AlternateAllele

I saw that there are some admits to SUNY Binghamton on the result forum. If anyone is going there in the Fall for Biological anthropology and would like to chat, then send me a message! I'm moving from California.

I got accepted to SUNY Binghamton today! No word of funding yet, but I am totally thrilled!!! I was so worried I had to get a real job in a few months... PHEW. Thank you forum members for being my support group and I wish you all the best!

Athens: Yes. I e-mailed and asked, took them 3 days for a response. Whoever is getting into the bio program already knows by now, but unfortunately, they didn't post on GradCafe which gave me false hope.

Re: Penn State As suspected, recruitment and interviews have already taken place for BioAnthro. Rejections will be mailed out tomorrow. I'll be getting one of those :-/

lol, Don't remind me. I applied for a Fall PhD 2012 program, but because of "paper work" issues, I technically can't turn in my Master's thesis project until Fall of 2012. My school couldn't accommodate how fast I went through this program... Most people it takes 3-4 years to complete their master's (a lot of them work part time, have kids... etc), but molecular projects can be much much faster than say, in archaeology. In my applications, I tried to avoid mentioning my true graduation date. I said I was working on my thesis this semester, which is true :-) I figured though, Master's class experience along with publishing a paper (keeping my fingers crossed that'll happen pre-Fall) would be enough to get me into a PhD program. Technically I wouldn't have to turn in my thesis at all, but I'm hoping I can 'negotiate' a quicker PhD track once I do have a Master's.

lol Afroman. Yeah, keep hoping. Your coursework/scholarship history sounds pretty exceptional. I think your "good fit for a program" is an interesting point. It's hard to judge though. One program I think I'm perfect for and wouldn't require much training. The other program the POI told me, "I just want students that are excited about what I'm doing." I might think I'm good, but who the heck knows what they're thinking... maybe they want someone exactly like me but with better GRE scores! I would say MA is more common in cultural because of funding... Not a lot of anthro programs have enough funding for 6+ years of research for one student. In my field, most professors have duel-appointments, so the majority of their research funding comes from biological sciences. It's been great being a biological anthropologist, I can bust out a thesis project in less than no time and getting funding for PhD programs should be much much easier.

I have a question for the group... How many of you are in Master's programs applying to PhD programs? My undergraduate GPA wasn't so great, so I figured that if I finished a Master's program first my chances for getting into a good school for a PhD would improve significantly. I also thought that maybe I could out-compete a lot of applicants because they would only have Bachelor's degrees. However, it appears as though I've been chatting with people who have Master's degrees on here! This makes me nervous, because I don't think I can "out-compete" you guys, lol. Also, I'm more used to dealing with science-y programs, where going from bachelor's to PhD is standard now. In anthropology, it must be more common to get a master's then apply for a PhD. Or is that just for cultural, not biological?

I am a bio kid, but I'd actually consider myself to be a molecular anthropologist. I only applied to two schools: Penn State and SUNY Binghamton. Those were honestly the only two programs I felt were compatible with my interests: genomics, populations genetics... I personally think they'd be insane not to take me... I have so much lab research experience and great references. But of course, my GRE scores and undergraduate GPA sucks (Master's GPA is acceptable though). I've been very very lucky with getting jobs and getting into schools... It might take me longer than academically gifted GPA/GRE scholars, but I still end up in the same places they do. I'll get my way sooner or later :-) I noticed that you're still waiting on 7 more places???? Awful. I'm resentful over the fact that Harvard has already responded to applicants, but not state schools, lol. I'm slightly put off by my thesis project right now... I have three different advisers on three different campuses. One of them in a different state is supposed to correlate my data with his, and he keeps saying my project is next... I can start on some things, but it's weird for me to start my thesis not quite knowing what my results are. What's more important to me is that I've been promised a first author publication but I need his data! (I've never been a team player for a reason...) And finally, my main adviser is impossible to get a meeting with right now. If a thesis is supposed like a 100 pages, I don't have a clue what to fill it with at the moment. Best of luck with the thesis... Set yourself up a time table of thesis-writing goals. I plan on doing that as soon as I figure out what's supposed to go into thesis :-)

Only applied to two schools, haven't heard from either one. Every time I see an e-mail on my phone I freak the hell out. Gradcafe admission results webpage is refreshed every two seconds in fact, my boyfriend just laughed at me "Are you on gradcafe again!???." I've also started to psychologically counsel myself, "It's okay if you don't get accepted, another year of trying isn't so bad." But the thought of having to get a real job in the real world terrifies me. I don't have any new hobbies, trying to keep productive with my master's thesis. But I feel as though I'm less productive waiting to hear back...

Penn State... Anyone heard or know anything??? BioAnthropology... I'm going CRAZY here. I'm also too scared to call the damn office and ask them any information, lol.

I applied to the BioAnth PhD program at Penn State. I have no idea when or if they were interveiwing, but according to their website I probably missed the boat. Have you heard anything? Probably won't hear anything back till mid-Feb to Early march.

I am waiting to hear back from Penn State and Binghamton University. No word yet, I'm guessing I'll know by late Feb and early March. I'm also guessing that I didn't get accepted to Penn State considering they posted that they give interviews in mid-January.