historicallinguist

I think JHU has quite a specific preference for UG degree. I looked at their site quite carefully before because I know Smolensky and Legendre are in JHU and doing OT stuffs. But after I saw the UG degree requirement, I know I am out of the game. So, I ended up not applying to JHU.

no problem. I saw that you are holding an offer from Rutgers. Are you likely going to accept the offer from Rutgers ? I have not yet heard back anything from Rutgers, and I think I am still in their pool. I was waitlisted by Rutgers last year, and this is my second time applying.

I am on the same boat. I just got waitlisted by Kansas today.

I got it too. Too bad.

I just logged onto Spire and saw my Rej.

But to be very honest, I am afraid that this is not a very good sign. The chance is that you can never exclude the possibility that many of the accepted people may decline their offers for various reason. Let's wait and see what will happen.

Sometimes, they put people on hold besides the the people on the waitlist, because they are not sure whether the accepted people are going to accept their offers or not. That happened last year in Rutgers, and I was put on hold (not waitlisted) and then waitlisted until quite late (around May) when eventually I got my rej.

This Critique is one of my favorites. I am not a philosophy major, nor do I take any grad course in philosophy. But I do enjoy reading it.

Probably Kant, Marx and Feuerbach. I am not a philosophy major, but I love to read philosophy works. The three Critiques by Kant would be highly recommended. Besides the three Critiques, I would also recommend the Metaphysics of Morals by Kant. It is a very interesting work, I think. For Marx, I would recommend a lot. Those that immediately come to my mind would include German Ideology, Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right, Theses on Feuerbach. For Feuerbach, I would recommend The Essence of Christianity. Great work on materialism that debunks the spuriousness of religion in general.

I am going to PM you now.

What I usually do is to send two separate emails, one to POIs, and one to DGS, to ask for result. In my past experience, it looks like POIs are more forthcoming to give out results earlier than the formal result comes out. Some DGS are not that forthcoming, and will ask you to wait until the department send out formal notification. Either way, send to both two separate emails, and there is nothing to lose.

Looks like I am out of luck. I saw a result showing UMASS sent out unofficial acceptance two days ago.

haha, oh well! I like this explanation too!

Any interviewed with Delaware in the past? It sounds very strange that it looks like that the DGS of Delaware (he is not my POI) is going to conduct an one-on-one interview with me. I had never experienced this kind of one-on-one interview with DGS. Anyone has any idea about this kind of one-on-one Skype thing?

Congrats! I do not receive anything from her. Not sure whether this is a good sign or bad sign.

Any one wants to claim the UMASS waitlist? It looks pretty unusual that UMASS waitlist comes before UMASS acceptance based on the result in the past.

I did not apply to CUNY. But out of curiosity, did you apply to CUNY'S master or Ph.D. program?

UMASS AMHERST should come in the next two weeks or so. From the result page, it looks like UMASS gave out offers at around Feb 24.

It looks like UM is getting more selective than before. I remember (maybe I am wrong) that in past years UM took more than 5 students per year.

What subject are you in? Things like this generally depend on the kind of subject you are studying. If you are in humanities such as history or literature, you really need to get your prof to tell you what exactly he/she wants (profs in humanities sometimes have very different perspectives that may contradict to those of other profs, and conflicts of opinions in humanities are hard to reconcile. So, it is better to follow whatever the prof wants).

But I cannot read German, that is the problem........

Harvard sent out rej pretty late. The better way to find out the result is to email the DGS. That was how I knew I was rejected last year.

This happened to me last year, and just happened to me again two weeks ago.

UMASS is under my radar. It is the second place I found people doing OT syntax (Ellen Woolford) besides Rutgers. Really hope that I can get into this one.

This gives me hope. It looks like they are sending out acceptance one by one. This was not what was happening last year. Maybe because this year they have a new admission officer (last year was Grimshaw, but this year is Deprez.), they are doing things differently.