fieldwork but I have participated in an internship and field school (which I'm sure is fairly common). So what my GRE scores were not so great...my GPA is pretty awesome and I know that my letter of intent totally rocked. I just get sick when I think of doing this whole thing over again next year. Does anyone have any advice for a wanna-be PhD applicant? I'm thinking at this point I'm going to go to the Peace Corps. :?: