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snagsby52

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  1. I will be there for an English Ph.D.!!! Yeah! So how are you guys going about looking for houses/apartments in Bloomington? Congratulations to everybody! I will see you there!
  2. I'm sorry, but like I said earlier, there are a lot of people who don't get in their first year who have to apply again next year--people with PERFECT records. It is a weird process. Hannah's advice is great advice as far as I'm concerned. In every field, it is about having more work experience/awards/conferences/events on your CV, and the lab experience sounds like a really good idea. This professor doesn't seem to have acted completely honorably, but hopefully you do get in for the spring term. If you don't, you might be better off (a blessing in disguise...) and you will be accepted a school next year that doesn't have a crazy admissions process and accepts you right away. In any case, good luck with everything!
  3. First off, why did you only apply to one school? There must be a reason. It seems to me that people who only apply to 1-3 programs near their area are doing so because they don't want to move and be tempted by attractive offers elsewhere. By doing that, you have decided what the most important factor is in your decision--staying where you are. If you are okay with this decision, then I would accept the school and the lack of funding. However I feel I should say what the problems with this decision are: if you are interested in getting a job as a professor, then you will need to move whereever you get a job, and no graduate school--not even an Ivy--can guarantee you a job nearby. If the program is near the bottom or unranked, it will be difficult to get a job--at least right away. I personally believe that going to grad school and working without funding is almost always not worth it, because it is really hard to get your own school work done if you are also working/teaching a lot, and no one knows whether there is light at the end of the tunnel in the shape of a job. I think the most important issues to consider are: a) the ranking IN YOUR FIELD (ex. if you were in English: Victorian, Medieval, 18th century) and the professors who you could work with, the job placement, c) if they are not offering funding the first year, are they guaranteeing funding for other years, such as a TA position with tuition plus a stipend. I hope it turns out okay, but if you decide to apply next year, I would consider applying to more schools. :roll:
  4. I am in agreement with the "Where's the enthusiasm?" title of this thread. Where is it? I think I have the post-decision blues, and I keep on second-guessing my choice instead of being really happy about going to this amazing program in my field. I guess I am just exhausted, but I keep on wondering what it would have been like if I had chosen my other top school (UNC-CH)...and since everyone wanted me to go there, no one (except one friend) is excited that I am going to Indiana. Perhaps it is making me less enthusiastic...
  5. Yeah!!! That is so great. Good Luck!!!
  6. and no--I don't think they are allowed to take away funding after they have given it to you, and especially not after April 15th when you can no longer choose another school (unless you received something in writing that said this). However, I'm pretty sure there is very little that you can do about it.
  7. That is so out of line. The school should be ashamed of doing that to a student. I'm sorry--I hope it turns out okay.
  8. I'm headed to Indiana-Bloomington for the English Ph.D. program! Declined offers from: UNC-Chapel Hill, Wisconsin-Madison, Illinois-UC, UC-Davis, Boston College, and MAPH at UChicago ...not accepted at several other schools Good luck to everyone on this thread!
  9. I just turned down UC Davis yesterday, and I turned down UNC-Chapel Hill less than an hour ago (which was REALLY hard and sad), but it made me happy to see that someone posted right afterwards to say that they were accepted. Good luck!!! It is a fabulous place, and the people are awesome. It was a sacrifice to give it up--I just needed to because of my field.
  10. I hadn't heard anything from one school, and I knew that all the rejections had gone out. When I called, they told me that I was on the waitlist. I was told to email a professor to see where I was on the waitlist and she told me that I was the first alternate in my field. They didn't tell me because they knew that I would eventually be accepted and they wanted to wait in order to tell me good news. This may be the case in your situation (or it may not be.) I would try to get ahold of someone and ask about the situation again. If you have been accepted to another school, you can say something like: I may have to accept this other school, but I am really hoping that I will eventually be accepted to your school (if this is true). good luck with everything!
  11. Don't listen to people who insist on being negative. There is still hope. If you don't get in this year, you will eventually get into a good program if you want it enough--and it seems like you do. I hope it all works out!
