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Congrats Saluki! That's awesome. I'd have loved to applied on the west coast but the programs aren't really aligned with my interests-I really hope your visit goes well!

got a phone call from a Massachusetts phone number today and answered it thinking "well this is odd, but hey who knows?" turns out it was an automated phone call. I don't think I've ever been so furious at a machine

yeah I'm not expecting to hear from Harvard, Brown, or W&M any time in the near future. The results search just has me hopefully that we'll hear from UMinn, UNC, and UMD within the next 2-3 weeks though...hence the obsession

It was American Studies everywhere but Harvard (the Hist. of Am. Civ. program there). Yeah, I too have been watching the results page pretty intently. Minnesota started to contact people on 1/20 last year based off the results search...hence why I've likely been even more impatient than normal recently.

Has anyone heard anything yet? losing my mind just a little over here waiting

I guess I already knew it, but I'm incredibly lucky. My fiance and I are getting married June 1 and looking to move in early July to wherever I hopefully get accepted. Unfortunately it means leaving my family and comfort zone behind anywhere we go because 1)we'll be moving 8-12 hours away from where we currently are and 2) 5 of my 6 options of schools are in a big city, something that I'm incredibly uncomfortable with. Overall though my fiance is incredibly supportive and very excited to move away from everything we know and start our married life together. I guess the biggest difficulty for us is that wherever I get accepted, my fiance has to apply and hopefully be accepted to their undergraduate program since he's still working on that.

I'm applying to 6 different AMST programs for the PhD in Fall 2013, have great grades, etc. from my undergrad, and I've taken a year to fully decide to commit to going to graduate school. That said, I'm struggling with contacting POIs in this field because unlike some of the hard sciences, etc. it doesn't seem like asking if profs are taking on students is especially helpful-seeing as we're interdisciplinary we could really be talking to progs in a wide range of fields. So with that said-is there any advice from people who've contacted POIs thus far? What kinds of things did you say? What did you do if there wasn't a core faculty member who matched up with your interests that well?