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That we're in the running for the second round of admissions, but somehow manage to annoy ourselves out of it? haha..seriously, I'll probably wait until the end of the week before emailing a faculty member. Even rejection emails shouldn't take longer than that if the acceptances are already out, I think.

No news from Columbia yet for me so I presume that's a rejection. I called the dept though and was told by the assistant to wait for the GSAS reply. Not sure if I should check with the Prof I contacted earlier on....

The figure was mentioned in the rejection email I received from Stanford. Princeton is one of my top choices as the faculty there is great and my research interests fit their program. Not too sure about living in NJ though. I'll have to check that out in the cities forum!

I got an email of acceptance from Princeton as well. Details will be made known later but it seems that the package includes a 5-yr fellowship, which sounds great!

Well, the bad news: I got rejected by Stanford, although it appears they are only taking a (shockingly low) 8-9 students this coming year. The good news: Princeton accepted me!

I applied to Columbia and Stanford as well, and no news here. The rash of Stanford acceptances last week was quite worrying. I guess this week will be D-day for us international applicants. I don't know why international students might be contacted later than others though. Email gets rid of the time difference....unless the schools prefer to contact us via snail mail.

Hi, I'm an "international" applicant. So far I've received a rejection email from Wisconsin-Madison. The date of the email (5 Feb) came a few days after acceptances were announced, which seem to have been around 3 Feb (correct me if I'm wrong, lucky W-M applicants!) Is it generally true that rejection emails get sent after the first round of acceptances? This means no news is bad news if everyone else seems to be celebrating their acceptances.... Also, have any international students here been accepted into your choices, and do you know if your email/phone call came at the same time as the US-based applicants or later? Thanks!

I think GRE scores matter as a filtering device. In the end, they do nothing to determine whether you get in or not, but poor GRE scores might result in your application thrown into the 'out' pile in the first instance, especially if you do not have a personal statement and/or research idea that interests faculty members. Several profs I emailed from the top 10 sociology programs in the US have told me that GRE scores are important. This is probably because applications are so competitive that high scores are expected as a minimum baseline (although this is not explicitly stated in the program websites). So I suggest you retake your GRE. Try especially to improve your analytical component.

I'm taking mine in Nov. It should make it by the earlier 1 Dec deadline, but just in case I have scores from 2 years ago as backup. I think it's OK if the GRE scores miss the deadline by a few days, as long as you inform the admin roughly when they're coming in.

Thanks...their works look interesting. Seems like a relative young faculty as well

Does anyone know how the Princeton sociology faculty fares in social network analysis? Their culture and institutional areas of focus are very strongly represented (DiMaggio, Zelizer, etc), but I'm not so sure about networks. Has anyone taken network courses in Princeton sociology?

The Rest is Noise by Alex Ross I kept thinking of Weber's essay on the sociology of music while reading that...

You might want to check out the literature on social networks. That's one area where maths is used quite extensively in sociology, and is much more interesting than the usual regression analysis. Look up Harrison White's work, he's in Columbia right now.

The one in UCLA is Michael Mann...historical sociologist of the first class.

I graduated from UChicago last year, and can tell you that the comparative poli sci there is top notch. And I'm a sociology major! Dan Slater is a great lecturer, in my opinion. He draws a lot from Barrington Moore and, like Skocpol, focuses on State-society relations. So there is some cross-over with political sociology. Plus, I think William Sewell shld be back in Chicago this year and he's based in the poli sci dept.

Dear forum members, I plan to apply to Stanford sociology later this year. For those who got in this year, do you mind revealing your GRE scores just so that I can get a rough idea of the mean? I know it's not the deciding factor, but it's good to have a target to try and hit when I take the GRE later. Thanks!