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Can You Help This Year's Grad Applicants?

Can You Help This Year's Grad Applicants?

questions from earlier this month

August 27, 2024

Every year, applicants for the upcoming year’s graduate programs ask questions at The GradCafe. Here are a few that caught our attention. Please add your expertise to the forum.

Questions from Grad Applicants

Here are three questions from earlier in the month.

#1: Abstract Submission Mistake

I signed up for my first conference and made the mistake of not noticing I added the wrong email for the Teacher/ Faculty. Everything else in the Abstract was correct. I submitted this poster for NABT and even sent an email about my mistake to them to fix. The poster abstract is due tomorrow. Anything else I should/could do?

Bob

Here’s the thread if you’d like to share your thoughts.

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#2 American with Master’s from China Seeks PhD in USA

Hello everyone, my question is regarding the difficulty of applying for a PhD program in the USA after finishing a masters program in mainland China. . .

I am slightly concerned with my prospects of potentially getting into a PhD program in the USA after my masters studies in China if I do go through with this route. My dream would be to potentially go to a top school in the USA for PhD study (Columbia, Harvard, Chicago, etc). I know it is a long shot but I think I might as well give it a shot.

Does anyone here have experience similar to what I am planning? Will the colleges care more about my research and language ability rather than the school I went to? Will a school like Beijing University be accepted by academics in the USA? Also as a side question, do I realistically need to reach a high level in Korean and Japanese in addition to Mandarin (and probably classical Chinese) to get into these top schools in the USA?

Noah

Here’s the thread if you have an answer to share.

#3 Looking for Others Interested in Literature Programs

Who's applying to Stanford MTL, Berkeley Rhetoric, and Duke Program in Literature in 2024 for the 2025 admissions cycle? Just wanted to start this thread and exchange thoughts.

Clueless