Bukharan

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Haha. You misread me. I was barely expressing my joy for Barricades. You are likely to meet him/her in Princeton. I am very happy (and slightly jealous) for both of you! I am yet to hear from everywhere in the USA.

Once again, it depends on the programme. I would think that many Humanities programmes and most sciences took longer. I think three years is very rare. For most of my programmes, for instance, the 'official' duration (this term can be disputed) is five years. My field, however, occasionally is 'almost officially' six years.

This is fantastic! Sincere congratulations!

I only know of the Student Room. There is quite a vibrant Postgraduate Section there. However, it is terribly organized. It is quite difficult to have your question answered to since there will be one section dedicated to say, Oxford Postgraduate Applications 2011, and everyone will post their questions related to different subjects, admissions, supplementary documents, as well as their acceptances and rejections - in that ONE thread.

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Ticklemepink, that's an excellent post! Thanks for that!

It seems that there are more people who have heard nothing in our field. No, nada, absolutely nothing. I applied to six schools. Although, (all according to the GradCafe Results section) U Chicago already sent out a couple of acceptances for History and at least one acceptance for Near Eastern Studies (Northwest Semitic languages?), and Harvard reported a couple of acceptances for History and at least one rejection for History & MES. It is getting so close.

I am sorry to hear that. Best wishes with the rest of your applications.

I'd say that if the degree is from an Ivy (I use in a broad meaning), then chances of getting a position somewhere in Europe are quite high. Those schools in the Netherlands and the UK are weak at the knees when they hear 'Harvard'. Obviously, provided that there is also an excellent academic record, publications, interesting scholarship blah-blah.

Lion Rampant (Guess who is in Scotland? Yep, me.)

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I am applying to an adjacent department in Columbia. My status was updated only a few weeks ago. Prior to that, the entire sheet (the supplementary form available online, right?) was blank and untouched by adcoms. At the graduate office, I have been told that different departments start reviewing applications and updating statuses at different times. I wouldn't worry.

Which period of history are you interested in? Perhaps, you could persuade adcoms with your research? For that you need to have some research done at some historical institute and hopefully a publication or a few. You could also impress adcoms with languages - and you can always start learning languages on your own - provided proficiency in foreign languages applies to your field.

Thank you for your application. We would recommend you try your commendable skills in the private sector.

What? I don't see the correlation between the two at all.

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Nope, I haven't seen the results posted anywhere. But last year invitations came out ... on February, 4th? There was only one report last year on GradCafe. I don't think many people in our field report here, hence me asking.

Was anyone invited for an interview at Princeton?

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I am also a 'regionalist' as I am doing Middle Eastern History (well...planning to... wait, no... hoping to). There are plenty of professors in Middle Eastern Studies out there. So it wasn't much of a problem finding someone who specializes in the same country (-ies), the same era and/or adopts theoretical approaches that are close to my heart. What I consider a 'fit' department: 1. If the department has three or more professors who are teaching what I would like to study (not simply 'professors in my field'). 2. I looked up publicly available CVs/ publication lists of pretty much most of those 'fit' professors. If someone's scholarship looked like something I would like my scholarship to have looked like if I were born 30+ years ago - there it is, a perfect 'fit'! (ok, this is the most badly constructed sentence ever...) 3. I also looked at the secondary fields (usually, completely different fields of history) I would like to take, and looked at those professors. I would look for similar interests there, and especially for a potential overlap with my primary academic interests in their scholarship.