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I submitted the 9th of Dec but took around 10 days to receive the email confirming the application had been processed on their end.

Still waiting to hear back from LSE too. Also wondering if the week + that the office was closed over Christmas means that shouldn't be counted in the 8 weeks also?

Thanks for sharing the article, I had always assumed that most schools would have some kind of (unofficial) cut off because as the text says there are a lot of us. I really think think that it also comes down to finding a good match between professors' interests and those of candidates. Whether or not that's a possible thing, at least in my own case, I'm not too sure!

Anyone heard back from LSE yet? They state up to 8 weeks on the Application Tracker but I don't know if thats just to keep away annoying emails requesting info or a genuine turnaround time. I applied for PhD in Politics 12th of December but application was processed by them about a week after. I have offers from other UK schools but they're responses came within two/three weeks.

Hi All. Applicant from the Scotland here! Anxiously refreshing my emails all day every day despite knowing we shouldn't be hearing anything for a while. Very impressed by high GRE scores and GPAs people have posted on here! I'm somewhere around the middle I think V162(90%) Q158 (48%) and AW5.0(93%). Hoping my V and AW will compensate for Q score. GPA not sure, as the US systems are pretty different to the UK, have an A average for both undergrad and MA though. Research experience= little to none apart from my own thesis work. I'v applied to NYU, UVA, Penn State, UCSD and Toronto in the US and Canada. If anyone hears anything from these schools do please say! Not too sure what my chances are but would really like to do ANY one of these programmes! In the UK I've applied to Manchester, London School of Economics and Kings College. Have offers from Manchester and Kings College but no funding offers come out until the 25th of March.