Ok, I just found this board tonight and now I'm panicking. I'm seeing people on here getting rejected from every school they apply to, and it like ruined my day. I have a resume that's really strong in some points and horribly weak in others. Can you guys just, I don't know, be honest and tell me what my chances are? I go to a top 50 uni, big research school, and my cum GPA is 3.70, history upper-level GPA 3.73. I've had three internships, I've put on an exhibit, working on hosting a formal panel, member of Phi Alpha Theta (now the secretary) for two years, research trip with my school out of state. Extensive work archiving and doing oral history/conducting my own interviews. I'm writing an honors thesis right now, already did my senior thesis last year. I have 4 letters of rec; department heads, reputed professors, etc. I'm sure whatever I'll churn up for my SoP will be decent, too. HOWEVER, my writing sample is a little weak (redoing it now, kind of meh argument that I'm tweaking) and my GRE math... lol. I did ok on the verbal, got a 630 and taking again in two days with hopes of high 600/low 700, but I got a 440 in the math. Standardized tests TERRIFY me and I'm bad at math as it is sooooo yeah.
Schools I'm applying to:
WashU
Carnegie Mellon
UPitt
UC Boulder
UI Chicago
Temple
Emory
UFlorida
UT Austin
I realize that some of these are stretches... but yeah. What do you guys think?
