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    killerbunny reacted to venusofwillendork in Hopeful BA to PhD Seeking Advice!   
    BA to PhD here! I applied to 7 PhDs & 1 MA, and got into the MA (with partial funding) and 1 PhD -- I'm at the latter now.  If I could do it again, I would apply to fewer programs with more contact with the program before submissions. 9 is a lot to consider and to balance, especially while you are still in school.
    I can't really speak to your resume, but it sounds like you'll make for a strong applicant! The things I'm saying below are coming from a place of being stronger & framing the work you're already doing most effectively. 
    So the advice above is great, but I think the most valuable thing you can do is make good connections with your potential advisors. Send emails, ask for a phone call, ask to meet with their current students. If possible, read some of their work & be able to articulate how the specific work you want to do fits with theirs. Some of them will respond. Some of them won't. But far and above, good contact with them before you apply will set your application apart.
    Next, I'd just say (and I'm coming from a similar background): As a BA student, it can be difficult to fully understand who YOU are as a scholar within the field -- what your research is contributing, and how your approach to this field fits with other methods, frameworks, and theories. This is something you will continue to develop through your studies, but it is one of the ways to really show that you are prepared to enter this field. In your statement of purpose, and in your conversations with your advisor (and in your own thinking) really take the time to consider a few questions. Some things I wish I'd asked myself:
    Why is Art History the most relevant field for my research project/specific research interests? What projects & research have I already completed successfully that I can use to demonstrate the kind of art history that I do? How will a PhD in art history, specifically, help me in my professional, academic, and career goals? Why do I need to do it *right now* and not in a few years? What methods & forms of art historical scholarship do I *disagree* with, and why? How is my work different from these? Why is it important that more of my framework/method exists? (And from there -- which scholars at these universities are using those methods?) And while you're thinking about that dissertation topic (and I agree with above, don't make it too specific -- or say explicitly that you expect it to change as you grow as a scholar -- but have a strong general idea of what your project is) -> why does it matter? what does your specific research interest contribute to the field? and how do you know it's contributing something? All of these are big & complicated questions, and things you will continue to develop as you study. I don't expect you'll have complete answers before you apply, or before you even start. But showing your admission committees that you're ready to think about these will show that you are a strong candidate despite your "academic youth." 
    Finally, and this one may be a bit difficult to hear, but I really think it's worth thinking about a year off. I know firsthand the eagerness about moving forward with the degree, especially thinking about funding for a year. And I know exactly what it's like to know that this is your next step, so why wait to take it?  I encourage thinking about a year off for a few reasons. 1) While most PhDs are funded, they do not pay well. Taking a year and saving a little buffer will protect you while you're in school. 2) Burnout is *so* real. For a high-achieving student like yourself, your senior year is going to be *rigourous.* Taking a year to breathe, center yourself, and even think about some of the projects you've begun can only help you succeed more in the next year. and 3) Taking the time to connect with advisors, hone your research questions, and develop your ideas takes work, work that is very hard to do while you're in school and balancing so many other things.
    The people around me that are most successful in the PhD program are the ones who have had to live in the non-academic world for at least a little while -- long enough to understand that there is so much more to life than our research. For me, that time off compelled me to work even harder, and I have a healthier work-life balance, a better understanding of money management, and more professional knowledge I'll use to get a job when I finish. I know it's a hard thing to consider, but you may find that it opens more doors than it closes.
    Good luck, and feel free to DM me if I can offer any other help!
     
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    killerbunny got a reaction from Beek2023 in B.A. --> top-ranked PhD: what are my chances?   
    First off, not all professors are "old"! ? And even if they are, it doesn't preclude them from being great sources of advice on your grad school prospects. And when you really think about it, they're probably the best source since they know you as a person and an emerging scholar, unlike any of us strangers here on the wild old web—though your stats sound impressive. Profs also may be busy, but busy with a job whose official duties include advising students on matters that you're asking about here. They'll be the ones writing what some think (debatably) is the most important part of your app, the letters of recommendation, which will be read by prospective advisors, people whom your current profs will very likely know as colleagues or even friends. 
    As to your actual question, apply to a mix of (funded) MA and PhD programs and see what happens. Many forum users have done so in the past and the results can be surprising. I wouldn't worry about your majoring in history, but a writing sample that's heavy on art history is better, and one that demonstrates your desired focus as a future doctoral student is best.
