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  1. I can answer two of those questions! Ph.D.'s in the UK are shorter as candidates don't have to take classes--they get right into their research. If you get your Ph.D. in the UK, whose institutions focus much more on research than teaching (whereas in the U.S. there is a large emphasis on teaching), you're much more likely to get a job there than in North America, at least for your first decade or so of your career. I can't speak for continental Europe, though.
  2. Hello! I was just wondering if anyone had any advice on MA programs, particularly if anyone knows of any programs strong in cultural history. As none of the "top" schools offer terminal MA's, and I'm not sure I'll be able get into those schools' PhD programs right now anyway even when I do apply, I was wondering if anyone had any advice. My focus is children's and animal history (not sure where my geographical focus will be yet). Thanks so much for any advice!
  3. Hello all! I may as well join in... I'm currently an undergrad at Carleton in Ottawa. My interest is mainly world war-era and post-world war children's and animal history--that is, the "animalization" of children's culture (in the U.S., Canada, Britain, and/or France... haven't decided if I'm going to do a transnational approach or what yet). So far I've decided on applying to Cornell and Berkeley, possibly Northwestern (maybe, the POI in whom I'm interested there is quite junior)... and Delaware is my safe school for which I'll apply to the M.A. I just took the GRE the other day and I got 163V/152Q (haven't gotten the written scores yet). Not great but not the worst, it seems! Anyone else in cultural history and can recommend some more schools?
  4. Hello all, I'm a history undergrad at Carleton University in Ottawa going into my fourth year. I'm going to be returning to the US to do my grad work. I know that getting into a school is mostly about "fit"--but I was wondering if I could get some insight into what kind of chances I have to get into a top school. My first choice is Berkeley as I want to go into cultural history and have found some profs I'd like to work with. I haven't done the GRE yet (two more weeks!), but I don't feel as if my score is going to be stellar. My quant score is going to be pretty awful as in Canada we don't have to take any math/science/etc. classes in uni so I'm pretty rusty. Anyway... I have a 3.7 GPA, am going to have at least one published article (hopefully going to have at least one more by the end of the year), and was a research assistant in my 3rd year. I also presented at an undergrad conference. What do you guys think? Do schools care about publications and conferences, or does every competitive candidate have those qualifications? I'm just really nervous and would like to know where I stand. Thanks for any and all advice!
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