[Decisions, decisions, decisions]

So, now that we're all a little bit further in the application process and April 15th is a little over a month out, what kinds of decisions are people having to make? This thread could also serve as a way of putting out information to people on waiting lists that spots may (or may not) be opening up.

 

[Fall 2016 Application]

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?

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.

[Fall 2016 Application]

5 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.

Hahaha, wow, I like that explanation of why I haven't heard! Thanks

[Fall 2016 Application]

1 minute 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.

 

Wow, that's amazing, congrats!

[Fall 2016 Application]

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?

 

[Fall 2016 Application]

3 hours ago, Sora said:

Someone from Maryland told me the decisions have been made...I don't know if it's just my specialization tho..

Hmm, when did you hear about that? And what's your specialization? haha

[Fall 2016 Application]

18 hours ago, vonham said:

Interesting! I am actually taking a course on loan word phonology this semester.  We talk mostly about English loanwords into Hebrew (cuz I live in israel ). But my term paper in that class is the opposite: english hebrew bilingual use of loanwords from hebrew to english.  From a previous project (my writing sample) I have a pretty hefty corpus of bilingual interaction and basically am trying to tease apart loanwords from 1 word switches.  

I actually don't know the details of the funding package, except that for linguistics funding is guaranteed for 4 years, and for the ANLI program, 5 years.   But I don't know amounts or anything.  Nor do I know anything about Tucson, except that I perused the city guide thread here and it said that a 1 bedroom apartment costs around $400-600, which is pretty cheap coming from where I am.  Anyway if you were told numbers kindly PM me that information.  Otherwise I figure I'll just ask when I'm at the recruitment weekend. 

Wow, what kind of work are you doing in Israel? Maybe it would be better to continue via PM, so that we don't clog this thread, fascinating though this is. I'd also love to hear about your work with loanwords, and verbs in particular.

[Fall 2016 Application]

On 2/6/2016 at 2:16 AM, vonham said:

Yay! Linguistics PhD? I applied for the joint anthropology and linguistics PhD. My research interests the interactional and macrosocial forces that shape language use in multilingual and minority language contact situations. I've worked with Scottish Gaelic before, and hope to continue with the language. Arizona has a celtic research group, and has a grant to study Scottish Gaelic, so yay! 

I'm so ridiculously excited!! What are your research interests? 

Awesome, I guess I'll see you there then! I'm interested in the morphology of loan verbs into Semitic languages from non-Semitic languages, and how the verbal system accommodates all the structural clashing that goes on in those contexts. I started work on this issue in my BA thesis, and they must have liked it! I'm really there for Professor Ussishkin, the specialist in Semitic psycholinguistics and lexicon work, who I spoke to just recently, he seems fantastic. By the way, do you happen to know whether the funding they offer is enough to live on in Tucson?

[Fall 2016 Application]

8 hours ago, vonham said:

Thanks! Yeah I was just telling my parents today that I wish CUNY would hurry up and make decisions already! Because I'm going to Arizona's recruitment weekend, I'm going to stop in NYC for a few days to visit my parents (who live there), and it would just be so perfect to visit at CUNY as well. 

(totally off topic but I'm so excited to go to the US for a visit! Haven't seen my parents in like a year! And I've never been to Arizona but I hear it's beautiful.) 

Hey Vonham, I'm going to UArizona's visiting weekend too! What kind of research are you hoping to do there?

[Fall 2016 Application]

15 minutes ago, synsem said:

Does anybody know if UChicago has sent out all the admission offers already? I only see two UChicago posts so far, so I'm still holding on to this little bit of hope...

I'm in the same boat...

[Fall 2016 Application]

Anyone heard any word about UCSC?