<p>I am applying to doctoral programs at the following schools for 20th century western art:</p>
<p>UChicago
NYU
Berkeley
UCLA
Princeton
Yale
Columbia </p>
<p>I’ve looked through current doctoral student’s profiles to see what undergraduate programs they came from and none, from any of these programs, appeared to have went to CUNY schools.</p>
<p>I was wondering if anyone here went from a CUNY undergraduate degree to one of the schools above for a doctoral program in any humanities field. You don’t have to state which CUNY but I am curious about that as well.</p>
<p>No one here might have, and it may even be true that no one at those schools has, but that doesn’t mean you can’t. What you did in your undergrad is far more important than where you went. I am in a top 5 program in my field, and I went to a top 100 LAC but I’m the only one in my program who’s come from there. I don’t know of any alumnae of my alma mater who have come to my program, although there was an alumnae in a different department in the same school. The people in my cohort and department’s alma maters range from regional state universities and small private colleges to very well-known, highly-ranked private schools. (I am in the social sciences, but my PhD program is an interdisciplinary one that has social scientists and some humanities scholars in it, mainly historians).</p>
<p>Don’t worry about your undergraduate college - you can’t change it, so it’s a moot point to put too much time into worrying about it. Focus on presenting yourself in the best light as an applicant.</p>