<p>I'm thinking about applying to Chicago's PhD program. Mainly based on the fact that teaching is not required, it has a great location (I would conisder staying in Chicago afterwards), and of course the program itself is very good. </p>
<p>Does anyone know anything about the department's admission statistics?</p>
<p>Is Chicago pretty good about funding its graduate students?</p>
<p>Do you have an idea of the kinds of GRE scores and GPAs they are looking for? I stink at standardized tests and I am not loking forward to taking the GRE. I also have a rather low major (linguistics) GPA because I got a bunch of Bs....I have like a 3.2 right now in my major, and a 3.5 overall.</p>
<p>Do you think they look favorably upon students who show genuine interest by paying a visit to the campus?</p>
<p>Any thoughts or suggestions appreciated.</p>
<p>Btw, I am also considering a number of other schools: Penn, Cornell, Indiana, UGA, Oregon, and Washington to name a few. Not sure how many applications I will make in the fall....I have this fear of not getting accepted so I'll probably apply to like 8 to 10 schools, with Chicago, Penn, and Cornell is my big reaches. As far as interests, I am interested mainly in Romance languages, syntax, and sociolinguistics. I have other interests too, but those are the main ones.</p>
<p>Give it a shot... but just be realistic.
Chicago is one of the very best, most competitive graduate schools...
low GPA AND low GREs don't bode well... you better have absolutely stellar letters of rec from well-known influential professors and some solid research experience to make up for your other weaknesses.
Make sure you apply to some safety programs.</p>
<p>By the way, according to the NRC rankings...</p>
<h1>5 Penn</h1>
<h1>6 Chicago</h1>
<h1>9 Cornell</h1>
<h1>17 Washington</h1>
<h1>26 Oregon</h1>
<h1>27 Indiana</h1>
<p>Georgia is unranked.</p>
<p>you have any recs for some safety programs?</p>
<p>i was also considering Northwestern and U of MN-Twin Cities.</p>
<p>do a web search for NRC graduate rankings...
NRC stands for National Research Council... the rankings are from 1993... they do them only once a decade or so, so the new ones are supposed to be released in 2007... but academic disciplines don't change much in only one decade.</p>
<p>When you find the rankings, ignore ALL factors except Faculty Quality.</p>
<p>thanks found both the general rankings list (which I had seen before) and the site where I could rank criteria. Yeah it looks like I will be applying to a lot more schools than I anticipated (my cousin, who is in another field, applied to 25 programs and was accepted to 5...Harvard, Columbia, Urbana-Champaign, and two other schools that I can't remember. She just told me I better add some more schools to my list so that I have more options and seeing as my stats are rather average at best, I better do so. Of course, doing well on the GRE would be a plus and churning out a great personal statement wouldn't hurt either.</p>