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1 minute ago, lapeliroja said:

I actually just emailed them a couple days ago, and they said that the first round of admittances has been sent out. They have a "small list" of applicants to be admitted pending the decisions the first admitted students make (waitlist), and the rest are rejections. They haven't notified the waitlisted applicants OR rejected applicants yet. Just admitted ones. They said they expect to send out all decisions by the end of the month. Yay? 

Thank you!

Why don't they draft an e-mail and send it to rejected applicants straight away? It takes 10 minutes. They should have done this a month ago. 

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Has anyone been officially rejected by UNC yet?

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41 minutes ago, goofylemon said:

Hey @pi515 I appreciate your comments. While there are only 2 out of 42 graduates in Brown ended up in Top 20 TT position immediately upon graduation, I would like to comment that this is only a record of initial placement. It should be noted that even in Harvard, the initial placement for Top 20 TT is only 4 out of ~60. In this way, the rate between Brown and Harvard (top 6) is roughly 5% vs 7% (which is minimal difference). Also following your method looking at the initial placement of Princeton (which is widely accepted as having the best placement rate), their initial TT placement rate for top 20 is only 5 out of roughly 60 (that even includes a soc-joint appointment!), which is 8.5%. That says, the difference in top 20 TT placement rate is only 3.5%! Of course one can argue that 5% vs 8.5% is a 70% increase, however with the sensitiveness of data, the 70% is rather meaningless.

 

P.S. I found someone gave me a bad reputation on my previous post simply because he/she did not "like" my contents. A bad reputation is generally given to an unhelpful answer or malicious content, which is against the community standards of intellectual exchange. It looked like I really broke that person's heart by saying Top 10 placement is not necessarily better.

        While I really don't care someone pressing that red button under my comments, I would like to say that is exactly an example of how you will see a few of your peers being incapable of communicate well, even at some finest programs in this country. I never want to start a fight, nor I use any offensive words in my comments. Though, I got really annoyed this time. 

Congratulations on your Brown admission, @goofylemon. I applied there but got rejected. I think it is a wonderful program. 

For what it's worth I actually gave positive reputation to one of your previous posts even though I disagreed. I totally understand your position and agree to disagree. But for me, I would only prefer Brown to a Top-10 department if it would make me physically closer to my family and my girlfriend. I am an international student, will be thousands of km's away anyway, so probably not. If that Top-10 is less of a fit with my research interests, well, I can always adjust them.

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30 minutes ago, macadamia tea said:

I just want to make sure you know 'top 20' and 'top 25' don't literally mean the top 20 in a particular ranking - it's shorthand for talking about perceived 'tiers'. There could be 24 top-20s, or 16 - there's nothing magic about multiples of 5. I think any difference between 'top 20' and 'top 25' is going to be slight, and subjective.

Sorry if this comes across as patronizing or anything, just wanted to be extra sure you knew.

Thanks for warning. Half of the people asked would consider it Top-20 while the other half would consider it Top-30. That's what I meant. I know it's very arbitrary. 

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4 minutes ago, nowayjose said:

Same here. I have two graduate degrees from NYU already, so this hurt hard. I am realizing my applications just weren't up to snuff. I relied on stuff that worked for law school (GRE+grades) and didn't develop stuff that mattered (good LOR's and contacting POIs). I might just be a lawyer instead of doing this all over again, but we'll see.

You are still waiting to hear from Princeton, right? You don't know what will happen. You could have applied more widely of course, but I am sure you had good reasons not to do so. At least you have some marketable skills you can use outside academia. As a mid-20s qual-oriented soc grad, I don't have much. I just needed to get in one way or another. 

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Hi everyone! I am a long time lurker. Just wanted to say thanks to all contributors. Knowing that there are people out there going through the same process helped me feel less isolated in the past few weeks.

In the last 4-5 hours I have gone through the entire five stages of grief after seeing that NYU admissions went out. It was my last chance to get into Top-20, after four rejections last week. I thought I was a good fit, and made sure the adcom could realize that I was a good fit, plus established a contact with a POI, who was really really encouraging. It didn't happen but I am lucky that I already have an offer with decent funding from a Top-25-ish department. 

For those who are empty-handed, I am almost certain you will do much better next cycle (unless you decide to do something else with your life) thanks to this year's experience. This forum has helped me a lot figure out how I could have improved my applications, I am sure you all feel the same. I know if I was to have another shot at this I would do much much better. 

And congratulations to all those who are accepted. Especially those of you who got multiple Top-10 offers in addition to multiple Top-20's. Impressive.