barricades Posted February 9, 2011 Posted February 9, 2011 Yes!!! Thats nice! Are you brazilian too? Nascido e criado em BH. haha
BH-history Posted February 9, 2011 Posted February 9, 2011 haha! Me add no msn! suzaneanelise@hotmail.com Nascido e criado em BH. haha
amberanna Posted February 9, 2011 Posted February 9, 2011 yeah, we're in the same boat here on Emory, and based on the past couple of years they send out their rejections much later than their acceptances. I really wanted Emory, ah well. No need to be dejected yet though! Still plenty of places to hear back from. Yeah, I'm still waiting on Emory too.
MegMill Posted February 9, 2011 Posted February 9, 2011 Yeah, I'm still waiting on Emory too. Emory's about to make me have a nervous breakdown. The previous poster was right - rejections come some time after acceptances. I just need to go ahead and know now. Like Right.Now.
amberanna Posted February 9, 2011 Posted February 9, 2011 At least the only people getting acceptances on the board so far are for Americanists. Which gives this sad little Europeanist hope that mine is coming soon.
TaraDanielle Posted February 9, 2011 Posted February 9, 2011 Has anyone heard from Ph.D. programs in Middle Eastern/Islamic history? I haven't received anything from the schools I applied to. Also, just fyi, the professor I'm in contact with at Penn told me they are accepting one student this year in Islamic history. I'm assuming this means the department isn't accepting a lot of students in general...
sankd Posted February 9, 2011 Posted February 9, 2011 (edited) Has anyone heard from Ph.D. programs in Middle Eastern/Islamic history? I haven't received anything from the schools I applied to. Also, just fyi, the professor I'm in contact with at Penn told me they are accepting one student this year in Islamic history. I'm assuming this means the department isn't accepting a lot of students in general... Yeah, there have been ME history acceptances at Ohio State and Illinois so far. Outside of a place like Michigan, UCLA or maybe Arizona, one ME/Islamic history student is something to cheer for in an incoming class. Usually we get smashed by the Americanist Horde. Edited February 9, 2011 by sankd
TaraDanielle Posted February 9, 2011 Posted February 9, 2011 Yeah, there have been ME history acceptances at Ohio State and Illinois so far. Outside of a place like Michigan, UCLA or maybe Arizona, one ME/Islamic history student is something to cheer for in an incoming class. Usually we get smashed by the Americanist Horde. Haha, well, that's encouraging. OSU is my undergrad, and I didn't apply here because I'm more interested in medieval Syrian history (we have a lot of Ottomanists on faculty). I hope my application is unique enough that I get in somewhere.
qbtacoma Posted February 9, 2011 Posted February 9, 2011 (edited) Yeah, there have been ME history acceptances at Ohio State and Illinois so far. Outside of a place like Michigan, UCLA or maybe Arizona, one ME/Islamic history student is something to cheer for in an incoming class. Usually we get smashed by the Americanist Horde. The Star-Spangled Horde! Oh, god, it's coming! Flee! Flee for your lives! Edited February 9, 2011 by qbtacoma DrOrpheus and rsldonk 2
Jdealla Posted February 9, 2011 Posted February 9, 2011 With the appearance of the Princeton poster today, results from 5 out of 6 of the schools (no word from Georgetown) I applied to have made it on the results board and I haven't heard a peep. Do Latin Americanists hear last? I'm trying to take the advice of not reading too much into the results, but it's difficult when your life's path is what's being decided and reported. Hopefully something will come soon.
sankd Posted February 9, 2011 Posted February 9, 2011 The Star-Spangled Horde! Oh, god, it's coming! Flee! Flee for your lives! Deep down inside, past the groans about language and multi-archival research, we love them.
Bukharan Posted February 9, 2011 Posted February 9, 2011 Has anyone heard from Ph.D. programs in Middle Eastern/Islamic history? I haven't received anything from the schools I applied to. Also, just fyi, the professor I'm in contact with at Penn told me they are accepting one student this year in Islamic history. I'm assuming this means the department isn't accepting a lot of students in general... It seems that there are more people who have heard nothing in our field. No, nada, absolutely nothing. I applied to six schools. Although, (all according to the GradCafe Results section) U Chicago already sent out a couple of acceptances for History and at least one acceptance for Near Eastern Studies (Northwest Semitic languages?), and Harvard reported a couple of acceptances for History and at least one rejection for History & MES. It is getting so close.
