
hoviariel
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I got waitlisted to Delaware and Illinois (PhDs). Both by email With Delaware I know that I'm first in the waitlist cz the guy told me so if one of the yes-es gives a no then I'm getting his yes; I was told the no would be a high possibility so I feel like I'm waiting on a 1.5 month like pregnancy test after going unsafe with a guy who might be impotent (but not 100% sure). Delaware also interviewed me twice, and the guys liked me so woohoo (I feel desired) I don't know much about Illinois (besides the fact that it is a weird word to spell correctly) because they don't interview people at all, and I have no idea where I am on the list and I don't care that much about knowing since it's not like that info would matter if I'm not on the adcom Besides Delaware and Illinois I also applied to two MAs which I won't hear back from until april. I am dealing with this by knowing that I'll probably get in to one of the MAs if I get rejected from the waitlists. The end
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I'm not sure what you mean. Do you mean what people do with MA's while working on them, OR how people use their MA to further their language-education career after graduation? In the case of the former, although language education is a big part of Applied Ling, depending on faculty research, you could go into SLA/FLA research, contrastive linguistics/translation, etc. Check Columbia's faculty and past student work. If for the second, well I guess career-wise it'll depend on the focus you did in the MA years. It looks like your into teaching so an MA would improve your awareness of how SLA works and give practicums on how to teach more effectively. It'll be a boost in your CV especially if you apply to non-English speaking countries because the most popular 'foreign' schools look primarily for people with degrees in TESL and Applied Ling.
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Can anyone give me suggestions on choosing schools?
hoviariel replied to yiqiu1989's topic in Linguistics Forum
No, you don't. If you want to focus on typology, and UC Davis accepted you knowing that you want to focus on typology, then you CAN do typology at Davis. Check out the research interests of faculty there, their courses, and past student dissertations. I don't know about you bt funding would be the red line for me. If a place isnt gonna give me funding, it's a NO. The only reason when funding could be negotiable is if you can fund yourself. -
o well... I'm ok with waiting
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I think I got good news... I'm not sure. I got waitlisted to two places, what the hell does that mean about chances of admission
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Acceptance isn't the same as funding. I notice on the search results how people mention that they would get info abt funding after they get their acceptance letter. Email CUNY
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You can't beat that.
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Umm... Do they want awkward small talk with you around the watercooler?
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Mind sharing your polite way of asking 'so do you want me or not?'
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Has anyone here ever emailed a uni to find out if they were rejected, waitlisted, or still being reviewed. I'm just bored of waiting.
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Question, if I'm applying to university X to be in the Ling PhD program, hoping to get into a subfield Y, am I competing against everyone applying to the X Ling program OR just against the people who are applying for the Y field in the X ling program?
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Michigan rejections are out.
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Why the hell won't these bastards just post their 'to be admitted' quotas on the site?!
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Either rejection OR waitlist OR too good to get an interview
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Actually the first two don't matter to non-linguistics. There may be an aim to render basic findings to the public through popular science formats. And off course our scientific information would be freely available to the public, but the target audience for research are other researchers so that the information could grow and grow. It's the same as any other scientific field: the target is not to get our information popular for the average public Joe but for the average student in our field. As for applications, they can't be predicted that easily for any type of research. Sure, the work that an anthrop ling does may lead to formulation of a robust methodology to revive endangered language communities. And a comp linguistic could further development in natural language processing based on his other his peers' work. In my case, I guess it's because A) I want it Seriously, I want it C) I enjoy the research process D) Linguistics in relatively interdiscplinary field and it was rather easy for me to find my niche here
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If you're refering to the 10-ish% acceptance rate then yes it is typical for doctorate programs. For MAs, I have no idea but I assume there's much less competition because of no funding opportunities
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Some of the grad programs show thier acceptance rates on their site, like UPenn and its historical data table on the ling application page. Others can tell you the rate if you email them asking about admission stuff. And others keep it a deep dark secret. Either way, just apply to multiple places
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That's easy. Just go to those ranking sites. The higher a school is, the more people it likes to reject.
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The interview went well, but I still sense that for the next month I won't do anything productive May God and/or Tyler Perry help us all with our interviews and rejections Does anyone remember or know of some expose that showed how and why people get accepted into grad programs in general? I remember reading somewhere on the forum something about how the adcom did their business....
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I am so drunk on HBO that I don't know what you're saying
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Well, just had my interview. Now it's time to go drink away the fear of failure with lots and lots of pirated shows.
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Your GPA is fixed but a lot of people overcome it by having awesome GREs, LORs, SOPs, etc.
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I think those rankings are based on how many citations their staff/student papers produce. But, meh, just go with your personal take on your program and what research interests are.
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Quick, found out your interviewer, his research interests, read his dissertation and paper abstracts, look at what research interests his previous students have done to know what are the range of related interests, and go to to this forum and read up on posts until page 7 to find yourself good list of points to know about, e.g. what possible questions he will ask and what you should say.