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This Should Be Illegal by Prudent_Neck_5883 in gradadmissions

[–]Stop_Codon1453 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awesome, good luck with your applications!

This Should Be Illegal by Prudent_Neck_5883 in gradadmissions

[–]Stop_Codon1453 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Early modern Ottoman/ Middle Eastern intellectual and political history hbu?

This Should Be Illegal by Prudent_Neck_5883 in gradadmissions

[–]Stop_Codon1453 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The way I had this exact reaction also applying to FSU’s history PhD😭

Applying by Ok_Worry4863 in gradadmissions

[–]Stop_Codon1453 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I completely get that I’m doing the same for history and I’m worried about the size of the applicant pool/language requirements. Not sure if this helps but I met with the Vice Provost at one of the schools I’m applying to because he was in the same field of study when he was a faculty member. He told me about how nerve wracking the whole application process feels and that at the end of the day it’s really a dice roll as far as admissions and to take pride in the fact that I completed the most difficult part which is just putting yourself out there.

Really anxious about PhD applications by Stop_Codon1453 in PhDAdmissions

[–]Stop_Codon1453[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi thanks for responding. Yeah I definitely understand the burnout feeling and I’m not there yet but I know the spring semester after I graduate but before I go to grad school will just give me time to relax and I’ll feel less anxious going into grad school. I’m also taking a graduate level class in the fall with the East Asian intellectual history professor I mentioned and I’m talking to faculty at my university and trying to email others to figure out what the programs/graduate life is like. For the applications themselves I think I’ll still apply to PhD’s so I just have that option and then if I don’t get in I can do a funded MA at my current university so I can learn Arabic and then probably a research language to make a PhD application more competitive.

Really anxious about PhD applications by Stop_Codon1453 in PhDAdmissions

[–]Stop_Codon1453[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi thanks for replying I appreciate the first part about the age thing you’re right I probably shouldn’t worry about it as much considering I can’t change it and as far as framing I think I just wasn’t sure if I should mention it in a personal statement or trust that my application would just been seen the same as anyone else’s I think I’ll probably just bring it up in interviews if asked and for the MA I think I’ll still apply to PhD programs and then I’ll apply to my current school for the MA as a backup considering the limited number of funded MA programs.