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    Applying for Fall 2014 Sociology?

    in Sociology Forum

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    Duke DGS here. Decisions have all been made but the grad school rolls them out in batches for some reason. You should be hearing very soon. We had an amazing group of applicants this year so if you didn't make it, please try not to take it too hard. There were easily 10-15 additional people we would have been thrilled to admit if we had the room. As someone who has been directly involved in admissions at Berkeley and Duke 6 times, I can assure you that there is some "measurement error" in the process. I think we do a pretty good job, but if the composition of the committee had been a little different, for example, I'm sure the list of admits would have been a little different, too. My point is that this process is not an error-free referendum on your academic worth. So hang in there!

    Thanks for coming on here and writing a bit about your process. 

    Schools on the rise

    in Sociology Forum

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    Yale and Columbia move up. Public institutions will be hurt by decreasing availability of funding relative to private schools. Center of gravity of the discipline could shift away from Madison/Michigan/Berkeley, which would be unfortunate in many ways.

    I think this is right. Sort of. Madison/Michigan/Berkeley, as well as the other top publics Indiana/UNC/UT-Austin/Arizona/UCLA will retain a disciplinary advantage because they all have the capacity to make top hires/retain strong faculty despite funding problems.

     

    UPenn, Northwestern, and Chicago are all on a slight decline. Despite Yale/Columbia/NYU's rise.

    Schools on the rise

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    From what I can tell; and what can I tell?! (Oh and opinions I've gathered these past months from Grad. Students at a range of programs as well as professors at my current department ranked ~50)

     

    On the rise:

     

    NYU is on a meteoric rise.  Super hot program.  Sky is the limit here.

     

    Yale has the money and resources to become a top 10 program eventually, probably in the next 10-15 years.

     

    Arizona has fallen a few spots in the last few years (14 - 20), but are still, in terms of quality one of the finest programs in the U.S. - they are probably positioned to move up a few spots with some of their recent hires.

     

    Ohio State blew up in other social science programs (political science/econ) and has the resources to make major moves in sociology.

     

    Notre Dame is well positioned, well resourced, and well organized and should make a push into the top 25.

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