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Only fair to share this.. so Vand. has started to contact cultural applicants of interest on their short list, though decisions have not been made. Nothing formal, just inquiries about research ideas from a few profs. I am so excited, just to have heard from them!

Sarab, I have to say you are the most thoughtful of posters... Some fellow applicants and I have been rooting for you for months! Congratulations! You deserve so much happiness in grad school~!

Who/How do you know about Cornell? Also for Emory? Anyone want to give feedback?

Shout out and good luck to all my fellow Emory recruits waiting on the results of the weekend... I'm sure they'll be talking about us today!

Go for it. Would love to know how it turns out, and will send out positive thoughts for you. I think there must be another person who heard, because I haven't posted anything on that "Results Search" tab, if that's what you meant... I've just discovered that awful trove.

Hey, so sleep better: I have not had any "official" contact from UFlorida PhD, only directly from the professor who had been my primary POI. He sent me a brief email saying that I had been accepted, and to please be patient for a few weeks, as they would be slow to send out official letters. My hopes up for everyone waiting on news!

Hey Congratulations on the new acceptances! Anyone else get an email from Virginia today? It was very nice, brief and about a recruitment weekend... and this is after an hour videochat interview, but still I am going to assume since the email didn't specify that I am still under consideration and this is another set of interviews? Just wanted to know if anyone else received, and how they interpreted...in any case I am happy

Oh and I'm into yoga and surrealism, and would love to become a vintner... and i know all the lines to all three godfather movies but depending on the company, i'd rather watch avatar...

made me smile. especially since i just spent far too long contemplating my luggage for a recruitment weekend.

I had an 'acceptance' call from UNC Chapel Hill for Cultural... but again it was 'unofficial' and the other result posted recently was notified like a week after I was... so i hate to say keep waiting, because.. enough, right? But I would still hold hope...

Praxismakesperfect- with Duke, remember, they sent that link for the applicant 'self service' page (sounds like a smutty suggestion, if you ask me) but anyway there is some site you need to check at https://shib-external.oit.duke.edu/idp/Authn/UserPassword . Good luck, i have had it work and fail to connect in equal measure.

Don't eat so late! Monsters, huh... spicy food?

Same here on Duke, y'all. No worries-- I mean, this is my first app season but everything friends and i have heard kind of matches the adage that the closer your research interests match their offered expertise, the more likely your admission, over everything else-- gre, gpa, you name it. I wish everyone so much luck! And loving support to those who haven't had happy news yet.

Thanks, everyone! Gradcat- I hope you're right... Ok... I just realized after reading a few other posts that I don't actually know what POI means. I thought it was "professor of interest" or "person of interest", aka a prof at a school. Now I have no idea.

sorry to hear it. Wishing you so much luck on the next!

Hey all, So I heard great news from a Chapel Hill POI today. Again, for others waiting on UNC, this wasn't "the letter" it was a prof letting me know about my admission. I am so excited! Lots of good research overlaps there! As for Harvard: No joke, I took Canis' advice (i think? or someone's here) and emailed the grad secretary with a 'fixed version' of the SOP. She was lovely, so understanding, said she would send it in there to replace. So nice, right? So I fix it, make sure it sounds great. And then, I re-sent her the f***ed up version. Sigh.

So I emailed the contact person at the Anthro department for Harvard.. should I have gone straight to grad school admissions? assuming they wouldn't have let a hair-brained app past their office? Gah. 'tis what it 'tis. Silver lining: highly encouraging email from a Chapel Hill POI... So everyone is thinking this week will be a big week?

Canis- I hear you. I read the website statement and the sample successful SOPs, and came away with a similar thought. Ah well. Honestly, I say this for all of us: we only need one yes. That's advice straight from a well-loved prof. Have to celebrate out loud: Just got an email from UVA POI for informal phone interview this week! I'm all fluttering wings in a ribcage! Will email Harvard Secretary Monday morning to see if that is a possibility... but given previous posts, looks like I'd have been found out by now. And they were sooo expensive to apply to... sigh. But I have to try, of course. To everyone else waiting who feels like they are reliving teen angst, I hear you

Anyone else hear from Duke?

Sigh. The heart wants what it wants.

Ahhhhh.... if anyone wants a laugh, I was just reading through all the SOPs I sent out, because I individualized them all quite distinctly, etc... and so I'm feeling all proud of myself, right, like, wow, this sounds great! This really articulates what i'd like to study/compare, blah... and then I read the last one. The one to Harvard. The one where I clearly mention "University of Virginia" in the last paragraph, as I'm making my bold closing statement. Is that worse than dropping the wrong name in bed?

Anthroflea: Hey! No, no interview. I had several phone convos and emails with profs I was interested in there, though. I think UFL is different from some other schools, you know, like I got the feeling that some didn't want to be bothered before they'd offered admission (for example, Duke's site politely requests no prior contact and stresses that it doesn't advantage your app) while others won't consider applicants who don't have three supporters who they've contacted, willing to be on the dissertation committee (this is what I was told about Florida). So feel free to take from that what you will. Thanks for the congrats, it is validating to hear from someone. I must stress though that they haven't sent the official notifications, so anyone else interested in that program need not suffer undue anxiety! MPollywog, I am so sorry to hear that. I was warned about funding at UTAustin, or I would have applied there as well, such a great program and wonderful city. I heard so much about funding woes from accepted applicants that I didn't throw my hat into that ring, so I congratulate you for applying and being conditionally accepted, way to go!

Thanks, MPollywog, great advice! Where did you interview, if you don't mind my asking?

Hey Everyone! Figured I would join in more actively, though I've been worrying along. For those who have attended interviews, are you going business? Or anthro funky? UFlorida has made their decisions, but will not send out official notifications for a week or two. Not sure if anyone else applied there. I got the Emory interview email, and haven't heard anything else positive or negative from other schools. Anyone with info on UVirginia?? Would love to know. Hang in there!