Dear Marisola,
While I can't answer your question directly, I can offer you this: I have
a dear friend who was in a similar situation over a decade ago (English was
her second language, her family was quite poor, and so her pre-college
education was quite poor), except she was applying to programs in another
humanities field and in women's studies. Her abysmal GRE scores had no
apparent effect. She wound up with great fellowship offers from several
excellent universities, wound up going to an Ivy League university where
she earned a Ph.D., and has been doing quite well in the job market. Again,
she is not in philosophy, but rather is in another humanities field.
I suspect a lot of philosophers who subscribe to the FEAST list are
incredibly skeptical of the value of GRE scores -- I hope that is the case!
I wish you well! Philosophy totally needs people like you, so I look
forward to seeing your name on conference programs in a few years!
Best regards,
Tom
Tom Digby
Professor of Philosophy
Springfield College
263 Alden Street
Springfield, MA 01109
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"Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire."
--William Butler Yeats
From: Marisola Xhelili <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 01/23/2012 11:19 AM
Subject: Re: advice to prospective PhD students
Sent by: Feminist ethics and social theory <[log in to unmask]>
Dear FEASTers,
As someone who just applied to Philosophy PhD programs, I found Dr. Wong's
list on advice for prospective students very encouraging on all fronts
except for the GRE bit. I consider myself very motivated, have excelled in
all of my philosophy courses as an undergrad, have attended institutes and
won awards for my research, but my GRE scores are, to put it mildly,
embarrassing. I know this has a lot to do with the timed aspect of the
test, and how counter-productive rushing madly is to producing anything of
quality. I can blame the fact that English is my second language, or that I
couldn't afford to formally prepare how to take the test, but all in all I
know that standardized tests are not my strength.
I would really be interested to get some opinions from philosophy
professors on how heavily the GRE scores are weighed against other aspects
of the application. I feel like it's the one rusty spot on my otherwise
shining application.
Many thanks,
Marisola.
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Sophia Isako Wong <[log in to unmask]>
wrot
Dear FEAST colleagues,
I put up this webpage for the students who have asked me about applying
to PhD programs in philosophy. Since they are mostly students of color,
it is written especially with them in mind. Feel free to forward it to
your undergraduate students if you think it will be helpful.
http://sophiawong.info/mentoring-resources/phd
Best,
Sophia
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Sophia Isako Wong
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus
http://sophiawong.info
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