TMP Posted February 9, 2011 Posted February 9, 2011 Wow. You guys really, really, really need to chill out and stop obsessing over statistics. I need to repeat this: Some of these early acceptances are most likely up for university-wide fellowships and these people are the committee's top choices. Regardless of the outcomes from the university fellowships, these people are going to be accepted, university-wide fellowship or not. Departments are just waiting on those fellowships so they know how many more people to nominate for admission. Also, it's all budget-conscious. While I was in contact with Indiana last year (it was their first year only accepting people whom they can actually afford), as it turned out, they were accepting a few at a time, based on the budget numbers and whether or not their top choices applicants took its offer or not before moving down the list. Emory also said something similar- making rounds of admissions (although they never made it to the second round). Also, I'm not surprised at all about non-Western fields. These people often have funding packages not just from the history department but also from other departments such as Latin American studies and East Asian studies. Also FLAS deadline was only just last week (February 1st) so people who applied for FLAS and departments will have to wait to hear from FLAS committee before anything happens. These complex packages take time to put together and I know that for my particular field it takes longer to get that done because these external departments need to see who else other departments (i.e. English, Comp Lit, Sociology, etc) want to admit besides the History department before figuring out who they want to fund. So a Latin American historian may be competing with one or two from the History department and then maybe some people from Comp Lit and Anthropology for limited amount of money from LAS department. It's up to the LAS department to decide who they want to give the money to and how much, and then in turn, the History department has to see if it can afford to pay the rest. It's very complex and it takes time so you all need to be patient and you'll be glad at the end that professors did their damn best to get you (or other people) funding in such a complex process. As for Europeanists and Americanists, remember you're in over-saturated fields! With the recession, we really need to step back and breathe and realize that it's very difficult right now for departments to do this. Professors are seriously fighting over students and slots. Departments need to figure out how they can afford to take as many as they'd like to and find all sources of funding. So... CHILL. P.S. I didn't even hear from Emory until the first week of March and I already knew I wasn't going to get in because I knew of someone exactly in my field who was already admitted. Although I already mourned, getting the letter was kind of unnecessary. StrangeLight, Bukharan, gradwoes and 4 others 6 1
amberanna Posted February 9, 2011 Posted February 9, 2011 I thought the whole point of this website was to obsess... besm and TaraDanielle 2
Bukharan Posted February 9, 2011 Posted February 9, 2011 Ticklemepink, that's an excellent post! Thanks for that! Bukharan 1
GeekGirl Posted February 10, 2011 Posted February 10, 2011 With the appearance of the Princeton poster today, results from 5 out of 6 of the schools (no word from Georgetown) I applied to have made it on the results board and I haven't heard a peep. Do Latin Americanists hear last? I'm trying to take the advice of not reading too much into the results, but it's difficult when your life's path is what's being decided and reported. Hopefully something will come soon. I'm a Latin Americanist and I haven't heard anything either . . . I think I need a drink, or three.
EricaMarie Posted February 10, 2011 Posted February 10, 2011 The Star-Spangled Horde! Oh, god, it's coming! Flee! Flee for your lives! I hope you don't mind, but this made me LOL for the first time in days, so I'm gonna steal it for my signature. TaraDanielle 1
HistoryGrizzly Posted February 10, 2011 Posted February 10, 2011 Deep down inside, past the groans about language and multi-archival research, we love them. Aw no fair. I have to visit three archives in two different states for the project I'm working on right now for my American Studies senior project. I don't get props for it?
rsldonk Posted February 10, 2011 Posted February 10, 2011 Aw no fair. I have to visit three archives in two different states for the project I'm working on right now for my American Studies senior project. I don't get props for it? Not when I have archives not only in 3 different states, but 4 different countries. besm and sankd 2
StrangeLight Posted February 10, 2011 Posted February 10, 2011 Aw no fair. I have to visit three archives in two different states for the project I'm working on right now for my American Studies senior project. I don't get props for it? nope. last summer i used 8 archives in 3 countries. and my documents aren't in english. i had to take a speedboat to get between countries and the government archive i used didn't have toilet paper. or soap. or a sink (just a tap in the wall over a rain barrel). or a plumbed-in toilet (just a toilet sitting loosely over a hole in the ground). i win. i think? DrOrpheus, rsldonk, StrangeLight and 1 other 4
rmcclymo Posted February 10, 2011 Posted February 10, 2011 nope. last summer i used 8 archives in 3 countries. and my documents aren't in english. i had to take a speedboat to get between countries and the government archive i used didn't have toilet paper. or soap. or a sink (just a tap in the wall over a rain barrel). or a plumbed-in toilet (just a toilet sitting loosely over a hole in the ground). i win. i think? When did James Bond become a historian? What would be the title of this particular Bond movie and who would play you strangelight?
StrangeLight Posted February 10, 2011 Posted February 10, 2011 "toilets never flush." of course, i'm bond. with boobs. doing research in central america's pretty awesome. especially in places that have coup governments that illegally block your access to public domain documents. i'm fairly certain the process of doing research in my particular locales is way more interesting than my actual research is. simone von c, ♀HealthMatters and Bukharan 3
rmcclymo Posted February 10, 2011 Posted February 10, 2011 "toilets never flush." of course, i'm bond. with boobs. doing research in central america's pretty awesome. especially in places that have coup governments that illegally block your access to public domain documents. i'm fairly certain the process of doing research in my particular locales is way more interesting than my actual research is. I can't wait to go on my research adventure (to NYC, Geneva, Nairobi and Addis Ababa) - though I doubt I will be living in Bond like accommodations and drinking martinis
Guest Posted February 10, 2011 Posted February 10, 2011 Just got word from Berkeley of my acceptance! Hooray! Don't know if the field matters, but I appleid for premodern Japanese history. ------------ Applied: Harvard, Berkeley, UMichigan, Pitt, Hawaii, OSU Accepted: Harvard, Berkeley
RDX Posted February 10, 2011 Posted February 10, 2011 Just got word from Berkeley of my acceptance! Hooray! Don't know if the field matters, but I appleid for premodern Japanese history. ------------ Applied: Harvard, Berkeley, UMichigan, Pitt, Hawaii, OSU Accepted: Harvard, Berkeley Congratulations! Did they email you? I guess my east asian history application is now down in the water...
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