  12. I think you may just need to wait at this point for the final result. If you want to go there, I would take the spring admission offer if they decide to offer it to you. I would write back and say that you believe it is the right program for you, and that you would be wiling to wait until the spring if they felt that it was necessary. Be incredibly nice (not pushy at all) and articulate. No one thinks these matters--such as making sure to be ridiculously thankful and writing well in these emails--is important, but it REALLY is--on both a conscious and subconscious level for the reader. Hopefully some people decline the offer and you get in this fall. However, you need to think about how much you want to go there, because you can also build up your resume and apply again next year. I'm rooting for you!
  13. So...does NYU actually notify EVERY applicant? Do they select groups that they want to notify, and then throw some other piles out the window in the hope that some of the rejections might be carried by the wind in the direction of NYU applicants? I am already accepting elsewhere, but it would be nice for a note saying "SORRY! you have not been accepted to our program. Goodbye forever." Full stop. Now was that so hard?
  14. I declined Illinois-UC awhile ago, but I just formally declined the offers from Boston College, UW-Madison, and the MAPH at UChicago (see above). I will also be giving up a place at UC-Davis in the next 2 days. I hope this helps some of the people on this site!!
  15. My feeling is that you should not talk about the fact that you do not have other offers. Don't say you do (of course), but concentrate on how much you want to go to their school. You seem like you do, and even if the other offers had come in, maybe you would have felt the same. Hopefully it all works out. If not, do not give up. I know several fabulous English and History PhD applicants (and I'm sure it is the same for Chemistry) who didn't get in the first year they applied, and then applied again the next year and got into some of their top choices.
  16. Thinking about it--at this late point (since a lot of rejections have gone out) you are probably on some sort of waitlist. Have you tried calling or emailing someone in the department?
  17. My sense is that if the last email you sent to him was on the 27th and he replied the 29th, you should get ahold of him next wednesday or so. Time will be running out then, and he will understand why you need to be in touch. Hopefully he will get in touch with you before then though with good news! After that email, you may just need to wait for him and the rest of the committee to decide...until the 15th when you can probably write again if you haven't heard anything. These professors know the seriousness of these choices, and if he is on your side, I don't think he will be annoyed. Best of luck!
  18. Wait. Does that mean you have taken a stand not to email your advocate--the professor who is trying to get you in? I don't think that is a good idea. I think it is always best to stay in touch with someone on the inside who is on YOUR side. That said, of course you shouldn't email him everyday or anything. Be INCREDIBLY nice and grateful, and genuinely thankful for the help of a professor who is going out on a limb for you. He obviously thinks you are worth it, so you certainly should not give up hope; he said not to, and he knows the most about the situation. I hope it all works out!
  19. The decision just became harder now that I have been offered full-funding at Indiana! :shock: 2 weeks to decide where we are going to be for the next 6 years...... :roll: Ahh!
  20. I totally said that anywhere in the top forty is a great place to be, but really that is silly, because there are so many great places and it all depends on where the professors in your field are located. If there is someone wonderful at a school that is ranked lower, you should probably go there. Yet, as I am finding out, funding REALLY matters...sad, but true. I can't go to one of the top schools in my field because they are not offering enough funding. I'm still hoping they might offer me more, but I'm happy with the two more viable options--and I honestly think I will expand my interests more at the two schools that have offered me great packages. Anyway, it is almost time to decide!!!! :shock:
  21. I was accepted to the UC-Davis Ph.D. program in English. I will also be visiting next week. You should look at the virtual tour on their website--it looks like a beautiful campus. The building are all pretty modern, but it is that stylish type of modern architecture. Not those horrible buildings built in the 50s.
  22. I'm sure that is not true. That is a seriously good score, which I would be proud of, and I am envious of your test-taking abilities. For real. My point is that judging someone heavily on their GRE scores is ridiculous, because you have done so much work before taking them that should count for a lot more. 4 YEARS of college should count for more than a 3 1/2 HOUR exam--especially when only a part of the exam counts.
  23. Some people might advise you to stay within the top 30, but I think anywhere in the top 40 is a good place to be. Who really knows what these ranking are based on anyway? I would say that it probably depends somewhat on the packages. Unfortunately, it is hard to get through without enough funding. Are you leaning towards one over the other? I think when people have good choices (like you and I do--yeah! ), perhaps it all comes down to the campus visits.
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