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I'm attending Cornell focusing on Computational Linguistics.

congratulations for the offer and don't be nervous about Phonolog-Syndrome. it's VERY rare.

Thank you very much busbus. Hope to join and see you and all other students there.

Yes, I'm a little afraid now.

Thank you very much. I hope good admissions and good decisions for everyone.

I withdrew from UMass and I'm going to attend Cornell.

I think you should not give up on your admission and you shouldn't loose your hope. I think there should be at list one admitted student who is not attending and they'll put you in at the end. In my opinion in any case you shouldn't tell them about your other options even if you admitted into UMich. I wish you the best.

Phonolog, At least they should put you on top of the waiting list. You should seriously discuss this with them.

You should email the graduate director and discuss the situation. Even if you don't want to go there you should try to understand and resolve the issue because it shouldn't remain an unresolved concern for you. You are right MissTrace. It was just one rejection the others where 14 Feb not 14 March, my mistake. I think (with probability 90%) i'm going to free a slot at UMass MissTrace in the next week. I'm inclined to Cornell and if i come out of waiting list at UWashington i'll go for that.

There are 3 rejections on 14 March. It seems that some admitted students have accepted their offers.

Good luck gdfgsdf with CL.

I withdrew from McGill and about a decision between Cornell and UMass i think i'm going for Cornell to work more on computational linguistics than theoretical and i'll withdraw from UMass on Sunday this week (with probability of 90%). It may be a good news for wait-listed people at UMass. I'm still waited in Washington and Northwestern. I would go for big cities but as i'm an international and should go for U.S. Visa sooner i think i'm going to accept Cornell's offer in the next week.

I got my rejection from UMD. It is ABSOULUTLY better than not hearing from them. I have just Northwestern and Washington to hear from. Congratualtions to admittees.

Yeah, he/she may not come back but someone may read it someday.

That's right fuzzylogition. I didn't notice the date and wanted to be helpful. Thanks for the info.

I think you should taste CL before really going for it. There are many Intro to CL courses which of course need programming skills. You should know what you are going to invest your time. CL starts from counting and extends to many advanced topics such as many advanced machine learning algorithms. Computational methods are just about methodology of research and not about the content of research. What content are you interested to work in. I mean sound, syntax, semantics etc. by content. For example you can do research in all these contents without a computational methodology of research using experimental or field methods. One example: You can start to work on parsing sentences using CYK, Chart Parsing, PCFG, Inside-Outside algorithm for grammar induction or you can use just simple information theoretic (mostly counting) methods in online sentence processing which is usually acompanied by experimental methods. I think the second approach which is more cognitive/psycholinguistics and has some computation in it is more matched to interested students without a sound knowledge in computing though you can work on your computing knowledge and after getting it you can work on more mathematical sides.

I didn't get your point gdfgsdg if you are asking me something.

I'm an international married dependent completely on UMass's fund which is 19k for academic year and nothing for summers. Is it possible to live with that fund there at UMass? I have another admission from Cornell which gives me 23k for academic year and 4500 for summers and the place is less expensive than Amherst i think. The problem is i really like the UMass's program which is also more prestigous (Linguistics). Will there be any job in summers for about 1500$/month?

I got my rejection from Chicago too. I had hopes in that. Now i have just UMD, Northwestern and Washington (CL) to wait for. If i get admission from any of them it will probably be my top choice.

Oh if that's the case i've lost one of my best shots but i emailed my POI and he told me decision about your case has not made. Maybe he wanted to be polite and let the department do the dirty works. If this is the case, i'll have to keep my eyes on Northwestern and Chicago and hope and hope.

but i don't know about the funding package of UMD yet. They may have a better funding package. Funding in my case is an important factor. I'm also trying to check if i can get funds or some kind of job from UMass in summers.

Yes goldhearthmountaintop, They have sent the offers but i've seen that at least one of admittees have an offer from MIT so i'm hoping for the last minutes.

Anyone applied to Maryland and waiting? they have a good program there (and YES it is a warmer place than northeast and the funding package may be more attractive than UMass-- if anyone knows about the funding package at UMD please message me) and it seems that they have sent out their offers. If can i get an offer from UMD i'll wait for it till the last moment and i'll choose it over UMass. UMass seems not able to support students in summers and for me who is an international married applicant this seems to be a serious obstacle.

Bad news, thank you anyway. congrats to admitted applicants.

REALLY? Have anyone contacted the university and they responded the above notification or it is part of the admission offer email?