phiapplicant16

Thank you for the offer! Unfortunately, I have just declined UConn. After some fact-finding, I think that my other offer will be a better fit for me.

I just declined UCSB, and will likely decline UConn Storrs in a day or so. AoI: Mind/cogsci.

I am guessing 30ish based on emails with the DGS, but they wait list by area (ethics, cogsci, etc.). If some ethics guy they accepted drops out, then someone on the ethics waiting list gets in. Someone doing cogsci who they accepted declines the offer, someone on the cogsci list gets in. So you might be on a shorter area of interest waiting list, 5-7 people or something. But then, there might only be 1 ethics "slot". They have 4-6 slots to fill overall and they thought that almost 40/170 applicants were qualified. They accepted more than 4-6 people, assuming someone would drop out, I guess. I think that means that even if people turn down their offer, there is no guarantee that you'll be bumped up on the wait list. But who knows? Maybe we'll get lucky. I am wait-listed at WUSTL too, and at Indiana.

When I retook the GRE last month I had scores sent to four departments using the 2804 code. I emailed the four schools about this after finding out that 2801 is the standard departmental code. Of the three schools that replied, one thought I should be fine, while another recommended that I resubmit the scores to 2801. A third advised me to wait until after the holidays to see whether the scores had arrived. Another student in my department sent scores to a sociology department a few years back and is now applying to the same school for philosophy. The philosophy department at that school told her that they'd be able to get her scores from the graduate school, and that she wouldn't have to resubmit them to the philosophy department. In short, you might not need to resubmit your scores, but you should check with individual departments. How GRE scores get linked up with applications probably differs from school to school.