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From: Laura Miller <lmiller@weber.ucsd.edu>
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To: socgrad@csf.colorado.edu
Subject: getting into PhD programs
I have to say I'm astonished at the idea that one would need *any*
publications or conference papers to get accepted into a PhD program.
This is the sort of thing people worry about for getting jobs.  Has the
bar really been raised so high that you have to show evidence of
"professional activity" just to earn the privilege of learning how to be
a professional sociologist?  Is anyone aware of programs that actually do
make these sorts of demands on prospective students (with or without
Masters)?

Laura Miller