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12 minutes ago, sociologicals said:
I GOT IN! I can claim a UNC-Chapel Hill admission!
I had so much self doubt up until now. Just earlier today, I was trying to prepare myself for a denial.
If you're still waiting to hear, I wouldn't give up hope yet. It seems that profs are sending personal emails, and it just depends on when they get around to contacting you.
Yay! Congrats!!
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3 minutes ago, draco.malfoy said:
Do you work with Gordie Fellman at all?
Unfortunately, I haven't. I am in the joint MA program with WGS and took research methods and theory at MIT. He may be my second reader for my thesis though. I have friends who have taken his courses or are currently TAing for him. If I had another life, I would work with him from the very beginning.
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I have some inside info (current MA student at Brandeis). If you are waiting to hear back from Brandeis, be patient; it will be a while. Also, don't call. While calling will not affect their decision, it won't really help you out.
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19 minutes ago, sociological said:
Do you know if that wraps it up for their interview invites?
I have no idea. I would imagine it does. The visit is in less then a month and they just sent out details about travel stipends today.
The email I received said that "the vast majority" of students who are invited make it into the program either during their first round picks or from the waitlist, which makes me think a.) not everyone invited will get in and b.) they probably have invited everyone they intend to. That being said, I have no idea how they send out their invitations, so maybe they aren't finished yet. -
I still have heard nothing from North Carolina State, U of Washington, CU Boulder, UC San Diego, Yale, or Harvard.
Has anyone else heard anything? I am slightly worried that they will all be rejections as I haven't been contacted for an interview from any of them. Maybe this is a stupid question, but don't most PhD programs interview students they are serious about? -
Claiming another rejection from Berkeley.
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10 minutes ago, draco.malfoy said:
Does anyone know anything about UCLA, Berkeley, Northwestern, Michigan, Yale or UVA?
I also applied to Berkeley and Yale and haven't heard anything yet. I just checked their sites a few hours ago.
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I just received an invitation to attend the Perspective Students' Visit Days at Notre Dame.
I was admitted to my MA program without an interview so I would welcome any advice anyone has, especially because this is a three day visit.
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I just received an invitation to attend the Perspective Students' Visit Days at Notre Dame.
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I just received an email from Notre Dame inviting me to their Perspective Students Visit Days. It's not an acceptance, but it sounds promising. In the email it said not to think of it as an interview, but as a recruitment.
I was accepted to my MA programs without interviewing. Does anyone have advice (even though this isn't an interview)? I feel like it is even more intense than an interview would be; it is three days long.
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My interests are varied (I come from an interdisciplinary background). I am most interested in comparative cultural sociology using the sociology of food as my starting point for interrogation. My past research has focused on the US and France and I hope to continue this for my dissertation though I would be willing to branch out to other European countries.
I've applied to nine schools, but haven't heard back from any of them yet.
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Thanks again for all of the great suggestions. I have a rather large list of possible programs and professors compiled. Now all I have to do is get through the existential crises that are bound to come about as I whittle down the possibilities and begin the process of preparing to apply.
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Thanks for all of the support and suggestions. It is greatly appreciated.
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Okay, so my title is a little overdramatic and probably not true.
I am looking to apply to PhD programs next fall and I am having a hard time finding one that fits. That's not entirely true either. I have two schools that I really would like to attend (Harvard and U of Toronto) and at each school there is a primary professor with whom I would like to work. The problem I am having is that I need to find other programs that can be considered safety schools but I am not having much luck.
In a nutshell I would like to study the way that culture influences food movements (namely agroecological movements) in the US and France. I need to find programs with professors interested in the sociology of food, social movements, cultural sociology, and historical sociology. If it was a sociology program with an emphasis on gender studies that would be an added bonus for me.If you read this, thanks for letting me rant for a second. Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
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My orientation begins tomorrow and I am sure others might too. I just wanted to wish everyone a great academic year!
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Brighton to Brandeis will be a pain in the neck via public transit (probably over an hour each way to go about 5 miles). Driving wouldn't be too bad, probably about 15-20 minutes, but if you want to get rid of your car, Brandeis isn't the most accessible campus in the greater Boston area, it is really in Waltham, which is a town west of Boston proper. Waltham isn't the most desirable of places to live, which can work out in your favor in that less expensive rents can be had there, but then again, some parts aren't that great. You might look into the area around Moody St. in Waltham, as it has a lot of the amenities you mention.
I think there might be a sub-forum on here for Waltham, so you might look there as well to see what folks are doing.
Thanks for the info. I checked out the Waltham forum but it has not been active since 2012. I was also told most grad students live closer to Boston or in Cambridge.
I guess I am just apprehensive to live in Waltham because of the things that I have heard about it. I was hoping to find something inbetween Boston and Waltham. If I do decide to live in Waltham how difficult is it to get into Boston via transit. I visited in early March and they still hadn't got the commuter rail back on its regular schedule so I wasn't able to get a good feel for how often it runs and how quickly it gets you into Porter Square. If I am correct, it took about 20 min from PS to get to South Station, right?
I can keep my car if necessary I just worry about parking and I don't really like to drive so I was hoping I would be able to, at the very least, replace some of my usual driving with public transit and walking. (Where I am from you have to leave 2 hrs before you need to get somewhere and even then you are lucky to arrive on time.)
