pirategirlchristina

Thanks for the support, I really feel so much better about everything reading all that has been posted. i will definitly start networking more and will focus on a masters program for now. I don't know whether or not I will ask this prof for a LOR. He has been super supportive of my project, been totally on board with it thought its a bit out of his area and he gave me a few books to get me started, but he did make that comment. I think I will see how things are in the fall and make the decision then. Thanks I appreciate all the opinions

Hi I was hoping to get a second opinion about grad school. I had initially brought up the idea of going to a prof I've been working with on my honors thesis he asked my gpa, 3.5, and replied "unacceptable" from there he said I could only get in if I ace the GRE and get all As senior year. I have looked at other sources including this forum and it looks like there may be options for me, but I am so unsure because of his opinion that I am seeking opinions from others. Right now I am a junior: history, geography, and anthropology major at Syracuse U. I am in the honors program and currently working on an thesis for departmental distinction. Sophomore year I worked as a research assistant as part of a group studying scholarly communication, but this was using anthropological methodology. My distinction thesis is in the area I would like to go to grad school for, it is on radical religious groups in Early Modern England. There may be some profs that will write me letters, but I tend to be quieter in class so I am not sure about how strong these will be. Still have yet to take the GRE (since I've been worried there's no shot of getting in). I would like to end up with a PhD, but would be totally fine with doing a MA program first. I just would like to know if I stand any chance of getting into a graduate program within my interest area or are my qualifications "unacceptable"? Thanks!