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Faulty, are you applying for PhD track only, or would you consider a terminal MA?

Congratulations!! So excited for you!

Eco, I agree with CulturalAnth. It sounds like option 1 would be the better environment for professional growth - especially through teaching experience - and that's what's going to really matter when you're eventually out on the job market. I've had a couple of friends who went with the more prestigious option and were really lamenting the lack of support and development they could have gotten with some of their other options. I chose a smaller, lesser-known, but incredibly supportive option for my MA and haven't regretted it for a second. The network of support made all the difference, and I'm so glad to have had a completely positive graduate experience thus far while others I know have had their progress hindered by competition or department politics.

Thank you so much for the info, ecologaia! I'm really trying to get as many impressions of the program as possible

After 4 rejections I was contemplating alternative careers, then today I find out I'm accepted to UNC Chapel Hill and waitlisted at Tulane!

Same here. Le sigh

Sorry to those who got rejections! Where are you seeing your status online - was it somewhere in the applyyourself application portal, or did the e-mail link to somewhere else?

I have a couple of friends who got MA's in Latin American Studies and went on to be accepted at top anthro programs for their PhD's. Like pears said, just try to keep your coursework in the anthro vein, and definitely approach your thesis within an anthropological framework.

Does anyone want to claim/give more details on the couple of Tulane acceptances posted since yesterday?

I'm also waiting on three schools - Tulane, SMU, and UNC-Chapel Hill. My POI says final decisions for Tulane should be made next week. I don't know what's going on with the other two.

Haha! Thanks for letting me know, now I'm even more curious since I assumed all the archaeologists were getting radio silence

Are there any archaeology applicants who heard from UNC Chapel Hill? I didn't get anything with the wave of results the other day, so I'm wondering if archaeology is just running behind...

Not sure how many of us are still waiting to hear from Tulane, but apparently it may be another couple of weeks before they finalize the archaeology choices

Thanks for passing along the info!

Sorry to hear that, Forsaken

Yes, they shall rue this day!

Finally got my first response - a rejection from U Arizona. Thought I had a good shot there since my research aligns closely with the work of a POI who was quite interested/encouraging, but it seems it was not to be.

Congrats! So happy for you!

Thank you for the info!

Yikes. Sorry to everyone getting bad news. I e-mailed my POI, waiting to hear back...

I'm sorry to hear that Faulty

Congratulations! I really hope the rest of us hear something this week!

Hooray! It'll be nice to finally hear something, good or bad...

They've already considerably slimmed down the applicant pool, so it's possible that one of the professors absolutely knew they were getting a spot this year and sent their choice an unofficial announcement right away. Last year the process stretched out for quite a number of weeks - there was a month between my interview in February and a mass round of rejection letters in March, with acceptances slowly trickling out through the whole process. I'd expect a similar pattern this year.

I'm waiting to hear something from them as well. There were a couple of unofficial acceptances on the results board - the one from last week mentioned that official results may not come for another 4-6 weeks.