Comments | applyingtograd: delurking, 18th c history PhD...

slawkenbergius in applyingtograd

delurking, 18th c history PhD...

Feb 09, 2008 14:19

So I've lurked here for almost a year now, but having gotten my GRE score report I've gotten up the nerve to join. Now I have a raft of questions, re: AWA score, recommendations, languages, suggestions for further action. I'm applying, next year, to PhD programs in 18th century European intellectual/cultural history.

1. So my GRE is 800v/770q/5.0. ( ( Read more... )

history, analytical writing, humanities, phd, gre

Comments 11

jessica551155 February 9 2008, 22:01:48 UTC

3) The languages: French is really important. The others depend on the specific area you want to study. I'm in a history PhD program, and the early modernists only "need" two languages, and French and German seem to be the standard. If you were studying Russia, I imagine the French would be very helpful there as well. Lots of scholarship is in German, but that really depends on your field. If your focus isn't Russia, though, I would recommend strengthening German, since that would probably be useful, but you don't necessarily need it ( ... )

jessica551155 February 9 2008, 22:02:49 UTC

Um, the the numbers are off, sorry, I'm sort of out of it today.

bobwhoops February 9 2008, 22:11:40 UTC

1. I've heard that the writing section is the one that schools least care about, especially if have a writing sample. Plus, if the average score is 5.5, that means a good deal of accepted students got less than that :)

sporkgoddess February 9 2008, 22:22:52 UTC

slawkenbergius February 9 2008, 22:35:02 UTC

I think it was 630 on one, 680 on the other. YMMV, though.

evilpettingzoo February 9 2008, 22:36:06 UTC

3. I was just wondering if you took language classes in your university or if are teaching yourself to read the languages because as you have so many listed (which is great)!

slawkenbergius February 9 2008, 22:45:38 UTC

I'm a native Russian speaker, did a few years each of Latin and German in high school, studied French in college. I probably wouldn't get very far in self-study--not enough self-discipline.

(Thanks for the quick responses, everyone. Wow.)

dezelina February 10 2008, 04:42:52 UTC

I am so jealous..I study Russian history and having to learn Russian is painful at times..lol I love it....but it is crazy hard!

saralinds February 10 2008, 01:29:06 UTC

As for your recommenders, it's okay to go with the philosophy guy especially that you want to do intellectual history. For your third, just keep looking aound and find professors who are EXCITED about you going to graduate school, period. And they have to meant it and give you some schools and guidance ( ... )