lauras Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 If you are applying all over the country, just mark the region of your first choice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnlikelyGrad Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 I chose Western US because I like the west and because my family (and my in-laws) live there. But in retrospect, maybe I should have chosen the Eastern US because the two highest-ranked schools I'm applying to are east of the Mississippi... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deianira Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 It's the opposite for me: I really wish I could stay on the west coast, but I'm hoping to get accepted on the east coast because I will need my parents' help with childcare. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astaroth Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 My choice would have been Western US, but I've already been rejected from there, so my next favourite is UT, hence I voted South. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gadhelyn Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 Eastern US, but as long as it's anywhere but here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohheygradschool Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 I said Eastern, but I'd be quite happy at either of the Midwestern schools I applied to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
storiaitaliana Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 I would prefer to stay in California, but the number one place for my field is in the east. I realized this weekend that there was one place I could have applied on the west coast, but it's too late now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAN Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 I grew up in the Midwest and currently live in the East (Southeast). I'm hoping to go out west. The East coast is overrated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenderpete Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 East coast is ideal to be near DC and NYC, but at this stage I'm not really thinking about turning down Stanford due to its non-beltway location :mrgreen: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saritapie Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 There a lot of sacrifices I am willing to make to get a PhD: I'll sink myself nose-deep in reading, grade crappy undergrad papers, sleep rarely, make very little money, survive on oatmeal and noodles, go into debt, delay marriage and babies, and hang a dissertation over the remainder of my twenties as though it were a giant anvil, all without much expectation of being able to easily find a good job when it's over... but I am not willing to live east of the Rocky Mountains for any significant chunk of my life, for anything. Doing my master's in the Rocky Mountains has endowed me with a more profound understanding of the importance of sunshine and mild temperatures for my physical and mental health. Also, my family is in California, and staying within an easy (and relatively cheap) airplane ride or decent interstate drive's reach of them is a pretty big deal to me. Going home for the holidays is currently not possible without either (a) driving over a snowy mountain pass, or ( spending $600. (Summer isn't much better: Options include (a) 3 hours' driving followed by a 2-hour flight, ( the $600 direct flight, or © driving across the fat parts of both Nevada and Idaho.) So I applied to three West Coast universities, and if none of them work out, I'll apply to more West Coast universities next year. Same story at the other end of the degree. Crazy? Maybe. But grad school's crazy, so this is pretty much par for the course, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drpsych Posted January 23, 2009 Share Posted January 23, 2009 I'm from the Midwest, but I'm currently on the West Coast and I wish I could stay, but I would have to say that my research interest fit isn't as strong here, so it may be either back to the Midwest for me, or East Coast.. chose where my current top choice was Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miratrix Posted January 23, 2009 Share Posted January 23, 2009 In terms of schools I applied to, I''d like to stay on the east coast, especially due to region-specific research interests...but in terms of where I'd most like to go, Denmark or England actually have pretty amazing programs. Unfortunately, I'm not independently wealthy, nor am I brilliant enough for a Fulbright, so the US it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
domanda Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 cities cities cites! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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