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The new MA program or the Ma en route to PhD old program? If its the new one, what do you know about it? There doesn't seem to be much posted online.

What places have terminal MA degrees in art history? Someone told me this is better than a regular MA degree, because you are at the highest level the school offers and are not competing against the PhD students.

sure!

Hello, everyone. I was wondering if anyone knows any universities that do not require GREs (or accept low scores). Thank you.

I started UG with a traditional major, and added a customizable diploma (36 quarter credits) in another related subject. The diploma is more than a minor, but less than a major, with two focuses. I was just planning on writing that I was passionate about the two topics, and that I believe that they fit together well, and i can apply what i learned in my primary major - so it all fits together - in my SoP. If you can speak about how all these different classes fit into your ultimate goal, it might make you more compelling than a traditional student.

Help! I'm taking the test this week and have been taking a Kaplan course and intensively studying. Every time I take a Kaplan (CAT) Test, my score is in the 600s. BUT, every time I take a test in my ETS book (one of those books with 7 old tests) my score is in the 400s! What is happening? Which score is more accurate? What should I do?????

Take as many writing and reading intensive courses as you can. I mainly limited my whole UG career to my discipline, and the GRE vocab in other subjects is kicking my butt. I wish I took a wider range.

according to my kaplan gre teacher, leave it as a fraction. Though on the SATs, you could do it as a decimal, if I remember correctly, but then we all had calculators.

Hello, everyone. I'm starting to really get into crunch time for planning my application, and I've decided at this point, I should go for an MA instead of direct to PhD. This is because I'm straight from undergrad and I'm not exactly sure what my research interests are. I want to focus on modern art, but I don't fee like I can narrow it down yet. I mention this because I want to begin my statement of purpose soon, and some of the schools say to write research interests. How detailed should this be? What should I include? What if I find something to research thats even better at some other point? What do I do?!?!?! Please help, for I am a wee little undergrad who is humbled by everyone else. :?

arthistorydream, don't sell yourself short, you might be on to something here. Personally, i don't like monster.com or craiglist, though I have friends who swear by it. i find that a lot of the internships are companies looking for free labor. Remember google is your friend - google things like "Nepal Museum + American city you want to live in" or "Himalayan Art Museum". Then look on museum websites (often in "about us" sections, or "employment" or "opportunities") - most have some sort of internship listed. Keep trying different search terms. Or, pick a location and then google that and "museum". For example "Nepal Art Museum NYC" yields The Rubin Museum of Art (which, might I add is an AMAZING place) which has all their internships listed under "The Museum" > "Internships and Volunteer". My helpful hint with picking which to apply for is pick the one where you have the best chance of getting it - everyone wants and picks curatorial, so your chances are significantly lower. Or, call up any museums general number, and say that you want to intern as a translator, even if that job is not listed. You mentioned Atlanta in an earlier post, I've never been there, so I'll be of little help. But, as for the north east and north west, there are collections of Asian Art in NYC, DC, Boston, and California. Look for smaller museums too (wikipedia usually lists museums per state, including tiny ones), the first one that comes to mind is the Newark Museum in NJ which has a rather large Asian section. Helpful hint number 2 - applying to the Metropolitan Museum of Art is statistically more difficult than getting into Harvard, remember that. I'm lucky enough that I live in a city, and have family that help support my museum aspirations, so as for living expenses there are better resources than I. And yes, most are unpaid. Let me know what you find, and if you have more questions, don't hesitate to write back. Good Luck!

If you are looking for an internship (beware, the hiring process is rather rigorous for internships as well) in Himalayan art, you might have a good chance of getting something due to your background. Do you speak Nepalese, or any other language from the region? Do you know about Himalayan Religions? These are things that most art history students do not know much about, making you more valuable. An internship at an Asian art collection may not have you working directly with the artwork, but instead doing research or fact checking. There are various internships for Asian art in the northeast, if you are willing to travel. If you have questions about the above, let me know, I have experience interning with Asian art collections.

I would have everything with you, just incase... better safe than sorry. Can you leave everything in your car? Of in a purse/messenger bag? Good Luck!

I know this program exists: http://www.bankstreet.edu/gs/teacherleadermath.html Its Bank Street College of Education - I hear its a good school in general, but I know nothing about the quality of the program.

you can only take it once per calendar month, fyi.

Im taking the Kap course - and in class its the 28 questions. Weird your friend's book says otherwise.

Did you creep into my head last night and steal my thoughts verbatim? :shock:

Why not? I ask because I too am looking work in museums, and have not fully decided if I want to go the art history or museum studies route.

I'm currently finishing my BFA in Graphic Arts now (though not at parsons), so perhaps I can help. Graphic Design MFA programs are very competitive. Often the students are working artists with impressive resumes who want "paper credentials" aka a diploma. I currently have two professors at my (rather prestigious) art school who are in MFA programs - they have previously been employed by places like nike, adidas, disney world, etc, doing advertisements that you have most likely seen. What I'm trying to say is that the applicant pool for MFA programs is going to be people who are already highly trained and are really looking to perfect their craft. While you might have the potential to be as great as they are, you seem to have little arts training, which will be expected of you. Have you considered BFA programs? I understand that you would be older than most students, but probably wont be the only student in your scenario. My school has a few people over 40, and really we don't take much notice to that. I hope this helps, and wasn't discouraging. :wink:

I understand the logic, but what is a bad score? I'm hoping to go into a humanities-based MA program at somewhere like Tufts or Georgetown (or NYU or Columbia... but I hear thats a crap shoot no matter what.)

You can easily learn more than 20 per week. Currently, I'm doing ten per day - but I am taking my test in a month.

My advice would be to go to B&N and pick up the ETS book. Taking a practice test from the test maker itself seems more reliable to me.

I'm taking the Kaplan class - which has 100 strategies to score better on the math, and 0 for the english - but i digress. My GRE teacher said the other day that to do "fairly" well, one would have to memorize 5,000 words - but that also means one is starting from scratch and knows nothing. but it was an interesting figure. The again by the age of 5 i think one knows 8,000 words, just more along the line of cat and dog, not obsequious and misanthrope, so this number is misleading.

Its IMPOSSIBLE to find. If you live near or around NYC go to CAA and ask to see it (7th Ave at 25th?) - Thats what I did. After searching Interloan Library, New York and New Jersey library systems - the answer is no one else has it. Yet, when looking at it, you can't take notes on what it says - thats only if you buy it. But, heres the catch -- once I found it I thought it was of no help what so ever. All the info can be found online. It lists the name, the degrees offered, the location, the specialties (which are usually all the same, because they are rather broad as in Ancient, Modern etc...) and that you need LORs, Transcripts etc. Everything you can find online. Specifically, I was looking for median GRE scores - and only a few schools offered that info. If I remember correctly, the most specific was Yale which looks for 600-800 (big range, no?) and Cambridge which wants a 3.8 GPA. Does this help any? Maybe, if you have a specific question it will jar my memory? :wink:

The most basic conversion is: A 4.0 B 3.0 C 2.0 D 1.0 Like I said, thats the most basic, and I would not use that to fill out an application, but it should give you a very rough estimate. On most applications I've seen though, you can write your GPA on a 100 or 4.0 scale.

I swear this is innocent, I just have a talent for finding things on google. Google the name of the school + the department + incoming student or year level + 2009 + blog You might get some really interesting results, of people who applied and got in (or not) to the department. Now, if you want to contact them from there though, that would be creepy.