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Good point Karajan! I share your frustrations over the multiple rejections, but I'm feeling strangely optimistic right now

Stanford is a no thank you...feeling immense pressure for the NW interview this week.

I too just received my third rejection, and it is not pleasant. I have an interview later this week at my top choIce so I still have some hope. A post interview rejection would be devastating, though.

Was just rejected by Stanford.

For my composer friends here, to lighten your day: http://cereal-music.blogspot.com/2013/02/how-to-win-composing.html?m=1

Don't give up yet! We still have lot's of time to keep our naive hopes up. A "safety" school isn't necessarily a bad option. CU Boulder is such a potential choice for me. I believe grad school is what you make of it - the more effort you put in, the more you will gain. There are some good faculty fits for me at CU (an important factor in any school, be it top notch or safety) and I love Colorado. I also have work as an orchestral musician here, and teach adjunct at a different, nearby University. The "quality of life" factor would be high for me, something you should consider in your choice. That said, in speaking with the chair of my department, he urges me to go somewhere more prestigious simply because of the current job market. Just to give an example, at the University where I currently teach, we are hiring 2 tenure track musicology professors and we had just under 200 applicants. The first of 6 finalists is here today, in fact. If you go to a school with less name power, you will have to work harder to distinguish yourself from the pack (we do have one of our finalists coming from CU Boulder, I should say). Just because I figure everyone would be curious - we had applications from all over the place, including Central and South America. The 6 finalists got there degrees at UNC Chapel Hill, Univ of Illinois (Champagne), Columbia, University of Toronto, CU Boulder, and Duke.

According to the schedule Northwestern sent me, the campus visit will include 6 back to back 30 minute interviews, with each of the musicology in turn. That sounds pretty intense and I am both excited and incredibly nervous about this visit.

I was sent a scedule of events for this campus visit to Northwestern, and I figured some of you may be interested as to what this interview entails. The first day is taken up by a class that we can sit it on, and then a lengthier colloquium. The second day we have several campus/library tours, and information meetings with the director of graduate studies. At the end of day 2 seems to be the main event - 6 back to abck 30 minute interviews, with each of the musicology faculty in turn, followed by a reception with all faculty/applicants. The final day is just breakfast and Q&A sessions. There are also several optional events mixed in - dinner with current students, and a Chicago Symphony Orchestra concert.

I was invited just under a month in advance. I head to northwestern Feb. 14.

Princeton...ouch.

Speaking of birthdays, today is my 30th. Good news from somewhere would be a welcome birthday gift, and a good way to begin the fourth decade.

This is purely conjecture on my part, but from what I've seen in other forums it could mean you're on an unofficial wait-list. I too, have heard nothing from Stanford.

I did see at least one other interview on the board, I think for theory/comp. Will anyone else on here be there for the visitation weekend?

Is the Stanford admit around here? I'd love to hear from you if you are, and congrats!

There was a musicology PhD acceptance to Stanford 4 days ago, which makes me incredibly nervous. I have yet to hear a peep from them.

It is nice to see some movement, but the Stanford acceptance makes me nervous as I have not heard anything from them yet.

I totally caught myself doing this the other day when I had plenty of real work to get done.

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I agree, those are fantastic questions. It sounds like they were trying to make sure any potential candidate has really given a lot of thought into this decision of pursuing a PhD. Good luck to you.

OK this is super cheesy, but I love it nonetheless.

aec09g - If you manage to get into JET, it's a pretty fantastic back-up option. I spent 4 years over in Japan, in-between undergrad and masters, (the first 2 years on JET) and had the time of my life.

"...and Chris is going back to work. He has a degree in ethnomusicology from Wesleyan, so naturally he's a receptionist at a Dentist's office."

住んでいなけど四年間広島に住んでいました。 /sorry for the thread hijack. Maybe we should start a new thread, who expected all of these Japanese speakers?

Did anybody else hear the great ethnomusicology joke in the finale of 30 Rock tonight?

I was invited to NW for an interview on Feb. 14-17, but I also applied for Fall 2011, and was rejected outright that year. In that instance, I did not receive my rejection notice on the website until the first week of March, with no contact whatsoever before then.