UPenn or Oxford for Classics?

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@Archaeologist

If you want a second opinion, ask WilliamC. He did his undergrad at Penn, had a very high GPA and GRE, had several years of Greek and Latin, presented research at a major conference, and had great LORs from well-known experts. He completely struck out in PhD admissions.

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<p>He also cited a specific weakness in his application to explain his Ph.D. rejections, and it wasn’t that he had done his undergrad at Penn (with its eminent antrho/archaeology program) or HADN’T done it at Oxford:</p>

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@WilliamC

Based on my rejection letters (I struck out 100%) many programs were able to make their cuts entirely based on preparation - no one I know (including myself) got into a PhD program with less than 2 years of Greek AND one of the modern languages. (The modern language was/is the big hole in my app.)

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