Do grad schools care about work study?

Graduate School
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<p>I currently have a job on campus for federal work study, but it's cleaning buildings and I feel like I'm not gonna get anywhere with that. My friend, also a freshman, just got a job as a career peer advisor - she's going to help students with resumes and job hunting. I feel like that would be more appealing on a resume for grad school....</p>

<p>However I just searched the school's site for job openings and there are only office jobs open where you enter stuff into computers. I was assigned "housekeeping" at the beginning of the year and I just stayed with it, and now it's sort of too late.</p>

<p>I am going to apply for internships this summer related to my field, but wouldn't it be better if I could get an applicable job? </p>

<p>I want to major in anthro but the jobs in the museum and anthro lab are usually reserved for juniors/seniors. Lame.</p>

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It doesn’t matter whether you are polishing floors or polishing resumes, neither job is going to be relevant for grad school admissions.</p>

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<p>What b@r!um said. Seriously, if what you are doing is not an important part of what your grad advisor will be doing as research, they don’t care about it. If you want to enter an anthro grad program, the only work experience that will matter is the kind that is actual anthro work, preferably the kind that leads to publications.</p>

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<p>But don’t take that to mean that you need to quit work-study, especially if you need the money. You can do research and still do work-study, if you need to.</p>

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<p>Yeah, I need the money I’m getting…</p>

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<p>I don’t think it would be seen as useless in your application. The ability to hold down a job (TA or do research) while doing well in classes is actually a pretty useful skill while a grad student.</p>

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<p>Try contacting the researcher you want to work for directly and see if they will take you on. I started my work-study job as a volunteer and when I asked if I could receive my allocated work-study from financial aid for lab work it was no problem, in fact most of the undergrads in the lab do. From what I understand the 25% the school contributes to your work-study salary doesn’t come from the lab you’re in, so it is no cost to the prof and you get to collect your dollars and rack up experience on your CV. Goodluck!</p>

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<p>I just contacted the anthro dept. chair to see of there were any positions available. I mean, I don’t see why I couldn’t tabulate in the lab. That’s something I’ve done before for extra credit.</p>