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    Summer Plans

    I'm taking advantage of my job to get some last work related research travel in now and then finishing up a major project in early May. I want to take a two week vacation in June and then leave my job to move to the city where I'll be enrolling in late July/early August. At that point I'll spend a month relearning German and reading my assigned summer reading, hopefully poolside.
  2. I know people that have been admitted to that program without an MA. They admit only one art history track student each year.
  3. I second the comment by guys. Bryn Mawr is a very well regarded program. But if it isn't what you want, you should spend a year bolstering your application and apply anew to programs you prefer. However, I'm not convinced that the MA Humanities program at chicago is going to enhance your application to Art History programs necessarily -- you may want to consult an advisor you trust about this -- especially because from what I understand you aren't necessarily enabled in that program to work deeply with the Art History department there other than taking a few classes (I could be mistaken). For what it's worth, and apart from the skepticism that accompanies all of the grad cafe and other message board parsing of that program, I do know someone who loved it and felt it helped his application to Comparative Lit programs. But I'm becoming convinced that Art History departments are quite set apart from other Humanities PhD programs in their particularity about what comprises a strong applicant. Reading through this thread, and knowing my own experience and that of others, it's clear to me that 4.0 gpas, MA degrees, publications, teaching experience, museum/curatorial/archival/archeological/etc. research experience -- all of these together won't ensure acceptance to a choice PhD program, nor that you'll get funding, nor that you'll be admitted to any program at all, necessarily. I think the number of great AH phd programs is sufficiently small (fewer still offer great funding) that those programs can be exceptionally selective about admissions. It appears to me that at the level of comparing top candidates -- far too many for the limited spaces in these programs -- factors like personality, network/connections in the field, and quirky criteria about match with research notions all become key. Just speculation here.
  4. While I'm on a posting spree here, Does anyone know where chicken Dan ended up? I have heard some wonderful things about Chicago for contemporary Chinese recently and I was wondering if he will end up there.
  5. You know what? You are absolutely right. I was debating posting my outstanding credentials stacked up against my string of rejections and ultimately, it doesn't matter that I'm peeved that I wasn't accepted to places I felt I should have been, because I ultimately got into the best match program for me. That's all that's necessary! Yours is a healthy attitude.
  6. Ana -- I got an offer from NYU with the same terms and summarily dismissed it. From what I hear, NYU uses these admissions terms to weed people out, and I'm not going somewhere where I will feel insecure about my stature and longevity in the program.
  7. I think Chicago and Yale are both great options. Is Chicago also getting an Islamicist? I know that's not your area per se, but I get the impression they are amping up that program in a great way all the way around right now. As for the money, my friends at Yale feel that there's no place that offers more support -- not just in terms of the stipend, but in other forms of assistance applying for other funding sources. Dan, do you have a strong inclination towards one faculty or the other? I'd think that should be a major factor.
  8. The value of Museum Studies programs is often debated between those with humanities MA/PhD degrees and those with Museum Studies MA/MS degrees (and others, in Museum Education etc.) who work in the field. I'm linking you to a couple of places where this debate is exlicit: http://museumtwo.blogspot.com/2007/04/w ... l#comments http://community.livejournal.com/museum ... 53345.html I haven't read fully through either of those conversations, but I thought it might be worthwhile to view the general terms of this debate as you consider the best program for your career ambitions.
  9. First of all, congrats on the Chicago acceptance! You must be seriously psyched. I was wondering if you could say more about the email invite -- was it from an administrator of some sort or a personal email from someone you'd be working with in the program? I'm holding out some hope that there may be more email invitations forthcoming (specific to other advisors/areas of specialization). What area of study are you specializing in? Chicago is a great program and you should be very pleased with this acceptance. I know they reduced the number of admitees this year due to the funding shift, so this process was all the more competitive. Congratulations again!!
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