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lxs, that is so fricking awesome!! You better make all your friends buy you tons of drinks this weekend. ... What are people's thoughts on Boston U? How much funding have people received?

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Hey travelingartmuse, did you apply to Bard because of said curator? (I'm pretty sure I know who/where you are referring to.) Were you into dec. arts previously? I'm wondering if you have any observations on Bard in the NYC museum landscape (at Museum X, if you will). I did meet an arms and armor guy, but I'm not sure outside of that.

Adding to what the17thscream said about the school prestige factor, the ability to get to know your professors affects LORs as well.

The Bay Area has a fair amount of good food for cheap. As an undergrad I lived on burritos. (Not Chipotle but the countless taquerias that dot the area.) There are expensive burritos, to be sure, but those aren't the good ones. You want the ones that are $3 - 4. Tacos for $2. And don't discount Vietnamese sandwiches--anywhere from $2.50 - $4. I'm getting hungry just thinking about it.

mew27, sorry, you don't actually have to answer that. It just had the old cogs turnin'. You DID, though, get into some terrific schools as I recall, deal or no deal. And it is a compliment that they actually competed for you? Perhaps if any of us end up teaching, we can resolve to be kinder and more ethical.

So is the elephant in the room... that your advisor got something out of it?

lxs, I am really sorry to hear that. re: NYU IFA, I think it's plainly bassackwards that they can't provide their grad students with funding, especially given that NYU has one of the highest tuitions in the country and a gazillion undergrads. Something is clearly wrong administratively. Not that I could have gotten into IFA, but it turned me off that they have a funding caveat on their website. Anyway, forgive me if you have done this already, but did you try calling Financial Aid to see if there are any remission workarounds? It is such a coup that you got in. Some schools seem to have odd little arrangements here and there. re: disciplinary stoginess, art historians in higher education must be among the quirkiest. A question for everyone--are you all intending to teach? How do you think the "plans" part of your SOP affected your admission, if at all?

So I fell down the stairs and hit my head on the railing as I was leaving my house this morning. Talk about starting off on the wrong foot. And I knew that I was probably going to hear from a couple of schools today, so just my luck. Well, I got rejected from Nortwestern (web) and accepted to Bard GC (by mail, dec. arts master's) all within ten minutes. The BGC director called half an hour later to let me know that I'm slated for full tuition (not usual for a humanities master's, I hear?) and that I was one of their top candidates. I pretty much squealed over the phone. Hello, New York!

Ah, I was wondering who the Northwestern acceptees might be. I also am wondering--Are you working on something specifically within nineteenth c.? (I'm trying to guess who your advisor is, really...) Anyway, congrats! Me jealous.

I spoke with the program assistant at Northwestern. Sounds like all decisions will be out this week.

I guess that means you won't be taking that yearlong trip to Brazil? Congrats to everyone... (I am so out of my league on this forum!)

Well, I got my (first) rejection letter from Cornell today. It sort of bugs me that it says "thank you for your interest in our field," as if we are not already somewhat "in the field." Oh wait... I just remembered that at Cornell, departments are called "fields." At any rate, it reads rather strangely. *tears*

Has anyone heard from Northwestern about interviews?

Haha. I got the same letter and thought it was a rejection because it was so skinny. Although they said they hadn't received my GRE scores, which were sent by ETS in December! To those applying to Chicago, did you happen to visit? Someone I know who went there told me they found it rather chilly (and not just in the weather sense), and they could only muster the minimum residency. Also, did you hear about the spate of violence this past fall, including the Ph.D. student who was shot? Not to be Debbie Downer, but from what I can tell, the relationship with the surrounding area is pretty strange--classic ivory tower in the ghetto, making students and staff easy pickins. Apparently students don't cross certain streets, etc. Hearing about all of this made me not want to apply (not that I could have gotten in anyway).

I'm also a published writer, and I got a 4.0. My hubris prevented me from practicing, I guess. Quite simply, I hate questions that ask me to b.s. for 30-45-minutes. And I couldn't think of examples quickly enough for my prompt--some days just aren't good for certain types of questions (e.g., science for humanities people) I met a woman recently who was valedictorian at Berkeley (now in a competitive PhD program), and she had only gotten a 4.5 on her second test.