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Thank you so much, you guys! You two also really kick ass- you both have some great places to go to, iirc.

Also, I wanted to report back to you guys on the board- but I received an acceptance to Princeton yesterday! I am SO overjoyed! Is anyone else on here planning on coming to the hosting weekend?

I'm flying in from Belgium, so I think that's pretty far! I have three acceptances so far, but for me it will be kind of easy to see them all because they're all located fairly close to one another, geographically speaking. Of course, their visit days are on disparate weekends, so I think what I'm going to do is email my second and third choices and ask them if I can arrange to visit them on a day that is not part of the formal visit week. That way, I can just stack all of the visits together within a week's time frame, and then get back to Belgium pretty quickly afterwards.

Aha, well someone had to do it! Thanks a lot. Now I'm just sitting here nervously and wondering when the rejection will come...

Hey there! Right, I got confirmation from my POI in history that the days are March 3-4. He also seems to think that our travel costs will be completely reimbursed, but I think that perhaps we ought to email the grad coordinator to ask and be sure. Hilariously, I also saw on the thread above that you received an offer of admission from Rutgers- I did as well! They mentioned their visiting days will be March 7th and March 8th. Will you be going to both visit weekends? Or are you set more on UPenn?

Thanks for letting us know! How did you find this out? I'll be sitting nervously at the edge of my seat, but I'll just go into it assuming a rejection as well.

Thanks, Sarah! I'll keep my fingers crossed for you- I'm really sorry Brown didn't accept you! I felt the sting too when my top choice rejected me around a week ago, and I can't even really put it into words.

By the way, in case anyone is interested- I also got an offer via email from NYU, but also no official portal change yet/word of funding. Still waiting on Princeton, Oxford, Chicago, and Rutgers (though Rutgers did email to tell me I've made the shortlist for their final round of decisions). I'm not holding out any hope for Chicago at this point...lol.

Hey, sorry for dying on you! I'll be working with Stefanos Geroulanos as well, actually! I got my offer informally from him via email a few days ago as well. Do you know if the department is going to offer any aid to make it out to visit weekend? I'm coming from out of the country, so I sort of hope I'll know asap to be able to plan. (P.S. the email I received from him also said that we would get more funding information in "a few weeks".)

Hey Ericthebrave, thanks for commenting here about UChicago! I was wondering, when you spoke to the POI, did they say they'd already sent out the questionnaire/contacted all of the candidates they were considering? I'm not from your subfield but I'm getting kind of worried, seeing as someone else other than yourself also posted about a UChicago interview on the results page.

Mm, well I really do wish you luck! Being in the east coast/driving around to visit people is a great idea. I wish I could have done that this application season, but I've been abroad since September. But I totally feel you too- If my top pick (also my alma mater) rejects me, I'll probably wither away into a sad puddle of tears.

Yay, another modern European intellectual historian! I'm (sort of) one as well, and I applied to half of the schools on your list (Princeton, NYU, and Rutgers). Can't say anything about the Penn acceptance because I didn't apply, but I did hear back from NYU and get an interview. I hope someone will contact you from there soon! Who is it you'd be working with?

I really hope that's it! I didn't contact all of my programs directly when I applied, so part of me just worries that I won't know when decisions go out/have been made. Guess that's why I'm checking this website/the results forum so frequently LOL.

Also: if any of you guys reading this thread are the person who posted about the UChicago interview, please let me know what subfield you're working in!

I know! I mean I'm glad I've heard back from one school at least, but the radio silence from the others (including my alma mater, where my old professors who normally respond to me in like five minutes have just stopped responding at all..is that just a bad sign?) is making me really nervous.

Hey, are you referring to the post sometime made about an interview with UChicago? ): I saw that too and now I'm worried.

Hey everyone, reporting back regarding my NYU interview. It seemed pretty standard in the sense that the professor talked a bit about his own work, asked me a little more about mine, and then did the whole sales pitch of the department. It did seem like no decisions were set in stone yet though , so to the others who applied- do not despair!

Thank you so much for reporting back! Good thing you got a chance to explain the wrong SOP! Do let me know what happens with Columbia for you- if NYU works out for me and we end up in the same consortium of schools, we'll probably run into one another.

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Me too, me too, guys. I can't seem to stop checking gradcafe LOL...and I have MA exams to study for right now! Sigh.

Hey Praxis34, thanks! I hope it goes okay. My subfield is Modern Europe, if that helps to ease your concerns! I'll also pop by here again tomorrow to let you know if the professor says anything about the stage they're at with all of the applications more generally.

I wasn't expecting anything yet either, since it seems that in years past things started happening at the end of January/beginning of February. The other weird thing is that I was contacted by someone I didn't identify as a POI on my statement...I guess he liked my application better than my POIs? LOL. But thanks for the tip- I should brush up on reading lists in my field as well. I guess the only thing I can say is keep calm and carry on? Tell me how your interview goes! I'll pop by online to discuss as well.

Hey guys! I got an email today from a professor at NYU regarding an interview. Thing is he wants to schedule it for tomorrow, and that makes me a bit nervous! Anyone have any tips or advice? Also thought I would mention this in case anyone else is interested in/applied to NYU.

I grew up in Fullerton, and although I don't live there now, I might be able to give you some tips! I know a couple of friends that attend CSUF, and they live over at the apartment complexes off of Nutwood on the south side of the campus- Deerpark Homestead apartments, Montclaire Apartments, Streams Apartments, etc. Not sure what the current cost of those looks like, but they might be worth a look. Also, if you're willing to live further away from campus, check out rentals/options on the south side of Fullerton, around Orangethorpe Ave or La Palma. That side of Fullerton (that borders Anaheim) tends to be cheaper than the northern portion that borders Brea. Hope that helps! Feel free to send me a message if you have any other questions.