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PM me! I'm happy to meet you at the Davis recruitment.

1 out of 7 for me . Anone feel like joining me at Davis? Lol.

If anyone applied to Harvard's sociology and social policy or government and social policy, I just got an email back from them saying all accepted and waitlisted applicants were notified yesterday

Meeeeeee. I bet you, like all the other UC's, they're having their recruitment weekend soon, and will send out more acceptances if they don't get the numbers they need. So no guarantee more acceptances down the line, but it's possible. And hey, at least we didn't get rejected yet, right?

Btw sorry for typos, i'm writing this on my phone...

So I applied to seven schools for a Sociology Ph.D, and received a response from 3 of them - 1 acceptance and two rejections. The schools I haven'the heard from, 2 are a longshot, 1 is probably done making decisions but haven'the notified me, and the last is the school I went to for my undergrad. I'very spoken to a professor I know very well, and she told me that the funding offer I received is very, very good. I don'the want to keep them waiting too long, but I feel guilty doing so (and part of me just wants this entire process done and over with so I can start the next part of my life). Should I just take the offer? Part of me feels like doing so would just be impatient of me; after all, there's no guarantee that the last four schools ARE rejections (or acceptances). Plus, the time and money I spent applying to the last four would automatically just go down the drain. But the offer is so very tempting... it's not my dream school, but it's definitely a fantastic program. I don'the think i'm the only one in this situation, so anyone care to give some advice? Maybe I just need more patience haha.

@consciouskid, to my understanding, the way the social policy admissions works is that they have to go through the social policy program first, then their top choices are then presented to the sociology/government programs to see if they'll take you too. So it's a longer process, because they have to go through two committees for review. Not very comforting, I know. But at least there's a reason for the long delay.

This might not be appropriate here, but did anyone apply/hear from Harvard's Social Policy program? I know it's not Sociology exactly, but I thought this would be the place to ask.

Does anyone know what the take home pay would be on that Davis Stipend? I know the summer fellowship isn't taxed, but since the ta-ing is considered employment, that portion is. Also to answer the question from above, I got nominated for the ECR and other internal grad student fellowships. They said that they'll find out the results from that early-March.

I just got my funding package from Davis, and just to add to the discussion, the details are as follows: 19k for 3 quarters + 4k for summer fellowship (so approximately 23k in-pocket) + tuition and fees covered = approx. 41k for the first year. The funding is guaranteed from 5 years, but the various sources could vary (between TA ships, Research Fellowships, readerships, etc.) and is contingent on satisfactory progress towards the degree. Since this is the only program I've been accepted to so far (still waiting on the rest of my applications to notify me, so crossing fingers!) I have nothing to compare it to. Anyone care to chime in?

Hi guys,. So I feel really stupid because it seems that I accidentally posted my previous questions to the acceptance/admittance board over in the History section of gradcafe (shhhh, I don't think they noticed, but they were very helpful haha). In any case, I just heard back about funding from UC Davis today, so for those of you who were offered admission, you should hear back soon. Also, this is probably not a surprise to anyone but I just heard back from the grad coordinator from UCI, and he told me that all first-round acceptances have been sent out in anticipation for their recruitment weekend early in March. They'll send out more admits depending on how many responses they get back afterwards, but of course they may end up hitting their quota and start sending out rejections en masse. So at this point, I honestly wouldn't hold my breath for any more Irvine admits, but until they officially say no, I'm not going to count it out :).

Anyone else super nervous they're not gonna know what's going on the first day when they start? It seems like everyone here has a Master's and I just came straight from my undergrad (with a little work experience sprinkled in between).

On that note, is it weird that I also haven't heard from the following schools yet: UCLA, UCI, UCSD, and Yale? Since I saw so many UCI and UCLA admits (and UCLA rejections), it's getting more nerve-wracking haha. Maybe no news is good news.

Hi! I created an account just to reply to this thread. I was the one who was just accepted to UC Davis! To answer your question, it was a personal email from someone on the admissions committee. She said they're working on the funding still, but they wanted to let me know about their decision asap. Hope that helps! Good luck to you all!