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Hey Waldrop, Yeah, I'm in at Yale for the MA! Totally stoked, and almost certainly going there. What are your languages/interests? I do Chinese (duh), and am looking toward a career in government. I know I should concentrate on polisci classes, but there are so many interesting (but less relevant to my career plans) classes to take, it's going to be hard to pick them ...

I saw somebody in the results page got into Yale's East Asian Studies. Did they say when decisions will come out, or numbers of applicants? Any details would be appreciated. Im dying here ...

brouhaha, how did you hear? and did they say anything about acceptance numbers?

Hi subrosa, Were most of the students there preparing for PhD programs, or were they preparing for other careers? Do you know what kind of jobs your classmates got after they graduated? Also, do you mind saying a little bit about the kind of background you had when you got in? Thanks!

Hey guys, The Yale MA is also definitely at the top of my list! Although it's too bad we're a year or two too late for Jonathan Spence Anyway, like the rest of you, I've been dying to get some info on the admissions stats for the MA program. Only the PhD admission stats are published, and you cant really draw any conclusions about the MA application stats from it. I know this is a very inexact comparison, but I found that Columbia Political Science program also has a stand-alone one-year MA and a PhD program. It says that the PhD program gets about 600 applications per year, while the stand-alone MA program gets just 50-75. Also, it looks like they refer more than 100 PhD applicants to the MA program! Talk about making the odds worse for the MA applicants ... http://www.columbia.edu/cu/polisci/grad/main/masters/admission.html I know that trying to extrapolate admissions statistics at Yale East Asian studies from Columbia Poly Sci is a bit like comparing apples and oranges, but there are definitely some similarities. Given that the Yale PhD program got 64 applicants in 2009, I wonder what that means for the MA program? Anyway ... just something to take your mind off watching for the mailman

Hey guys, first time posting! Just wondering if anybody knows whether interviews are normally part of the application for MAs. I've applied to the 1yr programs at Columbia, Stanford and Yale, and I would assume that since they're not going to be spending 5 years with you like in a phd they probably don't bother. Anybody have any insight? Anybody who applied straight to the MA programs calls? Should I be preparing?