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LOL! I have a blackberry so every time my phone even starts vibrating I begin to flip.

DITTO!

UT-Austin seemed to finally update my online status check today to me being accepted, so those still posting on the results page about them may want to log in and check their status...

I've gotten accepted by UT-Austin, Ohio State, and Florida State - still waiting on 5 others...

I saw a few people on here got in to OSU as well. Their open house is obviously less than a month away already, so I was wondering who all was planning on going? Since I live in Columbus, I'll probably go, if anything, to just get a trial run for when I got to UT-Austin's Recruitment event!

AAHH CONGRATS!! So exciting! Best of luck at the interview, and I hope you start getting even more acceptances soon!!!

My SOP started off anecdote-esque, so I don't think you should doubt that style of writing...

Ah well, it is still really early. I don't know much of anything about Emory, but I still wouldn't give up all hope just yet. Plus, sometimes the fates that be have a better plan/school for our lives. I know for undergrad I wanted to go to this ONE school and this ONE school only, and I got rejected and ended up somewhere that I just applied to on a whim. Now I am beyond thankful that I went there, and I can't image having gone anywhere else. I know this is not much comfort, but don't give up hope, and I really do hope you and everyone on this forum gets in somewhere, and gets in somewhere great!

Are you talking about Ohio State?

It looks like from previous years that Purdue gave out acceptances in batches (though this year seems extremely early for them). I wouldn't give up any hope though until its official. If Purdue did already sent out a 1st round of acceptances, there may still be more to come. It is still WAY early, so I'd say you are still fine at this point. Keep clinging to that hope! I'm hoping everyone here gets in somewhere - and hopefully - somewhere that is a top choices of theirs.

I have a co-author paper under revise and resubmit with a pretty great peer-reviewed scholarly journal. I only have a BA as well. It was my senior thesis, and my professor liked my research a lot, and after I graduated from undergrad, we collaborated together on it to make it better. He became the 2nd author to the research, and our R&R is back under review at the moment. Also, the research I conducted while abroad (which I used as my writing sample) I plan on submitting *hopefully* next month to a different peer-reviewed journal. So I hope to have 2 publications under my belt before I even start grad school, but that may just be wishful thinking. Just know it is never to early to start trying to get published. The worst that can happen is you get a reject, but with the reject, you typically get great reviews on your work, which you can take, improve it, and submit it somewhere else. I say start now if you plan on being in academia forever!

Thanks everyone! It's been a pleasure going through this experience with all of you. Best of luck, and I know you all will get in to your top choices as well!! EEPP!!

I can't believe I heard so early from these schools. Soooooo not expected. I got an e-mail from FSU this morning which asked me to fill out more forms and write an essay because the chair wants to forward my application to the university for a graduate fellowship. It didn't formally say I was accepted, but I assumed I may be (but still remain a little skeptical). However, UT-Austin e-mailed me about an hour ago offering me my acceptance!!!!!!!!!!! It says I get 5 years of funding and such but will get more info later!! Too excited to type it all!!!! AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH I wasn't expecting to hear anything for at least another 2 weeks so I'm in total shock and disbelief!!!!!! UT-Austin is one of my top choices, so I'm flipping!!!!! Hope everyone else starts hearing GREAT news soon!!!!!! EDIT: THANKS!!!!!!

Yea, I'm obviously applying to top programs, but I don't know if it is wise not too. Rankings & prestige mean a lot when it comes to getting a job down the road. Obviously by the time we are done with graduate school, hopefully the economy will be way better than it is now, but nonetheless, where you get your degree matters for where you teach and if you are tenured track. Having said that, yes, I would like to go to a top school. However, when I first started this process my list of potential schools consisted of 39 possibilities, that I then narrowed down to the 8 that I applied too. All of this was completely based on interest and faculty. If you aren't a good fit, you probably aren't going to get in to the school. So I think it is a mixture of both for me, and probably others. And yes, you are right, it seems the top tiers answer first, and then it follows down the line, and your explanation makes great sense to me. Thanks!

Yea I check here about 3 times a day or so as well (and I've been off work the past 2 days, so obsessively bored). I always get slightly disappointed when there are no new updates in the sociology section, plus it seems like a great deal of people here are sociology of religion, which is not my focus or area at all - so I feel oh so lonely. LOL. But yea, I guess if we become more active maybe others will?

It still seems pretty slow around this forum, especially compared to last year (or maybe it is just in my head that this section of the forum was busy). Maybe less people are applying to sociology graduate programs this year (wishful thinking)? Or maybe the people applying this year aren't crazy and OCD like some of us (or maybe just me) on the forum? This section just seems strangely quiet...

Sleeping.

I believe UC-SanFran has a strong medical sociology department, but I'm rather wary of these rankings as well.

HAHA! I did the exact same thing! And ditto on California! I've had family already tell me if I decide to move to Cali, then I may just be on my own. Such love...

I've been checking apartments on Craigslist.org for months now in the cities of the schools I want to go to the most. Let me find places I love when I haven't even gotten in anywhere yet. Yep - going off the deep end!

I'm currently reading The Men with the Pink Triangle: The True Life-and-Death Story of Homosexuals in the Nazi Death Camps by Heinz Heger. I'm also about to start Freaks Talk Back: Tabloid Talk Shows and Sexual Nonconformity by Joshua Gamson and Out of the Closets: The Sociology of Homosexual Liberation by Laud Humphreys. After I *hopefully* get accepted somewhere, I plan to start reading a great deal of sociology theory.

LOL! I love this thread. My grandmother, early on before I even submitted any applications, would say "wouldn't it be great if a school accepted you early and would let you then start in the spring." I would proceed to tell here it doesn't happen that way, but she would just say, well you never know. Now she keeps saying "wouldn't it be great if you heard from a school before Christmas." I proceed to tell her no faculty have probably even looked at my application yet, but she keeps saying, well you never know. She loves me dearly and wants the best for me, but she, among the rest of my family, have no clue about the process, acceptance rates, and so forth. It gets frustrating, I think, because its lonely, but yes, it is out of the goodness of their hearts.

I've just determined that I have the personality type of just being stressed 24/7. I think I strive under stress & am most productive when I'm stressed. I guess I'm pretty masochistic...

Every adcomm is dfferent, and every person on each adcomm is different. Personally, I would think after reading 100s of SOPs that sound very similar - a nice narrative may be refreshing and nice to read. Now, if someone takes the narrative approach it should be extremely relevant and strongly showcase your interest in the field, but I don't think a narrative should be entirely scrapped if you can pull it off well. Obviously, I haven't heard back from any schools yet, so I don't know how my SOP will be taken, but I believe mine is extremely strong, and I opened mine with a narrative. Also, though slightly different, my best friend from undergraduate did the narrative approach applying to law school (which is definitely different in the sense that you don't need to discuss your research interest), but still she got in to every ivy law school she applied to (and is now going to UPenn Law). Just my two cents

Where all did you end up applying?