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Just got confirmation from my school that my proposal has been forwarded to committee in Ottawa. Good luck to everyone!

I submitted to my department's internal deadline yesterday. Good thing I have PhD applications and my thesis to keep me busy or else this would be stressing me out until April.

I was wondering if anyone had any experience with applying to the PhD in Visual Studies at SUNY Buffalo. The program looks super competitive (they only accept two students), and I am wondering how rigorous the application process is. From what I can tell it seems pretty straightforward, but I don't necessarily want to shell out money for the GRE for one school (this one of two American schools I am seriously considering).

Just received a confirmation from Concordia! Good luck to everyone!

Good to know! I had actually turned down McGill (they offered no funding), so I am hoping that this is no reflection on my applications through other schools. This process has been rather confusing to be honest.

I just was listed as an alternate for McGill. I have no idea what that means?

I am hoping to do something similar through the DAAD, which would look great on any CV. I am not too keen on the year off, though. The major issue that I have been thinking about is how it would look to not have written a thesis when applying for PhD programs. When I asked them about this they seemed less concerned about that, and more concerned about promoting themselves as a step towards American schools for PhD programs. They are the only school I applied to that has been so big on encouraging me to go state-side for schooling, which I hadn't previously given serious though.

Photographic archives and LGBT/queer social history.

Has anyone done the 1 year MA at U of T? I have been accepted to both U of T and Concordia with funding, and am weighing the pros and cons for both. I am worried that going for my PhD in a year means I will have less time to connect with profs for letters of recommendation, and will make it almost impossible to apply for SSHRC (given the PhD deadline is 1 November). What do you all think?