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    killerbunny reacted to Dreams in Deciding Between Masters Programs-- Any Help Appreciated!   
    Which ones are offering the best funding package?  Which ones have professors that will guide your particular research interests?  What's your plan after you graduate?
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    killerbunny got a reaction from Wamberg in Choosing between two writing samples   
    In the statement, I'd specify areas of interest / list a few subfields to give an idea of your direction as well as to make the case for why you're applying to a particular program. But I'd avoid giving the impression of already having narrowed down a project. Being academically curious and open to the perspectives of your potential mentors will be more welcome. Almost everyone deviates from their initial plan anyways, especially as they become more familiar with the state of their field and learn where attention has already accumulated and where the lacunae lie. 
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    killerbunny got a reaction from Wamberg in Choosing between two writing samples   
    It's a real pain to condense a thesis but I'd try to make the writing sample as stand-alone as possible, so that straight away, a reader can follow along and not get stuck due to a lack of context. This topic pops up every application season, so searching and finding the general consensus on the best way of using a long-form piece as a writing sample would be a good idea. 
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    killerbunny got a reaction from Sigaba in Choosing between two writing samples   
    It's a real pain to condense a thesis but I'd try to make the writing sample as stand-alone as possible, so that straight away, a reader can follow along and not get stuck due to a lack of context. This topic pops up every application season, so searching and finding the general consensus on the best way of using a long-form piece as a writing sample would be a good idea. 
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    killerbunny got a reaction from lhuy in Am I ready for a PhD? What should I do in gap year?   
    To chime in with @botticelli and @jbc568 this added time to work on your writing sample and statement of purpose will be a big benefit to you. The more time you have to step away and return to those parts of your application with fresh eyes and a deeper understanding of the field, the better off you'll be. As for conferences, I'd say attending them to get that deeper understanding is better at this point than presenting, and thanks to the move to Zoom, it's easier than ever to listen in and learn about the latest scholarship. If you haven't already, check out and subscribe to https://arthist.net/ to find out about upcoming conferences as well as read calls for papers, which gives a good idea of the kinds of conversations going on now in art history. I'd also keep in contact with your current professors. You can ask them these kinds of questions, and they will have you on their radar when you need letters of recommendation next year.
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    killerbunny reacted to Sigaba in 2022 Application Thread   
    @4everstudent writing with a word budget is hard. However, you may have more to work with than you realize. Consider the following. A double spaced page with one inch margin will have about 250 words and take two minutes to read aloud. So a 500 word SOP is basically the script for a four minute "elevator speech" for convincing your audience that you'd make a good addition to a program and to a department in the near term and to the historical profession in the future. 
    The following paragraph has 48 words.
    Imagine yourself listening to yourself talk about your aspirations for graduate school and beyond. What are the essential pieces of information that must remain? What elements would you like to keep, but don't necessarily need? What words simply don't belong? Are there ways to tell "the story" better? 
    The following revised paragraph has 28 words.
    Explain how the program will help you become a historian who will advance historiographical debates and serve the profession. Keep only essential sentences and words. Cut everything else.
    [If you have Netflix, consider watching The West Wing, season 2, episode 9 for inspiration. The episode is ostensibly about NASA. It's also about the power of the well-written word.)
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    killerbunny reacted to Sigaba in 2022 Application Thread   
    When you start taking graduate level classes in a history department, you will have professors who can summarize 800-page books in one sentence. Some will add a sentence like "this book could have been an article."
    Is staying under a word limit about counting beans? Or is it about being concise in a discipline in which decision-makers increasingly value brevity? "Sometimes less is more," is how an Americanist who has an award named after him put it to me.
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    killerbunny reacted to jbc568 in Am I ready for a PhD? What should I do in gap year?   
    You seem to be in a good place. Contrary to what the person below you has said, conferences, archival research, summer institutes etc. don't really matter at this point. The best thing you can do is have a strong and focused statement of purpose that displays knowledge of what's happening in your subfield and a solid writing sample. Use the year to attend talks in your field, read recent scholarship, and tighten your thesis into a writing sample. 
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    killerbunny reacted to Bronte1985 in What kind of publication are *you* writing for?   
