gre for international student

[philebus2]

I'm thinking to apply to an anthropology program (PhD). Do you think around 1200 GRE (around 600 Verbal n 650 Quant) points is enough for an international student? I'm considering universities like Harvard, Yale, UPenn etc. Thanks for the help in advance.

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[elya_elvira]

Thank you all for all those helpful comments! I am also going to apply for Cultural (linguisitcs) Anthro this fall. And I am also an International student (Russia) So I know exactly what you were talking about.
The nubers from Petersons are quite lovely but I must say that they are a bit far from real life. I contacted a couple of schools and they gave a totally different info. You should be careful with it...
And RE: funding...I have a similar problem. I can not afford grad school unless I get full funding. However I have never heard of Private schools being more generous to international students. Does anyone know what schools have almost 100% support for grad Anthro students?

[elya_elvira]

I checked several universities' homepage, and all of the big private ones like Harvad, Princeton, Stanford, NYU, UChicago, Emory etc... assert that they finance everybody (of course depending on the needs).

[mallyns]

That called loans not grants. If you really need funding you wont be getting into Harvard. There was a huge thing that just went on. Harvard only accepts about 1% of people who need funding.

[philebus2]

Not just loans, but you are right, its more like a mix of work, grants and loans, but if you don't have money you cannot be choosy. I seriously doubt that 1%. But if you know a better place where you can get full funding, please let me know.

[mallyns]

It was on the news, the state wanted Harvard to accept more people below the poverty level or it was going to take some of the money away that they received as private donations for use at other uni in MA.

No, I don't know where you can get full funding. However, schools here are very expensive more than in the UK. It might be better for you to go there. Or take time off and work and save up some money.

[philebus2]

In the UK it's very hard to get funding, perhaps as hard as to get into a good private university in the US.

[mallyns]

But it is cheaper. For undergrad, my mate went to St. A's. I wanted to go to Salem State. Comparing numbers to numbers and factoring in the exchange rate it cost more for me to go to Salem State then her to St. A's.

Let's just put it this way if you can't get into Oxbridge then it stands to reason that you can't get into the IVY leagues here.

Most funding will be given to Citizens first or to people who have gone to the partners schools.

[philebus2]

Cheaper if you can pay it, but if you cannot pay even the cheaper price, then the price doesn't really matter. I think you have more chance to get full funding in the US than in the UK. For example even if you get accepted to Oxford or Cambridge, you don't get funding automatically and full funding is very rare.
Of course citizens will get the funding first, that's why I hesitate to apply to public universities, but I'm pretty confident that citizenship doesn't matter much for private ones.

[mallyns]

Harvard is not giving out full funding to all it's grad students.

Because it is not possible to offer full fellowship support to all graduate students, it is important that prospective graduate students explore every available source of funding for graduate study. It is wise to check with various offices at your undergraduate institution, such as the dean of students, financial aid, and career services, for materials about financial support for graduate study. Descriptions of non-Harvard sources of financial aid are subject to change.

Most of the fin aid is for citizens, and then there is loans. Which you would be better off getting through your own country.

[philebus2]

I've never said it gave, I said it will give full funding depending on the needs of the person. But it seems you are right, things change, I'll check it more thoroughly.
Sadly there isn't any material at my university about grad school funding, and of course there's no student loan either (as it is very rare outside the US).

[elya_elvira]

lol. you guys are all really funny (i.e. misinformed) and speaking with almost no experience whatsoever at all as either an international student or as harvard grad student

[mallyns]

3.) Not a troll.

4) Most of the info I took:"Because it is not possible to offer full fellowship support to all graduate students, it is important that prospective graduate students explore every available source of funding for graduate study. It is wise to check with various offices at your undergraduate institution, such as the dean of students, financial aid, and career services, for materials about financial support for graduate study. Descriptions of non-Harvard sources of financial aid are subject to change."

comes from the Harvard website.

[signsoflife]

This is almost unintelligible. Do you have a source? It sounds like you've confused undergraduate and graduate admissions.

[mallyns]

Local news station about 6 months ago. I'm in Boston. It was about funding in general. Harvard was not admitting people who lived below a certain level of income. The state said you can't do that and gave them an choice. I don't know if it was just for undergrad or grad or on the whole. That is all the info I have.

This is from Harvard web site:
Because it is not possible to offer full fellowship support to all graduate students, it is important that prospective graduate students explore every available source of funding for graduate study. It is wise to check with various offices at your undergraduate institution, such as the dean of students, financial aid, and career services, for materials about financial support for graduate study. Descriptions of non-Harvard sources of financial aid are subject to change.

[roseofjuly]

But it doesn't make sense that they only fund 1% of their graduate admits. Harvard has never been like that -- I know that they fund all of their natural science students for one, and that's not 1% of their graduate students.

[brittdreams]

That was about the undergraduate education at Harvard, primarily.