artlover

Pm'ing you.

Thank you, one of the admits is me. I was contacted via email. The status on my application has not been updated-in fact it still says 'awaiting' by my GRE scores.

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It was me-I am contemporary. I received an email from the graduate department today.

Hello fellow Art Historians, I have a question: Do any of your applications still read "awaiting materials" by your GRE test scores? Two of my applications still have this on my application status page, however I sent my GRE scores well before the application deadline and another school I sent the scores to on the same date has confirmed that they have received my scores. I guess a further question I have is, do you think they are still matching scores to applications and still have to manually change my status from "awaiting materials" or should I have reason to panic and freak out? I wanted to wait at least a couple of weeks before I harassed the departments over this as I am sure they are swamped with the aprox 300 they receive, and before I email/call them this week I wanted to see if any others are in the same boat. Best of luck!

deleted my question as I just read what Bearcat1 replied.

Thank you Beartcat1, I called three programs today that have deadlines on the 15th and two told me that it didn't include bibliography/images and one stated that the page limit did indeed include images and bibliography. Your tips for condensing my sample are very helpful! Looks like I have some serious formatting work ahead of me. Good luck to you as well.

Application deadlines are fast approaching and I have a (very) last minute question. When it comes to writing samples where they specify a length (i.e. 15-25 pages) but do NOT specify whether that includes footnotes/bibliography/images what did you do? Did you include footnotes/bibliography/images on top of this length? or did the 25 pages sample include all of those things?