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Fayre

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  1. I wonder if you could email the DGS and ask for a waiver on the subject test requirement, since you can't get it in your country? I don't think they would want to disqualify you just on the basis of that, since it's not your fault you can't take it.
  2. I had a Canadian school ask me if I wanted to disclose any other offers to them so they could offer me more competitive funding. That doesn't speak for all schools, of course, but there's at least one bit of anecdotal evidence.
  3. If you look at the Results Search for Columbia from last year, I think it followed a similar pattern--a huge slew of rejections, then a weird, week-long lull and then another slew. Maybe the timing is weird because they have to go through the graduate school rather than the department?
  4. I heard on March 8th by email last year, so you might hear this week! I think they follow up with the MA decisions pretty quick--they occasionally offer MA applicants admission to the Direct Entry PhD instead, so they've probably looked at all the applicants, both MA and PhD, by now. Good luck!
  5. I haven't heard anything yet, though I'm living across the pond right now so I imagine I'll be far from the first to hear.
  6. I think you're looking for this page?: https://apply-humanities.uchicago.edu/apply/ Edit: Though I think those rejects are talking about UIC, not UC. (I didn't apply to UIC, so I don't know about that one.)
  7. You might want to check out the University of Toronto's complit program: http://complit.utoronto.ca/ It's well-regarded, guarantees funding, and both the university and Toronto more generally are very receptive to international students. It also doesn't require the GRE, so that's one less school you would have to get that report sent to. The program does require you to have two languages other than English, but for research purposes, so I don't think it'd be a problem that your Arabic is limited to reading ability.
  8. I'm a masters student at Oxford right now and I haven't really run into any class issues. I think class divisions are more obvious/prevalent at the undergraduate level. As a graduate, you're surrounded by tons of international students from a huge range of backgrounds, many of whom are on scholarships either from Oxford or their home countries, so their personal wealth is not such an issue. At our orientation they told us that 65% of their graduates are international, so it's a pretty mixed bunch. I've encountered some arrogant people here, but no more than I did in my undergrad in North America. Tuition is certainly high if you don't have any scholarships, though it's not high compared to unfunded degrees in the US. The only glaring money/class issue I can think of is how many expensive events there are here that you can go to, such as college balls and that sort of thing. But you can definitely do a ton of stuff and have an amazing experience even without such events since there are a million free (or very very cheap) lectures/seminars/parties/etc. So, that's just my personal experience. My impression is the undergraduate and graduate experience is extremely different here. And a lot of it is what you make of it. Sure, you'll find arrogant people. But you can just ignore them and find your own crowd instead. I imagine the same is true at Ivies.
  9. It still seems like there are weirdly few NYU acceptances up on the Results Search...wishful thinking, or is it not over yet?
  10. It's depressed me too, but we shouldn't lose hope yet! Not until there's been way more activity on the Results board, anyway. I've only applied to 4 places, so I'm pretty nervous. But trying to stay optimistic.
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