WhiteWine

Hello! Do you think one should add a "works cited" section at the end of an SoP if there are books or articles mentioned in the text?

Thank you TMP, Our grading system is similar to the American one. So the maximum grade you can get is 4.00.

Thank you very much for this encouraging, nice response!

Hmm, I have been working as a research assistant in my country at a private university for 3 years. I also spent a semester at an Ivy League university as visiting research fellow. But I have no published work.

Thank you ExponentialDecay. I will post it on the history board too.

Hello everyone, I am a graduate student from a non-English speaking country. I have a BA and an MA in Political Science. However, I saw my interests change in the last few years. Now I am about to start a new MA program in history and all I want to do after that is to work towards a PhD degree in history at a good, well-known university in the United States. If you want to be employed at a fine university in my country it is almost an unwritten law that you should have studied at a top university in the US or Europe. I am afraid I have a way too low undergraduate GPA to get into an Ivy League university. I had my undergraduate degree in my country at a university where language of instruction is English. First two years were a disaster for me. I just couldn't adapt to classes in English though in the last two years I did a good job. Yet, due to my bad performance in my freshman and sophomore years I could increase my undergraduate GPA only as high as 3,2. My GPA in the political science master program is 3,6. And as I said above I am about to start a new master's program in history. My only reason to do this is to achieve a really high GPA to get into a top history PhD program in the United States. I am so ashamed of my GPA that I might not apply anywhere at all out of the fear that I might be ridiculed. So, how high places should I hope to get into? Let's say would it be too courageous if I applied to Yale? Best.