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    hungrybear got a reaction from fortsibut in GRE Date   
    Update: unofficial score of 168V/149Q.
    I'm ecstatic!
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    hungrybear got a reaction from TsarandProphet in GRE Date   
    Update: unofficial score of 168V/149Q.
    I'm ecstatic!
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    hungrybear got a reaction from VAZ in GRE Date   
    Update: unofficial score of 168V/149Q.
    I'm ecstatic!
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    hungrybear reacted to Sigaba in Fall 2018 Applicants   
    @Steph Smith, please exercise greater care in how you describe your research, your findings, and your interests. Saying that your search faculty member websites have provided little indication that historians are working on the war on drugs is vastly different than saying "There isn't a lot of study in this area currently."
    IRT "free sources" please keep using Google, available library catalogs, libraries near you (https://library.drake.edu/), and maybe online booksellers. Also, when you do research on a professor look for his or her CV and course syllabi. Those documents will generally provide more information than web sites.
    If you manage to get into a good periodical library or access to Jstor, I recommend very strongly this article. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24911839?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
    The article provides a framework for an event in the recent past becoming a topic of historical inquiry.
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    hungrybear got a reaction from VAZ in Drop in Graduate School Applications   
    All the schools I am applying to have seen a drop. 
    I think this trend is a result of the economy getting better. There are more opportunities for recent graduates who would have otherwise turned to graduate school for opportunities. As the economy is still getting better, I can only imagine that the trend will continue. 
     
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    hungrybear got a reaction from AfricanusCrowther in Drop in Graduate School Applications   
    All the schools I am applying to have seen a drop. 
    I think this trend is a result of the economy getting better. There are more opportunities for recent graduates who would have otherwise turned to graduate school for opportunities. As the economy is still getting better, I can only imagine that the trend will continue. 
     
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    hungrybear reacted to AP in Project Proposal portion of SOP   
    You should delineate your broad questions and why answering them in a particular place/time is compelling to you. The SOP is not a dissertation prospectus. It is your monologue justifying how going to X school makes sense to answer those questions. 
    You will need geography/chronology because you are applying to work under the supervision of specific faculty that you must name (and contact). They are standard not because they are required per se but because if you don't, then you are not writing a statement of purpose.
    I'm not sure I understand your questions. No, don't ramble about your topic of interest and definitely don't do name dropping. You will have an opportunity to do this in your writing sample. The SOP should be about your big questions, your experience as a researcher, the department you are applying to, and how you see yourself in that program. In other words, you should show evidence of a coherent transition between a past, a present, and a future. Again, this is not a project proposal, at least not for US institutions. 
    I strongly suggest you look at SOPs samples, like this one. You can also search for horrible samples as examples of what not to do. They helped me a lot.
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    hungrybear reacted to fuzzylogician in Condensing WS vs Giving page numbers to read   
    If you can condense your 50-page paper into a 35-page paper without significant loss of content, you should absolutely do that. Never make your readers work harder than they have to. If that's not possible, I would personally opt for the whole thing + designated pages.
    My take on submitting the whole thing with instructions to read Part X is that it's worth taking the extra time to create a kind of (short!) summary or abstract of the rest of the work, to situate the excerpt in context. I assume that at least some readers will only read the designated part; some readers may read more, if interested, but most probably won't read the whole thing. So to avoid the cons of Option 1 and maximize the potential pros of Option 2, providing a short summary can help provide the broader frame and direct readers to where they can read more if they're particularly interested in X or Y, so it's not too choppy when they go to the excerpt. 
    That said, a 35-page excerpt out of a 50 page paper could be kind of awkward, if those are the parameters. If you can find a way to make it a standalone piece, that would be best.
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    hungrybear reacted to AP in Condensing WS vs Giving page numbers to read   
    Condense it. I rewrote my 150-page thesis into 25. The point is not the effort, it's the evidence that shows you can do historical analysis and present it in a convincing, relatively professional manner (intro/analysis/conclusion clearly stated, well-articulated paragraphs, well presented source(s) and their analysis, etc). Here less is more. If they say 35 pages, do not submit 50. Just don't. 
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    hungrybear reacted to laleph in Condensing WS vs Giving page numbers to read   
    As @AP said, follow the instructions. Don't submit more pages than the application asks for. The adcom is going to be reading other applications whose submitters followed the instructions and were able to say what they needed to say in 35 pages. You will stick out, and not in a good way.
    I condensed a 50-page paper to around 30 pages for the application -- but I also provided a link to the original in case someone was curious. I'm assuming no one was curious, but it made me feel better to know that Enquiring Minds could seek it out if they really wanted to.
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    hungrybear reacted to maelia8 in GRE "Splitters"   
    I attend a public R1 institution, got 168 V but only 152 Q, and was accepted. At my school, I don't think there are any humanities-wide graduate fellowships for people with high overall GRE scores - everyone I know who got a special fellowship on top of the normal package got it thanks to special status (i.e. first generation college student, ethnic minority) or special history of community service/activism. I was told by the history dept. admissions officer that as long as you didn't totally bomb quant, they didn't really care how well you did on it, all that mattered was high verbal. 
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    hungrybear reacted to ExponentialDecay in GRE "Splitters"   
    It is so bizarre to extrapolate employment likelihood from GRE scores. I don't think I can take this OP seriously.
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    hungrybear reacted to OHSP in GRE   
    My quantitative scores were terrible, I got into one ivy and four other good schools--at one school visit a younger assistant professor was like "hah your quantitative scores were pretty bad but not as bad as mine", so that's how much they mattered (Telkanuru is right about the funding thing for some state schools though)  
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