Honours students seminar: Graduate school applications and scholarship applications.

 

What next?!
    - identifying internal strengths and external skills as an ANTH/Arts graduate
    - your path: sustainers, evolvers, and synthesizers
    - Who do you want to be?

Graduate school applications:
 
Points to consider in choosing a graduate school:
    -  program: anthropology? business? law? interdisciplinary program?
    - what does the school offer you?
        - in terms of programs, faculty research interests, funding possibilities, symbolic capital, etc.
    - do background research: get in touch with potential faculty supervisors; if possible, get in touch with current graduate students there to find out what they say (some may be from StFX); find out who has graduated from that school; look at publications of faculty from the school

Points to consider in applying to a graduate school:
    - what do you offer the school?
    - how much work will you entail for them? are you a self-starter? do you have research experience? etc.
    - how do you prove you are an attractive student for them?
    - write a perfect application: show you can put together a research plan; show you have good writing, research and analytical skills; match your interests to the interests of the faculty
    - get strong references: for this you had to start when you started at StFX; give referees plenty of time to write their letters; give them information about what you want out of the school; give them your applications and ask for advice; give them the information they need to write strong detailed letters; have good marks; let them know the deadlines, what kind of referee you are asking them to be (if there are distinctions between departmental and faculty references), where to send the forms, give them the forms, etc.  
- examples of grad schools and application forms:

- University of Toronto, Anthropology: 

            - School of Graduate Studies

- Dalhousie University: Department of Sociology and Anthropology 

- applying

Scholarship applications

Tip: Getting a scholarship, no matter how small, is something you can put on a c.v. and will count in your favour for future applications

- see notes above about getting references

Resources:

- StFX Research Office and research funding;

- Government of Canada International Scholarships

- other websites, e.g. http://www.topuniversities.com/student-info/scholarship-advice/scholarships-study-canada

- Rotary International scholarships, Mensa Canada, Soroptomist, etc.

Filling out the application: as with graduate school applications, you must follow the guidelines TO THE LETTER (deadlines, word limits, requirements for written submissions, guidelines for what to include, etc.)

 - e.g. for SSHRC MA: application information
 

 Where might it all lead?

- examples of jobs: http://www.cas-sca.ca/latest-jobs