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  • Birthday 04/24/1988

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    US Borderlands History MA

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  1. Comet7777

    1 year MA

    If you get the chance to do the PhD in 1 year, jump on it!
  2. I got like 14 schools I'm looking at. That's just my preliminary list, and with a bit more research and counsel from some professor's who know these top programs in my area, I should be able to bring that list to roughly around 10, hopefully a little less. But I would like to shoot for 4-5 top/dream schools, 2-3 good schools, and 2-3 back ups.
  3. Interestingly enough, I'm a current SMU grad student, but I'm a UTD alumni. I was originally a computer science major before switching over to the humanities. UTD is a growing university, getting close to reaching tier 1 status. If you're not interested in traveling far for a better option, UTD will serve you well, especially if you want to stay in the DFW area. The School of Management at UTD has a pretty good reputation. I wish I could tell you more about faculty and the actual program there, but I'm not qualified for that. However, you should be okay for getting in. UTD is unexpectedly selective for a new state school, but I worked at the Enrollment Services and saw plenty of records, I think you'll be fine getting in there. I'd still recommend you check out other possibilities unless you're set on staying within the area.
  4. Your scores are absolutely fine, and they seem good enough to get into many top 10 programs. However, your GRE scores are at the bottom of the totem pole for adcoms. What will matter more so than your writing score (which isn't even that important to begin with compared to the verbal) will be your actual writing sample, statement of purpose, and above anything else fit. Universities want to know that your research goals complement well with the faculty in the department. But to assuage your fears, no your GRE is fine, you don't need to retake it, but it's time to start worrying a little bit more about your writing samples and the fit of a university.
  5. Interesting stuff, I led a class discussion last week on Stephanie Smallwood's "Saltwater Slavery" (alliteration much?) and incorporated Marcus Rediker's book as well for comparison. Now that I think about it, it seems the faculty at Pitt would be a good fit for the OP as well.
  6. This is my experience almost verbatim. I last took the GRE December 2009 Yeah I start applying for PhD programs next fall... I think I'm going to have to nail a great score the summer before they administer the new one. That wont leave me with a lot of wiggle room if I decide to have to retake the exam. Either that or I also have to learn the new variant, I don't like this position
  7. For comparative slavery check out Ada Ferrer at NYU: http://history.fas.nyu.edu/object/adaferrer
  8. Yeah I noticed this as well. I opened up her spreadsheet and it seems useful but kind of messy. I may go back and either tweak it to match my upcoming applications or just start from scratch using some of those ideas. Though I must say, Excel is kind of foreign to me
  9. Yeah I looked up other information and the exclusion of the analogies in favor of more reading comprehension appears to be a godsend for people like me in the humanities (hell in any discipline really). ETS plans on administering this new GRE (along with the new scale of 130-170) in Fall 2011. So I'm thinking I may take the older one next summer, which I'm accustomed to as well as have been studying. Hmm tricky situation, it reminds me of the SAT change some years back. I found myself in this same exact situation of being stuck between the old format which I had studied laboriously for, and the new test which isn't radically different but different enough to make me apprehensive. I laugh at the fact that I checked out 3 prep books on the verbal section of the GRE today at the library.
  10. I was reading this article: http://sites.google.com/site/gradappadvice/gre, and am actually shocked to read about the new GRE format. I've taken it before and figured that for this cycle of applications I can build upon what I learned. But now I'm a bit apprehensive about this "newness." Does anyone have any information on what exactly is changing?
  11. Unfortunately not, which is a shame because his legacy played a large part in me going to SMU.
  12. I'm with the OP on this one. I'm currently doing US Southwest History MA at SMU and it's a great place for this, but my PhD goal is a Latin American History program or US program that really focuses on transnational history between the US and Latin America. I've already met with some key people in US Borderlands History at UCLA and Berkeley. So I'm looking at those two schools, as well as Stanford, Yale, Arizona, and UT Austin. As the thread title suggests, I won't be applying until Fall 2011, but I'm already doing my homework and beginning to work on my GRE for the odyssey that is to come... I've been lurking these boards over the weekend, there's a ton of valuable information here. I'll be excited to implement this in my Application season for 2011, God knows I wasn't nearly as prepared as I should have been for my MA applications (1 PhD) last year.
  13. Luckily Spanish was my first language and English my second. This allowed for my Spanish language requirement exam to be easy compared to non-Native speakers. I'm looking at PhD programs and I know I will have to join you guys and tackle this issue with Portuguese. So thanks for the tips so far.
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