I'm looking for some advice, preferably from those already attending grad school.
Writing my SOP, I began to realize that the project I am offering for the dissertation is not actually one I would be interested to pursue. By the time I figured this out, it was too late to change it and write a whole new SOP. Without going into too many details, while my SOP talked about a project within early medieval political-culture history, I came to realize that I actually want to study the history of cultural encounters, and that I prefer to do so in the time frame of the higher Middle Ages. IMO it's not a major change, it isn't like I decided that I want to study economic American history, but it is still a change of focus.
Assuming, hypothetically, that I was to be admitted to one of the programs I applied to, how do you think the program would react to such a change? I am particularly concerned about advising; with my shift of focus, I think I would prefer having as my primary advisor a professor that, though I did mention in my SOP, was not mentioned as the primary potential advisor.
