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I keep getting academia.edu hits from everywhere but where I've applied. I'm starting to wonder if professors are using proxy servers, or if people in Brazil, Italy, and Croatia are really that interested in American Civil War strategy. To be honest though, I'm just glad that my professors and I aren't the only ones reading those things.

My last stateside application is finally complete. Onward to the mysteries of the British application process!

Slow clap for mvlchicago. Bravo sir. Good to know that there may be life after typos.

Just a shot in the dark, but you might try searching for current scholars who are citing the authors that you most identify and then finding where they work. I also would not be afraid to contact those professors for guidance. Be aware that they may be very busy, so keep your email to a single paragraph and put the most basic aspect of your question in the first sentence as you did in your first post on this thread: Dear Prof. LAST NAME, My name is YOUR NAME, and I am writing for guidance on identifying potential advisors and programs for doctoral study in the field of NAME OF FIELD. I'm writing to you because I read WHATEVER THEY'VE PUBLISHED THAT YOU LIKE, and I am interested in pursuing a similar approach/topic/whatever. My interests are KEEP IT TO JUST A FEW SENTENCES . I know you must be very busy, so thank you for your time. Just keep it very short. In my experience the reply emails that I have received have all been helpful in some form or fashion regardless of their length. Have you spoken to your senior thesis advisor about whom you might contact or what programs hold out the most promise?

Does anyone else hold out the vain hope that professors are stalking academia.edu after reading your application or have any input on the value of an academia.edu account in general?

Not sure if this has been said before in this discussion, but it's worth repeating as the stress and anxiety start to ratchet up. This is a great place to find support through theprocess of applying, but we applicants are not the only ones who read the posts. Professors do occasionally lurk, so don't post anything that you would not want an admissions committee to see. Also, be careful about What you post here from correspondence with faculty or admissions staff, since a lot of that information can be private. Good luck everyone!

Finally, knocked out my first SoP and application of the cycle. Time to wait for four months and let the hilarity ensue. Good luck everyone, it's a long road to March.

Finally got my marks from my masters programme, and it looks like I'm definitely taking another shot at applying to PhD programs. Does anyone know about the different ways to secure funding for study in the UK?

Can't believe I am doing another round of this madness. Good luck to all of the other lunatics out there!

0 for 6. Thanks for all of the support everyone, and congratulations to everyone who got better news. The sense of community here was by far the best part of the process.

Ellebe, it would certainly be tempting, but I'm trying not to get my hopes up again for something I've already written off. UXO work has always been the backup plan.

Still waiting on my official rejection from Penn State, but it looks like this is the end of the academic road for me. Good luck to everyone giving it another shot next year, I'm off to work the UXO grid.

Fighting the temptation to email UNC requesting a status update.

I'm not realistically expecting to hear back from UNC or Penn State until April (not that there's anything good to hear), but am I going to continue checking this site every day? Sadly the answer is probably yes.

Yup.

While I certainly wrote about my research interests, I had no idea that I was supposed to be writing a research proposal. While that is something that I can clearly improve upon, I am still having a bit of difficulty trying to figure out how to combine an explanation of a rocky start in academia 10 years ago with my current research. My masters dissertation is also fairly unrelated to my previous research (it's still in the same field at least), but my current focus makes it difficult to create a cohesive narrative showing my academic trajectory. Looks like it's time to go back to the drawing board.

Congrats on hitting the waitlist at UVA! It isn't an acceptance, but it's a sight better than a rejection! I'm guessing that hearing from UNC next week is a long shot (particularly given the amount of snow they've gotten). I don't expect to hear anything from them until the 23rd at the earliest. My guess is that all of the outright acceptances have gone out, but there may be a few wait list spots that they send out with the pile o' rejections. Does anyone have any idea about when Penn State might wrap things up? I'm also guessing that UPenn should be sending out rejections either today or Monday.

@ashiepoo72 it occurs to me that you are going to make a lot of waitlisted people happy when you finally make a decision. Good job this cycle.

really looking forward to getting the final word from my last applications, but I know that neither Penn State nor Chapel Hill send out rejections until very late in the game. Does anyone know if there's a method to the madness? By 'final word' I really mean the last three nails in the coffin.

Ohio State has rejections available by website.