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If you’re planning on studying languages spoken in South or Southeast Asia, you should be eligible for SASLI or SEASLI summer language programs. Both of them offer FLAS and tuition scholarships.
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35 minutes ago, futuresant said:
I am also a non-Canadian applicant, my review scores are 103 and 83 - a VAST difference of 20! Wish they were more transparent with their selection process. All the best to all of you, and thank you for this forum!
Trudeau Foundation does not seem very accountable or transparent. I can actually no longer see my review scores on the portal - too bad for them that I already downloaded the scores as an .xlsx file when that was on offer. This evasiveness is nicely ironic given that as an abolitionist activist and scholar, one of my essay answers was about transformative justice and accountability.
47 minutes ago, BriJaxRN said:Sorry for the confusion! No, I didn’t get an email, but also had the same score and am studying in the US.
Yes, I know what you mean about obsessing. It’s hard not to. But the fact that we’ve all even made it to this point and are pursuing DOCTORAL degrees is worth celebrating. ?????
I am sorry to hear this. I have been finding lots of strength in my work lately, but I really want fellowships so that I can have more time to do that work and also keep organizing without having to TA. Hopefully one of the other fellowships will come through for all of us.
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43 minutes ago, BriJaxRN said:
Yeah, same here! Although I am also studying outside of Canada (hate to spoil your theory).
Did you get into the second round too? Congratulations! I am not saying that non-Canadian applicants didn't go through, but that they probably had higher threshold than 100, which was my score and one of the Canadian second rounder's score. I honestly wish I just didn't have to worry about fellowships because once I start thinking about something I get obsessed about understanding how people assign analytical weight to things. I spent like 2-3 years on GradCafe forums before finally applying to PhD programs when I felt like I understood how American PhD admission committees weigh different components of the application.
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10 hours ago, BriJaxRN said:
Congratulations! Do you mind me asking what your score was?
I am interested in this too, if possible. Because I scored exactly the same as Call_me_Betty and only a point lower than Polisci2016, but have clearly not advanced. Either the scores don't mean what we think; Or as I suspect, schools outside Canada have a quota and selected international candidates scored higher than me.
Also, congrats to all three of you! I truly hope that you kill the interview!
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1 minute ago, eliisebrownn said:
Congrats everyone, and for those who didn't move on, we will try again next year!
This was the last year I could apply, although it was my first time applying. Now moving onto worrying about ASA MFP and Zeit Siftung fellowships.
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1 minute ago, Call_Me_Betty said:
I also just got an email that I got an interview. Hope everyone hears good news soon!
Congratulations!
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Just now, Polisci_2016 said:
My stressed out sleep deprived brain is still trying to figure that out where to find the score
Thank you for even trying! It's under profile -> grant -> filter to review scores (details).
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1 minute ago, Polisci_2016 said:
I just got my email saying I have been named semi finalist! I am completely shocked right now!
Congratulations!! If you don't mind me asking, what were your scores on the portal and has the status changed on there for you?
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29 minutes ago, BRCR61 said:
So should we call it a night, then? Hope they let us know tomorrow?
I'm still checking while knowing there's no point. So glad I took the day off from working today for unrelated reasons.
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Well, I'll be drunk-knitting and refreshing pages until I fall asleep. Sorry that you're all in this hell too.
- BriJaxRN and Call_Me_Betty
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Just now, officehours said:
Not necessarily. It may be that two reviewers scored your application. That's how it works at SSHRC. I asked them for my score and saw that two reviewers scored me.
Ooooh, good theory. It seems like the scores have been there for a while though. I only discovered how to look at them today, so I dunno.
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3 minutes ago, eliisebrownn said:
What do you mean -- that its just our recommendation letter score and not the rest of the application?
Yes, I think so. The application had more than two parts, so I feel like two scores could only correspond to the two recommendation letters.
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Just now, eliisebrownn said:
I wish I could tell you, but their scoring system is a freaking enigma.
I agree with the previous theory that the scores are possibly only the scores assigned to the 2 recommendation letters. All the max and min scores posted here average out to the average score.
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1 minute ago, eliisebrownn said:
I could also be manufacturing what things looked like before because I'm so stressed.
Is it just the one star off to the left that looks like buttons for favoriting? If so, they were always there for me.
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Just now, Call_Me_Betty said:
If you click on your profile and then click Grants, there should be a tab at the top that you can scroll down and view Review Scores.
It certainly isn't a user-friendly system...
Thanks so much! Mine says 100, 100, 100. Clearly not out of a scale of 100 though since somebody here scored 102.
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2 minutes ago, Dlerue said:
I did a bit more digging, and in the menu that tells us we are in phase one, you can also bring out your review score. Anyone know what they are scored out of?
