PhDApplicant23

Hi, in the past they did not conduct interviews but I believe that may have changed a few years ago. They usually complete MA acceptances around this time, and PhD acceptances come later at the end of January/beginning of February. Penn operates very differently from every other institution. Individual advisors get allotted an acceptance which is made solely at their discretion. It is good to be in touch with your potential advisor as they will be the one accepting you directly, with the approval of the DGS and then the Dean. Good luck with your application to Penn. Let me know if you have any questions. I did my MA in EALC here and I work at Penn now.

USC EALC and UCLA ALC.

Has nobody heard anything so far? I am having my second interview today.

So I think preparing a cheat sheet for the interview was important. - Listing specific information about the University that you can mention in the interview (resources, study groups, courses, faculty, etc) and connecting it back to your research. - Preparing to talk about how you see your research fitting into the field, and how you arrived at some of the questions you have - Thinking about historiographic issues pertinent to your work I obviously haven't been admitted yet, but I was able to go on for a little bit about problems I saw in my own disciplines and the trajectory of how I came to be aware of certain problems, and how my project is engaging with those problems and dematerializing them, this was met with the response that it was fantastic that I was able to talk about those things. Fingers crossed for the next two weeks, but I think I did well. If you DM me with anything specific about interview questions I'll be happy to help if I can.

Hi, I am interviewing with an EALC department later today. I will let you know what the interview is like. I prepared by creating a "cheat sheet" that had some prepared questions for the department about resources I would like to use during my program and if they have experience with other students who engage with those resources (basically trying to make the prepared questions intellectual in nature rather than pragmatic), and thinking about how my project relates to the trends in the field. I think this is a good way to prepare but like I said I will let you know later today how this goes.

Are Princeton's three separate interviews standard? I've only ever heard of schools doing one interview.

I have been preparing interview questions. I have an interview with a program tomorrow afternoon. Believe me, you will be relieved and then you will be stressed. Prepapre a cheat sheet with answers to typical questions.

Even if it is pushy, does that matter? In my opinion, an editor's job is to be a liaison between field experts, writers, and a publication team. My professor told me there is a wiki page somewhere online that has forums (much like GradCafe) with information about usual wait time, etc, concerning various journals. You should look into that!

I was able to finish all of my applications early, but I am no longer a student as I am on my gap year.

Hey, my research sounds really similar to yours in its interdiscilpinarity - I applied cinema studies, art history, and East Asian studies this year!

Hi all, I applied to 12 schools, and the Art History programs I applied to were MIT, Yale, Stanford, UCSD, and WashU in St. Louis. I also applied to the AFVS program at Harvard which is really a film studies department but advises on/around contemporary art a lot.

Hi all! Good luck to everyone. I wanted to add my schools and join the conversation so that we are not all anxious alone, but anxious together. I am applying to study contemporary China in various disciplines this application cycle, but in terms of EALC departments I applied to Berkeley, Columbia, Chicago, USC, and UCLA. I also applied to other departments (not EALC) at MIT, Harvard, Yale, Washington Seattle, WashU in St. Louis, Stanford, and UCSD.