PhD or Bust
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Seriously Mexico!! For goodness sake please tell me one way or the other! It is so hard to concentrate on work and make plans for my research year without knowing my status...
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Just now, 18C said:
Hmmmm, well I know all those people some what. Do you think Fulbright would give several history research grants? I hope so! This is so exciting!
Historically, all puns intended, they have given a lot of awards to historians. That being said, who knows? For my interview, I had 8 panelist in total of which 4 were historians. What about you?
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Just now, 18C said:
Wow! Super cool! I started my MA last spring. Idk if I know you....? But here's to some OU reppin in the Fulbright program!
I worked with T. Rugeley and S. Evans and D. Chappell. I was good friends with C. Kennedy.
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1 minute ago, 18C said:
History yes! You too? This link shows numbers of grants.
We may know each other in RL. Lol. I went to OU for my Master's in history.
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Also, where did you get the 31 number from? If indeed all they have is 31 (last year it was 47), how many did the interview?
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1 minute ago, 18C said:
Cool! I was wondering where all the Mexico people were at (since they have 31 research grants wow)! I am applying from OU, what about you?
I am at UIC. You don't happen to do history do you?
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19 minutes ago, 18C said:
I am waiting to hear from Mexico. The anxiety is real. I applied for a research grant. Hope we find out soon! Good luck everyone!
OU or OSU? I too am waiting to hear from Mexico.
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On Friday, March 11, 2016 at 7:12 PM, medyogi118 said:
congratulations to everyone that has heard this week!!! Anybody on this thread apply to countries in Central America (other than Mexico)?
I applied to Mexico...where did you apply and for what?
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I am a semi-finalist for the Mexico research grant. I have heard nothing since the interview a month or so back.
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T-minus 6 days until I need to make a decision and I'm still waiting to hear from UIC. If I really didn't like my POI there I would have just accepted elsewhere already...
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Another week and not a peep from UIC?!? What the heck are they doing?
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University of Oklahoma funds the majority of their MA students.
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I'm in the same boat. I emailed her about a week and a half ago and she seemed angry at me asking, but I got the same story. She will let me know when they are done. I would advise not emailing her again.I am still waiting on UIC, but as I far as I know few people have heard. I emailed the DGS during the first week of march, and she said they were still in the middle of the process. When is it appropriate to ask again? I really am getting worried as I am going to have to commit to another offer fairly soon. -
While I understand the desire not to discuss the graduate admissions process and the current state of the academic job market in ways that marginalize those in lower-ranked programs, I think any serious discussion has to be framed in terms of aggregate numbers and broad trends rather than in terms of exceptional experiences and anecdotes. If we were discussing the current state of race in the United States, for instance, wouldn't it be ridiculous to frame the discussion in terms of the success of Barack Obama, rather than in terms of the broad ranging and persistent inequalities and exclusions that are structurally part of American society? Any discussion framed in terms of exceptional experiences only serves to cast what should be a serious discussion in unrealistic terms.
In terms of this question of program rank, it sounds like many people are focusing on the number and not what the number represents. Academia is a giant social network in which relationships built on personal friendship and scholarly respect are the main currency. A job applicant isn't more competitive merely because they went to Program #2 instead of Program #65. They are more competitive, among other reasons, because the opinions of the faculty members who wrote letters for them are well regarded and trusted by the adcom at the institution they are applying to.
Even more important that the position of faculty members in the social network of academia is the institutional support Program #2 can give to graduate students that Program #65 can't. Basically I'm talking about time and money. It takes time, a lot of time, to learn a sub-field well, to craft a well-positioned project, to do the research, to write up, and to learn all the networking and performance skills required in order to do well in the social network of academia. The difference between the graduate student from Program #2 and the one from Program #65 isn't that the former is smarter than the latter. It's that the former only had to teach one or two years during the six or seven year degree while the latter had to teach all of those years. The former got to spend two years researching in the field, whereas the latter was lucky to string together two summers of research. The former got department money to attend conferences and the latter didn't. The former went to a program that could afford to host a plethora of workshops, speakers, and reading groups, and the latter was lucky is once a year someone interesting came and give a talk. To the extent institutional rank maps onto institutional resources and support, then it absolutely makes a difference to the type of scholar the program produces and the quality of their dissertation. Maybe not in every case, but in most cases. And it doesn't make any sense to have this discussion with current or prospective graduate students in ways that attend to those exceptional experiences.
I think you have hit the nail on the head! There absolutely is a real world difference between the #2 school and the number #64 school. In my case is all too apparent. The majority of the grad students at my MA university, which is ranked in the 60s, tend to write dissertations on local and regional topics precisely because we get zero money for research or at best $1000 for a whole summer. We also, in order to maintain funding, have to TA every semester, keeping us close to home. Consequently, the majority of the grads from here wind up at community colleges or small liberal arts colleges in the middle of no where, because frankly their research, their academic experience, etc., can't stack up with those coming from program #2. I may be an exception for my school, as I did extensive research in Mexico, Cuba, Washington D.C., and New Orleans for my MA thesis. However, the kicker here is I burnt through $6000 of my savings on order to do so.Time will tell though, as I have only received a funded admissions offer from my current institution for the PhD so far. Maybe attending here might still hold me back?
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Acceptance??? Congrats!!!
Congratulations, really!!!
It's tough for me to say it, since I really really really thought I was an excellent fit at Princeton and was really really really bummed for not getting in. I think I'll always have a little scratch in my pride...
I don't like it, I am not the kind of person that resents the success of others, but it was hard for me to see people getting in. Now that I am (a little) over it, I can truly congratulate you! All the best there!!!! 
I can only hope...They are the last school I'm waiting for and have apparently said nothing to anyone yet.
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Come on UIC!
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I came into my MA program looking to do American Indian history. I am currently writing a MA thesis on New Orleans connections with Latin America.
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Any UIC info out there? I'd hate to have to make a decision without hearing back from them...
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This is crazy! My SO and I are getting admitted at different schools...
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Make sure you answer weird numbers! I received about 20 calls last night from a strange number that was untraceable. They didn't leave a voicemail and my logic has always been: if they need me they will leave a voicemail. Anyway, it turns out it was a POI letting me know about a fellowship offer!!
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Also, someone I know that applied to UIC's program got asked to submit additional information pertaining to a fellowship application, but that was over a month ago.
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I am wondering if someone has information about UIC? Or am I the only one who applied to UIC?
I also applied to UIC, but haven't heard anything. Although there seems to be a "Waitlisted" result posted from today.
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I was the Tulane admit. I don't really have any info for you other than what I posted in the results, though. Admitted students days are March 18-20. I got an email from the DGS but haven't heard from any of my POIs. I did not contact the program during the admissions process. I also just noticed that the stipend is $22,500 not $21,500. Hope that helps!
Thanks! I really appreciate it.
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when it comes to e-mailing DGS people to try and get info, what approach to you folks take? or do you avoid it entirely?
I have been, but I'm inching closer and closer to doing this, so I can finally start focusing on writing my MA thesis...
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I don't know about Moldova, but at this point (almost 2pm EST) I am starting to think that Mexico won't be coming out this week... At least I can relax over the weekend without this horrid anticipation.