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I agree with the advice in this thread. I'll just add that if it isn't prohibitively expensive for you, I would consider applying to both MA and PhD programs if in the next few months you have enough research experience where you feel you would be a competitive candidate in PhD applications. Then in case you get rejected from PhD programs, you'll still have MA options.

I am freaking out too!! It doesn't help that a first-year grad student in my department told me that last year he heard back from MIT barely a couple weeks after the Dec 1 deadline...now I'm going to be obsessively looking for an email from MIT that probably won't come!! I also expect that I'll hear back from universities starting in January at the earliest (although it might be different in clinical psych than more experimental programs).

Cool, mine is about 1.5 pages single spaced. I'm sure we'll be fine

Does anyone know what the limit is for the UCLA Linguistics SOP? There is seemingly no information anywhere on any of their websites...

I'm glad I saw this thread! I was going to submit my standard ~1000 word SOP to NYU psych...

Fellowship applications are up as of today! http://www.linguisticsociety.org/fellowship-application

I would just do standard length, like ~1.5 pages or so. I would email them just to check though!

Best of luck this time around!! You can do it!!

Yay, go you!!! I'm at 3/8 and starting to get more into the rhythm of it

This is the only place I'm applying to that requires a Personal Statement in addition to a Statement of Purpose, so I'm not really sure if I'm doing it right...is anyone else applying there, and do you want to trade and give each other feedback?

Yes!! I've been a fan of David Poeppel for years, I'm really excited

I've always wondered that too, because I have one school that says not to submit over 50 pages and I was like...umm, I'm submitting something that's 13, is that going to be bad? I talked to one of my professors and he said that usually writing samples are between 7-10 pages, so that's comforting. That's in linguistics though, so different fields could be different.

I have two recommenders who are absolutely amazing and have already submitted all my letters! My third one, on the other hand...he waits until an hour or less before my applications are due and it makes me want to tear my hair out!!! He already has my letter written and is using the same one for every school...why can't he just submit them now?? Agh!! Anyway, just wanted to vent hope everything else's applications are going well!

This is crazy, I can't believe your guys' apps are already due! I've only submitted one (Stanford) so far, and my last one is due on January 2nd then again, I'm applying to Linguistics and Cognitive Science departments, so different than psychology. I'm super stressed, but actually quite excited right now!! I'm submitting to two (and possibly three) conferences soon so I'm doing a bunch of data collection and analysis and it's super fun I just hope it doesn't take away too much from my applications since I don't have as much time to work on my SOP as I would have otherwise liked...

Right now the google doc is set to "view only". If you set it so that anyone with the link can edit and repost the link, people can make comments & suggestions directly on the document

Most if not all of the places I'm applying to this year require that you use their valid institution address, so I agree, I doubt this will work...

I would say submit one -- you're going to be competing against people who have submitted one, so I think it would look weird if you didn't. I don't think it matters too much if it's not directly related to what you want to do in grad school, although it should at least be somewhat related to the field. Good luck!!

Yeah, that was the webpage I was looking at, it says fall 2014... I'm just eager to apply already!!

Yeah, that's what I figure. I won't have any problems getting my application read, I'm sure...I'm just worried what they will think of my statement of purpose The LSA has a bunch of fellowships (the applications for which are supposed to be up already, but I haven't seen them) that cover tuition and living expenses, which would be awesome! I doubt I will go if I don't get funding, because tuition is like $2000, plus housing costs...

Anything by Inbal Arnon & Neal Snider is great for this kind of stuff! The problem is, no one has any idea about how multiword expressions are represented I feel like most authors are like, oh, well, it's infeasible for the millions of multiword expressions we've heard in our lives to all be represented, so it must be stored some other way...and then don't specify what way that might be!

Does anyone know where the fellowship application is? The website says it will be up fall 2014, which is now, but I don't see any link to apply anywhere.

Hi all, My first deadline (Stanford Psych) is coming up soon and I'm trying to refine my statement as much as possible! Does anyone want to swap SOPs with me and we can give each other feedback?

Thanks in advance for any advice! In my SOP, I describe my most relevant research experience briefly. However, the research I describe is the research that's in my writing sample. So I don't want to blab on for a really long time in my SOP when all the info is in my writing sample, but I also doubt that everyone on the admissions committee is going to read my writing sample, so I don't want them to be confused by lack of information in my SOP. Is there a happy medium? Should I refer to my writing sample or something?? Or maybe I shouldn't discuss my research in detail there, but rather what I gained from the experience and how it's shaped my research interests??

I would contact them. I have a friend whose application wasn't read last year because his margins were 1.05 inches, and that's actually larger than the requirement!!

My last letter writer didn't submit the letter until 7:50 pm Eastern Time today but at least it got in!!! Now I don't have to stress about this any more until early April...