giselle baron

Admission offered from UT Austin today! After two years of rejection I have been admitted to all 3 programs I applied to. Keep on keeping on!

I'm sorry to hear that!! I'm (most probably) also rejected this cycle. We are going to start a new topic to prepare for next year, if you want to join?

From some friends who received interviews in the last couple of years, I know that CUNY invites possible admits to their colloquia but this happens in a more organized way, with official interview requests from the adcom etc. I haven't heard of any other schools using this method so far. And for CUNY, I haven't heard of this happening before you receive an official interview request. I do not know if they change their method but this is confusing. I think a good way might be calling the department and asking about the status of your application. This may clarify the situation if there are any misunderstandings. I hope that it works out well for you.

I can't speak to the process/criteria on the linguistics side, but so far the most encouraging feedback I have received from sociocultural faculty (1a/3i/0r/3?) concerns my statement and proposed project. To that end, I proposed a single project, with more detail than I initially believed I needed to provide, that spoke to something that I both have intimate familiarity with and that I was able to argue would benefit from ethnographic study and is currently politically and socially salient. I workshopped that statement for months and sent it to as many people as would read it for feedback, including faculty members at a few different programs - I wasn't shy about cold-emailing folks to chat and then requesting they take a look at what I had written, bc the worst that could happen is they would say no and you can imagine the best case scenario.
Otherwise, I provided a solid writing sample, had what I would describe as only "pretty decent" GRE scores (not great or even super good), and am a co-author on a single peer-reviewed article published in a professional public health journal. Also, I know my rec letters (3) were very helpful. I worked closely with each recommender to ensure that they cited specific examples of my work and experiences to support the flowery superlatives that is common across promising application packets and to make certain that it was clear that they knew me and understood my potential well.
Hope that is helpful, although I acknowledge that the exact same application packet may well have resulted in 6 rejections for me in a different year. For better/worse, luck seems to play more than a small role with these things. So, best of luck!
 

Any word from Harvard? Historically they announce interviews until now but there are no notifications on the results page.

I can claim one of the two interviews posted on the results page,  and it was a personal email asking to schedule a 20 min. skype conversation with two faculty members. 

aaacchhhh what should I do in order to get a tiny little info from UPenn??!! I want to accept another offer but cannot do that until I hear from Penn. No answer to emails and phone calls!!!
Can I be sure that I am rejected since I've heard nothing so far?

aaacchhhh what should I do in order to get a tiny little info from UPenn??!! I want to accept another offer but cannot do that until I hear from Penn. No answer to emails and phone calls!!!
Can I be sure that I am rejected since I've heard nothing so far?

Ok, this seems to be a helpful thread for anyone who wants to hear about the MAPSS program at Chicago.