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I e-mailed Josh Whitford a couple of days ago to find out and he said that they had notified everyone that had been accepted.

I'll claim it! Five years of (pretty solid) funding, two years of teaching two sections a semester.

Really? Good to know.

Heard Columbia has notified all their admits. Not sure if true since there's only one admit on the results search. If so, maybe they're just going for a small class.

Hey, I stumbled across this website called GradPay (http://gradpay.herokuapp.com/) that has a database of stipend information for grad students across different schools and programs. I had been looking for something like this, and figured others might want to take a look as well (even though some of the information is surely also on this forum). There are only 11 entries for sociology so far - maybe a few of the current sociology students on this forum could fill out their information to make the dataset a little richer?

No problem. GPA: 3.65, math major at a small liberal arts college GRE: 167 V / 170 Q / 5.0 W Research experience: Quite a bit in math and economics. Not much experience in sociology, though my writing sample focused on topics of interest to sociologists (labor unions, income distribution, etc.)

Thanks! No word on funding yet - but from reading about previous years it's supposed to be very good.

Just got good news from Stanford as well!

Thanks y'all! odeta - I submitted my applications a day or two before the deadline. I'm pretty sure they don't use rolling admissions, but there may be "rolling notifications". ChicagoHusker - the call was from a faculty member.

I'll claim the second UCLA acceptance - got a call a couple of hours ago. I'm obviously thrilled! Edit: I would guess that calling admits leads to a wider variance in the notification time than sending e-mails - I'm sure they're not done contacting people yet.

Guess I'll throw my hat in the ring, since I just finished all my applications. Applying to: UCLA, Stanford, Berkeley, Chicago, Northwestern, Michigan, Wisconsin, Princeton, Harvard, Columbia GPA: 3.65, math major GRE: 167 V / 170 Q / 5.0 W Research experience: Quite a bit in math / economics Sociology background: Not a lot - just one class and some outside reading Already getting anxious to hear back!

Thanks for the advice, ohgoodness and surefire - seems to vibe with what else I've been reading.

I'm considering applying to sociology grad programs this fall, and I'm having a little trouble tying up my statement of purpose. The general consensus (here, anyways) seems to be that demonstrating your fit with the type of research done in a given program, both in terms of methodology and general research topics, is something admissions committees really want to see in a SOP. I come from a math / economics background, so I would imagine that I'll probably do quantitative stuff, which is probably not a problem when it comes to fit. I don't really have one specific research area that I'm set on pursuing, though - maybe because I am a neophyte in the field. There's a lot of different areas that interest me and that I could see myself doing research in, and I'm sure that the first two/three years of grad school will help me figure out what direction I want to pursue. My plan is basically to apply to many of the top-ranked schools, in large part because they are strong in a lot of different areas I'm interested in. So, my question is - is it a bad idea to say that I want to go to in program A in my SOP because they're strong in several areas I'm interested in, rather than picking one specific area that program A is strong in and referencing some people there I'd be interested in working with and learning from? I'm worried the former option might lead to admissions committees thinking that I'm not a serious applicant because I don't know exactly what I want to study.