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Anyone else apply to Western for Public History?

Unless you have a good reason, like having to respond to another offer by a certain deadline, don't ask.

I'm Canadian. I don't recognize like 75% of the acronyms posted on this board.

This might be a bit too personal, but I was wondering how much debt everyone took on for school (undergrad + grad). For people that have already completed grad school, how long did it take you to pay off?

Someone's signature in the Philosophy forum says that they applied to 30+ schools. I can't even imagine how much time/money that would cost.

You made a thread on this forum asking for our help, and now your acting like you're doing us a favour? No wonder your advisor bailed, I wouldn't want to work with you either.

Here's an IAmA from Reddit that you may find interesting: http://www.reddit.com/r/gradadmissions/comments/18lr61/i_am_a_professor_at_an_r1_university_i_served_on/ The poster is on the adcomm for a computer science program, and here's what he has to say about verbal scores: "A low GRE, for me, won't disqualify a candidate, however I do expect to see a good Quant score. I don't even look at verbal." I can't imagine an English adcomm will give much weight to your quant score. Best of luck with the admissions process.

I applied to three Master's programs and have so far been accepted to one. The school that I was accepted to doesn't have the greatest reputation, and is certainly not a top or probably even mid-tier school in Canada. That being said, they are offering a ton of funding including a research fellowship under a Professor that I would love to work with. The program perfectly fits my interests, but I'm having second thoughts due to its reputation. I looked through LinkedIn to find out what grads of the program are up to now, and of the 12 or so I found, 1/4 are not doing much of anything (although to be fair they are recent grads), 1/4 are working outside of academia, 1/4 are doing something related to history but not at a high paying job, and 1/4 continued on to a PhD at higher-tier schools. The one person I found that worked under the Professor I'm interested in is currently doing a PhD at a fairly prestigious school doing exactly what I want to do. So, my question is how important is a school's reputation for a Master's program? There's a decent chance I'll get accepted to a school with a better reputation but it'd probably be a worse fit and almost assuredly be less funding. Will going to this school hurt my chances of going on to a PhD, or will I get out of it what I put in?

One of my teachers in highschool had really bad social anxiety as well. He said he threw up every morning during his first year teaching, and even after 15 years he still gets nervous. He was one of my favourite teachers and did an excellent job. It's perfectly natural to be nervous and I'm sure you'll do a great job.

Arguing over a half point? That's just pathetic. I'm probably going to be TAing in the Fall and I really doubt I'd have the patience to answer as nicely as you did.

I was accepted by phone yesterday and submitted the application on February 1st, which was the deadline.

Everyone's SOP suffers from short word limits.

She very clearly has mental health issues and needs professional help. For a forum of highly educated individuals, it's pretty sad that you'd resort to mocking her and calling her crazy.

"It's not a contest, but if it were I would win"