crackthesky Posted February 20, 2013 Posted February 20, 2013 Accepted and ecstatic. Dean of Graduate Studies at Princeton sent me an email this morning. My concentration is American Religions Congrats! Very exciting!
Body Politics Posted February 20, 2013 Posted February 20, 2013 Accepted to Asbury, awaiting funding details. This is my second acceptance and, while I am waiting for funding details from the other program as well, I am really starting to feel like I am going to end up with some sort of a viable option when this all shakes out. Just waiting on DU-Iliff now...
ecotheology518 Posted February 20, 2013 Posted February 20, 2013 Accepted to Asbury, awaiting funding details. This is my second acceptance and, while I am waiting for funding details from the other program as well, I am really starting to feel like I am going to end up with some sort of a viable option when this all shakes out. Just waiting on DU-Iliff now... That's awesome! Congrats! Good to see fellow ECS people getting accepted places.
sidewalks Posted February 20, 2013 Posted February 20, 2013 thanks all!! I hope that good news is delivered to everyone soon . I am almost ready to close out this application season, and I'm so glad for all the posts, support, and information we have all shared. Good luck!
crackthesky Posted February 20, 2013 Posted February 20, 2013 Accepted to Asbury, awaiting funding details. This is my second acceptance and, while I am waiting for funding details from the other program as well, I am really starting to feel like I am going to end up with some sort of a viable option when this all shakes out. Just waiting on DU-Iliff now... Congrats!
Body Politics Posted February 20, 2013 Posted February 20, 2013 Congrats to the two Loyola NT acceptances!
yhujikol Posted February 20, 2013 Posted February 20, 2013 Does anybody at Harvard Divinity know what the situation with the ThD/PhD is? Are they going to get rid of the Thd?
crackthesky Posted February 20, 2013 Posted February 20, 2013 Just out of curiosity...has anyone heard anything from Fordham's Systematics concentration or Yale's Religious Ethics program? I know some invitations for interviews went out for other concentrations at Yale, but I haven't heard anyone mention interviews for Religious Ethics applicants. I would assume they would have sent them out by now, though.
la sarar Posted February 20, 2013 Posted February 20, 2013 Does anybody at Harvard Divinity know what the situation with the ThD/PhD is? Are they going to get rid of the Thd? Someone told me that...
la sarar Posted February 20, 2013 Posted February 20, 2013 I called and apparently Brown is posting the results now. I have received nothing. I would assume that they post the acceptances first, cuz there are only five of them.
yhujikol Posted February 20, 2013 Posted February 20, 2013 I called and apparently Brown is posting the results now. I have received nothing. I would assume that they post the acceptances first, cuz there are only five of them. My friend has already received a rejection from Brown. So do you know what HDS will do with ThD students? Are they automatically transferred to the PhD program?
Neem217 Posted February 20, 2013 Posted February 20, 2013 I'm not sure when the end of the ThD will come. The ThD program sent out acceptances/rejections yesterday, so they are still enrolling students into the program, though perhaps the numbers have lessen throughout the years. Hard to tell. Anyways, there's been no explicit talk of such things on campus. I think some of it may be simply be what people have heard, and not official announcements. I'd imagine that the ThD candidates will remain and complete their studies as ThD students -- as the sources of funding for the ThD and the PhD are different. The PhD is funded through the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, not the Divinity School. Its hard to speculate though...
yhujikol Posted February 20, 2013 Posted February 20, 2013 I'm not sure when the end of the ThD will come. The ThD program sent out acceptances/rejections yesterday, so they are still enrolling students into the program, though perhaps the numbers have lessen throughout the years. Hard to tell. Anyways, there's been no explicit talk of such things on campus. I think some of it may be simply be what people have heard, and not official announcements. I'd imagine that the ThD candidates will remain and complete their studies as ThD students -- as the sources of funding for the ThD and the PhD are different. The PhD is funded through the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, not the Divinity School. Its hard to speculate though... Thank you so much for the information. I was admitted to the ThD program, and was wondering what my fate would be. I wouldn't mind the PhD, maybe even better in some ways. Are students able to transfer from one to the other?
