Maya

I'm pretty frustrated as well, herself. As a 2nd time applicant (and rejectee), I can pretty much guarantee that the notifications will come out by email. Not that I'm anxiously waiting for a duplicate email from last year, but it would certainly be nice for them to give us all some closure. Then again I guess I could just refer to my email from last March, since I'm sure it will be worded the same this year.

That book is cited more than a few times in my research proposal

Your research sounds very interesting tomi! I too am interested in labour (excuse the spelling, I'm Canadian) issues, although my main focus has been on the American labour movement and its place within the American 'left'. I have a very clear idea about the issue I want to explore for a dissertation ( I wrote a research proposal for my LSE application), but there are other areas of labour, economic and political sociology that I'm very interested in as well. edit: tomi, in response to your question about American students not being so interested in blue-collar workers, that may be accurate, althought I am not certain and obviously am no expert. Judging from the positive enthusiasm I received from the professors who I contacted back in October though, it certainly felt as if I was not in the majority in terms of research focus. Mind you, the positive responses clearly did not get me far with respect to admissions in the U.S. schools (thank goodness for LSE), but nonetheless, there certainly was excitement about my topic.

I just saw that on the results page, someone noted having received a waitlist email from NYU. Judging by the last few years, I guess that means they have already made all of their admits. Wow, this has been a tough 24 hours for me...both the schools I had so much hope for are now pretty much 100% no I guess I will have to make the best of this weekend, and distract myself.

Congratulations to focused and astronautka, as well as the others accepted to Michigan (there seem to be quite a few on the results board). Since it was a mass email and I'm not international (Canadian usually doesn't count in terms of admissions notifications), it's clear that I didn't get in, and it is disappointing because I had been in contact with a professor there and he had been pretty supportive of my application. But I'm happy for those of you who had more success, I have heard wonderful things about Michigan sociology. Have a great weekend celebrating!

Congratulations to all those admitted to Michigan! Just wondering if any of you can tell us whether this was a mass email? Thanks!

congratulations soci4287! As for the rest of us, I'm crossing my fingers!

I'm not claiming the acceptance, I just want to second Rogue's question, because right now I am a ball of nerves, after seeing that on the results board. It could be credible though, this is around the same time as last year right??

I just snorted and got coffee all over my keyboard. (sorry to laugh at your expense!)

I have no suggestions but I'm definitely in the same boat. I still haven't heard from ANY of my schools, and last year at this time all the schools had begun notifying. I applied last year, and all that got me through my horrible job was thinking "this time next year I will be studying what I love and not at this stupid job." Well, here I am a year later and still doing the same stupid job. All I want to do is go back to researching and writing, and doing what I love instead of helping some big corporation steal more money from people. eeps ok I don't want to give off any more negative energy so I should end this rant before it turns into an essay

Can you clarify whether it's 8-12 people they are admitting, or if it's that they want an entering cohort of 8-12?

hmm but according to last year's results, people who were admitted (at least some of them) heard about their admission via email or phone first, before the website had even updated. I think for rejections though, yes, we will find out only via the website. ( I say 'we' but of course I'm hoping that doesn't include us!)

And what's worse is that isn't it a holiday on Monday for you guys in the U.S.? (I'm Canadian).....so that means we get a day of silence today followed by 3 more days of certain silence, right?