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chuckthecloser

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  1. Delaware first round will come by the end of this week, just as an FYI/PSA.
  2. Any current graduate students applying for summer museum internships? The much-coveted paid NGA internship applications were due this week and I wondered if anyone had applied there or elsewhere? This feels like waiting for acceptances/rejections all over again...
  3. In my experience, prospective students who present the committee with research interests within a broader field are more successful, but I suppose we have to agree to split the difference on this one. Either way, I wouldn't lean too heavily on the opinions of Internet strangers - myself included.
  4. My reply was not a value judgment or a suggestion that you mirror the specialization of recent hires in order to perpetuate an art historical echo chamber. An overly narrow specialization is limiting. My advice would be to aim for the best program possible with someone working in German/Austrian 19th and/or 20th, and in your coursework, cast as wide a net as you can within Europe and those two centuries. There's this idea floated here on grad cafe that your personal statement should include a very specific research plan/topic. I can tell you that professors are much more interested in students who can adapt to coursework, and who are flexible in their interests. It's just better business for them, and if you look at the incoming classes of Fall 2013 on the current student pages of the top programs, you'll see that many (most) of them have broadly stated interests.
  5. You mention that you realize how competitive and impossible the job market is, and you can see that there are no professors specializing exclusively in Vienna secession... don't sound too promising as a long-term specialization. I second Silverman and Koerner, and I expect they would give you similar advice - don't focus in on something so narrow, especially not so early.
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