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What are your general thoughts and opinions on Brighton?
I am a single mom and an incoming MA at Brandeis. I am originally from Indiana and am really looking forward to being in a more metropolitan area, especially because of all of the different cultural activities Boston offers that I currently have to drive at least 2 hours to take advantage of. I hear schools aren't the best, but I am pretty sure they are still better than what I have here.
I am looking or a neighborhood that is conducive to a fairly quick commute to campus and the amenities and attractions of the city (15-20 min). I would prefer to use public transit as much as possible though I will be bringing my vehicle at least until I get settled and figure out a way to not need it anymore. Ideally this neighborhood would be very walkable too. It would be great if there were parks, cafés, local grocery stores, and open and friendly people. I know I am going to grad school to expand my knowledge but building a community outside of my program is important to me too.
Any thoughts or ideas you could share with me are much appreciated. It is hard figuring out these types of things from 840+ miles away!
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Update: I was contacted by the chair of my department today...they offered me a Graduate Teaching Assistantship (GTA) which comes with full tuition remission (including remission of the out-of-state portion of tuition), fees, health insurance, and a stipend. I am INCREDIBLY excited and will accept their offer momentarily.
I am incredibly excited with how my season turned out and I hope everyone else fares as well as we come down the stretch.
Best!
Congratulations! That is wonderful news!
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I will be presenting at a conference next fall and have been looking into funding options for travel. I know there is a bit of money available at Brandeis but am curious if you all have found any surprising or underutilized sources on your campuses. I have been lucky at my current university in that it wasn't hard to find and get resources.
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Congratulations to everyone!
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Thanks to both of you for your advice. 1314Spofford, I would be interested in talking to you about the programs. Would you mind if I PM you?
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Hello all.
I begin my MA program this fall and want to get a jump start on figuring out which PhD program(s) are the best fit for me. Currently I am slated to earn an MA in Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies but am planning on (hopefully) adding Soc to my MA. I am very interested in doing the same for my PhD. A friend of mine suggested that I contact the programs I am interested in and ask if they are able and willing to enroll me as either a dual focus or a dual degree seeker.
Does anyone know of any dual PhD programs? Which ones focus on qualitative or mixed methods research?
Thanks in advance for any advice you are willing to share with me.
Best,
Amity
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Hi guys,
Need your help.
I'd like to hear your thoughts on academic job prospects for Women's Studies phds Vs Sociology phds. I have an offer from Maryland for the PhD WS program. I am pretty happy about the uni's reputation, the funding offered, my potential advisor and the department as a whole. But I am worried about job prospects for WS phds.
I am on waitlist for admission at UConn for the Sociology PhD program. All other things (funding, research 'fit', etc) are more or less the same in the two unis. If I do get accepted at UConn, it could be as late as april 15th. And I may not have enough time to think. So I would like to do the brainstorming now assuming that I have been accepted at UConn.
Maryland seems to be higher ranked than UConn in most of the rankings (But which is really more reputed? Or are they more or less equally reputed? and does the difference really matter?)
Does it make sense to opt for Sociology ONLY because it may be easier to find a job with a Soc phd rather than WS phd? (But again, I think even if there are more Soc programs in North America (than WS) and therefore more job prospects, there are also more Sociology phds graduating (than WS). I hear Soc in the US is very quantitative, and I am not so keen on studying statistics, but I dont mind doing it if a Soc phd has much better job prospects than WS.
I plan to research gendered power relations in Indian marriages, and I can do that in either WS or Soc.
Waiting to hear from you.
I am looking into this kind of question as we speak and am also very interested in hearing peoples' opinions.
Thus far what I have found is along the same lines as what Guillaume has said. That being said, there are a few Soc PhD programs in the US that still focus on qualitative methods, Brandeis being one of them.
I will be earning an MA in WGS (and Soc-most likely) from Brandeis. While on my visit I asked if they had ever had anyone do a joint PhD program. They haven't but seemed eager and willing to give it a try if there are students who want to do so. I also spoke to a friend of mine who is defending her dissertation at IUB at the end of this month and she suggested that if I am serious about doing a joint PhD (in my mind it offers the flexibility I want while still allowing me to have a PhD that speaks equally to my areas of study, thus improving my job prospects) I should email the programs and see if they would be willing. She also mentioned that usually programs/departments really like this kind of arrangement because they spend half the funding but still get a graduate student to show off.
I know this doesn't help much with your current situation but you could always think about approaching the opposite program at either school (if they have the opposite) and see what options you may be able to negotiate, even if it is only a graduate minor or certificate.
Best,
Amity
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Has anyone heard from U of Wisconsin? I really want to make the best decision but I want to have time to really think it through. I called two weeks ago and they said they hoped they would have it done by the end of last week. Would it be rude to call again?
Fall 2017 Acceptances/Interviews/Rejections Thread
in Sociology Forum
Posted · Edited by AmityDuPeuple
I wouldn't assume anything just yet. All programs are different with regard to how they deliver acceptances/rejections and how long it takes to get through delivering them to their pool of prospective students. Nothing is final until you receive, in writing, a formal acceptance or rejection.