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Rejected by Rutgers. I'm going to Davis!

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I've only seen one other George Mason result for history. Last years Mason acceptances did not all come in the same week, so there is still hope. Good luck!

Waitlisted by George Mason. I'm about 95% certain I am going to accept my Davis offer.

Nope, just making conversation. I'm glad you liked it. Did you visit the arboretum?

You get back from Davis yet?

A lot of wonky things go on during the application process. Sometimes a POI who is a great fit might really want to take you on, but maybe he/she already has too many grad students already or someone on the graduate admissions committee complains that the POI has 5 grad students whereas other professors don't have any or just a few.

If the school is a member of the council of graduate schools, then it is not allowed. But I wouldn't want to attend a school that did something like to me anyways.

History, recruitment is the 8th. I'm not sure if I'll go or not. I live 30 miles from Davis and have been to the campus lots of times. I plan meeting some of the professors i would consider working with during their office hours. Maybe i'll go to recruitment just to meet possible future Davis grads.

This is an important distinction to make. The vast majority of athletic departments are net costs. Only 7 athletic departments from 2005 to 2009 were profitable. I don't know how many would be profitableif you stripped away all sports but football and basketball, but i would that with the exception of the perennial national championship contenders the majority would be net costs. http://www.acenet.edu/news-room/Pages/Myth-College-Sports-Are-a-Cash-Cow2.aspx

I wanted to work with a professor whose work had greatly influenced my own research as well as my perspective on history and who was an Americanist with a focus in the 1870-1930 period. Using that criteria, it came down to four professors: Eric Rauchway at UC Davis (blessed among nations: how the world made America), James Livingston at Rutgers (Origins of the Federal Reserve System: Money, Class, and Corporate Capitalism, 1890-1913), David Wrobel at the University of Oklahoma (The End of American Exceptionalism: Frontier Anxiety from the Old West to the New Deal), and Michael O'Malley at George Mason (Face Value: The Entwined Histories of Money and Race in America).

I'd contact the professor i'd want to work with at each prospective school. Sonewhere i read that you don't apply to programs or schools, you apply to professors. The kind of responses you get back could tell you a great deal about the kind of advisor a professor will be.

I'm currently in my final year of an MA program at CSU Sacramento. I don't think it really has a reputation for anything. It is just a middling state school(don't get me wrong, I've loved it here and the professors are great). I don't think any of the PHD programs are considered the very elite, although they are in the top quartile of rankings. Anyways, I've been accepted at UC Davis, and last year one of the students from our program was accepted into Yale, and I don't think she was the first. One of my professors noted that a student he wrote a letter of rec for got into Cornell, and he himself went to a middling state university for an MA program and got into Cornell.

I applied to 4 program (UC Davis, Rutgers, University of Oklahoma, George Mason) in American history(1870-1930 period). So far I have been offered a four year fellowship to the University of Oklahoma and a five year funding package from UC Davis. I have not heard back from Mason or Rutgers yet.