obscurefemale

Yes I believe it's been posted before. But it is hilarious and deserves to be posted again! My adviser actually sent me this when I asked him if we could sit down and talk about PhD programs.

I was actually bit a surprised to see that on the results board. I heard from the department that they aren't sending out notifications for another two weeks.

Isn't Whitney Chadwick at SFSU? She's a big name and a phenomenal teacher...

Right...but that doesn't exactly answer my question. What are those terms?

So I've noticed on this forum that Cornell's Phd program receives a lot of flac...it's often cited as one of those examples of "prestige isn't everything." But does anyone have any reasoning for this? Is it just a faculty thing?

I would definitely look into Tufts! (It seems like you are already considering it.) Their grad art history program offers a Museum Studies certificate and they have two very strong medievalists there (Overbey and Hoffman). Tufts might be a great place to bulk up on museum experience while also satisfying your medievalist interests.

Yea...I'm still waiting on BU also. They're taking forever aren't they? I think I remember last year that they didn't notify until the end of March - beginning of April. Best of luck!

Which art history books couldn't you live without? Could be general, methodology or theme specific...you know the books besides Gardner (haha ohhh those were the good days) I'm thinking... Panofsky's Studies in Iconology Barnet's A Short Guide to Writing About Art Broude and Garrard's Reclaiming Female Agency Thornton's Seven Days in the Art World What do ya'll think?

I'm starting to freak out that I haven't heard from any schools even tho I've seen people post their acceptances/rejections/waitlists for the schools I've applied to on the results board. Do schools usually do separate rounds of rejections and acceptances? Mostly I'm thinking of Williams...I saw two acceptances and one waitlist by email. I wonder if they've already made all their decisions and I'm getting rejected? But if so why haven't I received an email? I can't imagine they'd accept people by email and reject them by snailmail? Also I keep checking my Tufts status online and I see nothing. Does anyone know how these places send out rejections and acceptances? And do any of the Williams people know if they've already finished accepting students? Freaking out!

I can top that! I accidentally sent the SOP for my dream school to my 2nd choice school...you know the one that I would have been more likely to get into if I hadn't sent them an SOP talking about another school as my first choice.

Sorry for the second topic in so short of a time! But I thought this might be a good place to distract ourselves from all those gloom and doom thoughts running rampant in our skulls! Okay if I'm rejected from all my schools I'm going to be...a farmer. My boyfriend said he wants to live on a farm so we'll get a farm, live on it, I'll milk cows and have lots of babies and read art history textbooks when I'm not slaughtering chickens. Either that or I'll apply to some programs in the Netherlands. Or possibly look into a Library Science degree? So people...back up plans? What do you secretly want to be if Art History fails you? Any astronauts out there?

Also wondering...I saw on last years results that Tufts seems to accept by phone? I'm actually in Germany right now working on my shrecklich Deutsch. Obviously my phone is turned off though I'm pretty sure I set up a voice message saying that I'm out of the country until August and to email me at my email etc. Do you think I should email Tufts and let them know? Or will that seem too presumptuous?

I know! I love Williams but it's so hard to get into that I just want to get the rejection over and done with! Do you know how many people they usually accept? Around 12 or more?

Hey AH people...just out of curiosity...which schools are you waiting on? And are you all spazzing out as much as I am? Waiting: Williams, American, Tufts, and BU Rejected: UMD College Park (booo...)

No I didn't get an email from them....what did the email say if you don't mind me asking? I kind of gave up on Tufts anyway after I accidentally attached my Williams statement of purpose to the online app. I called them and told them and they said I could mail them a hard copy with my supplemental materials. But I'm pretty sure that sending the wrong personal statement is a guaranteed method to the trash can. Haha oh welll....let me know what happens!