Cornell07
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I heard from Harvard first from an advisor last week, but got the notification from the history department in the mail this past Saturday. I think someone posted the other day that decisions were being mailed over the next couple of weeks. I don't know if all acceptances have gone out or not. But some history of science people have gotten rejections, I think - I don't know how connected that is. I hope for the sake of people on this board that there are still more acceptances going out.
I think that 85% of this board will explode if there aren
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Ack! Who is the Princeton admit?!? I had just about convinced myself that husband would be accepted there...allowing me to go to UPenn (if they'll have me).
I know! I just saw it and was |----this----| close to whipping out my cell phone and calling them before I caught myself.
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Minnesotan:
Yale didn't accept any PhD track students w/o funding did they? I mean, they have more money than a number of small countries!
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While I find the process of secretly notifying acceptees early while those who are rejected sweat it out to be excruciating and frustrating, I would welcome a process of notifying rejects as soon as their decision is made and then waiting until the last minute to tell the acceptees. :twisted:
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630 V, 770 Q, 5.5 A are 90th, 88th, 88th percentiles respectively.
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Ooo. BU made its decision on me today. Does anyone know how long it takes them to notify you?
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It is frustrating as heck to know that I got a 630 V 77O Q 5.5 A when I am a historian! Couldn't the V and Q be switched?
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Ah! But that is what cell phones are for!
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by hoover on Wed Feb 20, 2008 4:21 pm
Stacy20 wrote:
Just contacted the Duke History Department. All decisions have been made and notifications will be going out shortly.
apparently, everyone who got in to Duke has already been notified and the visit weekend starts Feb 28.
Damn. Not another one of these "Let's contact all acceptees and let the rejected-types sweat it out"
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Cornell:
No they didn't tell me my admissions decision. I actually didn't ask b/c I thought an anonymous call would be better. I'm also a Cornell grad-I graduated from the ILR school in 2001.
Great! I'm A+S 2007.
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Just contacted the Duke History Department. All decisions have been made and notifications will be going out shortly.
Stacy, did they tell you your decision?
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Looks like some people are getting their envelopes for Harvard. I'm -this- close to breaking down and calling them.
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Hey missycari,
I've seen your acceptances rolling in at applycorner and let me be the second to say, "Damn. I'm impressed." :shock: You must've put together one heck of an application!
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Even without any acceptances, my second rejection was much easier to take than my first.
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Cornell07 wrote:
Donna mia! 75% is an astronomically high acceptance rate!
Well, they're not going to pay to fly out people they aren't seriously considering. This is the normal rate I've heard for acceptance among interview weekend attendees.
Ah. I read it too quickly and thought that 75% was the overall acceptance rate, not just for interviewees.
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The Dude:
You can call the history office directly and they will tell you. Good luck!
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Donna mia! 75% is an astronomically high acceptance rate!
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If I don't get anything in the mail by tomorrow, I'll call or email the departments. I live in the same geographic region as the schools, so if they mailed anything last week (good or bad), it should be here by today or tomorrow.
A fair number of schools simply have not made all of their decisions. Just to take a snapshot:
According to their website, BU is only about halfway done with making their decisions (roughly 15 decisions every other day, with 210 applications). Columbia may not finish making all decisions until Thursday (or so the dept. secretary says). Looking responses at previous years, Harvard may not available until March 1.
If more than one person posts on the admissions board from one of my schools, then I typically call the department.
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Have good weekend everyone! I suspect that few if any people will recieve any sort of formal notification over the weekend, so enjoy not needing to frantically check your email for a few days.
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Damn. Rejected by Yale. It was a long shot. On the upside, I don't need to move to New Haven!
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Oh well. FYI: Yale is up (check your email)
History Admissions 2008
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Apparently, according to the Dept of History, the graduate admissions office at BU has been awful this year about losing things. I had to re-ask one of my recommenders twice to send his letter and the office apparently lost my personal statement... the one that was electronically submitted with the rest of the application...