What do you think is better?

juillet
Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:14:18 +0000

Pick a minor that you like and that you think will be most useful to you. I don’t think any particular minor looks “better” or “good” to grad committees in the sense that a “bad” minor would break your admission to the school. A cultural anthropologist with a history minor may be looked upon favorably, but a physics minor wouldn’t detract from the application per se.

If you want to do the English minor, go ahead and get the English minor. I don’t know why you would think it would look “too easy.” The exercise of reading many books in a short period of time and writing many papers on those books can only be useful for a history PhD student, and will likely be looked upon favorably by professors who will recognize that.