Graduate School Question

mini
Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:19:01 +0000

Without any question, yes. What the program wants to know is what you bring to the table that should make them select you over the hundreds (and hundreds) of other candidates they have. My d., who is headed to grad school in musicology actually had a concentration and honors thesis in composition. But if you don’t have the same major, you just need to be able to “sell” your preparation, and the program you did major in.

A bigger issue is whether the Ph.D. program discriminates against accepting folks out of their own undergraduate program. Some of the better ones do. Watch the languages carefully, though. Virtually all art history programs will require German, and one other language (French or Italian). Some (like UChicago) will require three. Some will require the two, plus the language of the field you are working in (ancient Greek, etc.)