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ljagavi can I ask where u r choosing between?

Has anyone not heard from Emory yet?

Any more updates guys?

Hey jhijklmn, Can you share which program? That's interesting: so they're placing in other programs with a "better fit"?

Hey grads and grad appers, Anyone have any experience with re-apping once they have started a PhD program in the Humanities because an advisor left? Did this give you an edge or the chopping block? I've heard so much mixed feedback on this: some say it gives you an edge, because you are already in the academy, and there isn't the same "gatekeeping" mentality, and the sense of understanding that sometimes students get the short end of the stick with poachings. Others say that programs don't like to take sloppy seconds, or will wonder why you are not just moving with your advisor. In my case, it was several faculty and potential advisors that left, with one real advisor,--so it wasn't about following a specific person, and the one's I could have followed, did not move to programs that fit my interests correctly. I did not mention the details in my statement, I only mentioned that because several key faculty and advisors recently left, I am looking to establish my work in a more suitable home. I only mentioned the one ex-advisor by name in a few of the apps--the ones he recommended me for (since his area was not relevant to all my apps). I'm just not sure what to expect! Any experience with this?