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Hey all! I'm working on my CV for Ph.D. programs in Rhet/Comp and have a question you might be able to help me with.
I've been accepted to a conference that I won't be able to attend because of financial reasons. Is there any way I can put this acceptance on my CV? Or is it best to leave it off?
I'm applying to English graduate programs this fall, and I was wondering if you kind folks have any advice about any aspect of the application process. If it makes any difference, I want to go into 18th & 19th century Brit Lit (mostly Austen). If you have any input on the schools I'm applying to, I'd appreciate that too (list below).
Thanks!
My schools: U Washington U British Columbia U Colorado @ Boulder Vanderbilt U Minnesota @ Twin Cities U Wisconsin @ Madison Notre Dame Indiana U @ Bloomington
Hi, just joined the community, and I need help. Last year I graduated cum laude with a degree in English and a minor in Creative Writing. Well, I've since decided to become a teacher and tomorrow I'm taking the Praxis #0041 ( English Language, Literature, and Composition) and I'm nervous!!!! Any suggestions, helpful hints, tips? I've reviewed the study guide book and did soso on the practice test. Was it easier or harder than anyone expected? Help, thanks in advance :)
I know this community isn't exactly about APPLYING to grad school, but I have asked and looked everywhere for people who can tell me about applying for an MA in art history.
Basically, I don't know how to beef up my application. I'm a double major in Philosophy and Art History, have a great GPA (at a small, but fairly well-known liberal arts university - very well known for philosophy, but not at all for art history), have yet to take the GREs, and plan to write a senior honors thesis.
In addition, my work history includes positions in Marketing, Development, Web Design, etc. for various arts non-profit organizations. In addition, I have interned at a world-famous impressionist museum, and have helped curate an exhibition and interned at a small non-profit that supports emerging artists.
I'm a junior in college, but I'm trying to look ahead.. what else can I do? Obviously, great recs and personal statement, but are there any specific jobs or specific types of organizations I should look into working for? I've tried several ways to obtain and create research opportunities for myself, but the majority of undergrad programs don't offer these opportunities in the humanities.
So... any advice? Basically, I just don't know what they want on your application, besides research experience. Any insight is greatly appreciated!
Hi all. I'm new to the community. I'm starting my PhD this fall in English at Cornell University.
I'm also applying for a Javits Fellowship and wondering if anyone out there has applied for and/or received one in the past. I've never applied for any kind of fellowship before, so I'm mostly wondering what kind of guidelines I should be working with while drafting my SOP. How similar or different is it from something like your grad application statement of intention or diversity statement?
I was recently accepted into Stony Brook's doctoral program. I would like to talk to any current or recent students, who would be willing to share their impressions of the program, before I make my final decision.
Reply here or email me at lehcar_rachel [at] hotmail [dot] com.
I've been out of school 10 years and will be applying to grad school in English next year. I am currently an English teacher in a private school, but I would like to do more research and work at the university level. By the time I apply to grad school, I will have taken 4 grad courses in English lit--two in the field I would like to study--Victorian literature. I don't know any full-time grad students, let alone English ones.
My questions are these: What top and middle level schools have good Victorian lit programs apart from say, Uva and Columbia?
Does the math GRE really count? I mean, can I get like a 400 and still get in somewhere?
Funding? Help?
I know they say the writing sample and SoP are the most important things, but how much do numbers count--ig GPA and GRE. My GPA is great, GRE--not so much.
Do you contact the professor/advisor beforehand?
Is there a prejudice against older applicants (I'll be 32 when I start).
How do you get in--when there are only 10 PhD slots? I know that's a unanswerable question, but I thought I'd try anyway.
Can you get accepted without being published?
I've posted at applyingtograd, but I figured you are the experts. It seems to me English is competitive and difficult to get into, and even though I went to good schools and even have an MA in another field already, I'm daunted and terrified about the whole process. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Like I said I don't know anyone else with the answers.
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