jcharbinger

What are people's thoughts on painting yourself as interested in non-typical fields? I'm really into French Imperial History, Global History, and history and memory. Sometimes its hard finding professors who specialize in these ares, so am I a better candidate if I say that I am more broadly interested in Modern Europe? Who else out there is having difficulties finding a program that fits their unusual research interests?

haha, Trust me, I would never write a personal statement like that. If anything, I usually feel nervous about "selling" myself so to speak. But as this forum is for the most part anonymous, I suppose I left the filter off. I remember last year, I heard of a medieval studies major entitling her personally statement, "Autobiography of a Young English Scholar." Yikes!

I'm wondering what kind of GRE score I will need to get into a History Grad school. I would like to go for a PhD, but I will probably look at a few Master's programs as well. I go to school in Ohio (a good though underrated liberal arts college), and I'm a double major in History and French with a minor in cello performance. I specialize in French colonial history of the pre and post revolutionary periods. I'm also fascinated by new history and issues of collective memory. I'm applying for a Fulbright to study at McGill University in Canada, so we'll see how that goes. My GPA is 3.87, it's even higher within my history major (not quite sure of exact number), though slightly lower within my French major. I have participated in moot court competition, music ensembles, religious life, and some other organizations. I have written 2 60+ paged major research papers, one of which was about Colonial Louisiana and was part of a prestigious semester-long seminar at the Newberry Library in Chicago (one of the top Humanities Libraries in the country, with some of the best primary source material collections available in the field of French in the Americas). My top choices are: Yale University McGill Universtiry University of Chicago University of Michigan UNC-CH WashU Indiana University OSU (probably a safety?) Georgetown (MAGIC) - a master's program SO, what kind of GRE scores will I need to pull off to get into these places? I only got a 1200 when I took the SAT, so I'm a little concerned I might not do much better on the GRE. Thanks for any advice. I will really appreciate it!

Hi, I'm wondering what kind of GRE score I will need to get into a History Grad school. I would like to go for a PhD, but I will probably look at a few Master's programs as well. I go to Denison University in Ohio (a good though underrated liberal arts college), and I'm a double major in History and French with a minor in cello performance. I specialize in French colonial history of the pre and post revolutionary periods, particularly in regards to the colonization of North America and the Caribbean (consequentially, I know a fair bit about those areas of study as well). I'm also fascinated by new history and issues of collective memory. I'm applying for a Fulbright to study at McGill University in Canada, so we'll see how that goes. My GPA is 3.87, it's even higher within my history major (not quite sure of exact number), though slightly lower within my French major. I also have participated in moot court competition, music ensembles, religious life, and some other organizations. My top choices are: Yale University McGill Universtiry University of Chicago University of Michigan UNC-CH WashU Indiana University OSU (probably a safety?) Georgetown (MAGIC) - a master's program SO, what kind of GRE scores will I need to pull off to get into these places? I only got a 1200 when I took the SAT, so I'm a little concerned I might not do much better on the GRE. Thanks for any advice. I will really appreciate it!