AllFiredUp

Yes...in electrified doomsday cages...

The big H is waiting to find out from the graduate school how many students they can admit this year. Things are more top-down with the recent hiring freeze.

From your fingers to the deans' budgets! Perhaps you and I have hit upon a "sweet spot" after all.

Now, this is a fine observation. Do you think search committees will remember this in 5-7 years? An extra "boost" for a job in the offing. There will be jobs...right?

Disgustingly small!

Rumblings that the state budget may force the graduate school to cut programs, possibly political science. UofM acceptees would be wise to immediately decline their offers.

Is Notre Dame finished?

NJ, on the other hand, is only prohibitively high. Except for gas.

Quiet Monday.

I don't think BC is necessarily a safety school, though it's not ranked in the top 50. I was rejected there but accepted to a place higher up. Aside from accepting a very tiny percentage of applicants, I think they are looking for a very specific, quirky kind of scholar...at least in American politics and political theory.

I expect we will hear from them the first week of February.

A new workweek is upon us. My sense is that Georgetown and Notre Dame will be notifying people as early as tomorrow morning.

Blast! Gradster, know anything about wait lists? Are they out too?

I wonder who at Columbia torpedoed my application during the meetings. Probably Wawro himself!

Well-sourced graduate student in the department.

Well, this is certainly nerve-wracking. I have just been tipped off that Columbia will be notifying all acceptees in the next few hours. I've got a request for 99 bottles of beer on the wall....anyone?

Oh, and congrats!

Any indication that it was a mass email or individually sent?

I think Columbia may email decisions tomorrow. They have notified for the past couple of years on the third Friday in Feb. And the committee met today...

Question, gradster: do they meet plenary or do the sub-fields decide on their own admits beforehand?

Thanks for the reconnaissance, gradster. Sorry about your chimpanzee.

You did not include a glamour shot.

Yes, you'll get a good look. I would pitch your SOP to Patchen, since he's on the ad. com and will be reading it.

They are finalizing everything?

I *predict* by the end of next week word will be sent out. Usually the end of February with them. There is a graduate student from there that frequents grad cafe ("gradster") who is supposed to keep us posted.