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7 hours ago, Worktime Calzone said:
Oh yeah also weird thing to ask but are there any unis to avoid if you're trans? Came out last week and I can't find any info..
Congrats!!!
I have no info for you about places to avoid, but there is a thread about "lesbian life" that, while it has a different focus (though I don't know your sexuality, so maybe applicable!), speaks about queerphobia, LGBT+ resources on campus, etc. Might be helpful!
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7 minutes ago, songofgallifrey said:
@Beals it sucks not to hear anything, but keep your head up! i do have one acceptance, but they don't guarantee funding and i can't attend an unfunded program. i'll hear in march whether i got any departmental funding, but i recently found out i didn't get a university-wide fellowship that i was being considered for that would've given me full funding and a stipend, so i'm feeling bummed about that.
Ah, ok, so not all of your problems are solved with the 1 acceptance. But you can have hope until March, plus from the other 3 programs!! Sending good karma your way, my friend.
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9 minutes ago, songofgallifrey said:
agh i have been thinking the same thing! it seemed like a good number at the time, but now i'm doubting myself.
hindsight and all that.
But, hey! I see you have an acceptance! Congrats!!! 1 is really all you need, though more are, of course, always welcome. I haven't officially heard back from anywhere but 2 of the programs admitted other students so I'm assuming the silence = rejection. Blaaaahhhhhh.
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2 hours ago, c11m07 said:
I have been remarkably zen the last week or two, but not knowing about Stanford is getting to me. I see two acceptances by phone Jan 30th/31st (when they don't usually notify by phone), 11 rejections Feb 2nd/3rd, two waitlists Feb 6th/7th... and I've heard nothing. They usually send their notifications out all at once in previous years anyway. I was thinking maybe I'm on an unofficial waitlist, but there's an official waitlist, so that seems unlikely. And then I start to get my hopes up because there were only two admits and they were by phone rather than their usual email... but I can't imagine they'd be sitting on a batch of acceptances since rejections went out 10 days ago. (And I've obsessively checked all of my spam, promotion, etc. folders, so I know it didn't slip by me.) I know it's pure conjecture, but any thoughts on this?
This is a strange circumstance! I suppose it's possible that they did a wack of rejections and were sorting through the remainder, but I agree it's unlikely that they'd contact people on an official waitlist before contacting the admits. Maybe wait a few more days and then send an email?
Personally, I am regretting only applying to 5 programs. Why didn't I hedge my bets more!?!?
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@WorldPeaceMaker2010 they could at least refund the application fee??? not what you actually want, but at least it would sooth the burn
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On 2/3/2017 at 2:40 PM, Horb said:
Hopefully this makes you feel better, but I applied to 12 programs and was rejected by 9. It felt bad, but when I got to my program now, I was SO happy. I honestly can't fathom being anywhere else. Weird things happen, but for a reason (IMO).
You are a ray of sunshine. Thanks for all the encouragement. Sending positive vibes your way, my friend.
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4 hours ago, Horb said:
I'm so sorry
Thank you for the sympathy. I think this award is a bit different than the others because it's for Canadians to study in the US, and I don't even have any acceptances to the US yet, so I'm still more worried about that... but it does suck that the first news I hear from everything is a rejection
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Got rejected from Fulbright-Canada last night.
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10 hours ago, draco.malfoy said:
Has anyone heard from Northwestern?
Nope. Looking at dates from previous years I think first round admits won't be till around the 10th-13th of Feb.
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8 hours ago, csot said:
I'm excited too, but I'm also mentally preparing myself to not hear anything this week. Based on the last few years, the schools I'm still waiting on won't get back to their admitted applicants until the second week of February.
same timeline for me... I'm expecting Feb 12 at the earliest. You'd think this means I would be able to freaking CHILL until at least early Feb, but ---- ALAS!!!! There is no chill in sight!!!
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7 hours ago, RailRoadToad said:
I also applied as a direct applicant. I don't think there is any bad news this early on! My understanding is that both direct and via university applicants won't know if their applications have been forwarded/recommended for 'round two' until late February. I think that applicants who say their applications were recently forwarded mean that their universities decided to forward their applications to SSHRC. So direct applicants and via university applicants should be at a similar stage in the process now (i.e., applications are physically sitting somewhere in the offices of SSHRC), and we should all start to find out if our applications make it to round two by the end of February.
oh gosh, thank you for this! i'm trying very hard not to read too much on this forum, on past years threads, etc., because it's bad for my anxiety, but the result is that I'm sort of confused about timelines??? which is maybe better than stress from knowing when exactly something happened last year, but also maybe isn't. Ha! Application season is a bundle of fun.
Anyhow, thanks for the clarification! Good luck re: your application! -
excited for Monday and another week of desperately trying to stop the twitch in my left eye!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- jojokitty47 and THS
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I applied but as a direct entry applicant so I'm not sure if the notification process is different.... But I haven't heard anything at all (mail or email!), so that's probably bad news.
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14 minutes ago, montanem said:
I know you are right, but last night my thought was "anxiety control" after getting my first rejection and not hearing from 3 schools that others are reporting from...not sure how healthy turning to wine is in that situation BUT it was a nice evening
HAHAHA WOW it did not even register that drinking a bottle of wine and vegging on a couch alone on a Tuesday night could be an unhealthy coping mechanism. I'm just like, wow, that sounds like a nice evening!! I should probably be googling 'how to deal with stress in a healthy way' in my downtime, because clearly my instincts are shot to hell. I'm glad you're at least aware of the potential issues though.
