Chiqui74

Congrats!

Joyce Chaplin from Harvard has a very interesting book on travel. It's more about history of round the world travel than history through travel per se. http://www.amazon.com/Round-About-Earth-Circumnavigation-Magellan-ebook/dp/B007EE4Y2K

The email from the DGS at the History dept. says they fund students for 6 years, but that's as much as it says.

I noticed that! LOL

Fianna, remind me, what's your field?

Just got waitlisted at Michigan.

It is. Maybe you haven't been rejected.

"Kick rocks" is a very nice way to put it!

Making friends as an adult is HARD! I'm still trying to figure it out myself.

I have traveled to something like 40 countries, but aside from the US, I've lived in Cuba, Italy, and England.

I have to say, rejections are stinging less and less and each time. It's probably because at this point I'm expecting everything to be a rejection.

Did you check at the bottom of the page? It's easy to miss.

Truth! I have looked up the dissertations of a lot of people I know or I'm interested in working with and read their acknowledgements. It's fascinating.

The study lists the top 60 programs on basis of prestige for three different disciplines (History, Business, and Computer Science). It also lists the range of each school, if that makes sense.

I have met with a pretty sizable number of faculty throughout this whole process and the consensus is pretty much the same as the article (I read the study sometime last week and had the same thoughts as you). Basically, I have been told you shouldn't choose a school based exclusively on prestige, obviously fit is extremely important, but that you should go to the most prestigious school that takes you. This assumes you didn't apply to any schools that weren't a good fit. This makes sense to me, but I also see the other side. Unfortunately, this is the way of the world academia these days. It's not fair, but it is what it is and I think to bury our heads in the sand is not a great idea. This was partly the reason (fit aside) why I applied to what can only be considered "reach" schools. It's a highly personal matter, but if I'm going to spend years and years studying to become something, I want the best chance I can have at it. I have an undergrad degree from a 2nd tier, at best, university, and you should see the number of Ivy League professors we have. So, if schools like mine are hiring mostly graduates from prestigious universities, then it only follows to reason that only less prestigious universities than mine are looking to hire our graduates. Again, I am not saying the system isn't broken, I'm just explaining what I see and what has been shared with me, which is congruent with the conclusion of the study. Different people have different reasons for which they apply to any given school, and that is fine, we all have decisions to make, and if in the end your school has a placement record you are OK with, then that's what matters.

My letter from NYU is very detailed and clear. My offer from URochester not so much. It's not even a letter, it's figures on a website. It doesn't specify much of anything.

Where in NYC do you live? As of right now, it looks like I'll go to NYU and I have SOOOO many questions!

I'm really hating on UPenn right now, and Michigan.

Congratulations, Ashiepoo!

There is now a U-Mich acceptance on the results page.

To be fair, I did all my undergrad, except for the first year, with a kid. My son was born the summer after my first year, so the concept is not entirely alien to me. I know I can make it work being physically there, my concern mostly comes from when it is time to travel to the archives, etc. I guess we'll get to that when it comes to that!

Probably a mistake.

Well, there goes my day!

You have THREE acceptances! When did this happen?? And you thought you weren't going to get in anywhere! Congrats!

As an aside, not directly related to the topic...I've never been in any archives....