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  1. Thank you for your reply eyepod! No I do not dream of ivy league as I do not think I am that competitive. I'll be very glad to go to a top 80 program with funding. My biggest issue at the moment is simply that my current bachelor thesis will not be on a topic related to early modern Europe, which is the general field that I would like to pursue in a PhD program. I had a hard time choosing either to continue with a master's in Econ or a PhD in History. After that I had trouble choosing to focus on East Asia or on Europe. I am clearer now about what I want to pursue, but not detailed enough yet. I will spend the summer reading as much as I can and find out some topics that really intrigue me.
  2. Thank you mvlchicago. I'm interested in studying early modern Germany and I understand this is probably too broad a topic. I am trying to read more to see where exactly my interest lies. Currently I am quite interested in the Fugger family in Augsburg or a city history of Frankfurt in Reformation. I know these are very immature ideas as I did not seriously consider a PhD in history until recently. I understand you can't chance me. Currently I am looking into programs such as UNC Chapel Hill, Duke, Vanderbilt, Wisconsin Madison, BU, and Oregon as they have some scholars who specialize in early modern Germany. The list might expand as I check into more programs. I am preparing for a bachelor thesis at my current university and it will be related to the asexual and undesirable Asian males on screen (this is the best topic I can relate to history due to regulations of thesis topics at my program). I do not have any well polished writing samples on early modern Europe. During my history BA I did not have the chance to write a thesis and as my current uni offers no history courses I cannot write my bachelor thesis on a pure historical topic. Do you think this will be a big issue?
  3. Hello friends, I am applying for Fall 2016 and I wish y'all best luck in your application! Although I am more experienced with East Asian history, my interest lies in early modern Europe, especially the social, economic, political, and religious history of Germany and German-speaking area. I have a question and I'd like to know if someone here might be able to help me with: I have a BA in History with GPA 3.85/4.0, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. I took 5 courses on French and 3 courses on Arabic. I also passed German B2 level at Goethe Institut within 3 months (no prior knowledge of German, self-taught 1 month, followed by 8 weeks of courses in Germany). I am not trying to brag but to show that I am a decent, hard-working student. However, I am currently doing another BA in Economics in the German-speaking area. As I am pursuing a second BA, my current university exempted me from Assessment Year (the foundation year). So I missed out on many basic mathematical training. Currently I am suffering from this lack of training as I have to learn a lot of math by myself while other students have had the training, especially in courses related to linear models, statistics, and advanced micro. Meanwhile, the uni does not offer English lectures to the English courses in advanced micro and econometrics, and the learning materials for those of us who are not yet proficient with German are translated into English with plenty of typos and mistakes. I don't feel supported as I was in the US, and my current GPA in Economics is only 5.2/6.0. At my current university, 5.5 is summa cum laude (I only know fewer than a handful of extremely intelligent classmates who have this grade) and 5.0 is magna cum laude. Generally speaking, with a 5.0/6.0 people already assume you are really good. But when converted into US scale, my GPA in Economics is only around 3.4/4.0 and I wonder if my second BA in Economics will hurt my chance of getting into a History PhD program? Thank you very much for your help!
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