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  1. That's possible. I didn't provide my name when I called so there's really no way for me to know whether the POC (grad student affairs person) was giving me a timeline on the basis of whether I'd been admitted or not. She just said, "We'll notify everyone by March 15 and we're aiming for the end of February." I feel like if it was this week she'd have said, "we're starting to notify this week" or something to that effect, but maybe she didn't want her phone ringing off the hook. Who knows. Thanks. Maybe they are meeting this week but not releasing decisions until funding info becomes available, which is coming later (possibly)? Or maybe the woman I talked to was just being coy to get me off the phone (ha!) I guess we'll have to wait and see... I was wondering about that. Seems like it's pretty rare for people to get into all of the top programs (the exception being cjalpha, who is getting in everywhere: To you I say both, 'Congratulations!' and, 'You suck.') But I'd be curious as to how common this is.
  2. Columbia will be releasing decisions at the end of February. Called the dept yesterday.
  3. I think you are correct. I could have sworn I read that decisions would be made by early Feb, but I called this AM and they said "toward the end of February." After reading your post, it seems that I wasn't just hallucinating earlier, and that they did in fact decide to delay decisions this year.
  4. Had a friend who was waitlisted last year at Princeton for another subfield. She was admitted, but didn't find out until April 15th, which put her in a bind because that was the deadline to respond to other offers. This was also so late that she was unable to attend admit weekend, etc (don't mean to be debbie downer, just trying to present the situation as clearly as I can). GOOD NEWS was that they did offer her full funding when she was admitted from the wait list. When it was all said and done though, she went elsewhere as that program was more familiar to her at that point.
  5. Called MIT and they said they expect decisions will be released "toward the end of February." Whoever bet the $20 yesterday on decisions this week had better pay up!
  6. Thanks for calling! Good luck to all!
  7. Is Princeton just mass emailing or are they trickling in acceptances throughout the day? From all these posts I am assuming a mass email (which I did not receive lol...so I will presume rejection), but looking through last year's posts it also seems they accepted people over a few days via email... Congrats to those admitted!
  8. I think Columbia is likely (my guess is Thurs/Fri). Several days ago someone from Stanford mentioned that the committee was meeting again this Thursday, so perhaps Friday, though early next week is also possible. MIT should definitely be any day now.
  9. Ok, thank you. No, I did not get an interview invite (sorry for the false alarm!). I just saw it mentioned on this forum a few times and figured I'd ask so that I was prepared if needed. I'm traveling a lot over the next few weeks so wanted to inquire while I still had time to prep if necessary.
  10. Apologies in advance if this has already been covered, but what was the process last year for Yale interviews? Were only a select few of those admitted interviewed, or were all of the "finalists" (for lack of a better word)? Any insight on the content of the interviews?
  11. Is West Topeka State a school?
  12. Bumping this, got lost in the shuffle:
  13. Anyone have any sense of when MIT might release its decisions? Also, do they really snail mail them? From looking at past results, it seems to be a mix of snail mail, email and phone calls. I think it's a little weird that depts don't have a firm policy on this...
  14. Thanks for sharing. That's interesting. I almost wonder if you would be better off not having a background in math/econ (maybe that would make your score a little more self-explanatory/lower their expectations from the outset?). Though I'd imagine in the long run they will (hopefully) figure that you just didn't perform as well as you may have hoped on that one particular exam, and if everything else looks fine, just move past it. I would be surprised if that one hiccup did you in even at top programs, though I suppose stranger things have happened. Thanks also for this. Fortunately I was poli sci undergrad, so while I don't have a substantial math/econ background, I do have letter writers in the correct field! If it's not one issue it's the other these days, I suppose! Thanks again for providing clarity on these issues. My attitude has always been that if a school is going to turn you down for something as menial as a lowish SAT/GRE score, you probably don't want to spend 5-6 years of your life there, anyway. Your performance over 4 yrs of undergrad is a much better indicator of future academic success, IMO.
  15. Hi, Long time lurker, first time poster. I did not apply to NYU but was intrigued by this comment. Seems to me that with a background in economics you wouldn't have to really prove yourself on the math side (unless you failed all of your econ courses or something, which I'm assuming you didn't). Did they explicitly state that they were asking you this because of your GRE score, or is this an assumption on your part? I noticed your research interests were econometrics and political economy and wonder if their inquiry had more to do with that? (i.e. if you were regular IR or comparative, do you think they would have asked?) What specifically (or even generally) did they ask about your math coursework, if you don't mind sharing? Curious as to what they look for with that -- I also don't have much in the way of significant math (or even econ) preparation! Good luck and congrats on your acceptances!
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