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Review
Process
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Applications
are reviewed and ranked by the entire faculty. The faculty
makes its selection
on the basis of academic records and on whether or not the applicant's
academic goals can be met by the department's programs. Those
chosen are recommended to the Graduate Division, which sets
the number
of students the department can admit, makes a final review of
the applications, and issues an official letter of admission
to the
student. The number of students the department can admit is usually
very small and standards for admission are highly competitive.
Students admitted with fellowship are notified by mid-February
and those admitted for admission without fellowship by mid-March.
Please direct inquiries about admission status to the Graduate
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Three
letters of recommendation are required. EALC accepts online letters of recommendation as well as paper letters. Letters of recommendation
in languages other than English should
be translated into English, but the original letter, in the original
language, must be included. Letters should
be submitted online or sent directly to the department. Paper letters must be submitted with Form G.
The department recommends
that letters of recommendation come from faculty members who
can comment on your intellectual capacity, analytical skills,
ability to write English, and general aptitude for scholarly
work. No more than one letter should come from someone who knows
only the applicant's language proficiency. Letters from nonacademic
referees are rarely helpful.
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Writing
sample: Students should submit a paper of no more than 15 pages
in length that she/he feels best represents
the quality of his/her work. Please do not send a thesis, lengthy
papers, or other materials unless directly requested by the department.
These documents, if sent, will not be included with the student's
file. The
writing sample should be emailed to the Graduate Assistant as a .pdf file whenever
possible. No writing samples will be returned to any applicant.
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Applicants
from abroad whose native language is English and those who
have studied full time for one year or
more in schools or universities where English is the language
of instruction are required to take the GRE. Applicant should
plan to sit the GRE General Exam before the department deadline
of December 7, 2009. The Department is primarily interested
in the scores on the verbal and analytical portions of the exam;
applicants with scores below 650 on the verbal portion of the
exam may be included in the review, but will normally have to
have an exceptional record to be considered for admission and
fellowship. To send an official score to Berkeley, list the institutional
code for Berkeley (4833) and the ETS departmental code for Asian
Lanaguges (2601). For more information, contact educational Testing
Service, Box 6000, Princeton, NJ 08541-6000; (609) 771-7670 or
1-800-GRE-CALL.
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International
applicants with paper TOEFL scores of less than 600 or computer
scores of less that 250 are generally not reviewed. |
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