Advice for 2013 Sociology Applicants (from 2012ers)

[jacib]

So my year, we made a post called " and I think it's a good synthesis for all the things we learned. And then last year, I made another post called " Looking back on them, they're great, in part because there's so much agreement and so much disagreement on what is important and works and is necessary. Take a look at both of those and then post what you know now that you wish you had known at a different point in the application process.

And now 2013 cycle kids reading this, your job is to point people who are new to the board to these threads so they can benefit from the collected wisdom of three generations. Also, this is a good chance to link to other threads that you've found useful .

If I can point you to just two pieces of ancient history (and I can, because I get to say the first thing):

1) a bit on the (from college professors). Everyone freaks out about GRE scores because they're the only thing we can use to compare amongst ourselves.

2) a my year applying.

What about you, what worked for you applying to schools? What do you wish you could change in retrospect? What advice and knowledge have you found most useful? What have you discovered yourself?