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No.

Do both, see where you end up.

Time spent in archives is almost universally necessary for a good dissertation. Where those archives are is field dependent. Make sure you have access to funding to get there.

A writing sample using the language in your primary and secondary sources.

For all things related to applying to graduate school in history in the fall of 2022.

Yes, this is the only logical answer. Sorry.

Figure out who I am and then let's get a coffee sometime.

This isn't IU, is it? But this is nonsense, regardless.

Yeah, I'm with @psstein - I don't see enough information to make a good judgement. How much is the difference, and is the financial difference $30k vs $35k or $15k vs $20k - the same difference matters more in different circumstances. How does cost of Living in the respective cities factor in? (NB: as of this year, most Ivy+ schools are offering $40-45k as a stipend. Unionization works ✊)

I think it's unwise to go to a program you're not absolutely sure you're enthusiastic about, particularly if you are currently in a decent job.

Some more thoughts on recruitment and the job market in history: https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/march-2022/march-madness-the-recruitment-arms-race @psstein

Depends on the year, but low.

MA decisions usually lag PhD decisions significantly. "All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone." - Blaise Pascal

I've also heard of cases where someone had an unaccredited or unrecognized BA.

Yes. Usually, the department makes all its recommendations, which the graduate school approves (there are rarely objections by that stage), and then acceptances are sent out in bulk. I don't know why rejections lag. It sucks.

This is a reasonable assumption, and usually how the process works.

This is a subject for the main thread. Please post it there! You can also check the results reporting from previous years.

Unsurprisingly, I agree with the social democrat and not the libertarian ?

I think this year will be quite tough in general. Many programs did not take a cohort last year, but are not taking extra students this year to compensate, adding an extra layer of selectiveness to an already quite selective process.

This is, quite simply, a lie. Your account had no warnings or restrictions before you tried trolling. It now requires a mod approval on all posts until April, as everyone can see here: The second account has been banned as trolling and abuse, as has this account. If you have difficulty logging into your original account, please follow the steps outlined there, rather than creating a new one. In any case, none of this stands up to the supposed story of a longtime lurker who hadn't spoken up sooner, and I'm not interested in debating the point. Further accounts will simply be deleted as spam. Sorry to the rest of the forum for clogging the thread with these, but this is my attempt to be absolutely transparent about mod actions.

Are you really? 'Cause you have two accounts registered on this site, @anxiouslurker. Hope you don't get a bad rap on twitter. Enough. That's one easy ban, and I'm in a grumpy mood. I'll turn this car around if I have to.

Ok, putting on the mod hat. First: people will talk about what they want to talk about, and threads will drift over time. I'm not enforcing subject discipline or splitting threads. I don't get paid for that. Heck, after the recent sale of this site, I don't even get an amazon gift card and a thank you at Christmas anymore. If you find people talking about stuff you're not interested in, I encourage you not to read it. Second: Application threads have never been a place just for results and vibes. They have always been a place where new members could post questions and old members could offer what advice and wisdom they had. And that includes this thread, even before this past weekend. Third: Bullying and negativity. I let these comments, some of which were aimed at me, slide, because my initial response—if this is bullying, I'm interested to see what you make of seminar—was uncharitable, counter-productive, and one of those snide remarks that @charmsprof rightly objects to above. But I'm also not going to let this thread descend into the weaponization of safe space and inclusivity language to silence those speaking uncomfortable ideas; I'm already having to pull apart that mess in the MFA application thread. At least the post-reporting wars haven't started here, I guess? Anyway, this is all to say: this thread is not simply a place for comfort, congratulations, and commiseration. I suppose that makes it not a "safe space", though spaces are never in a binary of safe and unsafe. That's not to say that such spaces can't or shouldn't exist on this forum, but that one should not expect the general thread to be one.

It's usually how the close-out process works. No one noticed in the era before the internet. FYI it's how job searches work, too. Or it's to enculturate you to expect the dispassionate disdain with which university administrations view graduate students.

You have suggested several times now that your reasons to get a PhD mean that the advice given here does not apply to you. Again, if you could specify what you are referring to? Of course. But that does not limit me to discussing only my own experiences. Again, I don't know you, so take what advice you find useful. Classic.

The solution to what? Having a BA in history? I don't know you. No one here knows you, no should they. Since that's the case, at best, what you get here is advice based on probabilities, not tailored to your individual experience and ability. And some people are actually special, and go immediately to a TT job after a 5 year PhD. One of my cohort-mates did last year. I'm certainly at least very lucky. But for anyone on a forum to suggest that you might be special, to give you hope, is quite simply academic malpractice. I'm honestly not sure what post you're talking about, but GC is the opposite of a good old boys' club. The good old boys aren't here. They don't need to go on the internet for advice on how to do a PhD, they already know. Most people on this forum are first generation (PhD, if not college), and/or have taken unusual paths to get where they are.