    The difference in how you'd write isn't so much a question of style or tone as of subject, scope, methodology, and contribution. Each journal occupies a particular niche in the academic landscape and addresses a particular audience. The Art Bulletin, Art History, and Oxford Art Journal are general art history journals: methodologies can vary, but articles submitted to those journals should make a clear disciplinary contribution, beyond a particular field or subfield. There are differences among these journals, but not, as far as I can see, very significant ones, beyond length. 
    For articles that make a more field-specific contribution, there are many journals that have a more narrow focus, like October. October is journal dedicated almost exclusively to articles that deal with modern and contemporary art but, unlike, say, Art Journal, their articles tend to engage a particular set of theoretical concerns (Neo-Marxist, post-structuralist theory, traditionally). Grey Room, on the other hand, concentrates on Media Studies, so, for example, you probably wouldn't be publishing on "high art" there, unless you were rethinking it using the conceptual tools of media theory. (October and Grey also happen to be more "cliquey" and tend to publish people the editorial board already knows--last I checked, October doesn't even do double blind peer review).
    So the main difference among journals is audience: who's reading the articles. Who do you want to reach with your article? What scholarly conversations is your work taking part in and how big of a contribution is making. In terms of figuring out the differences among the journals, the best thing to is to read a few issues as well as the journals' mission statements. The differences are sometimes subtle, sometimes obvious. If you picked up an issues of Oxford Art Journal and compared it to an issue of the Burlington, for instance, I think the differences would be pretty clear: articles in OAJ make extended, conceptually sophisticated arguments grounded in a broader historical and/or theoretical context, while the articles in the Burlington focus more on connoisseurial and/or documentary topics.  So keep reading. Especially if you start at the top journals, you may have to submit to a few places before you get your article accepted; sometimes you may have to reframe it, other times not.
    Hope that helps!
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    killerbunny got a reaction from a-c-relly in Fall 2021   
    Everything's negotiable! (Half kidding.) It doesn't hurt to ask if you do so tactfully and offer a reason or two why you could use more aid. My own experience: I (politely) asked for more $ from the MA program that I ended up going to, explaining that I'd be leaving my job and moving to go to school, so anything more that they could offer would be most welcomed. It didn't work. BUT I suspect that my plea and doing well in my first semester swayed them to give me more aid later when more funding became available. I've read on the forums here that having another offer sometimes gives you leverage to negotiate more funding; so searching for past discussions on this topic might help you decide how to approach this. But I say go for it!
     
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    killerbunny got a reaction from MtrlHstryGrl in My advisor is making me rethink my field and interests   
    I agree with @Sigaba and @essiec. Rather than asking about your grade, as I'd mentioned, ask how to develop your skills. It's easy to fixate on grades, but it's really less of the point than it ever was at this stage in your academic career and transitioning from that mindset will help you and be much appreciated by your professors, who are now more like advanced associates. And I think as the other commenters mention, you'll actually get the constructive feedback you're hoping for with the approach of giving (to the discipline) rather than getting something (an A and positive feedback, which, don't get me wrong, I live for). 
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    killerbunny reacted to essiec in My advisor is making me rethink my field and interests   
    I'm sorry, that sounds like a really challenging situation.
    I do recommend approaching her for feedback on your writing, and, like @Sigaba said, come to her with a how-can-i-learn-from-you mindset rather than making a change-my-grade appeal. That way, your professor won't feel on the defensive about justifying your grade—you're simply coming to ask for an explanation as if you accept the grade you've received. Her no-feedback rule is probably just to simplify her life so she's not spending days grading essays, but I don't think it's unreasonable to ask for a brief explanation. She'll probably bring up specific things for how things can be improved in the future (rather than explaining what you did "wrong" in her eyes, which might happen if you were "challenging" her over a grade.) 
    You could ask her for her recommended historiographic articles/books, the works she admires for structure or organization, etc. to show you're interested in learning more about the field and the historical craft for the long haul.
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    killerbunny reacted to Sigaba in My advisor is making me rethink my field and interests   
    Is your objective to receive positive feedback or to receive information on how to develop skills as an academic historian?

    I started in one program to work with a specific historian. He provided positive feedback and little else in terms of skill development.
