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  1. Wait listed. Hoping to hear something favorable from them before making a final decision. Did you make it?
  2. allegheny

    Pittsburgh, PA

    I go to Pitt as an undergrad and I've worked closely with the Theatre department, if you have any questions. $600 for a one room apartment within a thirty min public transportation route is, I think, doable if you look hard enough, but don't expect it to be too big. Friendship is inexpensive but be careful about certain parts of it. Shady Side can be expensive in parts but there are sections that are actually quite cheap, those near East Liberty. Wilkinsburg and the North Side (where Mexican War Streets are) is dangerous and far beyond 30 minute busride from Oakland. These places certainly aren't as bad crime-wise as many parts of Philly, but you can expect gang-related crimes, including violence, drugs and robberies, from time to time in these sections of town. Check out Highland Park, which is about 35 mins from Pitt by bus. Good things: cheap and residential, very quiet, zoo and very nice park nearby. Bad things: practically nothing useful like a grocery store is within walking distance. One thing that I'd say about realtors, since you mentioned it, is to be particularly careful about them in this part of Pittsburgh, particularly if they know you're a student from out of town. Because Pittsburgh is relatively cheap for a mid sized city and the Oakland / East End sections are chock full of students, many of them have become accustomed to taking advantage of students by overcharging and underservicing. Be scrupulous as always, do your background research on the realtors on the Better Business Bureau website. Otherwise good luck! Pittsburgh's a great, fun, quirky town, especially for football fans. For out-of-towners it takes a lot of effort to find all of the unique niches and quirks that make it so interesting, but once you find them and exploit them to the fullest it can be great living here.
  3. Just got a notice of 5:15 decision on Brown... guessing having not heard from them a denial's coming.
  4. I was wondering the same thing... then I remembered that USC has that 'preferred deadline' November 1st, which may have made rejections (and maybe acceptances) go out at different times. Can anyone confirm their acceptance and which deadline they applied to?
  5. Anyone hear anything American-Studies-wise lately? Nothing on results search...
  6. allegheny

    History 2010

    Anyone hear anything from Indiana yet? According to results search, last few years acceptances went out in the first week of February. Maybe thrown off course by Snowmageddon?
  7. I was admitted to UMN about three weeks ago, with the promise that funding information would be forwarded "very soon." They didn't specify what the funding was, but I assumed this meant a fellowship nomination, and if not the fellowship, a TAship or something from the Department. Like I said, that was three weeks ago, and I'm wondering whether anyone else admitted to UMN has heard about funding or has an idea about when the fellowships at UMN are awarded. Thanks!
  8. It is a little nerve-racking; however, based on the results from past years acceptances seem to go out at the end of February (think this has to do with them securing funding for their students)... but the rejections usually come out around the FIRST WEEK in February. Meaning I'm desperately hoping NOT to get an email from USC next week!!! Hopefully we'll all be in the clear, though, if we don't hear anything next week. It does have an amazing program: great faculty, collaborative environment, very diverse group of faculty and students.
  9. I don't think so. It was a personal email from a faculty member I'd spoken with earlier, not a general one from the grad school or department. If you look on last year's results, one person got something on January 24th, another on January 30th. My guess is they send out admittance emails individually over the course of a week, so it still may come.
  10. This is a very basic and possibly stupid question, but: I got my first admissions offer by personal email, from the DGS of a top choice, but still waiting for other schools which may not come until later February or early March, waiting for the final funding offer, and I want to visit all of these places before making a decision. I feel like I should respond to the email, saying thanks etc., but I'm not 100% sure whether I should even make reference to the "waiting for other schools" thing or give a time table for my acceptance, or how positive I should be-- "I'm very excited about working with you" versus "I'm very excited about exploring the possibility of working with you further" etc. Let me know what you think. Obviously, I want to make a good impression in the case I decide to work with this professor, but of course don't want to pretend that I'm not considering other schools. Or should I not reply at all?
  11. I do really wish I'd contacted some grad students, especially since in a number of instances, they participate in some way in the admissions process- at one of my schools some grad students sit on the adcomm! But the grad students at my home university who I've talked to have given me great advice. They can be a lot more in tune with your experiences as an applicant, especially if there are particulars about the admissions process that you're unsure of, and you feel weird asking profs for fear of looking silly. On the other hand, since profs make the final decision, I'm sure they're the better ones to ask in terms of advice for SOPs.
  12. So I'm an applicant to a number of very small, very selective humanities programs, all of which profess that GREs are of little to no importance in their admissions decision. I know that this is true to some extent of most humanities programs; even if GRE scores are of "little to no importance", certainly factors like the SOP, writing sample and LORs are more important. All of the schools I'm applying to, however, suggest that GRE scores are very important in helping them to secure funding from their respective Graduate Schools. Here's the point: I'm not in the least familiar with the way fellowships are awarded, but don't you think that- what with funding drying up, and assuming that competitive programs want to secure as many fellowships for their students as possible, and if it's in fact true that GREs play an important part in securing fellowships- that adcomms may weight GRE scores more heavily this year in the selection process? Excuse my ignorance on this subject. I guess I'm just curious as to: the typical process for schools awarding funding, whether Graduate Schools may have different sets of criteria for funding than a program's admissions criteria/priorities, and if different, whether the expectation that so-and-so applicant is more likely to fit the funding criteria would influence a committee's decision to admit a student.
  13. Update on Rackham: apparently the Graduate School itself does not control whether the website is reading "transcript" and "letters of recc" received; the program does. So you should call your program, ask them if your application is complete, and if they say it is, you're good to go!
  14. Like some of you guys, I'm applying to American Studies at Minnesota, Michigan, Brown, and USC. I'm interested in masculine violence and performance cultures in the United States. Everyone remember to submit your results as they come in... I think they started admitting at Minnesota last year toward the end of January.
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