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== Things you should know about my role in the PhD admissions process == Most of my advisees are PhD students in the Department of Communication. The Department of Communication is wide and interdisciplinary and accepts a wide variety of students with interests in doing work that spans the humanities and social sciences. Please keep in mind that '''I do not serve on the graduate admissions committee in any of these departments.''' This means that I will not be reading applications from the general pool or be making the first cut through applicants. As part of the admissions process, I always give feedback on applicants to the admissions committee. I also typically have grant funding to fund RAs. So although I don't ever make admissions decisions on my own, my opinion matters and I can influence the process in some important ways. The admission committee always asks me two questions: # What I do think about the student relative to other applicants? # Am I a likely (a) advisor/chair or (b) committee member? The key thing for students to realize when reaching out to potential faculty like me is that my opinion in terms of the first question only matters if the the answer to questions 2(a), and to a lesser extent, 2(b) is affirmative. Typically, I am only asked to weigh in on students who the admissions committee has decided are likely to work with me. This means my opinion is only valued strongly if the applicants proposed research agenda involves studies of social media and/or online communities or who's methodological toolbox includes quantitative data science or programming. As I mentioned, some of my influence at the admissions stage stems from my ability to fund RAs. Being able to work as an RA for one of my funded projects helps your chances of being admitted to our program enormously. But again, you will only be at an advantage if you can convince the committee (and me!) that you would be interested and able to do the kinds of work that are described in the grants my lab has received or will apply for in the future. The specific structure of the admissions process and committees varies in the other departments but my involvement is similar, although even more arms-length. I have never done a "first pass" in any department other than Communication and can guarantee that I will not be involved in the admissions process for students that I am not a likely committee member for.
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