Hi everybody, I wish you all the success in this application year.
I have a question concerning Northwestern History applications. Besides it, I am to apply some other less prestigious universities' history PhD programs. I got in touch with four of the faculty from Northwestern and got encouraging responses. Actually, one of them told me that my MA thesis shows I am ready for the PhD studies while another one said that my MA managed to build on the argument of a famous scholar in the field. The thing is, although I have 2 publications (1 book + 1 academic article in a domestic prestigious journal) and excellent MA(4,00) and PhD (3,92) (discontinued) GPA, I unfortunately have a very bad undergraduate GPA (3,08 out of 4) My question is that would having such a low undergrad GPA result automatically in elimination during the selection process, or do you think I still have a chance of admission thanks to other positive factors like publications and high MA/PhD GPAs? I would like to hear your opinion because I don't want to waste my money.
