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Decision Letter Decision letters are available to view and print until the end of the current calendar year. Be sure to print a copy of your letter and keep it in a safe place. I guess they have not updated everyone's

https://appstatus.grad.ucla.edu/account/login.aspx got an email to check their decision letter on UCLA's website

Thank you so much for your advice! Yes, my POI was DLH. I have not heard back from Harvard about funding offer yet. But it is quite out of my consideration at this time, especially after all the advices given here.

I applied to 8 programs. UCLA was the third strongest among them- according to the east asian history ranking by U.S News. I did not randomly apply to UCLA and a bunch of other schools- I applied because one professors there actually works on something I am really interested in. But Harvard was a better fit- if I want to continue working on the thing I am working on now, Harvard would be the best choice because my topic is too narrow and nobody really works on it except that harvard prof.

If it does raise any problem, they will contact you or your undergrad institution. As long as you can explain things well, im pretty sure you are fine.

And thank you everybody for your advice!

Thank you so much for the advice! Actually there is one professor at Harvard that I really would like to work with; but it does not mean the two professors at UCLA are not great. It is more about the approach; they were both trained at UChicago and I am not a huge fan of critical theory. I will ask them about how much freedom I have relatively in exploring my topic. Thanks again!

Yeah...although my POI at Yale said there are tuition fellowship for some students in the master program. UCLA offered me a (ridiculously) generous funding with 30k for 9 school months and 7k per summer for four years. TBH Harvard has always been my dreamschool and thats probably why Im still hesistating btw the two. Thank you though!

I am just wondering about ucla's placement. The one question i have is that does harvard or yale definitely place their graduates better than schools like ucla? I think i might have a chance to get into harvard or yale's phd program if i work my ass off during master.

Yeah the official acceptance letter and some external funding information attached to the email the department sent me

Hi all, I am currently hesitating between couple options i have in hand. My field is Japanese history with an emphasis on the social minority groups in early meiji years. I currently hold two PhD offers from Madison and UCLA. two rejections from Princeton and WUSTL. I was told by both Harvard and Yale that they could not offer me a spot this year so they asked me whether I am willing to be considered for their master programs. I do not know whether I will be admitted into those two programs so far, but I am pretty positive I guess... I just graduated from college last semester and I am only 21. I am wondering if I should do a master first? However, UCLA is ranked in the 4th place for East Asian history... I hope you guys can give me some suggestions! Thanks!

I think it really depends on the field you are in as well. If you are in bigger fields like US history, I think it is possible that they dont contact you before the official acceptance because they admit more people

I got an email from UCLA saying that I was awarded the Terasaki center fellowship and they offered 30k a year plus 2 year of TAship. I think i am definitely going there- the other choice is Madison but the idea of living in LA sounds way more attractive to me. Anyone who is also going to UCLA should contact me I was contacted by both Harvard and Yale- both programs could not offer me admission this year and put into the MA pool. Does that mean I wil probably get admitted for the master program?

I have also asked for the time of when official acceptance letter comes since I am currently out of the states. In their email they both said "fairly soon". Since it happened a week ago, I guess the wait should not be too long.

I was informed last week by my POI that I was admitted into the program. According to the information I have from the two Japanese history professors that I was the only one admitted this year for Japanese history. Do not know which country you are working on though. Good luck!