Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 22:24:32 -0500 (EST)
From: "Chad M. Kimmel" <cmk41575@marauder.millersv.edu>
To: network for soc grad stu <socgrad@csf.colorado.edu>
Subject: Concerns about Grad School
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Hello everyone,

	Please let me introduce myself.  My name is Chad Kimmel and I am 
a senior sociology major at Millersville University in Pennsylvania.  I 
graduate this December and  I have already started making serious plans 
for graduate school in the fall.  Within the sociology major here at 
Millersville, we have a criminal justice option offered which I have been 
apart of.  I have taken the basic courses that cover criminology, 
deviance, family, religion, theory, soc prob, etc..  My major strengh 
however is research. 
	I took my first soc stat course last fall and the second half 
(research methods) this past spring.  I loved it.  We used SPSS for 
windows and were taught the basics.  But, last year I also branched out 
into an internship with The Center for Opinion Research on campus.  I did 
some polling for a while then supervised others using the CATI (CASES) 
system.  I was also involved in a research project in which I learned 
many "advanced" skills such as factor analysis, reliability analysis, 
ANOVA, linear regression, etc..  They may be advanced for me, but in your 
case, they are probably what you learned your first day of class.

	What I'm trying to say is I need help: A lot of it.  I have a 
number of schools in mind and have received all the information I need 
from them.  I recently traveled north to an interview at the 
University of New Hampshire.  I loved the school and was very impressed 
with the program.  I had a chance to talk to a couple of students and 
they seemed very enthusiastic about their courses, or as happy as one 
could get sitting in front of a pile of papers needing grades.

	I enlisted into this network hoping I could get a lot of feedback 
of what to do, and what not to do.  How to apply, when to send app in.  
If to include writing sample, CV, etc...  I will graduate with a 3.0 QPA, 
and a 3.75 in my major courses.  My GRE grades are below average, which 
is the only bad thing, but my experience and recomendations could start 
fires.  ( I'm not bragging, I've just been very involved with the dept. 
writing two papers that are in preperation for publication, and 
presenting at 
an undergrad conference, and in two weeks, at the PSS conference in Lock 
Haven.

Other schools of interest:

	*Un of Maryland at College Park
	*UCONN
	*UMASS (Boston and Amearst)
	*U of Pitt
	*Penn State
	*Indiana University of Pennsylvania

If you have any remarks at all, good or bad, please e-mail me directly or 
on the network.  I would greatly appriciate your help.

Thanks

Chad M. Kimmel
cmk41575@marauder.millersv.edu