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Rfwarlick

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  1. I am looking for schools that offer a masters in history. I want to study elite women of the antebellum South, specifically in NC, SC, and VA. I want to ultimately get my PhD, but when I was an undergrad I had no desire to pursue an advanced degree, so my undergraduate grades are not great. I'm looking for a school who looks for students with passion and skill, not necessarily grades. I have been taking courses at a local university recently, so I am developing myself as a graduate student. I know it will be difficult, so I don't need to be reminded of this. I am determined. My criteria is: A strong Southern and gender history program. A masters program. Doctorate programs are difficult to get into, and I don't have a strong academic past, I hope to get this at graduate school. A program that prepares their students for a PhD program. A hands on program. I am the type of student who pursues research independently, but also regularly seeks guidance from professors. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!
  2. Thank you for your further advice, I'm always ready for it. I do plan on continuing with my blog as the basis of my research, and then combining and editing blog posts to submit as articles. However, how would I go about presenting papers in conferences? Do I submit a paper to conferences and apply to present it?
  3. Alright, I greatly appreciate all this insight, and I'm probably going to put off my ultimate school plan for awhile, and work on my sop and cv. I am still going to do the blog to get my name out there and for fun, but the research will also be applied to papers to be published. Excellent! Thank you all so much!
  4. Let me go a little bit more into what I am doing with the blog and the volunteering. My overall goals as a historian will be to consult with museums, write and do research, and influence education and bringing the humanities back into education. My interest in the museum is two fold. I will learn what is sought out in consultants, and gain experience in the museum, and references, and also, it is a museum that is about my city, so it will help my blog. This volunteer experience will be treated as an internship, however, it will not be an official internship. My blog will be more like mini research papers that reach out to the general public. They will have references and a great deal of research. I will also work on writing samples based upon this research. It won't just be a blog on places I've traveled or something. Of course it may involve traveling, but each post will be written, readable to the general public, but researched as though each post were a miniature paper. I am also placing so much influence on the GRE because my undergrad were well below stellar. In a lower level school, that I learned a lot from, I didn't even make a 3.0. Now I didn't push myself either because I didn't have plans that would involve graduate school in 2008, when I graduated. My top school is also an Ivy League, in which I was told to shoot for a top 90th percent on my GRE. I've also been told that these schools don't look at scores to see your potential, but rather your work available, which I will try to make impressive. What are your thoughts with this information?
  5. I plan on applying to graduate schools this fall, however my undergraduate grades do not reflect what I am capable of. In the next months I plan on acing the GRE, as well as start a history blog to reflect my research abilities, and my analytical abilities in regard to history. I plan on volunteering at a local museum and helping bring them into the 21st century. For those who have applied to graduate schools to pursue history, what else have you done to make yourself shine?
  6. I am currently looking for an advisor, before I apply to graduate school this fall. I have one picked out, but she is pretty high up. I am planning on meeting her this summer for the first time, she is a scholar that I greatly respect and who has done a great deal of research in the field I wish to study. I also plan on going far in my own career and having her as an advisor would give me a wonderful start. I was wondering if anyone had any advice on how to approach the subject with someone I have not yet met. How can I make her want to advise me? I plan on sharing how much I support her research, and my thoughts on it, as well as my plans for my own research that will compliment hers. Can anyone give me further advice?
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