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bigbangdeux

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  1. Mine hasn't. I was contacted by my POI to inform me of acceptance and tentative funding. My portal still shows that my application is under review tho. Thank you very much! I can't believe it truly. My main POI is Alice Conklin but I expressed interest working with some other faculty members in the French and African history departments.
  2. Got my first response and acceptance letter from my POI from OSU this morning! Department nominated me for two fellowships for a total of six years of funding! Beyond excited!
  3. Do you mind asking what's your subfield?
  4. Okay glad to know it happened to other people lol. I was mildly panicking. Yeah I'm assuming it just means that everything was received by the graduate school and is ready for the committees to review.
  5. Did anyone else's status on uwisconsin madison's status application change? Earlier this morning I wasn't able to see my status but now it looks differently and on the left under History PhD there is now another little slot that says Available for Recommendation and 'Pending Review' under both in the status description. Is this normal? Edit: added screenshot of page - blocked out the misc numbers in case they are significant to my identity or whatever :P
  6. Yikes AP, that sounds super intimidating, but thank you for sharing!
  7. I hope that everyone had a successful run of submitting their applications for December deadlines!! Question for those who have gone through previous cycles. Do most schools interview the applicants they are interested in or is that more of a school-by-school basis decision? What was your interview experience if you did have one?
  8. One application submitted! They wouldn't send out letters of recommendation requests until you submitted all documentation. I am not completely satisfied with where my writing sample was at for it, but I've also been staring at it for probably way too long at it anyways at this point. I feel like I'm starting to get tunnel vision when it comes to my writing sample. Dec 1 deadlines are coming up so quickly!
  9. Also for what it's worth just from my personal experience (and I see that you are applying for fall 2017) but should things not work out this year there can be a lot of benefits to taking time off in between undergrad and applying. I know for myself (I'm in year 2 out of graduating from undergrad) that time definitely helped me to hone in on what I want to study, plus I was able to have a lot more time to study for the GRE. You definitely don't have to spend a lot of money to be prepared for it. I cannot recommend the website vocabulary.com enough when it came to studying some of the pre-made top GRE words lists. I basically just studied those lists and I definitely think it was a huge help for the verbal section. Also sparknotes.com has a great condensed review section on GRE math that is presented in a very understandable way (especially for people like me who are not math oriented).
  10. I feel you! I need to be done with everything, but also at the same time I need November to go on forever so I have maximum time to edit everything. Sure no problem. I'm applying to UT-Austin, UChicago, OSU, UWisconsin-Madison, IU-Bloomington, Northwestern, Rutgers, and Notre Dame. What about you?
  11. I'm doing history but would definitely be willing to trade SOP with anyone! PM me if anyone is interested
  12. I've had contact with my favorite POI and they are interested in my research but had semi-dire (but understandable and realistic) things to say about the prospects of job for European historians... I'm not sure if this is a thinly veiled 'don't apply here' or a 'just know what you are getting yourself into' comment. Anyone have any interesting/confusing interactions with POI and how did you handle it?
  13. Has anyone come across a section on their application that asks you to list the other schools you are applying to and rank them? They appear to be optional sections, but I'm not sure how to approach this.
  14. OMG same... shout out to that 4:30 AM work out club. Also since I've asked a few questions already figured I would introduce myself as well. Graduated in 2015 from a SLAC (double major MLL/Classics) with a 3.66 GPA (damn you Ancient Greek) and good GRE scores (again not as important). Spent the year after graduation teaching English in France, and this year I'm completing a service year with AmeriCorps and am hopeful for the upcoming application cycle. My interests are in Modern Europe, specifically I want to look at gender and sexuality during France's Third Republic. I am applying to seven PhD programs (thank god AmeriCorps gets me fee waivers for a majority of these places). That's about it! I hope everyone is not feeling too stressed right about now, even though I know I am struggling right now with rereading my writing sample and cringing at argument holes that I didn't even notice when I first wrote it.
  15. I'm interested in gender in France in the late 19th early 20th century, particularly the ideas of femininity in relation to consumerism and citizenship. So I guess anything related to gender in France from the 19th and/or 20th c would be appreciated!
  16. This is super true! When I was graduated and spoke to my classics professors they all spoke about the high level of expectations for languages (and that with three years of Ancient Greek and two of Latin already under my belt), so I understand the frustration. Another option for you in you can swing it financially (and that my classics professors recommended to me when I was still considering it) that hasn't been mentioned is looking into a year long post-bac classics program. I had a friend who was a late comer to the classics program and while he had a lot of Latin he wasn't there with his Ancient Greek and so he did one of these programs (I think maybe at upenn but I could be wrong) to beef up his languages and this year he started the classics phd program at UT. Granted I know this isn't representative of all experiences and since you are looking to go into history and not classics there are differences, but if you are worried about languages it might be something worth looking into.
  17. Thanks I assumed that was the case, but again since I'm obviously not currently enrolled in a program and didn't major in history in undergrad I didn't know how much of an expectation there is to come in completely fluent in historiography (which was a concern of mine).
  18. I actually do know exactly what I want to study in a PhD program, I wasn't trying to say that my interests for the PhD span both those topics, just that I have historical experience and am not coming into this completely willy-nilly, I'm sorry if I wasn't clear about that. I did an extensive senior thesis that I would like to use as the platform for future research, which is what I'm suggesting in my SOP, not that I want to study both modern and ancient history. Thank you this is what I was looking for, I appreciate your thoughtful answer. I do feel like I have my own answers about my proposed themes and "why history?" but a lot of the questions you raised to think about are definitely something to consider.
  19. Hey everyone question for everyone here. I didn't major in History for my BA (double in classics/modern languages& lit) I did have a lot of historical overlap, especially with the period/topics I'm suggesting in my SOP. I'm a little concerned, however, that I might be lacking in understanding of historiography. Does anyone have any suggested reads or advice for someone who didn't major in History in undergrad and wants to (hopefully) come into a PhD program as prepared as possible.
  20. Thank you very much for the responses!! I really appreciate it. I definitely would have missed Ohio State, but will be looking more deeply into them now! Another question for everyone. I didn't major in history in undergrad but double majored in Classics and modern languages and literature (French/Spanish) so definitely had a lot of overlap with history. My question pertains to the writing sample. I worked super hard on my senior thesis and put in a bunch of research into it and ended up receiving Distinction on it, and would want to use this as my writing sample; however, it's written in French. Would it be completely fine just to translate it and use that as my writing sample, because I don't really want to put on my applications that I want to study French history, but then submit my Classics thesis, which while good I'm not as proud of? Also would be really interested in talking to people who didn't major in history in undergrad and if they have experienced any problems in the application process because of this?
  21. Hi everyone! New member here but hopeful for fall '17 Quick question that even after lots of online searching I'm feeling a little lost. I'm interested in studying modern Europe (particularly 19th C France) and am having trouble narrowing down the list of schools I'm looking at. I have been looking mostly at the top 20 schools, but I'm worried I might be missing out on hidden gems that have better programs for what I want to study because when you search all the initial results are very recognizable names. Mind you I obviously am not opposed to the Ivies or recognizable names, I just don't want to overlook a great school. If anyone has any recommendations at schools to look at that would be great! Or just how they went about creating the list of schools that tailored to their interests. Have a good one!!
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