<p>PhD in development sociology
hi, im currently a freshman at a top 25 liberal arts college who will likely major in anthropology. I am fascinated by cornell's development agriculture program although i am quite happy with the school i am attending and have no desire to transfer. However i would be interested in study this program at the graduate level. I am wondering what kinds of people are admitted to this program, what kinds i would need to enter this program, and what graduates of this program go on to do after they receive their PhD's.</p>
<p>Also, what other schools have similar programs?</p>
<p>Finish two years of college first, and then come back and ask the same questions.</p>
<p>Generally speaking, people in doctoral programs have high grades (3.5+), high GRE scores (1200+), have background research in the field (at least 2 years working with an independent scholar in the field) or a very closely related one, close relationships with at least three professors who can write them glowing recommendations, and at least a general idea of wanting to work in research or academia after obtaining the Ph.D and what kind of research they are interested in.</p>
<p>The program will have much better answers. Visit the program’s website and see if they discuss the general requirements for the program and what the typical student looks like. The program should also list what graduates have gone on to do, but many departments don’t, so you can e-mail the departmental secretary and ask him or her.</p>
<p>In order to find schools with similar programs you will have to sharpen your Google-fu. Look for scholars in the field of development sociology and see where they teach and do research. Google “development sociology” and similar terms to see what you get. There are a lot of sociology programs without the development part that will have professors that also do research in development.</p>
<p>The reason why I said what I said in my first line is not to be mean, but because the process of learning what graduate programs are out there, which ones you want to attend, and what characteristics you need to get there is a process developed over years, and likely if you are a freshman (and do you mean that you will start in the fall - so a <em>rising</em> freshman – or that you finished your freshman year and will be starting your sophomore year?) you’ll change your mind about what you want to do anyway. There’s no point in looking for sociology programs when by the time you’re a junior, you realize that you actually want to do American history. I went into college thinking I would go to law school and checking out law schools and realized in my sophomore year that I wanted to get a doctoral degree in psychology – and even that’s relatively early. Even then, I wasn’t sure what kinds of psychology programs were good fits. That didn’t happen until the end of my junior year.</p>
<p>If you’re interested in sociology, take some sociology classes, find a soc professor who’s doing research that you find interesting and ask if you can get involved somehow. Then when you’re nearing your junior year, reevaluate and ask yourself if you still want to do it. Then you’ll know if this program is even a good fit anymore.</p>