    I changed programs and ended up with a couple of professors (X, who has a reputation for being hard to please, and Y) who were more than happy to bounce me off the walls, give me the grades I'd earned, and to stand on my head when necessary. They did not offer much praise, but they did enable me to learn the craft. (X and Y have also written letters on my behalf for jobs in the private sector.)
    Here's a slightly different mindset to consider. Your professors have something that belongs to you -- knowledge on how to be a historian. What are you willing to do to go and get it?
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    killerbunny reacted to Sigaba in My advisor is making me rethink my field and interests   
    It seems to me that the professor is treating you like a doctoral student and expecting you to lean into your work much more.  Making the transition from having an undergraduate's mindset to a graduate student's seems to be an ongoing challenge that's complicated by her distant approach.
    The B+ you received was meant to be a kick in the head. (An unwritten rule of graduate history programs is that anything but an A is a F.) Your "lessons learned" appear to have been more tactical than strategic. So when you got her comments on your draft it is possible that you took her compliments to be an endorsement of your adjustments when, from her point of view, she was encouraging you to work harder from a strategic perspective. This is to say that while you're trying to figure out how to write to make her happy, she's urging you to produce work that enables you to create new knowledge.
    If you follow @killerbunny's outstanding guidance, I recommend that you be prepared to talk about either your understanding of the historiography or your analysis of primary source materials in that order. Your objective is to understand how you can understand / practice history better, not how you might have gotten a better grade. (You will, I suspect, benefit greatly if you understand and truly believe that the former is more important than the latter.)
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    killerbunny got a reaction from essiec in My advisor is making me rethink my field and interests   
    I'm sorry. From your post, your advisor does sound rather unsupportive. The no feedback rule elicits a ?!?! response from me (although, many professors have to be pressed for feedback because they don't want to waste their limited time writing comments that will go unread, unheeded). 
    I'm facing end-of-term deadlines and just procrastinating here on the forums, so I'll be direct (forgive me if this comes across as blunt). How much did you revise your draft after you received a thumbs up from your advisor? I'm wondering if you aren't working against an expectation that even a promising draft needs to be revised, refined, and polished before it reaches A-level status. I have no idea what her compliments detailed but maybe she implied you were getting warmer in meeting her standards but needed to keep going? If you do feel like you didn't rest and turned in a finished paper that represented further revision and finetuning, please gently press her for feedback on where you went wrong. I'd be just about as open as you are here, that you are worried about your future in the field and really want to learn what's expected of you but in a way that conveys you don't expect your hand to be held through the process. 
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    killerbunny got a reaction from Sigaba in My advisor is making me rethink my field and interests   
    I'm sorry. From your post, your advisor does sound rather unsupportive. The no feedback rule elicits a ?!?! response from me (although, many professors have to be pressed for feedback because they don't want to waste their limited time writing comments that will go unread, unheeded). 
    I'm facing end-of-term deadlines and just procrastinating here on the forums, so I'll be direct (forgive me if this comes across as blunt). How much did you revise your draft after you received a thumbs up from your advisor? I'm wondering if you aren't working against an expectation that even a promising draft needs to be revised, refined, and polished before it reaches A-level status. I have no idea what her compliments detailed but maybe she implied you were getting warmer in meeting her standards but needed to keep going? If you do feel like you didn't rest and turned in a finished paper that represented further revision and finetuning, please gently press her for feedback on where you went wrong. I'd be just about as open as you are here, that you are worried about your future in the field and really want to learn what's expected of you but in a way that conveys you don't expect your hand to be held through the process. 
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    killerbunny got a reaction from Sigaba in My advisor is making me rethink my field and interests   
    That's rough. So much of academia requires reading minds. I often have to fight the urge to appear like I know what I'm doing to ask questions when something is unclear to me, but a lot of the issue is, as a classmate put it, I don't know what I don't know. If you're feeling gutsy, I'd just ignore her no feedback rule and politely ask her about your grade, saying that you'd developed the impression that you were on the right track and would take any comments to heart for future papers. 
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    killerbunny got a reaction from MtrlHstryGrl in My advisor is making me rethink my field and interests   
    I'm sorry. From your post, your advisor does sound rather unsupportive. The no feedback rule elicits a ?!?! response from me (although, many professors have to be pressed for feedback because they don't want to waste their limited time writing comments that will go unread, unheeded). 
