[Fall 2014 Sociology Interviews and/or Acceptances]

Anybody knows what's the latest on Columbia? I saw some posts on the board claiming that all acceptances have been sent, can anyone verify that?

 

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.

[Fall 2014 Sociology Interviews and/or Acceptances]

Anyone have more info on the Harvard acceptance?

 

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

[Fall 2014 Sociology Interviews and/or Acceptances]

Where did you hear that Riverscuomo? I phoned them today and they said that they are still making decisions.

 

Really? Good to know.

[Fall 2014 Sociology Interviews and/or Acceptances]

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.

[GradPay]

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?

 

[Applying for Fall 2014 Sociology?]

Hey congratulations

What's your profile if you dont mind me asking?

 

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.)

[Applying for Fall 2014 Sociology?]

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

[Applying for Fall 2014 Sociology?]

Just got good news from Stanford as well! 

[Applying for Fall 2014 Sociology?]

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.

[Applying for Fall 2014 Sociology?]

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.

[Applying for Fall 2014 Sociology?]

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!

[Framing my interests in statement of purpose]

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

[Framing my interests in statement of purpose]

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.