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Thanks, Dan, that's really helpful. Did you have a job in the field or did you do something unrelated?
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got my chicago rejection today. so far i've been been rejected two places and waitlisted at one. only four left, and all of them were really long shots. any suggestions for plan b? :cry:
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that's waht I thought, but it seems like SOMEONE on here or posting on the board would have been accepted. There were acceptances for Yale, Harvard, and Princeton, after all!
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It really does seem late. According to previous postings, people were notified in early February for the past two years. I wonder what's going on.
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Anyone have any updates on Columbia? I saw mid-March on the board, but that seems so late that I have a hard time believing it! Dan, I'm looking at you here...I'll rest a lot easier if you haven't heard anything yet either
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I'm on Michigan's wait list, but other than that still no word
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Dan - go with Yale! It has an awesome reputation and it's such an honor to be accepted. I was thinking of applying, but one of my advisers, whose husband is on faculty there, basically told me not to bother, describing it as "probably THE most difficult program to get into right now." What an awesome problem to have.
And, congrats to everyone else who has been accepted over the past few days
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me neither
could you let me know (pm me if you want) what field/prof it was? hope it wasn't the one i applied to work with. -
arthistorian - was it an acceptance call? i checked late last week and the dept. said no decisions would be made for about two weeks ?!
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thanks, you guys are a great support group! :mrgreen:
and congrats, herakles!
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damn...you guys really cleaned up on the GRE! everyone says it doesn't matter but i'm prettttty nervous about my sad, sorry 610v. i haven't given up hope quite yet, though.
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congrats halifax, that's awesome! i'm so happy for you!
just out of curiosity - would you be willing to divulge your gre score? i'm increasingly worried about mine, the more i read these boards, and am really starting to question my chances. especially since i haven't heard from ANYONE.
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Penn wasn't me
Someone on LJ says Columbia's decision won't be for another few weeks.
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You can easily live on less than $2000 per month. I get by on considerably less than that, and I live in a pretty upscale neighborhood (Lakeview/Lincoln Park). My biggest suggestion is to live with someone else, be it a boyfriend/girlfriend or roommate. Also, the person who said that you can't have less than an hour's commute is wrong - live somewhere further north and as close as possible to the red line, and you should definitely be able to do it in less than an hour, especially if you catch a purple line express. I've been able to get to Northwestern from my apartment in less time than that, and I live a few miles north of the loop.
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I'm doing 19th century European, mostly German. What especially are you interested in under mod/cont?
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dang, Dan...sounds like this is your year! I'm glad to hear, at least, that the anonymous interviewed person wasn't in my subfield. Any details regarding when decisions will be made/sent out/anything from Columbia?
And arthistorian - nothing! I haven't heard a freaking peep. I'm climbing the walls here.
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arthistorian - I applied to Columbia and haven't heard anything about an open house either. not entirely surprised as it was a long shot. it doesn't sound like anyone else has heard anything either, though, so I won't give up hope yet...
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That may be true of smaller museums, but I honestly don't think you would be able to get anything related to curatorial work at a major museum with a degree in museum studies. At the museum where I work, I think you need to have or be in the process of getting a degree in art history to even get an internship. I hope that doesn't come off as snotty, but I think it would depend largely on what you want to do in a museum. For non-profit administrative type stuff, it might be more useful and/or relevant.
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I'm not personally an Art History student, but I have a friend who is, and she said Columbia (and Berkeley and Chicago, as you already know) have started to send emails out today...
Really? I'm confused. Someone posted on LJ and said that a faculty member had told them via phone the admissions committee would be meeting soon. Also Columbia has only used email for rejections in previous years. I wonder what's going on.
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When I find that I've read every post and response on this forum twice, I like to cruise on over to petersons.com and obsess over the acceptance rates and related data they post for the school's where I've applied. Does anyone have any idea how accurate that data actually is? I ask because for my top choice program, they have 329 applicants and a 33% acceptance rate. The first number I can see, but 110 acceptances seems...uh...a little high? I know that the program ends up taking in a little over 20 students per year. Is it possible that, between accepted students declining offers and the program extending offers to new people, this rate is actually feasible? Or is Peterson's just totally, sadistically off base?
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Dan - didn't you say somewhere that you had applied last year? did you apply to columbia then? just wondering how soon we might hear back... and yes, 300 is a terrifying number! petersens.com actually has an even higher number, although they have the acceptance rate to the program at 33.3% which seems impossible. when i visited, they gave me a slightly lower number, around 270. they did say, though, that they end up taking around 20 students which, as i'm sure you know, is a pretty large number compared to other programs. i guess we'll have to wait and see. definitely let me know if you hear anything!
and many thanks, mew! i'm not sure when i'll hear back. from what i've heard, they don't have interviews. it looks like their acceptances/rejections are pretty staggered out, too, so i really have no idea when i might even hear back. hopefully soon! have you heard anything from anyone else yet? was chicago your top choice?
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yep, late 19th/early 20th c. art, which they do have strong faculty in - but primarily french art, not the rest of europe. my top choice is definitely columbia but i'm not holding my breath as i saw somewhere that they get something ridiculous like 300 applicants for about 20 positions. my boyfriend works in a field where he needs to be in a major city to find work and nyc is obviously ideal for that. plus, it's the best fit for my research interests. fingers crossed!
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i do love chicago! i'll be bummed to have to move. as far as having a car, it's feasible in some places. i'm not sure about HP. i wouldn't have one in or around the loop unless parking is included in your rent. i used to live on the nw side of town and there was tons of parking. now i'm on the north side and it seems a lot more problematic. i haven't had a car since undergrad, though, so i can't say for certain. i do often wish i would have brought mine, however. it was a long six months until my lease was up at my last apartment after the only grocery store within a mile radius went out of business, and i went through serious target withdrawal. i think you'd be fine either way, really. i've made it three years on just public transportation. and, yeah, if you can get a good deal in grad housing in HP, i'd go for it...the cheaper the better when you're in grad school!
i didn't apply to northwestern...really wanted to and even talked to the person i hoped to work with there, but our research interests didn't match up well enough. c'est la vie!
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do you have any idea how expensive it would be to live downtown?
also, a surprising number of people i went to grad school with lived downtown (river north, gold coast, the loop, lake shore drive). i don't know how they did it, but they did it on their stipend, so it must be doable!
History of Art MA/PhD 2008
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Thanks, N08D0 - I do have a MA (no way would I have expected you to dig through 16 or so pages of posts to track that down
) and I work at a museum now doing research, but I think you're right about maybe trying something on the east coast. Did you apply to UPenn for History of Art? I haven't heard anything from them yet.