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Hi all, I got admitted to Syracuse this evening with a nice fellowship. It's nice to have a funded offer.

So's I am clear, did all the UCLA updates come with an email to check the website? I guess if they are doing it alphabetically I'll be among the last to know.

Last year, acceptance letters went out 2 weeks after PSW. Rejections went out 3-4 weeks later.

Dear UW-Seattle person: How close to the east coast do you live?

Yeah, I still don't have a decision either. Is it correct to assume that people are going to the Decision Status Login page? Is there another page?

I was accepted at Robinson College too!

how many South Asianists?

I think someone posted last week that the official notifications for Columbia would be out at the end of February. Up to now the notifications have been informal emails from professors. As has also been noted here, you're not rejected until you're rejected.

This is consistent with my experience. I wasn't aware of the skype option. The weekend is 2 weeks later than it was last year. That pushes decisions later. Blast.

Does the forum think that Washington and UCLA will be March notifications? I am thinking that NYU will be roughly two weeks after PSW.

That sounds a lot like criticisms of programs in the UK. I've looked at new hires at a lot of different kinds of schools and there are plenty of Ivy grads in the mix. Could it be that graduate school is what you make of it?

According to the National Labor Relations Board's 2004 decision, TAs at private universities do not have the right to unionize. By not allowing students to TA, the school keeps graduate students from having a claim to form a union. NYU students' efforts to unionize have been the most well-reported, but it's not a problem unique to them.

NYU is the only other program that comes to mind that doesn't require teaching. For whatever reason, it doesn't seem to hurt career prospects for Princeton or NYU grads.

Astarabadi, I am sure you have considered this, but one reason stipends may be different is due to cost of living. a higher stipend in NYC or LA than in Chapel Hill, for instance, isn't necessarily more walking around money.

I think that NE Nat said that the decisions would be made prior to the 6th. Last year, I was waitlisted via post around Valentine's Day. Acceptances might be relayed via email, which would have a quicker turn around.