Eobard Thawne

I was just in the copy room yesterday where the UCLA official acceptance letters/funding offers were being scanned into electronic form. Expect your offers very soon.

You can get a nice room in a house for $350 or lower, you can find a decent apartment for $350-$500, and food is pretty inexpensive too. Cost of living there is extremely low. As long as you don't try to live in the LA area and commute in, you'll be fine.

Congrats! Same here

Look at cost of living, quality of life, relations between faculty-faculty, faculty-students, and students-students. If all things are the same, look at the location you can see yourself living at for the next half of a decade.

It might start out low and increase rapidly because of a high attrition rate, meaning funding is tight and they don't want to "waste" it.

I know, right? I wonder if it's because we have to schedule meetings with them for open house

What was the school and package? Maybe someone else received the same thing due to it being a baseline or someone received more, meaning you can negotiate successfully.

It depends on who it is. Some have RA money already and some don't. Those with money have more weight at a public school where funding is more precious.

Last year's cohort was 5 and its 4 now. They shoot for 8-9, so TA and RA positions should be easier to secure, plus Merolla and Newman might have brought grant money with them. If you're considering a program near that ranking, UCR will probably offer more opportunities to work with faculty. Who is your POI?

UCR just hired Dan Biggers, Jen Merolla, and Ben Newman, all well published faculty on the rise. Watch out for that program in the future, it's on the rise.

I'll be declining offers from Illinois (UIUC), UC Davis, USC soon for American Politics waitlisters there. Did anyone get into Michigan as an Americanist and plans to go somewhere else/is leaning somewhere else?

Is there any precedent for getting admitted from the waitlist at Michigan?

From who?

They're probably typing them and proof reading since the letters are personalized.

Literally just got mine 2 minutes ago.

Not yet. Did you?

Who's your poi?

What did your discussion consist of? I'm in the same boat but have yet to talk with the department about my other options.

Most public schools require teaching/RA in the first year. Some give you the first quarter to adjust before throwing you into these duties. You also should see about applying for other fellowships and if they offer dissertation year fellowships in case you think that teaching will wear you out.

I wonder if I didn't get it yet because I live an hour and a half from UCSD.

It's probably too soon since they said they would release more info about the event soon. I know I won't know until I see the schedule for the event.

Even better, look at the GRE scores

Lmao! UCSD is a king maker! Now I can't tell if the other ones are jokes either.

Thank you so much for sharing! Oh but it looks like you have to be currently enrolled as a first or second year in a PhD program already. It even asks for an enrollment verification.

Just got into UCSD!