History applicants for fall '07

[tigerinexile]

Any of you folks out there?

Feeling good about your applications?

[schambers]

I would say I feel 'nervous', not 'good.'

[tigerinexile]

Alas.

I'm waiting on seven schools for Russian history.

[rising_star]

welcome and good luck!! try not to kill yourself while waiting :wink:

[cp4three2]

I'm waiting on 11 applications for Southern history, and I second Schambers about being nervous instead of good.

[Minnesotan]

Good luck all. I went through the process last year, and it was hell!

[tigerinexile]

So Yale is apparently rejecting people today; NYU is inviting people to an interview weekend.

I have as of yet not been rejected by Yale _or_ invited to NYU for an interview.

My college roommate's girlfriend (in a different sub-field of history) has heard from professors at Columbia and Chicago who express much interest in her application. (I was magna at college in a different major, she was summa in history.)

I am waiting on:

Yale, Columbia, NYU, Michigan, Stanford, and a pair of others.

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Am compulsively checking my e-mail now. Argh.

[groundball]

Does anyone know whether or not Ivy League doctoral programs in History pre-screen applicants by GRE scores? I am assuming they do, but wanted to see whether anyone had heard anything different. I've been admitted to several top 10 programs who didn't seem to mind about my average scores, but my "best" fits are with two Ivy League schools. Any input at all in this regard would be helpful. Good luck to everyone else going through this process!

[strombomb]

well, although it dashes my hopes of NYU, it is good to know where I stand (or at least, where I think I stand). I also applied to the NYU History program and have not heard anything from them.

I found out last week that I got in at UCSD so I'm happy about that. Still waiting to hear from the other four - NYU, WUSTL, Georgetown, and Maryland at College Park.

I hate that they claim to only contact you through regular mail - seems like that is only for those that they want to reject

[TheMole]

I'm definitely on the freak-out train right now.

UCSD let me know a few weeks ago, and that was nice, and I also got into UCLA and UCI. Honestly, I don't know which one to pick - I do Spanish History, and UCLA (obviously the bigger name), has no specialist in Modern Spanish History (though Teo Ruiz is a medievalist...) UCI has guaranteed housing, but UCSD has a bigger all-around name (or am I wrong about this?).

Harvard turned me down, but I'm still waiting to hear from Yale...and now Rutgers said yes too!

What on Earth do I do? And has anyone started hearing from Yale? Is it bad that it's March and I haven't heard anything?

[Weber]

Through friends, I'm 90% sure that Yale has chosen and notified already, though maybe they do it by specialty/region?

[TheMole]

Which leads me to wonder where I stand - after all, I haven't heard in the negative, but I also haven't heard anything positive. And it can't be in the mail, as they let everyone know via email! I even checked the application I submitted, just to make sure that I gave them my correct notification email, and sure enough I had.

Perhaps this doesn't mean anything - maybe they just haven't gotten to mine yet. But I can't help but wonder whether, if the were going to accept me, they wouldn't have done so already.

I'm probably reading way too much into it all. What do you think?

[histoire]

TheMole, on UCSD vs. UCI - I don't know how the history department of UCSD stacks up in general vs. other schools/schools in the UC system (and those rankings can be deceiving anyways!), but I'm in a different subfield (where UCSD is honestly one of the top programs, period) and had an offer from UCSD and UCSC. I've gone with SD for a lot of reasons, mostly just because I think it's a better fit overall, but if SC had been a better fit, I wouldn't have UCSD's standing really sway me. It seems that a lot of the 'smaller/lesser known' UC schools are really trying to claw their way up to the top of the heap & really aggressively going after really good grad students and trying to build very strong programs to rival the bigger names. I think it's better to be in a program on its way up than on the way down.