Since I'm applying for Ph.D. programs in Art History, all of my applications are due on or around December 15. I have an appointment to meet with grad students at one of my schools in two weeks, but only one of my other schools is realistically geographically accessible. I have contacted a potential adviser there, but he proposed an extremely ( Read more... )

Hi, everyone. I'm currently drafting an email to the graduate coordinator of one of the programs I'm applying to, and I'm having a really hard time figuring out what to say to her and what to just say to the professors I'm planning to contact. Should I tell her which professors I'd like to speak with? (My logic is that if I tell her then she'll be ( Read more... )

I know that many of us have been wondering what kinds of questions to ask grad students at programs we are interested in, and I have compiled a list of questions I am planning to ask a student in a program I have been admitted to. I have also listed a few extras here and I hope this can be a resource that helps with the blocks that we sometimes ( Read more... )

So, after being accepted to one of my top programs (*does a little dance*) I've been in contact with the grad director to set up a visit day for me. She just emailed me the schedule yesterday to see if it looks good to me, and generally it does - meetings with profs, tour of the library, lunch with students, sit in on a class. The thing that I was ( Read more... )

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Hi!  Ok, I have a dumb question, I figured this would be the place to ask it ( Read more... )

The search function isn't working and I don't remember seeing any recent entries on this topic for this application season ( Read more... )