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Thanks for the advice.

This thread has been quiet for too long!

Every week? Lol, you need some restraint!

I have an original work of history that I wrote as my "senior thesis." I have presented it at an international conference and it won the student paper award at the conference (A very large interdisciplinary conference, the program was 155 phone book size pages, hopefully it had a lot of competition). Presenting the paper and it winning the award are unrelated, it was accepted on its own merits for presentation before the conference knew it was written by a student. I have been told to submit it to "Xxxx" journal, which is a specific journal focused on a specific geographic region within the USA run by a state historical society. The journal is an academic peer-review type journal, but isn't particularly well known outside of the region. I have been told that the paper is publishable in its current form and that it is a likely "accept" or "accept pending revision." I am wondering if I would benefit more for a PhD application (in about 3 years) if I were able to get it published while I am still an undergrad, or should I wait and submit it in the fall when I am a graduate student (MA), or does it make no difference? Either way I realize that it is entirely possible, probably even likely, that it will be rejected either way despite what I have been told by "seasoned" profs. I just want to see if there is any additional possible benefit that can be milked out of this CV line regarding when I submit the article (again assuming that it is accepted, which it may not be). I look forward to responses from people "in the know."

UCLA's MA (Humanities/Social Science) did not require a thesis. This is most certainly not true. Though if one intends to go on to a PhD, the thesis route is surely the best option.

If you live in graduate housing you can rely exclusively on a bike. There are buses (shuttles) in the area too.

Van Young is "retired" now. But he will still work on committees and I think he still teaches one class.

Thanks. I figured if I didn't ask for a source I would get a few people posting whatever they had decided was the top 10.

People are always talking about the top 10s job placing rates, but no one ever provides a list of top 10. There are a lot of rankings out there and none that I have found explicitly address placement rates. Where is this top ten list, and does the list change according to discipline or specialization? For example I am interested in placement rates of colonial Mexican history PhDs. And I do expect some kind of source.

Mvlchicago I was recently told that this is Yale's last year. I was told this by a nahuatl scholar that is not affiliated with Yale so he could be wrong, but I doubt it. UCLA will be starting a 4 week summer course.

But summer flas is pretty small, like $3,500.

FLAS is only for students of the program awarded funding and their funding must be in your region of the world. Not all schools with flas offer flas for all language types. Summer flas on the other hand can come from another university and can be used outside the US.

Depends. The school I went with said they accept about 30 and expect about 10 to attend. The school I declined accepted 8, so I would guess they expect 2-4. Both are UC schools.

The Hebrew bible historian/critical theorist at my university is not very conservative. Though I'm not sure if that is included under the umbrella of jewish studies, no such department exists at my university. He is american though, not Israeli.

-Presenting an original work of history on the Dakota War at the WSSA in Portland. -Finishing out my B.A. and B.S.. -Attending an intensive language program for Nahuatl at Yale. -Traveling to the Peace Garden and Thunder Bay. -Moving to San Diego. -Putting 40-50 hours of work into my Spanish skills which need to be improved. -Buying a new car. -Platinuming 2 ps4 games. -Reading a few more of James Lockheart's books.

Depends if you are applying for an MA or PhD. If you are applying for a PhD I think your stats are really really low. If you are applying for an MA they are a little low but will probably not get you thrown out of the admissions process right away.

I believe UCLAs IDP has what you are looking for. They offered me full funding through a fellowship. So that is a program you could look into. You can take on a primary focus of History, but you will need courses from another discipline like Anthropology or Sociology to pair with the history courses.

Also my target schools did not offer terminal MAs in history, only the MA/PhD route. I didn't feel I was a good enough applicant for a PhD at this time. In my experience only lower tiered schools are going to fund a terminal History MA. Schools like North Dakota State and Northern Iowa etc. Most of the top tier schools do not offer an MA and if they do it is not funded. I am doing an LAS MA then applying to a PhD in History (Latin America)

I visited UCSD yesterday. I accepted their offer.

I would expect so, I received 2 fully funded Latin American Studies MA offers.

Thanks, I'm pretty sure I've made my decision.

I'm leaving for SoCal now. By Friday I will have made my decision on where I will attend.

Fantastic, I wish you the best of luck! I hope to improve my Spanish as well!

At my school any spring admit was unfunded, and not considered for funding until the next fall. I can't say whether all schools function in this way, but I would bet it is pretty common. Most programs/professors function on year long budgets.

I am mildly intimidated by this, but I hope that it will get me from zero skill to close to being able to read a classical document in one summer. I intend to seek out some additional individual instruction during my MA.