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I'm gonna toss in my two cents. Let me start by saying that I've no baseless ill will toward the Ivies or their inhabitants, thought I don't think that will prevent me being tarred as such. poorest_ear, you're speaking in such generalities that it's difficult to understand what basis you're using to back your argument. Not to mention the several contradictions you're argument's suffering from in the first place. I'm just going to focus on the Ivy League professors are more "committed" to getting their students placed. Which is it? Do the professors cynically promote their students to solely to "keep their reputations up"? Or is this commitment somehow impacted by how you get along with your advisor? Based on your logic wouldn't a professor at a "less prestigious" institution have even more professional motivation to place their students in great jobs so they can boost their reputation? It seems to me that no matter where you end up it's a crap shoot. How many people get into the ivies and end up leaving the program due to an "incompatibility" or "fit" with their advisor? Yes, the ivies have more institutional resources which translate to more opportunities for their students but by no means is there a correlation between resources and scholarly commitment to the training and promotion of graduate students. Hell, there is a history professor at Yale who balances his checkbook at his students dissertation defenses. I'm willing this person isn't too worried about keeping his reputation up via the careers of his students. You have to actually get a Phd from an ivy in order to cash in on its status.

Got my Umichigan rejection today. Bummed me out until I remembered StrangeLight's story about not being able to enjoy her acceptance offer because of worry about outstanding applications. It rang my bell and woke me up. Thanks! Good luck and godspeed everyone!

Congrats to the other Northwestern admits. Are any of you were planning on attending the prospectives visit?

Congrats! Any word on how many Latin American admits? Also, mind if I ask what your focus is? Thanks.

Roldan is 100% at Hunter College/CUNY. From what I understand she's on leave this year. I met her at a talk she gave at NYU, she's great. As for me, I work on political economy and race in 19th and 20th century Brazil. Strangelight, how have you found Reid Andrews?

Just got an email from Northwestern. I'm in with funding for five years and four summers. Heu mihi, I'll see you in March. FYI: My field is Latin American and Caribbean History. I'm so happy!

Just got an email from a prof at Northwestern letting me know that I should be expecting good news from the Graduate school in a few days. I'm guessing that the Latin Americanists met later than other fields. My first acceptance! I was feeling pretty bummed about the two rejections in a row but this has knocked that all out of my head. I now renounce all right to complain about anything. I am sick of people who got acceptances crying about how "hard" it is to choose between schools(plural). It's a luxury to have been accepted into one school let alone two or three. It's pretty gross to post about being wracked with indecision about your multiple acceptances when there will be many hard working and deserving people who end up with no offers this season. Good luck to all!

Word is the cohort at Brown is small due to the economic squeeze. Don't sweat the non-invite to NYU's prospective weekend. I personally know people who got invited, flown out on NYU's dime, and then brutally rejected. At the same time one of my closest friends didn't get an invite and ended up getting an offer with a LOT of extra funding on top of the standard financial package. The weekend is a crap shoot, albeit a sadistic one.

No word on that Goober, sorry. Good luck!

Any details from the UMichigan admit?

Got unofficial and unfortunately very reliable news from Brown and Duke last week. Sorry for the late post. It took me a week to emotionally process the conversation. I needed to let the bitterness fade. I'm looking at rejections from both schools. Apparently, Brown is only making five total offers this year. All five are split between the Americanists and Europeanists. Duke on the other hand made offers to a much larger class of Latin Americanists than usual. I just didn't make the cut/fit. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news about Brown. Since these were the two schools I thought I had the best shot at, I'm looking at getting swept this season. F$%##%$$%! I know the two rejections are slowly creeping their way towards me but I'm still vainly hoping for an eleventh hour reprieve, which ain't coming. UGHHHH! This sucks! Any word on details from the Northwestern admits? Field? How big is the projected class? Anything? Good luck and godspeed to everyone.

I've applied to Chicago and got an email about a month ago asking me to submit additional apps for FLAS and some other internal funding. No word since. I'm not too optimistic as UC tends to run a bit more buttoned up than some of the other schools I've applied to. I did a summer research program there last year and the place struck me as pretty stuffy. Fingers crossed.

Congrats to the Duke admits. Can you please post details for the rest of us sweating it out?

Another annoying scare. I just got an email from Brown titled: Brown University Graduate School Admissions Process. Of course the purpose of the email is just to thank me for applying and let me know that they'd be emailing me when they made a decision. Blarg!

Received an email today titled "Duke Graduate School Application Status Update." They sent it just to let me know they'd received my application. WTF! Playing with my application is like playing with my emotions. Not cool.

I don't know if people have seen this on UTexas's history department website. Eight students, for the whole history department. Pretty scary stuff. I've also heard that UMichigan is making half as many offers as it did last year and padding its waiting list in order to avoid "overenrollment." Seems like this is going to be a common theme with all the usual suspects following suit. I feel like the Grinch.

I'll be an awesome 29 years old.

I'll second Carolina08's recommendation of James Green at Brown. And add that while he's focused on Brazil, some of his more recent work has moved in a transnational direction. Either way you cut it he's great. I'll also make a pitch for a great historian at a lesser known program, John D'Emilo. He works on gay and lesbian studies in the history program at the University of Illinois - Chicago. UIC also has History of Work, Race, and Gender in the Urban World (WRGUW) program which seems pretty interesting. That being said the funding is not great and it's dicey going somewhere for only one prof. Info on D'Emilo http://www.uic.edu/depts/hist/johndemilioprofile.htm http://www.uic.edu/depts/hist/Faculty/demilio.html Info on History of Work, Race, and Gender in the Urban World (WRGUW) http://www.uic.edu/depts/hist/work.html

I'll second Carolina08's recommendation of James Green at Brown. And add that while he's focused on Brazil, some of his more recent work has moved in a transnational direction. Either way you cut it he's great. I'll also make a pitch for a great historian at a lesser known program, John D'Emilo. He's works on gay and lesbian studies in the history program at the University of Illinois - Chicago. UIC also has History of Work, Race, and Gender in the Urban World (WRGUW) program which seems pretty interesting. That being said the funding is not great and it's dicey going somewhere for only one prof.

I've been city and archive hopping in Latin America for the past month. I'll be here for another month. I'm doing the research for my senior honors thesis. I'll be writing it this coming semester and also applying to history PHD programs. As an added bonus my Portuguese has dramatically improved. My goal is to turn this project into my writing sample. We'll see how it goes.