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E-mail from Kimberly Morgan. Field: Judicial, Methods

Did Michigan send you official acceptance notification today?

To the Michigan PhD Admit: Did you receive the offer letter today?

My solution: The admissions committee invites the "top 60" candidates to a multi-day tournament where applicants sit on panels of 5 and have to answer questions from the faculty committee based on pre-assigned reading while also being evaluated on how well they critique the others' responses as well as the questions they form.

Right, but under your algorithm someone who wants to do public law has a better shot with a rec from a plsc professor than a law professor. Or someone who wants to do political philosophy is better off with a plsc professor than a philosophy prof. That doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Rawls was not a phd in political science ... But I bet he'd say a lot more about one's ability to do political theory than most psci phds. In the same vein, akhil reed amar is going to be a lot better at determining who would make a great constitutional law scholar than a plsc phd. Maybe this explains why several plsc departments have phd's in philosophy and jd's on their faculties whereas no philosophy depts have plsc phds and very few law schools have them. Legal scholarship and philosophy scholarship might not be archetypal of social science research but isn't the point of grad school to train talent and isn't evidence of diligence in research ultimately more important than whether someone wrote her honors thesis on skocpol and russian politics or on house cloture rules and economic efficiency? Otherwise, how does political science progress?

Has anyone here been rejected from nyu or princeton? I'm in the theory boat ... 790v 750q 3.85 from a top30 lac and I've been accepted nowhere (I also went to a top 20 law school and want to do public law as well). I'm wondering if adcomms are just not taking in theory folks - maybe because were the biggest risk in terms of placement?

Bsquar: are you a lawyer? If so, stats?

Theory applicants to NYU: Did you get a response? I'm wondering if they're not taking in any theorists.

I think I'm learning that dropping Professor names and showing interest-via-article abstracting is the way to get a bounce out of the SOP. I don't think you should be at all surprised that NYU admitted you -- you're stellar.

My rejections are in parentheses merely because they're not official ... But if posts of acceptances on this site are accurate,and calls to and responses from both schools indicative, offers have gone out at both schools.

I'm a theorist and applied to nyu. I called and was fairly forthcoming "the graduate website indicates offers are made by mid-february, so am I right to assume I didn't get an offer?". This call was to the dept specific coordinator and she told me she does not know/cannot comment on acceptances. I took this to mean the acceptances went out. I didn't hear any theory admits making any noises here but who knows. Nyu pretty much accepts in one day then rejects a month later.

NYU admits: anyone get in for theory?

Is this not the perfect example of why, as Mearsheimer's Minion indicates, one should start withdrawing acceptances? Not only is it ethical, it's rational: it gives the admissions committees better forecasting and therefore applicants get more efficient results.

I just called a school that gave people on this forum acceptances yesterday with "Hi, I'm a PhD applicant. Did all the acceptance letters go out already?" Response, "No, we have a rolling admissions process and final decisions have not been made." Me: "Do you know when final decisions will be made?" Her: "Within the next couple of weeks" So, according to your logic, she just told me I would see a reject letter in a couple of weeks because the offers have been completed?

How did they notify you? Phone, email?