historicallinguist
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1 hour ago, laura.st said:
It happened the same to me... wait-listed without receiving an email.
Btw, thanks @historicallinguist for your help.
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.
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2 hours ago, zahraamir said:
I checked the website to see my rejection from UMass and my status was wait listed! I wonder why I didn't recieve any emai about it! but I am really happy!
waitlisted by my dream schools MIT and UMass! I really hope I can get in this year.
I am on the same boat. I just got waitlisted by Kansas today.
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2 minutes ago, canaan.breiss said:
It seems like they've released rejections, or at least many of them (including mine
), but you have to log into the site to check.
I got it too. Too bad.
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6 hours ago, laura.st said:
There is only one acceptance and one wait listed on the results page... do you think we should assume rejection?
I just logged onto Spire and saw my Rej.
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45 minutes ago, wine-ing said:
Oh, sorry to hear it. I'm assuming mine is coming soon, but I have no idea why they don't do them all at once... :/
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.
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44 minutes ago, wine-ing said:
Oh, sorry to hear it. I'm assuming mine is coming soon, but I have no idea why they don't do them all at once... :/
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.
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9 hours ago, blacklake said:
Not a huge Plato fan. I really like Aristotle, especially Nichomachean Ethics, Physics, and Poetics.
I'm reading Kant's Critique of Pure Reason for the second time (sitting in on a grad course).
And Nietzsche, especially Birth of Tragedy.
Edit: grammar.
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.
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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.
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1 hour ago, Garyon said:
Hey, I had an interview with Delaware last year, but it was with my POI. And based on my experience it should be a good sign since by the time I got the interview I was shortlisted for acceptance and I got the official mail just a couple of days after.
It was a very chill call,so be relaxed! he basically just wanted to talk about my general plans for the future and get to know me. We talked a bit about his research and the kind of stuff I was interested in. Also, he wanted to see if I was aware that his main focus was comp phonology, since my SOP was more focused on syntax and comp psycholing.
Even if I didn't end up there in the end, it was very helpful in getting a better understanding of what I was/am interested in and how different department could give very different contributions to that.
I am going to PM you now.
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10 minutes ago, vonham said:
Finally received the rejection from UIUC that I knew was coming.
Now if only CUNY would get back to me! I'm flying to NY next week to visit my parents before flying to Arizona, and only have a few days with my parents whom I haven't seen in a year. I need to know if I need to squeeze in a visit to CUNY's campus or not! I don't have the money nor time to fly back to the US for another visit. I'm seriously considering sending them an email to ask, but I wouldn't know who to send the email to! The program chair? The admissions office at the graduate center? Like I don't want to be pushy or anything, but I need to know
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.
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1 hour ago, canaan.breiss said:
Hahaha, wow, I like that explanation of why I haven't heard! Thanks
Looks like I am out of luck. I saw a result showing UMASS sent out unofficial acceptance two days ago.
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6 minutes ago, tonedeaf said:
Thanks!
Thanks! I think it could be a good sign. Perhaps I was a definite waitlist person for them and they're still going through a small number of applications to decide who will get waitlisted and who will get offers.
haha, oh well! I like this explanation too!
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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?
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4 minutes ago, tonedeaf said:
That's me. I agree that it's strange for waitlist emails to go out before acceptances, but I received an email from Alice Harris last night. No details about number of applicants or how many people are receiving offers of admission, but a nice general message that they were very interested in my application and are confident that I would do well in their program, but they must be cautious about making too many offers of admission at one time due to a commitment to funding all students and not just a select few. With how selective of a program it is, I'm honestly honored to even be on the waitlist even if I never make it off the waitlist.
Congrats! I do not receive anything from her. Not sure whether this is a good sign or bad sign.
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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.
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4 hours ago, vonham said:
ahhhhh who hear from CUNY?! I am soooo waiting to hear from them! Now I'm sitting with my email open convinced that I'll get an email any minute.
....and I just got my official acceptance to the ANLI program at Arizona, via email. That is really exciting, of course, because now it's more official. However, the letter stated that I was being waitlisted for funding
. This is really nerve-wracking, because I've also been waitlisted for funding at Pittsburgh, but for some reason I thought that funding is guaranteed at Arizona, so I wasn't worried. And I don't know how worried I should be.
I guess I'll know more details at the recruitment weekend. It would just suck to not get funding at any program I got in to.
I did not apply to CUNY. But out of curiosity, did you apply to CUNY'S master or Ph.D. program?
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17 hours ago, canaan.breiss said:
Has anyone heard anything about when UMass Amherst or Santa Cruz will be releasing their decisions? From past data UMass is past due, and Santa Cruz should be right about now, does anyone have any information about this? Also, people talk about emailing the DGS (director of graduate studies?): is that considered rude, or is that something that is okay / expected to do?
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.
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8 hours ago, leesies said:
Hey, I know this is a little after the fact and I haven't read the whole thread, but I'm a current UM student. They had about 150 applicants this year and will probably offer about 5 spots. Good luck with everything! Soon all will resolve and settle down!
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.
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2 hours ago, universitystudent said:
I've revised my research proposal for like 7 times so far, but the prof keeps asking me to revise it. I really do not understand what is wrong with my proposal. I have addressed all of the prof's questions/comments, but the prof still hits me with new issues. This is her recent email: I am sending you the proposal with feedback. You have had numerous opportunities to re-submit your study topic. I have provided you with a lot of feedback; however it appears that you are not understanding the issues. I hope the comments in this version will help you in developing an appropriate description". I don't even know what is wrong? And I don't get about the comment "you have had numerous opportunities to re-submit your study topic". Last week, the prof said through email that my topic was fine???
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).
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8 hours ago, humidz said:
If you want to do OT Syntax, you might want to consider Leipzig in Germany; they have a pretty good grad school, and Gereon Müller & Fabian Heck both have lots of love for OT Syntax.
But I cannot read German, that is the problem........
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3 hours ago, embeddedV2 said:
So what are we thinking about Harvard's timeline? There was one waitlist on the results page but no acceptances or rejections.
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.
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On February 12, 2016 at 4:05 AM, fuzzylogician said:
In grad school apps, it is not uncommon to be accepted to better ranked schools and rejected from lower ranked ones, because it's really not about rankings in the first place
This happened to me last year, and just happened to me again two weeks ago.
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37 minutes ago, fuzzylogician said:
Kai von Fintel just posted this link on Facebook: he got into UMass off the waitlist, notified by telegram on April 12. So, there is always hope!
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.
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47 minutes ago, laura.st said:
Hi! That was me. I received an email from Viviane Deprez with the offer and an invitation to visit the University yesterday. I didn't expect an acceptance since the last acceptance post on the results page was more than a week ago... but I got it! So maybe they do not send their acceptances all together.
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.
So, I got all the rejections, what to do next...
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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.