tigerinexile

So Yale is apparently rejecting people today; NYU is inviting people to an interview weekend. I have as of yet not been rejected by Yale _or_ invited to NYU for an interview. My college roommate's girlfriend (in a different sub-field of history) has heard from professors at Columbia and Chicago who express much interest in her application. (I was magna at college in a different major, she was summa in history.) I am waiting on: Yale, Columbia, NYU, Michigan, Stanford, and a pair of others. *** Am compulsively checking my e-mail now. Argh.

Alas. I'm waiting on seven schools for Russian history.

Any of you folks out there? Feeling good about your applications?

I'm glad to see others who feel like they're scatterbrains as well... Me -- applying to history PhD programs. Undergrad -- a foreign language and literature at a top school. (Big three) GPA -- 3.65 Grad -- area studies MA (AM?) at another top school. (Big three, again.) GPA -- 3.67 GRE: 680 V, 800 Q, 5.5 AW. The schools: Harvard, Yale, Columbia,WashU, Michigan, Stanford, Princeton. From my master's admissions and funding offers, am acutely aware of how important it is to meet the potential advisors, however just haven't done it this time. History deadlines were early for some schools -- am just dawdling on my last one, for Yale, as they have an extra essay for their applicants to do. Looking at potential advisors, I'd be lucky to go to any of the places I'm applying to. As I'm kinda switching fields and am a good but not great student, thought I'd toss out as many applications as I could -- hope that one sticks.