Neem217 Posted February 20, 2013 Posted February 20, 2013 I don't believe an internal transfer is possible between programs. I have never heard of that being done. Furthermore, Harvard faculty view the two degrees as basically the same - though I know a ThD may be viewed differently from a PhD in some settings. Yet, there are enough people with Harvard ThD's who hold professorships in academia for the wider academy to recognize the strength of the program/and the fact that they two degrees, at least at Harvard, are synonymous. It's almost random which one you get in to... Anyways, its a tough program to get into, so congratulations to you!!!!!
Neem217 Posted February 20, 2013 Posted February 20, 2013 yhujikol, also, you may be admitted to the PhD program! I'd imagine Harvard GSAS will notify acceptances around very late Feb./early March, and rejections will be sent soon after. I believe the stipends are generally the same. There were previous years where HDS' stipend was higher, but no longer. Anyways, again, congratulations!
sacklunch Posted February 20, 2013 Posted February 20, 2013 Thank you so much for the information. I was admitted to the ThD program, and was wondering what my fate would be. I wouldn't mind the PhD, maybe even better in some ways. Are students able to transfer from one to the other? I have had professors (two) in the past with HDS' ThD. Have no worries, it is the exact same degree (for academic purposes) as the PhD.
la sarar Posted February 21, 2013 Posted February 21, 2013 I still haven't heard anything from Brown. This is really strange. Has anyone heard of any acceptances to their RAM program?
yhujikol Posted February 21, 2013 Posted February 21, 2013 yhujikol, also, you may be admitted to the PhD program! I'd imagine Harvard GSAS will notify acceptances around very late Feb./early March, and rejections will be sent soon after. I believe the stipends are generally the same. There were previous years where HDS' stipend was higher, but no longer. Anyways, again, congratulations! Thank you very much! I'm very excited about it and am pretty sure that I will be moving to Cambridge this summer. I was just wondering since I might end up looking for post docs and position in anthropology or even sociology, in which case a ThD won't help much. But you're right; I'll wait to see what GSAS decides. I doubt that they'd make two offers to the same applicant, especially since it's the exact same committee.
la sarar Posted February 21, 2013 Posted February 21, 2013 Thank you very much! I'm very excited about it and am pretty sure that I will be moving to Cambridge this summer. I was just wondering since I might end up looking for post docs and position in anthropology or even sociology, in which case a ThD won't help much. But you're right; I'll wait to see what GSAS decides. I doubt that they'd make two offers to the same applicant, especially since it's the exact same committee. I have a friend who got into the ThD but not the PhD last year. He declined the offer.
bibleprofwannabe Posted February 21, 2013 Posted February 21, 2013 It Looks like the Emory rejections started rolling out. Anyone know what fields?
ouden Posted February 21, 2013 Posted February 21, 2013 I see someone got accepted to Yale's NT, anyone want to claim that? Congrats!
yhujikol Posted February 21, 2013 Posted February 21, 2013 I have a friend who got into the ThD but not the PhD last year. He declined the offer. Do you know why? And where did he go instead?
la sarar Posted February 21, 2013 Posted February 21, 2013 I just surprisingly got an acceptance from Brown Religious Studies. Very thankful and relieved. My first (more or less certain) acceptance so far. ûl ʾašerātō and yhujikol 2
la sarar Posted February 21, 2013 Posted February 21, 2013 Do you know why? And where did he go instead? Sorry but I don't. He went to Penn. His field is Jewish Studies. I thought that studying with Prof. Levenson at HDS would've been great, and Prof. Cohen at NELC, Harvard. So, I would guess---but I never asked him really--that this actually had something to do with the ThD. But I might be making things up. If you like I can ask if I could give you his contact info. But the reason for declining an offer could be pretty private, so ...
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