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 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!
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.