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  1. I got an email about every update. And thanks, I actually ended up declining my place - was at Cambridge for undergrad so decided to leave and came to the US for grad school. I'm sure Gates would've been a really good experience though.
  2. No, I applied as an international student so no idea about the American timeline I'm afraid. Good luck!
  3. Sure, just checked my emails, and this was the timeline: 3 February: department offer 26 February: invited to Gates interview 22-23 March: Gates interview 24 March: Gates offer
  4. Hi, I was offered a Gates Scholarship last year for MPhil Linguistics. The timeline for me was 1) being offered admission by the department 2) (quite a bit later) being invited to interview by Gates 3) being offered Gates. So the way I understand it Gates won't even touch your application until it's put forward by the department. Bearing in mind I applied as an "international" (not as an American) so the timeline might be slightly different? If you have any questions you think I could help with, do ask! (I didn't accept this offer in the end but did my undergrad at Cambridge.)
  5. Thanks, that's reassuring! My only problem is that I won't be able to fly over to check places out, so grad accommodation might indeed be my safest option given that it's guaranteed to live up to at least some standards.
  6. Also officially accepted Chicago just over a week ago! Has anyone heard anything good or bad about grad housing in general or certain buildings in particular? Also, do we know how competitive it is?
  7. Declined three offers yesterday, afaik all three have waitlists so hopefully this will have freed up a spot for someone who wants it. Good luck to those still waiting, not much longer to go
  8. So what are we thinking about Harvard's timeline? There was one waitlist on the results page but no acceptances or rejections.
  9. Ooooh, I see. Fingers crossed you get in, there must be precedence for that, otherwise why would they even have a wait-list? In any case, congrats
  10. I'd say just ask them? For me, every school has been very open about how much they can guarantee and how much they might have left on top of that if the initial amount doesn't cover all my flights.
  11. Same, I'm coming from overseas too... and feel bad about not being able to give a definite answer to a place about when I'm coming just because I'm waiting on others as well. But oh well, the must know how this works. Whose Open House are you going to?
  12. To be honest I would just like to know at this point, one way or the other, because I would really like to finalise travel arrangements. Though obviously I understand that the main factor driving the admissions process is not my obsession with flight prices
  13. So are we now assuming that if you haven't been interviewed by NYU you'll likely be rejected? Have any syntax/semantics-type people been interviewed? 3 weeks ago I seem to remember it was the phonology people and then they said other specialisations might interview later, but I'm starting to feel like all interviews must have taken place.
  14. I feel like this is something I really should figure out myself, but is the general advice to visit all places that invite you to an Open House? I'm already panicking about not knowing where I want to go/what places to even visit and I haven't even heard back from most schools I applied to.
  15. Potentially silly question, but does anyone know why Yale isn't ranked that high on those field-specific league tables that we probably shouldn't attribute too much importance to anyway?
  16. Hello everyone, This is probably quite silly, but when they say skype interview do they mean video interview or skype with the video off? I would've thought video made sense if it's with multiple people you've never met/talked to, but my friend who once made the 'mistake' of assuming skype meant video has now confused me haha. Thanks
  17. Oh I see, yeah, that makes a lot of sense to me, coming from Europe. I'm still not quite used to the idea of being able to jump straight from a BA to a PhD, and may also end up doing a masters in the end
  18. I'm glad to find someone in the same boat! I still don't understand how they compare applicants with vastly different backgrounds who've all had different lengths of time/opportunities to do research, etc. But I'm assuming if they say having a BA is enough then they know how to do this. Thanks, this is an encouraging way to think about this! Are now you applying from an MA then? Can I ask, was there a specific reason why you didn't go straight into a PhD? (Mainly asking cos I've been debating this myself haha.)
  19. Hello everyone, I'm a current third year undergrad in Linguistics in the UK, applying to UCLA, MIT, Harvard, NYU, Yale, UPenn and UChicago (not in order of preference. not even sure I have an order of preference). Came across the gradcafé around a week ago, which made me realise things will be far more difficult than what my recommenders made it sound like ("Just apply, it's going to be great!") haha. Oh and I'm interested in syntax, semantics and pragmatics (and the relevant interfaces), including the experimental side of things.
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