GenericGuy

Looks like a couple of the Ph.D. applicants have posted they were accepted via phone today. *Fingers-crossed* I hope the weather had everybody go home early and they'll make more calls tomorrow. Congratulations to those accepted!

I would take joy27's post with a grain of salt. If you paste the text in to Google it comes from Kaplan back in 2007. I'm currently studying at a top-10 in Education and the process is different here. Basically, the POI (or chair of specialization) looks through the portfolio. At my school they read everything and if a candidate is really stellar they will forward the letter to request scholarships/additional funding. Keep in mind, the school where I study usually does not fully fund Ph.D. students in education. At some other schools they screen the portfolio to make sure it meets their standards. Then they forward the candidates to the professors who you listed. They can put in a yay or nay vote if they are interested in working with you. The POI may take on one or two new students per year. Some years it may not be their turn and may take no new Ph.D. students (the Harvard Education Ph.D. only takes 25 people per year... not every professor can take on a new person.) The Masters program is very different and tends to take on a dramatically larger body of students. As for the LOR comment --- if your LOR are submitting negatively on your behalf, you probably are not in this forum. Your application is done. Relax, make yourself a nice cup of tea... and sleep easy that you did your best.

When they switched to the PhD from the EdD they changed the admission practices. Two years ago I spoke with admissions and they had 600 applicants for the PhD, interviewed 50, accepted 25. Of the pool of 600 there were 30 people with a Harvard Ed.M, of which they accepted 3.

I have not heard anything from Harvard for HDLT. My second choice has already accepted me (UT Austin.)

Yes, mine says the same thing. Nothing to worry about, just means you can't submit a new application.

No word yet here. I've applied for HDLT. We still have a couple weeks