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I am likely attending Yale's Nahuatl program this summer. I was wondering if anyone has gone through it? If so, please offer any insight you have! I already posted this thread in the Language section of the forum, but it didn't receive a single reply and this forum is chock full of highly educated folks! So I'll give it a try in the History section.

Congrats! I'm looking forward to my visit on Friday.

I emailed inquiring about the time to decision a month ago with no issues. Just don't over obsessively email. Emailing a program coordinator to inquire is totally fine...

Congrats! Enjoy being a Longhorn! If you enjoy sports make sure to check them out, Texas has a storied athletic tradition and a nearly unrivaled athletic department budget (something close to $200 million/yr). Did you end up getting the GSR position?

On an also unrelated note, I applied to Yale's summer session and I have received some really positive feedback. It looks like I will be studying Nahuatl at Yale this summer, but I still need to receive the official acceptance.

Congrats Natiyrm! Enjoy being a Gator! Did you get any funding or perks at Flordia? Also, what do you study/will you study within LAS and what is your educational background?

Let me know how it goes!!!

I received my official SHORE nomination today and I accepted that. So if I do accept admission at UCSD I am guaranteed a 2br for the fall.

Well for anyone who is interested in this topic in the future. I was informed that those who do not receive FLAS to attend are offered a $2,000 discount. That should make attending $3,000 instead of $5,000 (plus finding somewhere to live and providing food for yourself).

Congrats! Offers of priority housing placement should have happened already, your actual placement in a particular unit will be down the road sometime.

Has anyone completed this program or are you looking to participate this summer? How selective is it? What kind of financial aid did Yale offer you (outside of FLAS)? Did you live on campus or off?

Currently I am reading A Year in the South: 1865: The True Story of Four Ordinary People Who Lived Through the Most Tumultuous Twelve Months in American History by Stephen Ash.

Professors may read gradcafe. You are being ridiculous though, completely ridiculous. What you experienced was karma, not a vindictive graduate committee.

I don't know about in sciences, but in humanities "inbreeding" is frowned upon. Inbreeding being when you get your undergrad and graduate degree at the same institution. It is good to gain experiences and ideas from other schools, that is what makes you well rounded and unique.

If for nothing else, Toronto offers poutine!

So many people write "an historian" including people with impressive PhDs... I still despise it.

Congrats on the PhD admit!

Thanks, hopefully they become more focused and solidified in the near future! Did you apply for both an MA in LAS and a PhD in Spanish? Your profile says Spanish PhD. Where else did you apply and for what programs?

If you are going alone it definitely increases your options. I have a SO coming with so we were hypothetically stuck with UCLA family housing which is in Mar Vista (5 miles away from campus). My department has no priority slots left for housing though. Everything I looked at around UCLA was like $2,000/mo for a 1bd. I'm coming from a place where my 750 sqft apartment that is 50 feet from campus is is $430/mo, lol.

Oh sorry, I meant academic/scholastic background not ethnicity. I am interested in closely analyzing the effects of Spanish colonization on the indigenous groups of Mexico. I want to see how the hierarchy of native society changes when comparing immediately before the Spanish arrival to immediately after and a little ways into colonial times. I'm shooting for ~1500-1650 CE. Do the noble/wealthy indigenous people stay wealthy and noble, how does their station in life change over the decades as the Spanish morph the region into a new political body? I originally wanted to hone in on a Nahuatl speaking group because of my fascination with the triple alliance (the triple alliance itself is way overdone), but I think that Mixtec speakers are where my immediate pursuit will lie because of offerings at my target schools. It is possible that I will do some comparative work between a Nahuatl speaking group and a Mixtec speaking group for my PhD. Ideally I'd like to learn to read colonial Mixtec during my MA, and colonial Nahuatl during my PhD. I will be graduating with a B.A. in History and a B.S. in Anthropology (archaeology) in May. I have taken some Latin American centric history/anthropology courses but not nearly enough. I want to use my MA to broaden my knowledge of Latin America, improve my fledgling Spanish, begin to learn one amerindian language (mixtec/nahuatl), and strengthen my knowledge of colonial Mexico. Ultimately I hope I can make enough improvements for a strong PhD application in ~3 years to Wisconsin/Texas/UCLA/Penn State.

I don't think having a masters prior to a PhD is that uncommon in the US either. I have several profs that have MAs and PhDs from different institutions, including profs who finished their PhD less than 5 years ago.

The two short and sweet things I would add are: Fit is everything and can outweigh coming from a non-prestigious university (at least for MA). and The entire application process is horrendously expensive, stressful, and time consuming. Between the GRE, 5 applications, and Open House visitations to UCLA and UCSD I will have spent something like $1,600 on applying for my MA.

I don't know if formal training is a necessity to be a historian (I absolutely despise "an historian"). In my opinion anyone who follows the general procedures of properly and ethically using sources can be a historian. Of course anyone who has received any level of degree in History will (read "should") be capable of doing this. But I think that non-degree holders are capable of producing quality work and that makes them historians as well. That being said, lots of people produce work that is absolute shit and are in no way shape or form historians despite having written a book.

>.> That image looks like complete nonsense to me.

Yeah, I'm sure he/she doesn't care at all. People on grad cafe are way too high strung about little mistakes.