Financing Graduate School

mattmom
Tue, 07 Dec 2004 08:10:03 +0000

If he is doing well in his major at Williams, where I seem to recall you’ve said he is, he should be able to get a fellowship virtually anywhere (GPA, GRE, and enthusiastic recs from well-known faculty members will do the trick). I have the impression from your posts that art history is his field, sorry if I am mistaken. In fields like that (English,history, poli sci…) graduate scohol do not seem to expect students to pay,a t least not the ones who are going for their PhD. Some programs only take as many tsudents as they can provide funding for and it is not at all need-based. So basically your son will have his tuition covered and possibly even get a stipend, and indeed might become one of those much maligned TA’s at a top research unvieristy!