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Called Brown, decisions have not been made yet. Results will probably be out "by the end of the month". Ugh. Wasn't able to get on the phone with NYU, their voice responder was too intimidating. I'm serious.

You may want to check York University's Political Science department (in Canada). Very, very "radical", as well as strong in global issues and comparative political economy. If you would be willing to go on the other side of the Atlantic you could take a look at SOAS, which is like the "York of Europe" :-)

Thank you for the info. May I ask where you got the information from? This is rather disappointing, since I was seriously considering CUNY (I fell in love with the faculty there), but I was counting on the fact that they way have been able to offer me one of the 5-year fellowships. Otherwise I'm afraid it would be a no-go for me :-(

Yes, I agree...based on last year's results, most schools were done sending out at least acceptances by around February the 20th, so probably almost everyone will be set by the end of the week. Oh God.

Never thought I would have been able to dislike week-ends this much.

Yup. Welcome aboard!

I have, no news yet.

Oh, by the way, I forgot to tell yall, I called Columbia the other day, they said they already sent out some acceptances but they "might" send out other acceptances until mid March. When I asked if that was for the PhD program (not for their Masters, since jacib mentioned that possibility), they said it was true for PhD offers too. Now, maybe that was just a standard answer, or the guy just didn't want to break my delicate heart, but that's what he said.

Does anyone have official (or most likely unofficial) news from NYU? I woke up with a bad feeling in my guts.

I agree with what socgrad said, but I'd like to point out a few other facts to balance the scale. 1) I think CUNY can be considered a rather "etherodox" and "non-mainstream" universities from a purely academic point of view (if this makes any sense, but I think yall understand what I mean). This entails that, on one hand, rankings don't entirely do justice to the quality of the work of faculty there (this is obiously my personal opinion, anyone is welcome to disagree) so you might not receive the recognition you deserve once you earn your PhD. On the other, if you like that kind of "departmental vibe" (as in, overall more politically engaged and liberal than your average university) I think you could consider CUNY's "heterodoxy" as an important plus. 2) As pointed out by SocialGroovements elsewhere on this forum (), especially for universities in the 25-40 subfield really matters. As far as my knowledge goes, CUNY is for example particularly strong in social movements, and has a few scholars who are among the leading "heterodox" social movement academics worldwide (heterodox in that they generally run counter to the political opportunity structure/resource mobilization/quantitative-oriented paradigms which are dominant in most top-ranking departments). 3) Concerning funding, socgrad2013 is absolutely right. Although I pointed out in another topic that the 5-year fellowships do offer a great deal for prospective students, that still can't change the overall "cohort vibe" (good point, socgrad, I hadn't considered that ;-) ). My masters supervisor and mentor told me that if I don't get my hands on a 5-year funding package I should quite simply just not take their offer into consideration. Just my 2 cents (3 actually).

Hey bluegraygreen! Congratulations! I am really happy for you! :-) Thank you for claiming the acceptance, it really helps to understand the dynamics of different schools and modes of sending out offers. I really lost my hopes to get into Berkeley even before I applied, since it's basically impossible for international students to get in, but I was like "hey, might as well give it a shot". For me it's just that I would love to be able to be peacefully resigned about the schools I haven't heard back from yet, rather than having wonderful stories like yours keeping my hopes up :-) Once again, congratulations and thank you for sharing your experience with us!

Things like that random Berkeley admission are what prevent me from sleeping at night.

As I said in a previous post, I called UPenn and I found out I was rejected. That doesn't mean you're not on one of DarthVegan's secret waitlists.

I called Penn, your turn for Columbia!

I totally agree... I really don't understand the programs that send acceptances and wait one week to send out rejections. On the other hand, even though I got rejected by Princeton, I really appreciated the fact that they just sent out everything on the same day; it was really really relieving. Plus, what else could have justified my staying in bed in a fetal position for the entire week-end, right?

I don't know, but I just called them and they told me what I did (not) want to hear.

Prayer to everyone: PLEASE don't feed the troll. Just ignore the post, the mods will - hopefully - delete it asap. /I'm done on the matter.

Emory's adcomm is meeting today to finalize the offers.

I know it probably does not make sense to ask, but does anyone know if Columbia already sent out all the offers? 4 seems like a rather small number. Also, I personally did not find NotSure's post so terribly out of place. Probably a new thread would have been more appropriate, but it's not a big deal :-) Also, regarding CUNY, the new "Five-Year Graduate Center Fellowships" look like a step in the right direction. And 200 fellowships across the graduate center doesn't make them THAT competitive either. I mean, 25'000 a year is basically what Columbia is offering, and more than most private universities (granted, NY is still very expensive, and you would be still teaching one course per semester).

CUNY is the consortium of all the universities of the city of New York which have a specific emphasis on undergrad teaching (it includes, for example, City College, Hunter College, Baruch College, the Graduate Center etc). CUNY Graduate Center is an institution within CUNY which is responsible for Masters and PhDs. Its faculty is formed by part of the faculty of the other CUNY schools. At least, this is the way I understand it :-)

Congratulations! :-) But 25 out of 250 is a pretty big chunk for a PhD program, isn't it? Which makes me doubt even more about my entire admission cycle. Oh well.

+1

Ok, so... Stanford.

Dat rejection bomb.

Ok, apparently it's not just archaeology... My bet is on you being part of a final pool, as mochicologa said.. Good luck :-)