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Congratulations to all those offered a coveted seat at Harvard! Any of us now waiting for Ed.M decisions (post-rejection)? Would you attend if you were to be accepted?

I say: wait until 5:00. They probably want offices to close so they don't get phone calls.

I was admitted to a UC in early to mid-February, but only because of an error on my part. I was told decisions aren't supposed to come out until late February/early March. Stay positive; you could, very well, be receiving GREAT NEWS soon! Details can be sent via PM.

The more, the merrier! This education forum has been northeast heavy.

I'm only considering Berkeley, but very seriously!

I thought we could discuss UC schools in this thread. Good luck to all!

Well, one major advantage you have is that Peabody is the number one education school in the country. You'd get to work with the best faculty and have access to brilliant classmates -- great way to network!

I had an interview at Steinhardt for a PhD program recently.

I am not myself an applicant, but many of the posts on this forum are speculations based on what has or what will happen. Harvard (the institution) does not assume people can just stop life to come for them; that would be quite presumptuous of them (and if the applicant pool is as selective as they want it to be, they acknowledge how difficult it would be to come at the drop of a hat). The results table indicates a couple of people have been notified already, by no means the majority, but considering that only 50 are invited to interview and the entire world is not on gradcafe, it's still a pretty good indication that invitations might have already gone out. I would doubt that they would wait until the end of next week (probably, at most, the end of this one), because it would be financially irresponsible to delay it even further. As one of the lead institutions in the country, they are aware of financial disparities among their prospective applicants, and I am sure that they attempt to provide as much support as possible through application season.

http://www.petersons.com/graduate-schools/harvard-university-graduate-school-of-education-masters-programs-in-education-000_10035777.aspx Guess not about more specific data, but for those applying to schools such as BC and NYU, it might help to look at the break downs of departments there.

Look at the petersons break down for even more specific data.

Any BU or UMass applicants out there?

Not an applicant but NYU only requests unofficial reports until you're accepted... not that weird!

Congratulations to everyone getting good news. I'm a big ball of nerves thus far -- two upcoming interviews (Penn & Steinhardt) and no other word.

I saw on the results search that somebody got accepted to a Masters program at Lynch today -- congratulations!

Received email invitation to EdD weekend!!

Hi, I'll be submitting my application to BU SED soon, and I was wondering what the turnaround for decisions is on applications to BU. The website says eight weeks, but I wonder if anyone on this forum has specific details (past experience) applying to BU. Also, we can use this thread to discuss BU applications -- assuming there are others out there!

I took the GRE twice, once last summer with scores of 160V, 145M, 5.5 WR and once this summer with scores of 150V, 151M, and 5.5 WR. I have a 3.4 UG GPA from a well-regarded private New England LAC, a 3.8 Masters GPA (with honors designation on thesis), 2 years of work experience in education. My question is: should I be retaking the exam, or just choosing between those scores to submit? My top choice right now is Boston College, Lynch, but I know their average GRE scores are 609V, and 662M (but that includes both Masters and doctoral candidates) Does anyone have any encouraging words? What should I do?

Thank you both for your responses! criticalontology, I overlooked that program and it seems to match my interests very well. Thank you! emilyrobot, I also liked the program at Peabody and I definitely want to be a university professor (who also engages in research). I would, ideally, be doing research using mixed methods - and I don't really have much interest in working in either policy or administration. Also, I am interested in studying the K-12 achievement gap. My undergraduate background was not in education - it was in sociology - and I know admission to programs in that particular field is a bit more complicated. I initially was considering applying to phd programs in sociology, but realized education better fit my interests. Another thing that worries me is that I am very young: I will be 24 when I enroll in my phd/EdD program. I still have all that experience, but I worry that because I know most programs have average ages hovering around 28-32. Would this be a disadvantage at all? What would a "good" GRE score look like? I did actually take it once but I scored 90% V, 96% AW (5.5) and 32% Math, which I realize isn't going to cut it... (probably why I'm so harsh on myself). I'm still trying to learn, so I'm sorry if I'm being annoying. Thank you!

I am currently a second-year teacher in the New York City public schools. I graduated college in May 2010 and immediately started a nontraditional program for teaching certification, enrolling in coursework at a local NYC school (unranked). I began teaching at a NYC public school September 2010. I graduated from a top liberal arts college with a (rather weak) 3.4 GPA . I work and go to school, and I have a 3.8 Masters GPA. I am currently writing my master's thesis on lexical errors of bilingual students in special education settings (and the complicated duality of their identities). I hope to apply to GSEs for fall 2013, but I don't know how competitive I would be (if at all). I have done research on higher education/achievement gap for a think tank organization (acknowledged in but not co-author of a book), an independent project (on racist policy against English language learners in Massachusetts) at the undergraduate level, was part of a research team studying parental involvement and college access for Latino students (for a year, funded under a NSF grant), and interned as an ESOL teacher in a foreign country. I, ideally, would like to study the intersection of culture and education - particularly with bilingual populations, and even more specifically studying the overwhelming placement of Spanish L1 students /ESL and bilingual students into special education settings, looking specifically at the achievement gap between ESL and Non-ESL students. I don't know if there is anything out there that would cater to me, or if any program would realistically take me as a doctoral student given my poor background. GRE not yet taken either... so that's another one. Any advice ?