    I'm facing end-of-term deadlines and just procrastinating here on the forums, so I'll be direct (forgive me if this comes across as blunt). How much did you revise your draft after you received a thumbs up from your advisor? I'm wondering if you aren't working against an expectation that even a promising draft needs to be revised, refined, and polished before it reaches A-level status. I have no idea what her compliments detailed but maybe she implied you were getting warmer in meeting her standards but needed to keep going? If you do feel like you didn't rest and turned in a finished paper that represented further revision and finetuning, please gently press her for feedback on where you went wrong. I'd be just about as open as you are here, that you are worried about your future in the field and really want to learn what's expected of you but in a way that conveys you don't expect your hand to be held through the process. 
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    killerbunny reacted to birthofthereadership in programs suspending admission fall 21   
    I agree fully with what is said here. No, it's not wrong to advise prospective students about the job market and what to expect (or not) on the other end. However, let people make their own decisions to attend or not -- as you did.
    I'd like to highlight, also, that there are other options, such as funded MA programs, as a first step and possible stopping place if you then decide not to go for a PhD, not covered here, which provide a middle ground. I'd also emphasize that UCs actually have very competitive funding packages (including for certain terminal MAs) and graduate students are unionized. That criticism struck me as fairly typical-- someone who has gone to an Ivy critiquing one of the few top public universities, which put these degrees within reach for many of us, in a way that is unfair and un-evidenced. 
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    killerbunny got a reaction from jujubea in How Can I Strengthen My Application For Next Cycle?   
    A bold response. 
     
    The wait period is far from over, @yuyuuu. Sorry if I missed it but have you received an actual rejection yet? And if you do get shut out, I think you answered a lot of your own question as far as feeling as though you didn't have enough time to do more thorough research of programs and possible mentors whose work would gel with the topics and methodologies that interest you. Did you have a chance to reach out to any POIs before applying to suss out their availability and receptiveness to your proposed scholarship? That would have been a great opportunity to get their opinion about the patchwork nature of your academic background, which TBH doesn't strike me as a "mess," especially if you're applying to interdisciplinary programs. The most convincing case you could make are your SOP and writing sample. These will demonstrate more than any letter by a well-known figure or a more consistent undergrad curriculum that you're ready to take on the project you're proposing in your application.
    But like I said, the 2020 cycle is not over by a long shot. Good luck!
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    killerbunny reacted to venusofwillendork in Debt?   
    For a PhD program, $0.  If you get into a doctoral program and they do not offer funds, it's not worth it to accept the offer.  I know that there are very limited MA programs with full funding, and that it's difficult to get into a doctoral program without an MA. 
    https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/education-postsecondary/reports/2020/01/13/479220/graduate-school-debt/ < This article breaks it down in pretty specific detail. It talks about using a percentage of your income to decide how much of a loan you should take out. 
    If you're looking at adjuncting, you might make between 20-25k/year for the next few years after your degree (https://hyperallergic.com/516702/how-much-does-an-adjunct-actually-make/). That's like a 20k loan to be able to take out -- 10% of your income over 10 years. With an MA program, you won't be able to get a TT position.  You'll either need to continue in school (defer your loans), and still may need to adjunct for some time even with a PhD.
    But say you play your cards right.  You take out some loans for your MA, defer them through your PhD (without taking a gap year in-between, otherwise you'll need to start paying after 6 months).  You land a TT job.  These start at 40-50k and seem to land in the 60-70k range on average (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mWZL98MP01YNrPFmg9NOi4b1CmoPWh2r33nxjss40xI/edit?fbclid=IwAR0eINbPuxSnDJnc9r0cLmjCkwp3ylpCSorlPfPMiif9OJAh_yCg-CTGqck#gid=2015163110).  That could put your loan limit as high as maybe 45k.  But you would need to be very, very lucky for that to work in your favor.
    Maybe you don't want to be in academia.   If you don't have an art history background, and your program doesn't require internships during the degree, you might not have the experience needed for it.  You might need to jump around to temporary fellowships in the meantime.  Fellowships I've seen that a qualified BA or MA student might get can make 14-20k.   Curatorial Assistant positions (appropriate for an MA) make between 30-50k. They're very competitive.  And if you want to be a curator (after getting your PhD), that's maybe 50k-80k depending on the size of the museum (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14_cn3afoas7NhKvHWaFKqQGkaZS5rvL6DFxzGqXQa6o/edit?usp=sharing).  
