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thank you, hitomimay! anyone else agree with AERA being a good choice?

Hi all, I'm hoping to find some wisdom here on the forums about this... I am a grad student NOT in an education school, but my work is relevant and I hope to be marketable to schools of education once I'm finished with my degree. I'm in a cognitive science program and do work with the cognitive mechanisms of student learning (broadly put). I'm trying to figure out what conferences would be the "best" for me to attend, both in terms of being higher profile (when I apply to jobs in ed schools, I want the professors to actually recognize the conferences I went to, ideally with at least some esteem), AND in terms of being an appropriate venue for cognitive or otherwise quantitative research methods. ANY advice you can give would be really helpful, cognitive science is just starting to be seriously applied to educational research, and none of my professors really have any "insider information" on the workings of education schools. thank you!

if you get into Rice's PhD program with funding (that is better than the NC State Master's funding), the choice should be very easy... if you get into a PhD program but without funding, or poor funding, it could be better to get a Master's, and then re-apply to PhD programs so that you get into one that is better and covers your expenses.

well my anguishing is over--- in and going to JHU ! ! good luck to everyone else who is still waiting, and congrats to everyone else who has gotten into a program with which they're happy

funding comes after, although some schools you can take it for granted (b/c the funding is part of the deal)... but it basically comes after.

congrats, Triple Tall, that's excellent!

I didn't feel great after it, but I did get in, they contact me 2 days later--- buena suerte!!

any word from UMD?

UofC doesn't offer admission to grad students that it can't fund, and funding for int'l students is separate and more limited

I just realized--- both of the people who said they got/heard of a rejection from UChicago are international. so maybe they've only decided/communicated to those students.

accepted to Columbia (teachers college) for applied linguistics, although as a Masters of Education not the Doctorate. which is perfectly fine except now I'm concerned about financial aid... we'll see what happens there. but at least it's a concrete option!

how did it go!?

someone who is a current grad student there posted so on the forum a while ago; i got my masters there and i know first-hand that most of the other social science programs there have already made their decisions and invites. not sure what's holding them up...

yeah elizabeth, you seem to have happened to apply to some of the latest schools to announce! i dono what's up with chicago, they already met and made decisions allegedly, but have not contact anyone, yay or nay...

I have to teach during all that time on Friday, but Monday is a holiday so that's when I'll do mine--- buena suerte, let me know how it goes!

oh thank Jesus-- UMD's Second Language Acquisition just sent interview invites. Note: another non-linguistics (strictly speaking) program. Good luck to everyone else--- Triple Tall??

thank you fuzzylogician--- what you just said makes me feel better about the rejections I got, but more importantly helps me think about what I need to do to at my JHU interview to show them that I belong there. so, thanks!

travgrad i think you're right--- based off of my own rejections (compared to my NON-rejections), i feel like with the high volume of applicants, they generally eliminated candidates who don't have a strong linguistics background (i.e. a bachelor's or master's in linguistics). if you do have to reapply (i may be in the same boat, so i can easily empathize!) you may consider applying to program's that aren't traditional linguistics departments (i.e., more interdisciplinary programs).

mine was probably when I was teaching Arabic prosody to my high school juniors, lol-- we were doing a unit on poetry and it came up that in fact the poetic traditions hinge up rules that are intimately related to the prosody of the language itself, which led to an overly enthusisatic lecture on my part. but we do it all the time in my classes, just this week with my sophomores who are learning about the extensive system of root and pattern in Arabic, they realized for the first time that the word for "week" has the same trilateral root as the word for "seven" and the entire class went "OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" fun stuff

no, I didn't apply to Georgetown-- probably should have. My background is second language acquisition, and language & thought... which is probably why I got an interview with Johns Hopkins but no where else so far. It sort of makes sense, although it sucks, that if you have 180 applications for 10 spots, you eliminate people who don't have a BA in theoretical linguistics.

rejected from UCLA, too-- they sent the email around 3:00am their local time! i found that odd... it seems i should not have applied to any schools that lean theoretical linguistics, they've all rejected me. pray for me for the other programs! lol

txelizabeth at least you are IN to one school---

Northwestern decisions are online in your accounts, folks... good luck.

Rejection from Stanford (Educational Linguistics). I don't like only having 1 interview. It puts a lot of pressure on that one--- like if I don't make it, the rest of my life is screwed and I'm stuck in the job I'm in now (please God no). 4 answers, 9 to go...

yeah uh does it seem like they're all behind this year? or maybe we'll all get a bunch of decisions all of the sudden saaaaayy, tomorrow?