EDIT: also, hang in there!! It's not over till it's over!! You still have 9 other programs to hear from!
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Bulk up the CV: i've got 2 conferences lined up for 2017, and i'll try for another publication. Move to Asia to teach ESL and make some $$$$$. Then, apply again!!!
Don't ask what I'll do if I don't make it in on round 2. Eeeeek.
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10 hours ago, montanem said:
Just got home with a nice Pinot Noir and a loaf of french bread...gunna start rewatching Downton Abbey tonight and force myself to not panic.
I like how you've gone with the 'treat yourself' method of waiting. You deserve it! This is so stressful we need to be nice to ourselves.
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47 minutes ago, DBear said:
반갑습니다! There has been an uptick in hate crimes and I have heard from differ friends about some unfortunate incidents they've witnessed or gone through as a person of color. It seems some people feel emboldened under the new administration to act on their racism and being an Asian female, I'm a pretty easy target. I may be overreacting but in general, it seems that more people are concerned. When I told friends that I'm not completely comfortable going to the south years ago, they'd mostly say things like "it's actually really nice, you don't have to worry". More recently, the response to the same statement is met with "I understand".
@Beals out of curiosity, may I ask, do you think the current atmosphere would affect how open you are about being a member of the queer community?
Im really sorry that youre having to factor in safety when youre thinking about where to go. That's unfair and shitty and I'm just sad that it's 2017 and this is the world we live in.
To your question- yes, and no. I'm very open and conscientiously choose to be so because I shouldn't have to hide it, and also because I'm in a position where I can take the stupid bigoted comments I get with minimal damage (and hope that by being out and drawing a bit of heat I can make it easier for the next queer person who might be in a less privileged position). So politically and personally, it's important for me to be open.
However, I value my personal safety, so should I end up in a place where it feels unsafe to be out- hell no, I'm dragging a blanket into the closet and moving to Narnia. I don't see that really happening though- as I said, I've applied to schools in very blue areas so I'm not super concerned about physical violence resulting from being out on campus/at work. I live in a major city in Canada (the supposedly liberal bastion of north america) and I still have to deal with bi-phobic comments with some regularity, so if that's all I have to contend with, fine.
It's a fairly different situation from what you experience, DBear, based on visibility. Coming out is a process that literally never ends because you have to do it again every single time you meet a new person (NB: as I said, I'm a cis woman and normatively-femme, so I don't get the flack and assumptions that gender non-conforming people do), whereas being a visible minority, you can't really pick and choose the scenario.... I really hope you end up somewhere safe, anyhow.
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19 hours ago, Logik said:
Just received notice that my application was forwarded to the national competition
Hi Logik,
Did you university inform you, or did you receive notice via mail?
EDIT: and also, CONGRATS!!! That's a major hurdle to overcome! (Which is the first thing I should have said. Sorry!)
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I had originally intended to apply to 5 US programs, and 1 Canadian program. After Nov 8, I decided on 3 US programs and 2 Canadian. So yes, it did reduce the number of applications to US schools I made.
The 3 US programs are all in very blue areas, and though I'd be a queer, female foreigner living in the US I don't really anticipate that I'd personally have problems (being white, normatively feminine and part of a privileged institution). However, even if I'm not overly worried about my physical safety I don't know that I want to put myself in that environment.
So I genuinely don't know what decision I will make, assuming I'm accepted to any schools in the US.
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I am also worried about this- no acceptances yet, so I'm not sure if I'll end up studying in the US, but in the event that I do, I am concerned about visas. Not just getting a visa, but keeping it until I'm finished!
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My last applications were due Jan 15, so I managed to keep myself from stressing about hearing results until after that deadline. I was actually really proud of myself for not bugging too much! But, alas, the deadline has passed, and now the anxiety is creeping in....
Also, does anyone else both love and hate how confident everyone is that they'll get accepted!? I'm super grateful that my friends and family believe in me so much, but "don't worry, you'll get in" doesn't help when all I can think is "but what if I don't!??!?!"
(literally, my answer is "I will move to China to teach ESL for a year" if I don't get in, but emotionally, I have no short answer)
- THS, c11m07 and jojokitty47
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21 hours ago, towonderland72 said:
An aside: my interests are in exploring gender and nationalism in American sports (specifically hockey); in the gendering of fan communities (I liked Kristina Busse's work on this) and expressions of fandom in sports (the hypermasculine) versus TV and film (often queer and critical spaces)
i LOVE this!!! Do you read 'Check, Please'!? I have thoughts (not research, this really isn't my area) on how the feminized hockey fandom intensely queers the sport versus the masculinized hockey 'fans' and I would love to read work on this.
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Hiiii all,
I've applied to 5 programs total, 3 of which are soc: Northwestern, NYU, and University of Toronto.
I'm surprisingly calm, but I think once the first soc acceptance gets sent out and I still havent heard anything.... well, then I'll start getting antsy.
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awesome!!! I'd consider that an unofficial acceptance, for sure.
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Wow, you are amazing for taking the time to share so much information!!