    A general timeline for paying off student loan debt is 10 years.  With some of these lowest-paying positions, you're looking at a cap of around 20k.  At the highest, 60-70k loan cap.  I would personally be incredibly anxious about pushing the limit.  With the state of our world (even before the pandemic, and even more so now), pushing the limit on how much you can take out is not a good choice.  It's likely that there will be even more precarious employment in our futures, and having a massive debt will only put more pressure on you and on me, and will only make things more precarious.
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    killerbunny reacted to venusofwillendork in Top programs?   
    Hi @paulab!  Here are a few criteria I used to narrow down my focus.  Like you, I wanted a school in the Northeast and my area is in modern art.  Beyond the faculty I already knew about, or who were already recommended to me as potential POIs, I wanted to assess some other schools and to look at their faculty.
    I actually made up a little worksheet with some of the following criteria and used it to search each department's website.  I used these criteria on the schools and people I already knew I wanted to work with, and worked to expand my list too.  I started with CAA's directory of programs (https://www.collegeart.org/publications/directories) and narrowed my focus to the regions I wanted and if I wanted an MA or a PHD and started looking at some of these qualities:
    Preference for academia or curatorial path (some departments will advertise a strong curatorial program, if that's where you want to work after school) Undergrad and MA institutions for current students (I'm a BA-only candidate, so I wanted to see if many students got accepted without an MA, and if my R2 school was realistic) Number of and area of specialty for professors in my field of interest Names of current dissertations in progress (anything relevant to what I want to do?) Diversity, equity, and inclusion statements, and the program's emphasis on transatlantic, post-colonial lenses Placement of recent graduate students Focus on theory, visual analysis, material culture, interdisciplinary etc. (found this by looking at faculty) Presence of, and quality of Graduate Students Association, Graduate Student Unions Stipend amount (takes some creative googling) and number of years (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RK4iDBMdcTm73NJV28gDE6D4_hcjXpohTCThO9lRrQE/edit?usp=sharing) Location relative to areas, museums, and archives of interest (and location relative to cost of living) How long has the program existed?  What top faculty have worked there in the past? Once I had narrowed it down to a shorter list of schools, I also considered the following:
    Responses from faculty (do they respond, when do they respond, are they cordial, do they offer to meet?) Responses from grad students (what do they have to say? are they happy with the program?) Timeline to degree (do most people finish on time? what support is available? what is the placement like) Support for alt-ac futures, professional development Do they actually hold to their DEI statements?  Are they actually as interdisciplinary as they claim to be? I know your question was about what makes a "top school" and there are probably answers to this.  However, I think you're really looking for a way to narrow your search down.  What makes a "Top school" top doesn't matter as much as your ability to succeed in the program and to find work afterwards.  I hope these questions help!
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    killerbunny reacted to AP in 2021 Application Thread   
    Just a reminder to everyone who is applying this year.
    You had a difficult first half of 2020. We, faculty, did too. Grad students did too (many lost summer stipends, many doing international research saw their projects disappear). Staff did too. Admin, believe or not, did too. Our situations are all different, some with kids, some with visas, some with racial justice concerns, some with loneliness, some with illness. 
    This year, you are anxious about applying, but also anxious about applying in the middle of a pandemic. You have many questions for which there are no answers. We have many questions for which there are no answers. I have no idea how I will teach in the Fall. I have no idea how I can re-structure my book project so that I push going to the archive. 
    All this is to say that in the same way the pandemic is making you anxious about the unknown, it is making us worried. This might translate into people taking longer to respond to your emails as some folks are WFH with kids or caring for others, or they are simply just taking some time off. People might not have an answer for all of you questions or that answer being contingent on many variables. People might understand your concerns but might regrettably not be able to do anything about it (I really wish I could unilaterally abolish GREs). 
    In other words, be patient. While the summer is usually a good time to write to faculty because we don't have any meetings or deadlines (we are just out in the field going to archives), this summer is way different. 
    ( @coffeehum this is not to you specifically, but you made me think about how I would react if a student sent me an email this week to discuss admissions. So, thank you for the inspiration!)
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