Cpt Jo

I'm afraid of the answer if I ask.

I think colleges want to have a good balance of subject/gender/nationality, so your "strength" or the college's reputation are not that relevant because there are many other factors. You must also match the fellows' interests. I read stories of people being reallocated to Christ Church or New, whilst they had applied to less famous colleges.

I wouldn't like to go there as it is so far from the centre and I despise Brutalist architecture. However, they apparently have the best bar of the university. Seriously, the good point with Wolfson is that all the rooms are on-site, whilst most of the colleges have to accommodate their students on the outskirts of the university. I drew a map about the colleges:

In Europe, it's common to have a masters in history before doing a PhD. It's just that the masters is not included in the PhD like in the USA.

Clarendon is divided into "divisions" that match Oxford faculties. Sciences applicants always know before Arts and Humanities. I think this is because the funding schedule is dictated by the research councils, and the AHRC works slowly. Still three weeks to wait.

Which is a very diplomatic answer.

In France, historian is only used for people with a solid training in history and an official position. Secondary school teachers are "professeurs d'histoire", not "historiens". Those who have trained by themselves or are working outside academia are called "érudits". Popular writers who have published history books are called with a bit of disdain "vulgarisateurs" ("popularizators") by academics.

Yes, it's expensive, but it gives you better job prospects. I can't do anything with a master in History (literally).

More expensive than £20.000? :blink: I paid €440 for my Master in France. It may be an option for OP, French, Belgian and German universities are free, and housing is generally cheaper (outside Paris, Munich and the Côte d'Azur). So perhaps he can go there to learn a language and try again next year.

There is always an email tab opened in my browser, but I still check every ten minutes, so 50-100 times. I also check gradcafé results 20 times per day.

Research councils give the results at this date and most of other funding bodies have matched their schedule on them. As you're from Malaysia, your funding options are different - and sadly limited. Just wait until the beginning of April. Then, if you still haven't heard anything, email them again and tell them that you have a deadline for a scholarship in the USA and ask if they can give you the result in advance. You should also contact Purdue and tell them that you are waiting for a decision from Oxford and if they can give you an extra week to decide. lol, you posted the same message on TSR. I answered you there. There isn't a lot of bursaries for masters, and funding is limited for internationals... However she didn't say that you haven't been shortlisted for funding. She just said that the department doesn't give bursaries. Departments sometimes don't tell who have been shortlisted.

Are you American? so you will pay £20,000? Another factor that you may consider is your college placement. Some of them have much cheaper rooms (St-John's for example) than others.

In History, you'll probably hear about funding before college allocation, unless your scholarship is linked to a college.

Received my offer yesterday.

You need a 3.7 GPA to go to Oxford: "For applicants with a degree from the USA, the minimum GPA sought is 3.7 out of 4.0. However, entrance is very competitive and most successful applicants have a cumulative GPA of 3.8, a first-class degree or the equivalent." However, you can compensate low undergrad scores with a strong research proposal, because this is the key element in the application in the UK. So you have your chance if you already have a very good idea of what you want to do. Otherwise, you should do a MA before applying to a PhD, and your dissertation will help you the get the historiographical background and archival knowledge required for the proposal. As an American student, you will have few funding opportunities, but you must apply to Oxbridge, which have the best studentships for internationals, and Leeds/Sheffield/York. Durham and King's College London have virtually no funding for internationals. York is especially reputed for its Medieval Studies, so you should definitely apply there. http://www.york.ac.uk/medieval-studies/postgraduate-study/phd-medieval-studies/

In April.

It's in May I think. Be patient, some of us are still waiting for an answer!

Read a lot of books and you will find out, but honestly, academics should give you good advices. Sometimes they say in their introduction/conclusion/notes that "this person/period/event/etc. still needs its historian". (Killer combo: contact this historian to work on the gap he mentioned.)

It's the same for jobs. What does it cost to send an automatic reply?

Massive congrats!! I found your twitter and saw your subject. It's very strange that Durham didn't support you as they have the former archives of the University of Douai, and unis are generally happy with students who can shed light on their belongings. I have also chosen Durham for their archives, I hope it will be a plus in my case.

Congrats!!!!

Not New Haven then?

This is great! What does mean #3 at the top? Yale, Harvard, Princeton and Stanford give crazy stipends. How surprising.

Do you have an answer from Cambridge? Oxford likes to take its time...

I answered this on another thread: Oxbridge have the best funding for Internationals with specific scholarship programs: Cambridge: Gates Oxford: 140 Clarendon, 32 Rhodes, 10 Ertegun and 4 Wolfson (Arts & Humanities only for the latter two), and many country/subject/college specific bursaries. Funding is scarce for internationals elsewhere. I've found that prestigious unis in the UK such as KCL, UCL, LSE and Durham have pretty rubbish funding for them. Bear in mind that master's funding is close to non-existent for foreigners, unless in a 1+3 scheme(MA+PhD). However some other unis also have university wide scholarships that are open to all students. The most generous ones (generally with more than a hundred scholarships) are found in the red brick unis: Manchester (100 President's Doctoral Scholarships, but only four in the Arts ), Sheffield (a few University Prizes, a few Faculty Studentships, 2 Worthington, 6 Wolfson in the Arts), and Leeds (amazing funding there). Sorry to bring bad news, but I think the DDS is only given to internationals, or to complete a fee-waiver only award from a research council. I am a bit shocked that prestigious unis only rely on external funding for their PhDs, it's the same at KCL. I hope you have other options.