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I got into 6/10 schools with a 151 q.

I emailed Cornell a week ago and answerd immediately.

Christine, I think the only one who is acting REALLY unprofessional here is you. Would you have applied if UTK was not a GREAT department?

Who wrote the disturbing message about Tennessee on the result page? I am still trying to decide where I want to go. For me Tennessee is by far the best fit, but I am pushed way to hard to make a decision right now (without having the results from other universities). That's why I have second toughts. Anyone in the same position? PM me.

I contacted CSU. They won't will notify their first candidates in March. So we need to be patiet for a while.

me too

What did Princeton's rejection mail say? Just curious....

I applied to Duke too! When did he contact you? Who is your POi?

Yes! Many universities don't use interviews at all.

Congratulations everyone! Must be such a relieve!

The answer is very often it depends. 1). What kind of research are you doing for your professor? How good is your professor? Is it relevant to what you want to do as a PhD ? 2). It depends. Are you ready for gradschool? What are doing these 2,3 years? 3). Luck is an important factor. Is there faculty available for your topic? How good are the other applicants that year? Don't underestimate the GRE, especially if you are not a native speaker. Also, LORs are very important. Many foreigners don't know how to write them (and even some Americans don't know how to write them). Even if they are very positive about you, they may not be great writers. 4). Depends on what you want to study. It won't help much if what you are stuying now is irrelevant to what you want to study as a PhD. 5. Yes! Getting a PhD is not about getting a title from a top 10 program. You should be passionate about your research and apply to schools have a great reputation in your subfield. Don't go to the websites of sociology programmes and check whether they have faculty that you like. It is the wrong approach! Only apply if you have read a substantial amount of work by scholars in your subfield and then check whether they are at universities with a PhD program (what their graduate students think of them, where their graduate students ended up, if they have funding, what the school offers etc).

Congratulations! Now, I am curious too! Please tell us!

Breaks0, don't overthink it. Grades are very subjective and maybe she is a hard grader. A B+ doesn't mean that she wrote a bad letter of reference. We are all stressed out about applications. Hang in there!

Yes, adjuncts are surviving on $3.000 per course (overloaded with 6 courses a year), because the job market is great. The fact that there are many of them, especially in the social sciences, is not worrisome at all. But I am just sensationalizing, of course.

Anyone claiming UCLA?