GRE score cutoffs?

[Perique69]

I "hunt" turtles only to take pictures.  

 

It's really sad that more or less all of you failed to follow a simple line of argument.  I knew you'd get so bent-out-of-shape over a ranking and consequently miss the entire point.  I guess that's why you're attempting to study something as bombastic as religion for a living.  Now vote down this post and go sulk in a corner while you foam over your favorite professor's latest "research."   

[MsBOOM]

For the first part, I think it's pretty freakin' awesome that you take pictures of turtles.

 

For the second part, I'm not going to bother even replying to that past this.

[newenglandshawn]

Are you not studying religion?

[Perique69]

For the first part, I think it's pretty freakin' awesome that you take pictures of turtles.

 

For the second part, I'm not going to bother even replying to that past this.

 

Well, thanks.  Yes, I take pictures of turtles on Tuesdays and Wednesdays unless the weather is unbearable.  I also go bird watching on Thursdays.  I like being in nature.   

[Perique69]

Are you not studying religion?

 

Of course, I'm studying religion!     

[newenglandshawn]

Okay. Thanks for clarifying. I was a little confused after you said "I guess that's why you're attempting to study something as bombastic as religion for a living." 

[Body Politics]

Because of all of the awesome posts in this thread, this just happened to me: 

 

I love you, GradCafe Religion. Don't ever change.

[Perique69]

Okay. Thanks for clarifying. I was a little confused after you said "I guess that's why you're attempting to study something as bombastic as religion for a living." 

 

No problem.  Doing what I can to help. 

[diazalon]

As a side note, Yale and UNC admitted a student to Ancient Christianity (Yale)/Ancient Med (UNC) without a masters in the same year. 
 
Back to watching you two blowhards go at it.

 

[Perique69]

As a side note, Yale and UNC admitted a student to Ancient Christianity (Yale)/Ancient Med (UNC) without a masters in the same year. 

 

Back to watching you two blowhards go at it.

 

 

Thanks, but your side note is moot as I pointed this out long ago.  The BA to PhD versus M degree to PhD isn't even what this thread is about.  Maybe someone needs to start a new thread about that because so many are focused on it now.  To spare others from tilling through previous posts, I'll restate my simple point about most competitive PhD programs in religious studies, theology, etc: most students in such PhD programs have M degrees.  Special note to those who have a hard time with logic: this does not mean that all students in such PhD programs have M degrees.  The other crucial point is that "most competitive" programs probably means that your favorite school is excluded.  I know everyone and every school wants to be treated like a special snowflake; everyone gets a trophy; there is no second place, etc.  But, like or not, it doesn't work this way.     

 

I like that GIF though! Funny.