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Your observations are accurate to the best of my knowledge, but I think you're missing some great schools. There's Johns Hopkins, which has Jacob Lauinger and Paul Delnero - both of whom are great. And then there are places like NYU's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, Berkeley, and UCLA, each of which offers different but great opportunities, depending on your interests. ISAW is especially flexible in what it will allow you to do. As for foreign schools, Cambridge, Oxford, and SOAS could all be great places to at least obtain an MA before moving on to your PhD, though funding is nigh on impossible to obtain. Leiden would be more affordable, but perhaps not as rigorous. Unlike US schools, Toronto requires you to have an MA before going on to do your PhD. I don't know what your background is or what your primary interests are, but there are more opportunities than you'd think if you know where to look. Let me know if I can help in any way!
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Congratulations - I'm very pleased on your behalf, and wish you success and fulfillment in your studies!
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It's a ridiculously competitive field, and if it makes you feel any better my application success rate was very similar to yours. As long as the funding comes through on your acceptance, you should be alright. Best of luck to you!
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That helps clarify the issues, thanks!
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If there are easily three qualified adjunct professors available to fill every position vacated by a retiring tenured professor, then surely there is an oversupply of PhDs? Thanks for posting, Virmundi!
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The Hebrew of the Masoretic text has God telling Moses to write them down, so Moses would be the best bet!
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Really? Did they interview? What was their subfield?
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I think Johns Hopkins should be sending out decisions either this week or next.
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A massive congratulations to you! It must be a great relief to finally hear some positive news and be able to take your life forward in the direction you've wanted to! Best of luck in Liverpool.
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Thanks for sharing, agripley - I hope you get your invitation soon!
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I think (and hope) it's premature for heartbreak! I've yet to hear from most of the places you listed - it seems NELC programs are just being particularly slow this year. Best of luck in any case, and keep your spirits up. There could well be good news to come!
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Princeton's program is very prestigious - perhaps the most prestigious - when it comes to the modern Middle East, so I certainly would not rule them out if I were you. Congratulations in any case, mimiuchi, you are truly facing dilemmas of luxury, which are the very best sort of dilemmas to have. Well done. On a separate note, would anyone care to claim the Egyptology and Ancient Western Asian Studies interview at Brown and provide more details? Like subfield? Thanks and congratulations on securing the interview!
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The Yiddish Policemen's Union - a good detective story!
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Would anybody care to claim the Chicago acceptance and specify the relevant subfield? Congratulations to you in any event, it must be a relief to have an offer like that in at this stage!
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Tough Decision...
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I'm not suggesting anyone approach Urdu through Hindi or vice versa. I'm simply pointing out that mastering Arabic and Persian - while useful for the study of Urdu in much the same way that it is useful for the study of Turkish - will not take you very far at all when learning Urdu (or Turkish), which is a language influenced by but not otherwise really related to them. Hindi, on the other hand, although subjected in modern India to a different set of influences than Urdu, is, especially on the colloquial level, hardly distinguishable from Urdu. In any event, claims to the effect that Urdu is "based on" or "similar to" Persian and Arabic are simply too bold. There is overlap, but knowing Arabic and Persian simply won't give one that much of a headstart when learning Urdu. Hindi will - but those who want to learn Urdu should probably just learn Urdu and be aware of the simple fact that Urdu and Hindi are linguistic twins that have been subjected to different influences in recent history.