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Really? because I got an email from columbia saying they haven't sent out anything yet...?

Ah you're applying to hunter too!?! Haha, that's so great, I'm doing the same! We really are competition! I applied to CUNY but without funding so I don't think i'll hear from then for some time, I hoped if they didn't have to give me money I would have a better chance of getting in... The thought of leaving NY has hindered my desire to apply to a lot of places... If the school location requires driving, that's kind of the end of it for me. I can walk to Hunter. Plus I live at home so living expenses aren't too big of a deal.

I was fond of michael s. foley in particular... but CUNY's great because i live in ny and honestly can't imagine leaving to go anywhere... I had a prof for undergrad who specializes in the 1960s, I should've just applied to work with him, he loved me. Who do you want to work with? Your recommender is on the committee and won't tell you!? that is so harsh! I would go crazy... "if you say nothing, i will know it's a no..."

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ah NYU... how I will miss that lovely shade of purple and a university which opens up what we now call branch locations in other countries...

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I don't think it hurts that badly because i know someone who has a masters and still was accepted to a phd program. I heard it was good if you have a low undergrad GPA, although what constitutes "low" i have no idea because Berkeley wants a minimum 3.0 or something for history. I've been in MA classes, and I have to say, I don't think they have very stringent admissions standards... When people are saying things like "i'll do more research" does anyone know what that means? I mean, does this mean you go to archives and write papers, etc? This has become a horrible, hideous form of procrastination, and I should really be doing my French translation homework now...

who do you want to work with at nyu? I took a bunch of hebrew/judaic studies classes and I have some good grad student friends in that department.

Just to clarify: i get paid minimum wage because i'm an undergrad and i work at my school... Yeah. I just had to pay my app fees out of that money and thoreau wrote about how you think about buying things in terms of how much of your life had to go into purchasing it and so that's generally how i think about things I pay for. I'm not bitching, I honestly don't care, I just made the comment about Penn to point out that they don't actually read the whole application in everyone's case. It wasn't meant as bitching or whining, I just thought I might contribute something I found interesting. I didn't want to apply to half the schools i applied to, except the people i really wanted to work with happened to be concentrated at Penn and Harvard. I could care less about ranking, i didn't care about it as an undergrad and i don't care now. I probably would've have had slightly better results had any of my professors helped me or given me advice, but that's life. I have a promise of a job offer for Goldman Sachs' training program and I got accepted to law school, so no graduate school is not going to kill me. I was researching in archives before I majored in history, and no grad school is not the end of my life. The only difference is now I'm just a weirdo with a postwar us history fetish as opposed to a grad student with funding. But one of my high school teachers has told me about some serious Civil War re-enactments and wants help making costumes... Anyways, my life will go on, and this is not the end and I swear this is the last comment.

i beg to differ. upenn did not read applications in their entirety, i know this for a fact bc one of my professor's reccomendations was not in the file and no one ever asked for it and therefore did not read it. So as my last comment, i would dispell this myth.

thanks to my penn rejection today I am now rejected by every school i applied to! How lovely. I'm trying to think of something funny to say to make myself feel better and then i recall how much money i spent on application fees and the fact that i'm paid minimum wage and how long it took to save that money after taxes were taken out... and suddenly i want to throw something hard and heavy at a window... this should be tax deductable...

I just called columbia. they're emailing decisions today... supposedly.

If I can ask... what field were you at Columbia and who called?

I have to say, I don't know about anyone else but I was really excited to see the language requirement for history. Finally, all those years of abuse from French teachers has paid off and an American institution appreciates learning foreign languages... I can say with certainty the foreign language department is not where i went wrong. Except no one wants Italian, that was a waste of time...

That sounds weird... maybe they just didn't get enough applications?

My best rejection came from my prof for independent study. "You've read her book, haven't you?" "Yeah. I applied to work with her." "I talked to her about that... I wouldn't get too excited about working with her." "oh, um, ok." "She's not that good and a bitch anyway."

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