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Welp, looks like I'm still unassigned and waiting for the next round...#71 on the wait-list for guaranteed housing. Looking at the subsidized off-campus options now. Some look really nice but have god awful-reviews on Yelp and apartmentratings.com (Oak Creek/Sharon Green). Anyone have any recommendations for a passable off-campus apartment (safe/good management/Stanford student presence) until I can be reassigned for on-campus housing?

Thanks for the input! Though it'd be nice to get additional language and research preparation with the Stanford MA to hit the ground running in a PhD program later on, perhaps it's crazy to let go of Columbia now since its such a great program and right there in front of me. anoveldave, I was informed by an email on the 21st that led me to the application website, where it showed a status update link leading to the acceptance letter once I got to the page with the references, uploads, etc. Shortly thereafter my POI sent me an email about the good news. Apparently some extra funds were freed up recently, allowing them to take me on, which is why it took so long. Maybe it's the same case for you, so good luck!

So I just got into Columbia's EALC PhD program pretty late in the cycle and heavily considering it (only PhD program I've gotten into). Does anyone know how well it does in modern Chinese literature/culture compared to other schools? The alternative would be to do the MA at Stanford with the FLAS and reapply to PhD programs after that.

Congrats to everyone that got in! Got the good news as well (China Studies, DC); unfortunately, I have to take care of the macroeconomics prerequisite. Is anyone else in the same boat and taking the online principles of economics course, or has anyone found good alternatives at other (online) institutions?