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Wow, thank you. Thank was really helpful! I actually have another question: anecdotally Providence appears to be extremely cold in the winter. One website listed the winter average as -35 degrees celcius (I'm on the metric system). However when I looked at stats online, it didn't seem that cold (around -12 celcius). I'd like an individual opinion on this.

What are travel options from College Hill in Providence to Logan Airport in Boston, MA? I just spent about an hour googling routes and it seems like there are a lot of transfers and walking involved. Specifically, are there any buses going into Providence Train Station?

I'll be starting at Brown in September. It's no secret that the stipend is $19,000 annual. What I am confused about is whether students are required to pay any tuition, or whether the Graduate School and/or department pay this on their behalf. I was just looking through my Brown financial account statement and am a bit perplexed.

Michigan seems to have notified successful applicants earlier this week as someone posted an acceptance on 17 February...which saddens me as I had high hopes.

Your credentials certainly are impressive, rebeccafav! I'm a medievalist too, but I fall far short of your language abilities, etc. What are your research interests? I notice that Toronto is one of your possibilities. It's my alma mater, and I must say, an excellent school especially for medieval history. Should you be accepted at UofT, I hope that it will be a strong contender among the choices you'll have to make.

Has anyone heard anything from Michigan??

That's a good way of looking at things! I've been making good progress in that regard, but in the meantime, I drink lots of tea and climb lots of walls at the gym. By the way, I'm not sure how familiar you all are with Jamie Cullum, but I absolutely LOVE his song twentysomething. Look it up on youtube sometime!

Someone posted an acceptance to WUSTL. Although I'm disappointed for myself, congratulations to that applicant!

I applied for early modern history. I was informed unofficially by a prof who asked where else I'd applied, saying that he supported my application to the ad com, but it was mighty tough and they decided to go another way. I doubt you should start worrying, given the response dates in the past, although my JHU rejection from last year was also dated 5 Feb. What are you applying for? Thanks for the sentiment. It's honestly a relief to know (and I didn't really expect to get in anyway). I can move forward with other plans now.

I'm a repeat applicant (this is my second year applying to PhD programs). I was unsuccessful last year but was encouraged to reapply after some graduate training at the Masters level. My question is this: how many times would you, personally, reapply to a program? I subscribe to the "three tries" rule for most things, but twice is enough for me when it comes to graduate school applications. I will likely find another career after my Masters program ends. How about you? How many tries?

Sorry to hear about Duke. 8 spots is really very few. I hope you get into Chapel Hill.

ARGH! Climbing the walls here. Literally. I've taken up rock climbing to ward off application anxiety. I really hope, for everyone's sake, that we hear from our respective schools soon.

Congratulations to the Wisconsin-Madison acceptance posted up! Hope the rest of us hear back soon...

John Coltrane.

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Hi guys, Did anyone get an email from Brown University recently? This is part of what I received today, and am wondering whether it is a de-facto rejection (as if to say: "your application was so bad that you're not making it past the first round. You'll be receiving a rejection letter soon.") "Thank you for applying for admission to Brown University Graduate School. We are reviewing applications and will soon prepare decision letters. If you applied to multiple programs, you will receive a decision for each program. Please note that you can only matriculate into one program. If you accept an offer, any and all remaining Brown Graduate School offers are withdrawn. Thank you for your interest in the Brown University Graduate School."

I know the feeling. If it helps (and I apologize if it doesn't), two of my rejection letters from last year's application cycle were dated February 5 and February 20. The former had a December 15 deadline, and the latter December 1. Hang in there!

Late medieval, early modern Mediterranean. Especially interested in religious conversions, etc.

fenderpete, I know how you feel! I just received an email informing me that I was rejected a very well-known national scholarship award for which I had applied. It's discouraging, isn't it, to see a rejection like that and wonder whether you'll get in anywhere? That sinking feeling when I read "I regret..." in the letter haunts me, even though I like to think that I've espoused a devil-may-care attitude since submitting my last application in December. Hang in there! Hope there's good news for you...

Hmm...South America is missing, I think. And Mexico.

My goodness. I swore to myself that I wouldn't log onto this site or obsessively check my email 20+ times a day between January and April, yet here I am even though I have a lot of work to do. Tried to convince myself that I don't really care about whether or not I get in (and really I don't), but a part of me just can't wait for the self-loathing to begin once you wonderful people start getting offers of admission. :mrgreen:

Last year I applied to four PhD programs and didn't get in anywhere. I will be applying to SUNY, Notre Dame, and Chicago this year. I don't think there's anything wrong with applying to a lot of schools, but each application will require its own individual attention in order to be competitive. My own reason for only applying to three schools is just that I'm not confident that I'm cut out for a PhD program, so I won't waste too much time, money, and effort on apps this year.

Thanks, anese! That's good advice. It was a lack of language experience, and lack of academic experience in medieval history (my field) that supposedly held me back. I'm hoping that advanced language training and a graduate degree (MA) in medieval history will make my application stronger this time around.

Just a question for all the history re-applicants: I was told by adcoms that my SOP was actually quite good, and that other factors held me back last year. Now that I'm reapplying, should I write a new SOP, or simply tweak the one that I already have? (I intend to apply to many of the same schools that I did last year.)

Can anyone tell me more about Kingston, Ontario and Queen's University? It's supposedly small and quiet, but not very ethnically diverse. What else do people know about the city and university? Thanks in advance.