Asher Ford

Hello everyone, Been reading all of your comments for awhile. I'm still stymied on my final decision. I was accepted to the MA programs at UCLA and UT-Austin, and I've also been waitlisted for the MA at NYU. Rejected at Madison, and Berkeley, never heard from USC (which can be taken as a rejection). In a surface-level comparison of Austin and UCLA, I have found little to help differentiate. Their funding packages were essentially the same (if loans count as funding ) and their costs aren't wildly different. The layout of their programs varies slightly, with UCLA a little less eager to pin students down to a specialized research area in the first year. I just wanted to get some other opinions. I haven't narrowed my field of study very much yet, but at the moment my interests center on Silent/Early Film History. Over the next year or so I anticipate diving deeper into Historiography and/or Gender. Has anybody been through either program, or do you have some familiarity with the faculty that could help me decide? Thanks, Asher