Josh J.

I am having a Country Roots Sweet Potato Stout for you right now, Ashiepoo. (It is lunch-time here in Music City!)

I wasn't able to get in here using the URL. Had to google it and then go to the psychology board before hoping over to history....very odd. The message I got when going straight to the URL almost looked like someone had deleted the index file for the main site.

Wow, congrats!!

That's awesome, Chiqui! What do you mean by "research offer"?

From looking at the results, I am thinking we should start seeing UCLA trickle out admits this week... Anyone heard anything or have connections there?

I've found acacdemia.edu to be a nice way to get your name out there a bit. I've posted the book reviews I've published up there, along with audio from some conference presentations. They will let you know when someone searches for you. I had someone at Stanford search out a book review I wrote and then explore my whole profile, and Academia.edu emailed me to let me know. Didn't seem to help with admittance, however.

I just started reading Lincoln's Virtues: An Ethical Biography, for a review essay that I am writing for a course on Religion and the Civil War. It is actually a page turner, I'm quite surprised...that, and I've actually already gotten a good laugh out of the first few pages.

Mind if I ask what the source of this information is? I had heard something different, but your info makes more sense considering the timing of admits on prior years...

Trail Runner

I'm hoping he's wrong, I don't wanna wait that long! Last two years they've sent out on February 13.

Marte108, what field are you applying to? I have an app in at both the Graduate Department of Religion and the History Department, and right now I am in the Divinity School. I spoke with my advisor today, who is the DGS for the GDR. The GDR has interviews on Monday and Tuesday next week, and then will make admit decisions probably the week or two after that. The History Department typically sends out admits after GDR does, because there is quite a bit of overlap in faculty and quite a lot of folks interested in studying religion in both departments.

When I finally got home from school last night, I read to my son and then went to bed. Normally I would have been up another five hours or so studying/writing, but I just couldn't do it.

I have an interview, but no admits.

Well, thanks to Yale and Stanford, I will definitely be killing a bottle of scotch tonight. With all the money wasted on those applications, I could have bought a REALLY nice bottle of scotch and actually had something to show for it...

Fifth element

Just got my F-off letter from Yale... not that it wasn't expected since I didn't get an admit phone call, but....damn. And I hear you, historygradhopeful.... I hear you...

Mark Noll, of Notre Dame, historian of American religion. He is retiring in the next couple of years, though. He graduated with his PhD from Vanderbilt in 3.5 years.....

Congrats! So happy for you!

Drop Soap

My professors were confident I was a good fit everywhere I applied, and so far, my top picks have ignored me.... Know how you feel...

I talked to a POI today who told me that while I was the top applicant in my field today, that the school won't be taking any people from my field this year....and now Stanford made admit calls and I didn't get one...

FML

I am 35 and have a ten year old. Finishing up a masters degree right now, and it has been a struggle. It's been very difficult to make sure I am there to help with homework, read books with him, and just even sometimes even being available with the amount of coursework to do. I came to academia late. Did college for a year right out of high school, almost failed out because I didn't want to be there. Restarted school nine years later, did an AA, then the BA, now the masters and applying for the PhD. It is very different to be in class with 24 year olds, and to be teaching people who were born my freshman year in high school....

Don't give up!

That is how I felt with the Yale admits came out on Friday. But hey, there are only two so far. Maybe there are more coming.