Grad school starts the real crap shoot of academic life (which gets worse in the job market, as you may well know). A friend of mine got turned down by every grad program to which she applied. Finally, her mother called one of the programs (to her horror, I think!) and read her grades and scores over the phone to the graduate office. They professed astonishment that she'd been turned down. She didn't feel it worth her while to apply again, so she found other work. She has never regretted it. I know others who have tried again and been successful.
I've been on both sides, having recently completed a stint on the grad admissions committee. There are a lot of qualified applicants--far more than spaces. People get eliminated for reasons that may seem weird. Sometimes it's just the year a person applies--when a school has too many applicants leaning towards a certain specialty, someone's going to get turned down. Sometimes, it's a lot of someones.
Yes, by all means, try again! It used to be that if you didn't get in right out of undergrad, you might as well forget it, but that has changed a lot over the past ten or fifteen years.
Of course, we need good teachers in middle school! I admire those who do it. It's a tremendous workload with even less respect, and in some cases less pay, than higher ed.
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Date: 2008-04-11 11:25 pm (UTC)I've been on both sides, having recently completed a stint on the grad admissions committee. There are a lot of qualified applicants--far more than spaces. People get eliminated for reasons that may seem weird. Sometimes it's just the year a person applies--when a school has too many applicants leaning towards a certain specialty, someone's going to get turned down. Sometimes, it's a lot of someones.
Yes, by all means, try again! It used to be that if you didn't get in right out of undergrad, you might as well forget it, but that has changed a lot over the past ten or fifteen years.
Of course, we need good teachers in middle school! I admire those who do it. It's a tremendous workload with even less respect, and in some cases less pay, than higher ed.