Princeton Funding

Graduate School
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<p>Hi All,</p>

<pre><code> I was wondering if any of you know what Princeton's graduate funding is like? I'm looking to apply to Princeton's PhD program in History. I know that Humanities funding is usually competitive to start with.. and funding is an issue for me with graduate school anyway. I guess my question is twofold, 1) does Princeton usually give good funding and 2) is it worth applying for me? I went to a UC (not LA/Berkeley) and I have a 4.0 History GPA and 3.95 overall GPA. I have strong LORS, GRE was 730V/550Q, 5 Writing. I want to do Latin American history and I speak/read Spanish. I studied abroad in Japan (I know, not a Latin American country) and did contact a PA from Princeton who seemed interested in my thesis topic. If my chances of getting in are low, I'm not sure if I want to spend 70 bucks applying (on a tight budget) and if I'm not going to get decent funding and thus can't go.. then I still don't want to spend 70 bucks applying.
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<p>Thanks for reading and thanks in advance for any advice/tips.</p>

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<p>Princeton funding in other social science departments is very generous, and there are lots of area studies centers on campus that fund graduate students in addition to departmental funding.</p>

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<p>There was a joke on another forum site among history applicants that people apply to Princeton’s history department solely for the department’s excellent financial package (Highest of any schools even though Princeton isn’t obviously as expensive as NYC but still more so than most places, and little or no TA requirement).</p>

<p>Just shell out that 70 bucks if you can and you see a good fit. The worst they can say is no, right?</p>