Two of our very recent History BAs, Ms Gizem Dik and Mr Mehmet Sadin Kara, have achieved the rare distinction of being admitted into top master’s programs at Oxford at virtually the same time. Of the two classmates, Mehmet Kara did a double major in History and Political Science, graduating with 3.92 GNO in History and a 3.90 GNO in Political Science. Now admitted into Oxford’s Migration Studies MA, he hopes to continue working on this burning question of our times, dedicating his life’s work to Migration and Refugee Studies.
At IHU, Gizem Dik did a double major in History and Psychology as well as a minor in Comparative Literature, completing her History BA with a 3.85 GNO, her Psychology BA with a 3.83 GNO (including a semester abroad doing a Psychology internship in Oslo), and her Comparative Literature minor with a 3.82 GNO. She has now received admission from no fewer than five graduate programs at four prestigious European universities: the Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies MA at Oxford; the Gender Studies MA at the London School of Economics; both the Gender, Politics and International Relations MA and the Gender Studies MA at University College Dublin; and the Gender Studies MA at Utrecht University. Gizem Dik ultimately aspires to do a PhD in Art History, focusing on women artists through the ages, and it is on the road to that long-run objective that she is hoping to do her Gender Studies MA at Oxford.
