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@Need Coffee in an IV I completely agree on the too many good schools thing! I feel like my list keeps growing and I've yet to cut any. I'm getting into the nitty gritty of writing my SOPs and hopefully starting to realize that some of these programs might not be the right fit and just seem like really cool places to be.

I'm writing one of my SOPs and the prompt specifically asks for me to write about how I expect to finance my studies. I'm just finding this a really odd question as I've yet to come across it in any of my other prompts and am not really sure how to go about answering this. Does anyone have any sort of advice for this?

@Need Coffee in an IV I planned on being the exact same way with working at smaller museums, then I ended up getting an internship with the National Park Service. Now I can see myself working there too. Though I've seen first hand how hard it is getting in the door there, so I'm probably gonna stick with the smaller museums for now. Though thanks to that internship, I'm massively behind on my applications. I'm now debating crossing out George Washington purely on cost and DC's cost of living, though the idea of working with the Smithsonian would be amazing.

Thanks for the replies! Honesty, I'm not that motivated to commit to a PhD (both in terms of time and money) so I guess that rules out curation. I really enjoy working with physical objects which is why I was considering heading down that route. I've started to look at History/Public History programs with digital humanities programs in hopes to find some other potential programs. I'll start looking into Anthropology programs too. I knew entering into this field that loans were likely in my future. All of my internship advisers have been explicitly clear about that when offering advice.

Hi all! I'm finalizing my search for programs and was wondering what advice people had on this field. I just got a BS in Anthropology and Educational Studies with a 3.5 GPA. I did somewhat okay (152V 146Q 4.0 AW) on the GRE so I'm bit stressed about that. I'm currently caught between doing museum education and curation in grad school, as I've done two six month internships working in both. I'm also really interested in studying the use of new technology (i.e. apps, youtube videos, social media, etc) in museums as a form of education. I'm tending to lean towards programs that really stress hands-on work and internships. So far what I have on my list are: San Francisco State University George Washington University University of Washington Syracuse University University of North Carolina - Greensboro Are there any other programs that I should look into? Should I be alarmed about my GRE scores? Any advice would be appreciated!