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Has anyone heard from Moore or Eller. There are a few postings about University of South Carolina but not sure whether it was Moore of Marshall.

Hi sf1033 Are you a Marketing applicant and if so are you interested in CB or CCT. I'm also waiting anxiously for the Schulich results.

Hi Sailor By Management (Concentration), do you mean Strategy. I am asking because I had applied to Marketing and wondering if different departments would have different batches for interview invites or has the entire set of interview invites for all concentrations been sent out. Thanks

NBS (NTU) has started giving out interview emails. Scheduled for later this week.

What is the reasoning behind giving the GRE for admission to a PhD program. THe two are not related in any universe we inhabit. However we've all given it because the authorities want it. Someone somewhere started this thing of hiding identities, then someone else started this thing of "I don't tell you colleges to apply for", then someone else started this thing of posting the entire profile minus the name (so you're identifiable yet your identity remains a secret. I think all of this is to prevent the abuse of power (howsoever small the concentration of it may be with a particular individual, the senior urchins already grad students or the better profiled application mates of ours, the prospective applicant is the absolute limit of the absence of power). Or even to prevent finger pointing at each other when the results tumble out and you see your profile which was objectively so much better than that other person's and yet he got through Northwestern while you are languishing here at Urbana-Champaign's waitlist. Never understood this myself but I guess this is part of the 'Initiation' process here at Urch. So buckle up my friend and hide your identity as well as you can. I just find it funny because as soon as we get a result, we can't wait for the world to know us, to end our self inflicted anonymity with a bang. But that's just me. Cheers for all the waiters and sweaters like me (or you)

Program Applying to: Marketing Age: 32 GRE Scores: 337 (170 - Q, 167 - V, AWA - 5) Undegrad degree / GPA: B.I.T. from Delhi University (66%) Grad degree / GPA: MBA from IIM Calcutta (5.4 / 9) Work Experience: 9 Years (8 years after MBA, 1 year after B.I.T.) Teaching Experience: Nil Research Experience: Nil letter of recommendation: IIM profs Research Interests: Consumer Culture Theory Schools Considering to Apply to: 1 in top 10, 9 in top 50, 3 in top 100 Preferred Schools - Wisconsin, York, Arizona, Kellogg

Thanks for you help Evergreen. How about Bath. would you rate that program as amongst the top ones as well. I realise top 10 not being very big on CCT actually works to my advantage because i don't really have the profile for an Ivy league school. If there's anyone with info on Bath, i have a question. It seems the school's phd program is not fully funded. could anyone provide first hand information. Thanks for the recommendations. Schulich was part of process but Arizona certainly wasn't. Big help.

Hi Evergreen. I've been reading and studying articles from Journal of Consumer Research and Journal of Consumer Culture for the past 5 odd years. Most of my work in advertising and especially in my second avatar as a brand consultant was based on CCT theory - Holt, Thompson, Askegard, David Mick, Russ Belk, Arnould and a few others. Thompson's work has especially left a humonguous imprint on the way i see the world and consumer behaviour, a term which he hates for being too close to the man as machine metaphor of the behaviorist school. Understanding the theory is not my problem hopefully. I have a half decent knowledge of sociology, mainly from the reading lists at the end of these articles - bourdieu, Said, mary douglas etc. doing a masters in sociology is not an option. Honestly, won't be able to fund myself for a master's program in the US or any top university in the world. The project with my friend is a CCT project, though he is a conventional Strategy prof. He's interested in CCT and its impact on strategy so he's also along for the ride. The biggest problem i have is the absolute dearth of CCT or Qual Methods profs at the conventionally top ranked b schools. And you can't really blame them for they are more focussed on producing 'Managers', not 'Practitioners'. If the top 10 rule themselves out automatically, for i am yet to come across profs with similar research interests in the ivy league except a couple of really new guys, what are my chances for say the next set of 10 universities.

Hi I want to do a Ph D in Consumer Culture Theory, a subset of Consumer Behaviour. I am going to apply for the fall 2015 programs to US & European universities. My GRE scores are 169 in quant and 166 in verbal and 5.5 in AWA. I have a Computer Science degree from Delhi University (66%) which would translate to around 1.6 in GPA i guess. (though nobody got more than 80% in my entire university). I worked for a year as a systems analyst in an Infrastructure firm. MBA from IIM Calcutta (very average acads). Worked for 4.5 years in advertising agencies as Account Planner and then started up a brand consultancy with a couple of friends for the next 3 years. I'm on a sabbatical now. No research published yet but i'm working with a prof friend in a top 5 b school on original research. I will be the lead author if and when we publish. I was selected as one of the top 10 people under 30 in the country in Advertising, PR & Media houses. What are my chances of getting shortlisted for Ph D programs. I'm going by the professors whose research i have enjoyed reading and understanding the most, rather than pure name b schools. Admittedly some of these profs are at intimidating names like Harvard, Yale, Stanford and some of them are at more accessible schools like Wisconsin, Insead, Manchester. Thanks for your time and help friends.