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  1. Thank you so much for your response! 'Stalled admission cycles' was in regards to how many programs stopped admitting people during the last 2 years of the pandemic, so one of my worries is that a lot more people will be applying this year than other years. And in regards to my focus, I have a more specific idea but not as hyper-specific as many dissertations/theses I've seen so was planning on reading more of the literature and hopefully having it narrowed down more within the next few months. Thanks again!
  2. Hi everyone, I'm seeking reassurance in regards to my resume and my chances of going straight to PhD. I'm a rising senior at the University of Florida with a major in Art History and a minor in Chemistry, and my end-goal is to focus on late 19th, early 20th century modernism, either focusing on the feminisms of the era or post-war historic avant-garde politics. I've known since I started at UF that I wanted to get a PhD and go into academia, and thus have tried my hardest to make myself a good applicant. I have a 3.63 GPA (thanks to physics and late-stage chem courses) but I've gotten A's in all of my art history classes (9 total with one A- in intro). I've had two curatorial internships, one in Modernist art and the other with a broader focus (the Modernist one with my local museum and the other with the NPG), and am an officer for two art-related organizations at my school. One is in charge of the art school's student publication (in which I've been published twice and was basically chief editor for both editions) and the other is a general, social art club that I started over the pandemic. My top choices are Yale, Princeton, and Northwestern (not in that order, and there are 6 other programs I'm applying to) because they each have Modernist scholars whose research focuses I really admire. I'm taking German in the fall and spring so that by the time I apply, I'll hopefully be fluent and will thus have that along with English and Spanish under my belt (native speaker of both). One thing that gives me confidence is that I took a graduate-level course this past semester in curatorial studies and the professor (who almost never gave out compliments) said I was the best writer in the class. I have a good handful of professors with whom I've formed good relationships with, along with my internship supervisors so letters of rec are OK, I think. My main fear I guess is that the past two years of stalled admission cycles are going to shoot me in the foot. I have tried to make myself as competitive as possible but I have no reference as to what is good enough or where my resume really stands. The posts I read on here blow me out of the water with what some of you guys have accomplished. I am confident in my ability as a writer because writing has always been my forte, and I have a relevant writing sample to my interests, but besides that I don't know what else I can do to strengthen my application. Any advice? Thank you!
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