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joselito

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  1. I would rather not, just because I know it can be an often circuitous path from a Masters to a PhD. Also, I'm not really thrilled with the idea of paying for 2 years of schooling and I know that funding for Masters are virtually nonexistent.
  2. I attended a top undergrad, earned a GPA over 4.0 in my history coursework and overall, strong reading proficiency in 2 fundamental foreign languages for my region of study, and received recommendations from professors with very good reputations in their fields, but I feel like all of that might be negated by the fact that I didn't do a thesis or any substantive research work outside of my courses. At the time, I thought I would go into law as a career. Despite having a passion for history, I didn't go the extra mile to gain research experience because I didn't think it would be relevant to my future career. Working in legal services since graduating, I realize what little sense law makes for me career-wise, and would love to pursue the one academic area that ever fascinated me. Right now, however, I'm feeling like my goal of entering into a decent PhD program might be unattainable. I haven't applied to the Stanfords, Princetons, and Yales of the world, but still, my goal is getting admitted to programs in the top 20-25. With my lack of of research experience (basically a big blank) what should I do? Do I have any real shot at making this work?
  3. I am applying to History PhD programs. I am a recent college grad (2010), and have been in a separate field for work since graduation. I have no publication/research experience, so am a little confused about how to format my CV--here's what I've been thinking, I will provide an outline here: Education Academic Honors Language Training Professional Work/Intern experience Am I missing anything?
  4. Just wanted to update this thread... i got my score back, it's a 4.0. I know that's pretty low, but the way I performed on the section, I feel like I got out of it relatively unscathed. Is a 4.0 score the type of thing I would need to explain to ad committees during the the review process?
  5. I've heard about people sending in addendums for law school apps, but never for PhD programs in the humanities. If they see my responses (I heard some schools don't request them) I'm sure they'll be able to tell that I have strong writing ability, just was too rushed to adequately complete the task (I can't stand typing quickly or writing brief, irrelevant essays on random BS). Do you think an explanation, possibly with my mentor serving as the intermediary, to the adcomm at my top choice might allay any concerns about my low score? If for one of the prompts you don't fully respond to the directions are you basically assured a score of 1, regardless?
  6. I am embarrassed that it has come to this, but I really need some anonymous advice. I took the GRE recently (still waiting for the official scores), and received a 169 in the Verbal and a 154 in the Quantitative component. As a Humanities guy who only spent 3-4 days preparing for the exam, I'm reasonably content with my performance in those two areas. Both are significantly (7 to 8 percentile points) above the reported averages for my top choice PhD program. This is where my story takes a turn towards the tragic... Resulting from a certain digestive situation, I had to leave the exam room for 10-15 minutes during the Issue task for the Writing section. By the time I returned, I was unable to finish my response. The exam question explicitly asked to, at some point in my formulation, address potential criticisms of the argument.. Effectively, I was unable to follow instructions fully. That probably drops me to a 1, right? Is my situation completely hopeless? My other essay was decent, but judging from other posters, probably didn't reach a 6 level on the grading scale. I have always prided myself on my analytical writing abilities, and as a result, did minimal prep work for the AW. Otherwise, I have a 4.0 from a very prestigious Ivy, 3 recommendations that attest to my writing ability, excellent sample/SOP... I mean will this atrocious performance on the writing invariably knock me out of contention for a PhD spot? It just seems insane that this will have such an impact on my future, but again such is life. One of my recommenders (who has been a mentor to me) has very close connections to the faculty at my top choice program, and has even facillitated a meeting with prominent faculty members to help me chart out a plan of procuring funding from the school, etc. I told her about my screw up and she said we'd communicate with the schools if that became an issue. Is there any chance for me?
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