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Toronto's a good program, and if you come in on PhD track (yes, even if you're only going to do an MA and have no real intention of continuing), you'll be fully funded, under the new, one-year-old guarantee. If you're not part of the small golden cohort, however, you're at the mercy of what you can afford, are willing to take out in loans, or can win in the way of other awards. (I just don't know that much about the Notre Dame program which is why I'm not saying more)

One of the women in Latin this past year is in the Art History program. If you're curious, I can put you in touch with her.

As for the Centre for Medieval Studies, latin is the be-all and end-all of the commonality the students have in common. Although you're free to do take classes however you choose, many history students only take history, and many language students only take languages, but everyone takes latin. It's a good bonding experience. Although it helps coming into the program with some background in Latin and makes it much, much easier to complete the MA in one year, there are plenty of people who arrive here with no latin background to speak of, and there is a beginning latin class that's offered in addition to the others - and people going through it do regularly still pass the MA latin exam at the end of the year.

Speaking of which, there are a relatively large number of Smithies here doing medieval things of various sorts (1 in history department, 2 at the Centre, 1 in History of Science).