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  1. The Pierre Menard
    I just moved a family of four across the country for a PhD program. Feel free to PM me, if you have specific questions.
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    Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences requires all departments to interview an applicant before offering admission to the doctoral program.
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    http://www.yale.edu/graduateschool/financial/stipend.html Yale offers their religious studies doctoral students $27,300 per year for at least five years with that amount potentially going up incrementally year over year (last year it went up around $800, if I remember correctly). If you have a family, they offer full health coverage (no monthly payments, no co-pays, nothing) for every member of your family at no cost to the student. Yale expects you to teach, because they want to train you to become a professor, but you don't get a stipend in exchange for teaching.
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    Very well said, AbrasaxEos. I might also add one additional caveat. some confuse their SofP with a prose version of their CV. They are not the same thing. Let your SofP tell who you are as a scholar; let your CV enumerate your academic credentials and awards. Remember: schools are seeking to create a reading culture and your best bet is, in my humble opinion, to be yourself in your SofP and narrate who you are as a scholar, how you arrived at that place, what you take to be the marks of good scholarship, and why ____ school is an ideal fit.
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    Sleep a lot. Eat lots of organic, healthy food. Exercise, but not overly so. Try to relax. Enjoy the moment as much as you can.
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    At Chicago, Margaret Mitchell made it clear to me that the Divinity School is the religious studies program of the University. However, this is not the case at other schools. In general, the divinity school (or school of theology) is the professional school of a university, which is focused on training of people for various careers (not least ecclesiastical). These universities will often have their own religious studies programs that are housed in the graduate school and/or the undergraduate program, which are focused on formal academic training and preparation. As I understand it, the difference between a seminary and a divinity school is that a seminary is not formally connected to a university (a la Princeton Theological Seminary, which is a separate entity from Princeton University) and a divinity school is a professional school of a university (a la Yale)—not that different that, say, a law school or something. Again, Chicago is the exception here. If you want to be a clergyperson, attending a divinity or seminary would be ideal; if an academic, a religious studies program would be best. These are not strict rules by any means, but if you don't follow them, I imagine you will have to give an answer to the question, "if you want to be a pastor/professor, why did you choose to study at a religious studies program/divinity school?" many times.
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    I would not retake it, nor would I bring attention to it, provided your writing sample is strong and/or you have something published. I got a 4.5 and I got into my top choice. The essays are graded in 2-3 minutes by a grad student. I think adcoms understand that. Moreover, 72nd percentile is not bad; it's just not what you wanted perhaps. No sane person wants to take the GRE more than once. Let it go.
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    Most broadly, anything related to Christian origins and development through the 4th century C.E. whets my appetite. More specifically, I would list the Gospel of Mark, rhetorical criticism, origins of early Christian ritual (especially eucharistic origins and development), early Christian hermeneutics, literary theory, and Jewish/Christian relations and identity as my primary interests.
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    I know through a friend that ND has also made offers to ethics.
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    Congratulations, katholou! We will miss you in New Haven in the Fall, but I am glad indecision's burden has been lifted off your shoulders. Warm wishes to all, especially those on waitlists. As a point of potential clarification, I understand Yale's waitlist to be global to religious studies, not area specific. So katholou turning down Yale's offer might free up a New Testament spot—or Asian Religions, Religious Ethics, etc. At least that is how I understand Yale's waitlist to work.
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    I have accepted an offer to do doctoral work at Yale and my family (wife + two kids) will be moving to New Haven at the end of this summer. There is a dearth of information on this discussion board about life with a family in New Haven. Most seems to be about single living. I would love to acquire any information from the collected wisdom of others about life in New Haven with kids: where to live, pre-schools, elementary schools, parks, etc.
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    Congrats, katholou! I'll bet that was a good way to start the day.
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    Congrats!
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    I would encourage you to check it, 11Q13. Though I received a call from Dale Martin on Friday informing me of Yale's decision, I also received the same email directing me to the website to see an acceptance letter.
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    Here is my opinion, if you care: It sounds like you might be over-thinking it. You cannot plan the details of your future that far out. No one is that good of a prognosticator, because the world has too many variables. No school will gurantee admission to a PhD program; no one will preclude you either. The name of the school matters, but the quality of your work and your person matters more. Work really hard at what you love—I mean really hard, because the most important thing is your work. Also, your language about becoming a clergy in the SDA as a sort of "just in case", fall back plan sounds suspect. I predict those on this forum who are religious and those who are not would likely agree that one thing the world does not need is another clergy who became such because they failed at something else and this was there "just in case" plan. At bottom, go to school at the place where you really want to go to school and study what fascinates you.
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    Likewise, katholou. What an exciting day!
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    I just (i.e. ca. 2:30 CST) received a call from Yale (Dale Martin) unofficially offering admission to the Ph.D. program in New Testament. The official letter will come in the mail in due course. I am not the one who posted on the results forum yet.
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    Yes, I am, being sent from "Graduate Admissions". I think your friend is right—I believe they send these emails to folks above a certain GRE score, but that's only a hunch.
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    No rejections yet. As was already mentioned above: http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2012/jan/11/grad-school-divided-over-interviews/ Yale Graduate Program of Religious Studies is required this year to perform an interview before offering admission to a doctoral student. Interestingly, Dale Martin, the director of the Religious Studies program, goes on the record in the above piece about the Yale GSAS requiring interviews this year. The Religious Studies AdCom meets on Feb. 20 to confer with one another about admission.
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    This coming weekend is preview weekend at Baylor. I hear they make offers shortly after that.
  21. The Pierre Menard
    How apropos! Valentine's Day is the appropriate time for both joy and heartbreak.
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    It depends on the school, I think. I am interviewing at one where a current student indicated I would likely know within a week or so after the interview. Another school told me that I wouldn't hear anything for a month, since the admissions committee won't meet until about four weeks after our interview. Each school may approach the application/admission process with their own procedures and timelines.
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    It is so nerve-wracking. The subjectivity of the whole thing is what does it for me. This link almost gives the impression that there is an objectivity that seems to be lacking from the process, best I can tell (at least from applications for a Ph.D. spot in a religious studies program).
  24. The Pierre Menard
    Mea Culpa! I intended to write meant4praise was accepted at UNC-CH, not Lux Lex Pax. Forgive my snafus.
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    meant4praise, congrats on your acceptance! How nice to know something so early! Do you care to mention your area of concentration within religious studies?
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