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In addition to all that was said above, I also urge you to look closely at the faculty outside of just your advisor and think ahead to courses you will take and how you might want to craft your generals fields. While it may be a bit difficult to predict, choosing a school that is strong in a subfield you find both interesting and useful for your larger project will not only help mold you as a historian, but also give you options if the unthinkable happens and your advisor leaves. I know some people at other programs who were compelled to drop their programs and follow their advisors or begrudgingly make major changes in their fields due to situations outside of their control. And a note on summer funding: only the luckiest of us have promised summer support for pre-dissertation research and language training. Ask around about the availability of university wide summer funding and get a general feel for how many people in the department apply for and get external fellowships and grants for the summer. Is it an organized system where everyone is aware of their options or a chaotic free for all?

For those of you waiting on Princeton, I just wanted to give you a heads up that the final meeting takes place today. The central bureaucracy confirmed the list. Accepted students should be hearing very soon! Good luck!

UCLA rejection finally posted Thank you.

I'm posting the latest Harvard admit in Middle Eastern Studies/Art History. I know it probably doesn't directly relate to anyone on this particular thread, but it made me smile when I saw the envelope in my mailbox. I'm still singing the same mantra though... Princeton, Princeton, Princeton. If I've learned anything from this experience, it is that art history and history are in need of significantly more interaction. My past two degrees were in ARH and I felt stifled by the focus on the canon (read largely Italian Renaissance) and conservative theoretical approaches. I am switching to history because I feel as though it will be more accepting of my unorthodox interests and it will broaden my scope, allowing for more comparative work. At the same time, I will never leave my art historical half behind. Visual literacy is essential to my work. I feel as though scholars would benefit greatly from taking a course or two in the other field (ARH/HIS), if for no other reason then to dispel myths about the other... i.e. that art historians have anything to do with creating art. (I can barely draw a stick figure...)

Pton. I accepted this morning. I see no need to wait around when my mind was already made up regardless of the other offers... as amazing as they could potentially be. I declined my generous Georgetown offer yesterday in person. Whoever gets the spot is lucky, as they have an amazing and supportive faculty there as well. For those of you still waiting, keep the hope alive. This is not my frist cycle of applications (I have an unfunded MA in Art History). If you live and breathe your subject, it will eventually pay off.

As am I... along with my Toronto and Harvard (CMES/art history) rejections.

Hi all, I posted an acceptance to Georgetown earlier.

I was one of the Princeton admits. Feel free to pm me. I am over the moon.

Hi all, I don't think anyone on this board is even close to my specialization, but many applied to the same schools and I figured I would reveal myself (after being an anonymous lurker). I can offer some information I gathered from my pre-application "interviews" with faculty. UCLA - only taking fully funded students this year, which means less acceptances, and an end to the stabbing your entire cohort in the back method of education (hopefully), decisions coming very soon Pton - taking somewhere around 23 students Toronto - only accepts a handful of international students, which includes American students... currently expecting to take aprox. 5

I heard that UT Austin did not accept any PhD students this year due to funding issues. Someone else close to the source told me that was not necessarily true… there may have been one or two special cases… but they could not confirm anything. As for Penn. I heard directly from my POI that the 5 accepted students (out of 190 applicants!) were notified in February, right before CAA. The wait list situation depends on the response from those 5 students. ------- Ren & Islamic applied: Penn, Harvard plans: move to Bora Bora and open a convenience store...