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  1. Hi everyone, now that the open house is over, I was wondering whether people have made decisions or are still waiting to visit other schools. I'm definitely going to Northwestern (I'm George) and was wondering who else will be in the cohort.
  2. Just an anecdote, but a professor I had been emailing with notified me a few weeks after the application deadline had passed that one of my LORs hadn't been received. He told me to get it in ASAP so that the committee could look at my file. I went to the prof who had written the letter, and he resent it. It actually turned out to be their administrative error as he had mailed, emailed, and faxed the letter to them, but it would have gone undetected had this faculty member not been on top of my application. Letter went in, two weeks later I was accepted. I will say this about email, though, it seems easy for it to hurt you as well, to come off as pretentious, overly solicitous, or just inarticulate (to some degree I would think faculty members anticipate a hint of these qualities in such emails). This probably doesn't matter so much when the prof isn't on the adcomm, but it might cast a pall on your file if you do have a poor exchange with someone on the adcomm. I mean, 200-300 applications is a lot, but considering that far fewer of those 200-300 actually make contact with professors, you will probably leave some lasting impression if you do (and of course if they reply and engage you).
  3. Informally, I heard that Northwestern applications were up (roughly ~300 this year), but they seemed to have offered about 20 people. That's more than I was thinking, having heard that funding was down this year and they were anticipating a smaller cohort, but still fewer than what their website says they typically admit. I get the 20 person admit number from the open house email that didn't BCC the names (poor move, but insightful).
  4. I'm probably going. Got funding info today: University Fellowship, 5 years ~21K + health insurance (seemingly). Very nice letter. I had thought, from the website, that everyone gets similar or the same funding package, so don't know whether the "Fellowship" is a meaningful distinction.
  5. In via the website. There was no phone call or email and the only reason I checked was that some decisions had come in on the results page. Not sure how Northwestern does decisions, so unable to whether this is the first "round" or not.
  6. Unfortunately, I don't know the answer to that question. My impression was that the cohort was going to be significantly smaller, but disregard the numbers I mentioned earlier as I'm not sure cohort v. admits. I think their website says that they typically admit 25 for a cohort of 13.
  7. I heard informally (really can't say more), so don't take that as a sign that you're no longer in contention. I don't think they've formally notified anyone of decisions yet, or perhaps even made final ones. I was just fishing to see if anyone had heard formally.
  8. I'm wondering if anyone has heard anything out of Northwestern? I heard that I made the shortlist (~40 people), but that they have less funding and are only able to make 8-12 offers. The silence is tough particularly because this is the only school I applied to!
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