How do you do this?
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I applied for the first time this year. Forgot to upload the scan of my oldest transcript, but oh well. I'm in my third year of a soc PhD, so this is also the last year I get to apply. Wishing all of us luck!
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4 hours ago, socchi92 said:
Anybody have any thoughts on what they're wearing to visit days? How formal/casual are you thinking?
I visited three East Coast schools when the weather was on the verge of a blizzard. During the Brown visit, there was an actual blizzard that stranded all of us for a couple of days. I wore comfortable but stylish clothes, nice winter boots with good treads, and coordinating watches. There is a huuuuuge amount of walking involved during school visits, so paying attention to footwear is a must. Watches were good for keeping track of time while running to make meetings all the time in unfamiliar campuses. I wore a lot of cozy sweaters with woolen skirts (with elastic waists, lol), sometimes long-sleeved dresses, and tights. You will basically be wearing the same clothes from morning to night, so comfort and maybe an amount of unfussiness are good characteristics for your clothes to have. Also packed a lint roller and travel steamer, both of which were very handy.
It's super-stressful to make the decision, but please try to enjoy the visits! You will be treated like royalty and seriously wooed by faculty, administrators, and graduate students. If you have been admitted, they really want you there and think very highly of your potential to become a sociologist. Also as I told myself prior to the visits, it was likely the only time in academia when I would have so many offers to choose from, so I'd better enjoy myself! -
3 minutes ago, TheBunny said:
Nope, I will assume rejection probably as usual
The university is formally closed today, but it might be worth calling the department early tomorrow morning.
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22 hours ago, TheBunny said:
Did Brown really admit people because I did not hear back from Brown yet and the admissions office told me that the offers had not been made.
I'm not sure if you've heard something from them by now. The admit list was sent out to everyone in the department this morning.
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Congrats to all the Brown admits! If you have any questions about the department or want to meet for a chat during the visit, let me know.
- HumanHeatSOC and awamba94
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16 hours ago, sociopolitic said:
What are your substantive interests? There are a lot of schools with great comparative-historical scholars, but the topics they study are rather diverse. However, generally speaking I would say that aside from Berkeley, departments that are particularly strong in historical sociology are UCLA, Michigan, and Yale. Wisconsin and Chicago are also pretty good if you're specifically interested in comparative-historical research with a political bent to it. These are all very highly ranked departments though; I'm not sure which departments outside the top 20 (aside from Yale) are strong in the area. I get the impression that top departments are more likely to accommodate comparative-historical work than lower ranked departments (meaning I'm not sure you'd really find anyone other than Marxist sociologists doing this kind of work outside the top 50 departments).
There are many different ways of doing comparative historical work and the methods also generally correlate with epistemologies, not just topics. My understanding of comp-hist work in sociology break down like the following. The Skocpolians like to use a Millian, "scientific" method. For that type of variable-based comp-hist work, I'd say Northwestern is a good place because of James Mahoney. You could check other people who are associated with Mahoney and where they are placed. A lot of them might be faculty in political science. UC Berkeley and Wisconsin comp-hist people are generally Marxist, perhaps with the exception of Mustafa Emirbrayer who uses relational historical analysis (think Margaret Somers). Even within the Marxists there are epistemological differences: I'd argue Tugal/ Riley and Burawoy at Berkeley are somewhat different beasts. Michigan is an interesting place for comp-hist research and has a long history of hiring and producing comp-hist people, I think perhaps because of Charles Tilly. It has generally made room for comp-hist people of all stripes and managed to house Tilly, Somers, and Jeffrey Paige (who wrote the brilliant structural/ Marxist tome Agrarian Revolution) at the same time after Paige was denied tenure at Berkeley. You could argue that folks using a postcolonial lens (Julian Go at Boston U, George Steinmetz at UMich) employ yet another method of doing comp-hist work.
- high_hopes and Lesleychi
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@talani_ai I echo others' comments here: your work experience is not going to be a hindrance. Many people take gap years and do unrelated work to pay the bills. Because it's a non-issue, I wouldn't draw attention to the gap in the SOP unless it connects to your proposed doctoral work somehow.
Good luck! It's hard to apply to grad school as an international student and especially if you don't know any fellow applicants. Feel free to ask me more questions here or via pm.
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@jriveracal I'd vote for the ethnographic paper because it contains original data. Adding a lit review sounds like a good idea too. It would pad out the paper and make it stronger by allowing you to situate your study in relation to existing theories on the topic.
SSRC IDRF 2022
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How does one receive these transcript requests generally? By email or do we need to endlessly reload the application portal?