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Alyanumbers, this is the coolest thing I have ever heard! This also perhaps reflects the liberal elitist atmosphere on gradcafe (no irony intended at all). I also thought of going back to the roots, moving into a small ancestral village somewhere in the European North-East where I spent my merry childhood, working with a plough at days and reading Tolstoy at nights. This is, perhaps, silly of me but this is something I really want to do one day. I was obsessing about admissions for such a long time. I am sort of tired of this now. If I don't get in and don't get a job, then I will spend my few savings on travelling in Central and South Asia for a couple of months. I never understood people who would just leave everything behind and go somewhere far away and do something 'crazy', non-practical, without thinking of their career prospects and their financial stability and not knowing where they are going to be tomorrow. Now I totally get this. Life is too damn short and we were forced into being, well, too serious.

This is quite surprising. The guy has been in academia for so long: he must have learnt that putting all those letters after one's name is not considered professional at all and will be frowned upon by anyone reasonable really.

I am so glad someone else asked this. I was thinking about it too.

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I agree with what kalapocska said. 1. Yes, list like you said. 2. You can list it with 'offered' or 'declined' after it. 3. No, I wouldn't list that job. 4. The GPA conversion is a very tricky thing. I would not risk it and put it exactly as you got it - 79.8. You could perhaps also say how it corresponds to the rest of your class: top 5% of the class, top 10% etc.

What a great poll!

You have so many good internships and a seemingly good academic profile AND you applied to so many schools. Something will work out for you - you don't need to worry at all. Just wait and check your e-mail.

If I understood correctly, everything went up in your favour. I don't think you need to worry at all! Surely, the universities have been receiving GRE scores for thousands of applicants for years and now know that sometimes percentiles change.

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Please, don't pick on a poor bloke. He only said what most Europeans think anyway, with the exception that he put it as politically correctly as he only could and then also apologised a couple of times ... for his personal experiences. I think there is a fairly big academic Romani project going on at the University of Manchester but I am not sure whether they published much yet.

I am also from Britain, also looking into History Ph.D.s. If you check the Results page, then in 2009, there seem to have been at least two International students who were accepted to UCLA with funding. So, yeah, chances for internationals to get funding there are reduced but not nil. At least this is what I keep telling myself.

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My sincere congratulations! I can only imagine how excited you must feel!

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This is a bizarre situation. I am sorry. I wonder what other applicants are doing? There must be others who tried to apply to the same programme, right, and it is just interesting how they came around the issue. You could let your professor know. Perhaps, if you feel awkward bothering your professor with such an issue, you can just let him know what happened and what you did and why rather than directly ask for his help/advice.

I cannot agree more with what newms just said. It is about the 'fit' now more than anything else. And if the legendary cut offs exist, you are probably fine.

The college fee is a fee for membership at the college. The college is not as important for postgraduates as it is for undergraduates yet it still remains a big part of your graduate experience. Think of the college fee as part of the tuition fee. It is easier to justify it that way then. As for the funding, it really depends on which funding you mean. Some scholarships are all-inclusive: they will cover tuition, college fees and maintenance. For instance, AHRC and ESRC normally grants those to successful UK and EU citizens. Some scholarships will only cover tuition or tuition + college fees or maintenance.

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