Archnet: Academic Departments-- http://archnet.uconn.edu/depts/

SCHOLARSHIP INFORMATION
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=scholarships
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~i9248809/schlrshp.html

INTERNATIONAL STUDY PROGRAMS
http://www.ciee.org
                   or email info@ciee.org
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~i9248809/study.html

APPLIED ANTHROPOLOGY PROGRAMS
http://www.colorado.edu/AppAnth/HPSfAA/info/anthro.htm
http://www.bsos.umd.edu/anth/

CURRICULUM VITAE SAMPLES, ONE, TWO, THREE


HINTS TO HELP YOU GET INTO GRADUATE SCHOOL (OR START A CAREER)

Apply to the best school you can, no matter what anyone says.  There is no sense in starting with your sights lowered and it is important which school you go to at this point.

What will they be looking for?  Evidence that you can succeed in the program and will bring respect and status to the name of the school when you leave.

How do they do this initially?
 1.  GRE scores
 2.  professors’ letters (stay on their good side!)
 3.  your letter and Curriculum Vitae
 4.  your transcript
 5.  anything else you might have to support your application

What should you be doing?

--Start a CV  (Curriculum Vitae) now and add to it as you go along (there is a sample available above).
--Start thinking about professors who will write letters for you, how they perceive you, and what they will be able to write about you.  Improvement will count a great deal here, lack of advancement will hurt you.  Do not ask professors that do not know you well to write your letters.
--Research universities, their programs, their support packages, specialties and who is on the faculty (there are a number of "Guides to Anthropology Departments" available in my office and the Graduate Group office).
--Write to a select group of universities for information on support and expectations--even to individual professors if there is someone that you particularly want to work with--and write early.
--Take the hardest courses in as large a range of topics as possible.  Taking only easy courses with few requirements is the fastest means possibly to wash out of graduate school- if you can get in at all.  Good graduate departments are interested in limiting their graduates, not nursing them through the program.
--Start preparing for the GRE now.
--Start applying for everything you are qualified for and interested in now.
--Apply to attend conferences, give papers, attempt student paper competitions- these will help you a great deal, especially in the area of possible tuition wavers and teaching assistantships.
--Apply for fellowships and grants when possible.
--Learn a foreign language, or two, now.
--Get overseas experience if possible.  Field schools and local opportunities that cause you to work with an "other" of any definition is also helpful.  Professional anthropologists must be able to live for extended periods outside their own cultures.  Experience in this area can only help you.
--Read the “Anthropology Newsletter” available in the Graduate Group office.
--Prepare a packet for the professors who will write letters for you.  This will result in better letters because they will have all the good information about you in front of them--including stuff they may not have known.  Make sure you include non-academic experience that will advance your cause, such as service-learning courses, work with the homeless, travel to foreign countries, work experience, etc.
--Read “how to” books.  They are invaluable.

Networking will help you--  you can
--read each others papers;
--inform each other of opportunities;
--share graduate school research--letters and library;
--report information from various sources including the "how to" books;
--have GRE preparation meetings;
--and much more-new ideas are created by networking. Content