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Thank you! I sucked it up and called and heard the same thing...

Okay, so, who wants to take one for the team and call Michigan to inquire as to why they have fallen off the face of the planet? I know rejections go out in March, but seriously, it cannot be that they only took one person who posted it? Come on, those Stanford rejections alone indicate that many more people peruse gradcafe than actually post here. With all these people, if something were going down at Michigan, we would know about it, right? or am I just being super duper naive?

I was told having it change to "admit" was a good thing by the dept. So the grad school just probably hasn't finished the fun processing, because the dept said the admissions acceptance has to come from grad admissions, not history.

Well, I am torn over the wanting the month over. Because there are 3 ways that could play out: a) I am finally finished with the waiting, relief ensues and I feel happy, lighter than I've felt since, like, August. or I am finally finished with the waiting, the results are in, and I seriously don't like them. While the gnawing feeling in the pit of my stomach, the anxious waiting, is gone I am left with a different feeling, a feeling that indicates "oh shit, I'm really going now. How am I going to live? How can I eat? I didn't think past getting in!" or.... c) I DIDN'T GET IN ANYWHERE! (which currently should be amended to: I didn't get in WHERE i REALLY WANTED TO GO!) So while the waiting sucks, I don't know if the after waiting time will be better or worse...

one of mine said it in the email, but the other two indicate March as the time for final funding decisions.

oh my god, you just made me feel so much better! Amen.

I was one of the UVA people. The status on my online application changed, and then a few hours later I received an email from the graduate school saying I was accepted with a packet from them to follow. The History department said they would send funding information in a separate mailing directly from them. I don't know if they're done or not, but I think they aren't. I'm U.S. also (both field and country of origin if that makes a difference).

the email thing! I want someone who answers email. God I just want someone who emails me back.

Can I ask who it is? not a name, but just grad/admin/faculty? what are we talking about here?

I asked for feedback last year... The comments varied, and some of the professors made me want to apply again and others did not. It's unreasonable to expect an answer, especially because sometimes it does just come down to "well, we did it with a bingo machine and yours didn't fall out!" Sometimes there isn't really a reason, and that's not your fault that's just how the arbitrary admissions process works. How helpful were the actual comments.... eh. They did assure me that I wasn't mentally incapable or anything, and I did get a lot of compliments on my writing sample which surprisingly made me feel much better. Schools that simply said "GRE" were automatically knocked off the list. Who wants to be at one of those? The application fee, I might argue, is payment for a review and judgment of your application, not necessarily a detailed response. They did give you a judgment, after all.

this limbo is like the seventh layer of hell. I just want a dollar figure and they keep teasing me by sending out emails on Mondays saying "it's definitely coming by email this week!" and then.... silence. zip zero nada. I also need to find people to cover for me at work but I don't know when two of the visiting weekends are.

For hotel arrangements, you might want to ask the department in advance. One offered $250 towards plane tickets and in addition is putting all prospective students up in a hotel together and if we want to come a night early they'll arrange for us to stay with a grad student. They didn't mention the hotel in the initial email though, just the $250 but I asked the coordinator and she told me about that part. Is it strange that theirs is essentially 3 days worth of programming (Thursday at 12 to Sunday afternoon)? I got a schedule that has faculty dinner, grad student dinner, socializing, tour of the city, research seminars, workshops, one-on-one meetings... They really jammed all they could into this! And if I'm driving, can I be reimbursed for gas or is that not proper visiting etiquette?

Does anyone else get that feeling like they're going to vomit when they do the results search and find that a school has notified through email or something and yet you are distinctly email-less? I know I wanted news, but this was not what I had in mind...

Oh, you already know them! Well that must be reassuring! Have you had class with her as an ungrad/grad?

Uh oh... I applied to work with them too... I don't know if Isenberg is nice or not, but I applied to work with her... Here's to hoping for a good answer this weekend!

Because they see all the defense money that goes into the sciences and say "wtf, I want it too!" Perhaps funding has more to do with the sciences/humanities split than many are willing to acknowledge. I look forward to being the only conservative in my program, because honestly, leftists make me chuckle...

Hey, listen, those lines in Duane Reade... An old lady tried to cut like she didn't know where the end was and everyone in line started screaming "Get to the back of the line!!" Ah, home... The midwest will be quite the change for me. I wonder if I can mellow out... I second that, though. People either love NY or hate it, it entirely depends on you.

Yes, because when people apply to Princeton they're thinking dollars, not ivy league institution with free microfilm printing... oh the free microfilm printing... I second the there's-nothing-wrong-with-new-jersey-especially-not-Princeton sentiment. Oh my god, I applied to Rutgers too! What did you apply for? I hope they respond earlier than they did last year...

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I personally know from experience that once people start telling me what my job is, I don't like them. and wow, I would really hate to be an admin assistant wherever you end up going.

I'm not really sure how to judge "ranking." How reliable can U.S. news be regarding graduate study... It's the color coded newspaper. Personally, I have a choice but not really. One is giving me funding, the other is prompting me to say "you call this funding?!" Fortunately, though, the school funding me will make me happier. I love their program (strong faculty in any area I conceivably want to study), good inter-cohort relations (community building and cooperation), excellent placement record (almost all have gone on to tenure track positions and assistant professor positions)... Geographically it's a good locale too.

Where is that?

W-O-N-D-E-R-F-U-L. It's still one of my favorites, and I definitely like it more than Lassiter's Silent Majority. Good article: The Cold War Debate Continues by John Earl Haynes. It's wonderful because at the end he starts attacking revisionist historians and you know he'd been sitting around waiting for those Moscow archives to open so he could stick to the commies. I love it when scholars get polemical. Book: The Spaces of the Modern City: Imaginaries, politics and everyday life. edited by Gyan Prakash and Kevin M. Kruse. I usually have the class reading and then one book on the side that I read during work/train ride. This is pretty good, since it's very "cutting edge" if you will, because they use a lot of transnational studies and comparisons.