Jeppe
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Today Yale broke up with me after two years of what I thought was a faithful and loyal relationship. Meh
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Indeed, I received an official notification from Columbia some days ago. Waitlisted but invited to NYC for visiting weekend with some of the costs covered.
Well, that sucks. Thanks for the info though!
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For those of you with interests in early British history, Steven Pincus is about to speak to my program in a few minutes. Though I'm primarily an Americanist, I have enough Atlantic interests to be excited.
What did you think about Prof Pincus? He is a very, very cool professor, but also pretty intense.
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So Columbia seems to have made their decisions. Have anyone heard from them via some other channel than through a potential adviser?
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Hello Everyone, I have two unofficial master programs acceptances and was hoping to get some opinions on one year versus two year master programs. (both schools have PhD programs and, I have been assured, will offer full funding) So disregarding all other factors what do you think are the advantages and disadvantages of the one year versus two year programs? Thank you in advance for your feedback.
As I see it, the only advantage of a one-year program is the lower cost, if you are unfunded. If this is not the case, I would most definitely recommend a two-year program.
If you have two years, you will be in a much better position to secure good letters of recommendation, and you will be more likely to write a substantial thesis, which would give you both valuable research experience and provide for a nice writing sample for future PhD applications. Provided that you are planning to apply for a doctorate degree later on, these really are the two main things you want to get out of a master's degree - recommenders and research experience.
I am currently finishing my fourth semester of an interdisciplinary MA program, and I have been very satisfied with my experience.
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Has anybody heard anything from Chicago? Called them? Received some kind of notification?
No, no, and no. But rumor has it that final decisions haven't been made there yet.
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Just got into Columbia! Included stipend information and everything
What a swing of emotions!Congratulations gradwoes!
Now I'll go weep in a corner while waiting for the bad news.
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is it safe to say that if we haven't heard anything yet, we have been rejected?
My best guess is that if you haven't heard back yet, you are either going to be rejected, waitlisted, or offered a spot in the MA program (depending on your area). I'm a little bummed by not getting in, but that's life
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Congratulations to everyone who received appectances today!
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My $0.02 as an immigrant:
Firstly, you really have good English... judging from your post. Maybe I'm not in a position to say this but I dare to assert that most would agree. And your English will indded improve like a miracle when you come here.
Secondly, don't worry about accent. Cultural linguistically, EVERYONE has an accent. By living here stateside for 5 years, I can roughly tell the difference between, say, northern accents and southern accents, or a Chicagoan one and a Bostonian one (where I happen to be staying a bit longer). Yes there are socially sanctioned accents but no one is exempted from an accent.
As another non-native English speaker and current graduate student, I agree with RDX on this. You sound like you're already very competent, and your language skills will definitely improve even more once you come over here and start taking courses and talking with people. Really, don't worry about it too much. I certainly know the feeling of unease when you write your first couple of seminar papers in English, as well as the fear that people wont be able to understand you due to your accent, but it is almost never as bad as you think, and what problems you might have initially will dissappear quickly with practice. To be honest, there is only so much you can do from abroad, and that last amount of proficiency will only truly come from being immersed in the language on a day-to-day basis.
Congratulations with getting admitted to NYU, I hope we'll end up in the same cohort
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And...I've stumbled into the Oxford vs. Cambridge debate. Round 3,450. I've been trying to get my mind off the American schools by trying to decide whether Oxford or Cambridge would be the better path. Same subfield, but Oxford is a 2-year programme (Cambridge is a single year). Oxford seemed to have put more thought into advisors, but both schools tout their respective departments as the best in Europe...
If you don't mind me asking, what is your subfield? While I haven't attended either school, I do know quite a few doctoral students at my institution who received their M.Phil. degrees from Oxbridge before applying to US programs, and I would say that there are certain preferences for one or the other university, depending on what you study.
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I think it's amusing how sensitive a lot of Ivy Leaguers are to this subject. A lot of people use "Ivy League" to mean any prestigious, elite, school, but some of these Ivy Leaguers get very upset when this happens.
Really? I don't know anyone at my school who are sensitive in this manner, but it might be more widespread among the undergraduate population. After all, a lot of the graduate students come from other schools and have a slightly wider perspective on this sort of stuff.
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He ain't going back. He's at Duke now.
Well that sucks ... Thanks for the information though.
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The retired advisor in question retired only 2 years ago I think. He still has grad students finishing, so that ranking might not be completely crazy. But it is crazy -- I agree -- for anyone applying now.
I also believe the only Caribbean historian at Harvard left.
Do you mean Vincent Brown? As far as I know, he is on leave in 2010-2011, but I do believe he is returning afterwards.
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From what I heard from a very, very reliable source, most subcomitees at Yale, usually corresponding to subfields, have already made their choices and now it's up to the Department's comitee (who's there I don't know) to confirm their picks and make it official. Most of the email contacting is about professors telling these news to prospective students whose dossiers have impressed them, and asking if they are really interested in going to Yale - read if it is their top choice.
So expect news in the next few days.
It's destroying me too.
And the anxiety sets in. Ugh.
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Is anyone else going through a roller-coaster of emotions? i.e. one minute I feel confident and I think that any moment I am going to get an acceptance letter with a billion dollars of funding, then a minute later I feel like I should have applied to clown school in Russia because I am a joke!!!
That pretty much sums it up
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How did Chicago deliver this decision - email, phone or snail mail?
According to the results page it was via email. I'm curious to hear the details though.
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I'm late to the party, but I'll join in anyways.
Field:
Early Modern Atlantic/Imperial History
Schools:
Chicago
Columbia
Harvard
NYU
Yale
Background:
B.Sc. in Political Science, a couple of years of work experience in international affairs, and currently finishing up a two-year MA degree in European Studies.
Good luck everyone! Don't let the anxiety get to you
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That NYU post is seriously driving me mad. It says American history, would anyone like to take credit and maybe clarify what area of American history, because I am early American/ Colonial.
I also received an invitation to the Prospective Students Weekend, and I'm applying for Early Modern Atlantic. I don't think too much should be read into it, though, as people have been admitted in the past who did not attent the weekend, and some people attending were rejected afterwards. So yeah.
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I'm working on early modern Imperial and political history, specifically of the Northern Atlantic from around 1650 to 1776. I am mostly doing comparative work on the British, Dutch, French, Swedish, and Danish empires and state formation.
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i wouldn't mind seeing some recent PhD placement statistics from them.
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Yes, this. If people had only heard through advisers and informal channels, I might still have a chance of receiving a positive decision. Given that both waitlisted and accepted candidates have heard through official channels by now, I can cross Columbia off my list