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Anybody planning to stay in I-House? I'm imagining lots of cooking out together and having a fun time. I grew up without A/C, heat doesn't bother me. Also, to anybody who has attended previously, what's the preferred dress code for graduate students? I imagine this will be a good opportunity for networking and I don't want to look like a slob, but don't want to be overdressed either.

Good to know there are people successfully making that transition. Anyway, I just found out I accepted to Indiana. I'm so excited.

I only applied to MA programs rather than Ph. D. since my BA wasn't in linguistics and my GPA was fairly middling due to some issues from a lack of maturity and depression early in my college experience; I get to look forward to doing it all again in a year or two if I decide to finish out the doctorate.

It's actually my first rejection, luckily I got an acceptance already to a program I'm really excited about, so I'm genuinely not even phased. But Oregon was a really good fit for my interests. C'est la vie.

Rejected for an MA at Oregon. Also, over it.

I understand discovering an interest after submitting SOPs: mine focused on my interest in Native American linguistics and I have since discovered that I'm also interested in Bantu tense/aspect morphology and syntax, which is completely absent from my SOP and a strength of two programs I applied to. So in a sense I'm in the same boat, as my writing sample is focused on the syntax of a Bantu language and I hope that helps me out; hopefully your writing sample does the same with semantics. Oxford is beautiful, my family is English and I visited there during a trip to the Motherland once. Best of luck, it really does sound like you've worked really hard to be successful in this field.

Not sure how much luck you'll have here, as this forum (and Gradcafe generally) appears to be very heavily focused on American universities with a few Canadian schools as well. Hopefully someone has information for you. Serious question, if your interests are sociolinguistics and pragmatics, and the faculty at Oxford aren't doing that, why are you so hung up on it? On the American side of the house, I have repeatedly been told (including by faculty who sit on AdComs) that the strength of your SOP is very important in terms of determining your fit for the department. Did your writing sample or C/V have anything indicating your interest in syntax and typology? Those are the only other ways, at least in my application experience, to demonstrate your interests outside of the SOP. I'm not trying to be discouraging; based on what you say here your credentials are better than mine and it looks like you've worked very hard.

Thanks, it's a really good fit for my interests. I obviously have to wait amd see where else I get in and consider any sort of funding but I'm very happy.

Got my first offer of admission to UVA. Pretty exciting for a kid who was a two-time drop-out as an undergrad.

To those who have attended previously: Is the full cost of tuition due at the time of registration or is it possible to place a deposit and pay the tuition in full at a later time? I can afford the tuition, but I cannot afford to pay it all next month (and I want to register early). I'd prefer not to have to put the complete cost on my credit card...

I wouldn't actually characterize myself as nervous, that was definitely a bit of hyperbole on my part. More like... excited that I've started to see posts about the schools I've applied to (Indiana also). Lucky for me that I'm not actually working on a thesis (my situation is weird). Oh, and to Tairy.... congratulations. That's awesome.

Danica, Congrats. I assume it was Dr. Dobrin who contacted you? I read quite bit of her work a few years ago and really admire her plus I have close friends in Charlottesville, so I would be excited to go to UVA. Now I'm nervous about my own prospects and doing the over-zealous refreshing like crazy move (and neglecting a phonology project in the process). Thanks for the details and best of luck. I guess now that I'm going to start posting, I should probably create a signature block.

I'm a long-time lurker and refrained from posting simply by virtue of the fact that programs I've applied to haven't been brought into the discussions. But I just saw on the results page that someone got an interview with UVA. If this person reads this, mind sharing details? Also, I saw that in past years Oregon usually contacts people mid-February regarding MA admissions but I haven't a word about them yet. Anybody have any idea what's going on in Eugene? Thanks.