any Peace Corps Volunteers or RPCVs out there?

[keondraismyrealname]

just wondering how many of us are on the boards and are applying for Fall 2010 programs. after being on here for a few weeks, i see very few people mention that they were/are in the peace corps though i hear we're far from an anomaly in graduate programs of this sort.

keondra.

PCV, Fiji 2008-2010

Integrated Environmental Resource Management Program

[Cornell07]

We generally get about 3 per year at Yale out of our 22-26 person classes.

[Demetrios2011]

There are a lot of RPCVs in most public affairs programs. Dominica 2006-2008 here. I in my first year of grad school (Cornell) so if you have any questions I would be happy to help you out.

[hatunashnu]

Im also applying fall 2010. Peru 2007-2009

[wendylee86]

Peace Corps Cameroon 2008-2010

Small Enterprise Development

[wednesdaybythesea]

I was wondering about this too. It certainly has not been easy applying from here. I suspect there are probably more RPCVs in the applicant pool than those still in service. Connectivity is a huge part of applying - from researching programs, to requesting documents and recommendations, to hitting the submit button and not having the network connection time out.

Applying for Fall 2010

Morocco 2008-2010

Rural Community Health Education

Four more months of service. Crazy crazy crazy.

[wednesdaybythesea]

On a related note, any fun stories of explaining the process of applying to grad school to HCN friends?

I attempted to explain it once to my host-grandmother. This is a woman who never received formal education of any sort. She just patted my knee and told me to rest.

I got confused looks of all sorts while studying for the GRE. "What do you mean you're studying words? Don't you already know English?". Once a friend came over while I was in the midst of a quantitative practice test. She went to a rural school until the equivalent of junior year of high school. I looked a bit frazzled and she asked to see what I was working on. I showed her my book and she said, "That's easy". Huh.