EvelynD
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1 hour ago, farflung said:
Hi ya'll. As an unpleasant head up, FYI, or perhaps confirmation if you've been wondering: formal rejections often do not come until MUCH later than the interviews and acceptances. So you may not *know* 100% that you've been rejected from a school until they bother to send you a letter in April or something. But trust your gut here: when interviews and acceptances have gone out, and you haven't heard anything from the school within a few days of that, you have almost always been rejected. At a certain point, *waiting* just becomes waiting for formal rejection letters, as offers for PhD programs are rarely made in dramatically differently-timed rounds unless you're placed on a formal wait list.
If I look at the results from Toronto from last year, I can see some acceptenced in Januari, and then some mid March. I'm keeping my fingers crossed its the same this year and that I might be in the second group (I know the chances are small, but what esle can we do
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1 hour ago, usiwenawasiwasi said:
Anth interviews for Stanford and UChi seem to have been sent out and there are some Toronto acceptances posted.... so I'm gradually losing hope/increasingly refreshing my gmail.
THIS PROCESS IS THE WORST!
Yeah, but the Toronto acceptances are from last week, just around the end of jan, begin of feb. Not really a lot after that. IO haven't heard anything either!
And yes, I wasn't really prepared for the stress that comes with the rejections/waiting.
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My worst experience was with the last uni I wanted to apply for. They are the only uni in the States with an actual research group in my subject (a bit of a niche), but their geographical focus is completely off. I have no connection with their geographical regions whatsoever. I tried my best to bend my SoP and change my focus, but just wasn’t not what I wanted. I emailed the leading professor wanting to say this: ‘I love your project and I want to do everything to fit in’ but I said ‘I love your program but I have nothing in common with the geography and I don’t really know what to do’. Needless to say they weren’t really interested.
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Its monday again guys! Another week, another round!
- museum_geek, sierra918 and Doran
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Haha, this weekend is going to be thé weekend where I buy a whole chocolate cake for myself. I found thé bést school in Scotland this week and the two professors I contacted were super enthusiastic about my research. However, I would have to complete an unfunded MA degree first, and the PhD itself had really poor funding. I made a quick calculation; this would cost me at least 50.000€ in total. So yeah, thats not going to happen.
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8 minutes ago, GreenEyedTrombonist said:
Even though I haven't heard from anywhere yet, I'm just gonna assume I'll be rejected this cycle. If I haven't heard by March I'll be sending out my resume to a few places and then I'll spend some time trying to make my app better for the next cycle.
You haven't heard nothing at all? Your nerves must be through the roof!! I'm still waiting on two of my applications and I've already started working on my plan B! I'm here with you!
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43 minutes ago, farflung said:
I'm a cultural anthro PhD student at a top research university. It took me two application cycles (i.e. two years) to get admission, even with a stellar record, an awesome SoP, and tons of research experience abroad in my area of interest. This is normal. There are only a couple of admission slots at top programs. It sounds like you're qualified for grad school, so don't worry about publications! Most of us earn our first publications in our FINAL years of grad school or even after graduating-- it's really quite rare for cultural anthropologists to be published before doing their dissertation fieldwork, and even rarer to already have publications coming into a PhD program. Lots of the admissions process is out of your control, things like-- whether a faculty member who likes your application package happens to be present in the room when they're making decisions, is on sabbatical, is too senior/junior to "earn" a graduate student, etc. So no, don't need to publish. And yes, sorry to say -- you might be in for another year of applications, so you should just continue to build your application package and accept/embrace that rejection is a HUGE part of academia (just wait until you apply for grants, jobs, submit your first article, etc)!
I'm not trying to sound like a bitch, but just the fact that you come from a top school ánd that it took you two cycles gives me só much more hope! It might not be me personally, its difficult for everyone!
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Still no word from Michigan State!
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Congratuations!!! See, everything works out!
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23 minutes ago, striped said:
@Mugi Mila But I really am tired of working jobs in customer service/industries that have little meaning or relevance to the future I'm trying to pursue. @EvelynD You can probably relate, working in a call center (I worked in a call center in 2015 and was right there with you!). So many people struggle their whole lives to figure out what they want to do- I am lucky enough to know with a passion what I want to do, and I can't seem to get there.
I can relate 100% with every word you say! Not everybody is able tot find a relevant job. I also have that fear of being 'left behind'. Most of my friends / peers have found something by now (but to be totally honest I have only been trying since this cycle because I wanted to be sure about my topic). Have you thought of trying for a PhD in Europe? Its a bit different since you apply for a project, but of you don't get accepted this cycle you have to wait anyway. Why not see if there are any options for you here?
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38 minutes ago, Archaeodan said:
@enfp @EvelynD I believe it was across all subdisciplines, but I'm not sure. The way he said it made me think it was. No idea if they've been contacted, but I haven't received official notification yet either, so I'd image that, unless they heard from their POI, they haven't been notified. My POI just told me because he's cool, saw the official list, and didn't want me to freak out anymore.
Now I am aware of the 'results page' and I promised myself not to check it, I checked it and saw that someone got a rejection on the 27th. Another person got an acceptance on the 30th and said that 'the list' is indeed out. Well, I guess @enfp and I have to wait a little longer! I guess the time difference between Amsterdam and Toronto is around 8 hours, so its only morning there.
I found a cool PhD project in Schotland today, so I send out emails to two people working in that department. Preparing for the worst and moving on to applying in Europe!
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10 hours ago, Archaeodan said:
I wouldn't feel to bad if you don't get into Toronto. I didn't either, and my POI told me Anthro only accepted 3 international students this year across all three campuses and 50 faculty. So, really, don't take it personally. That said, you haven't heard yet, so no sense getting yourself worried over nothing.
Did you reviece a letter yet? I'm not in close contact with my poi so no word there. Pff,...the pospective of having to wait another year sucks.
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Here still no word from Toronto and Michigan State. I have come to terms with the fact that I probably won't get accepted with cycle. I did however come across a vacancy at one of my dream companies in the UK, for the position of program director. Way way way out of my league of course, program assistent would be a better position. But I'm still going to try, you never know what doar it might open up!
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Edit: sorry, wrong topic!
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5 hours ago, lisota said:
Wow!
Your background is very interesting! I wonder what are your areas of interest? And what stands for MSU? Can you decipher, please?
Thanks! I have an RMA degree in the archaeology and anthropology of Mexico. I specialized in traditional dress, but I don't see a future in that. MSU stands for Michigan State University.
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Today at work I got an email from 'office of admissions'. I got it when I was one the phone with a client. I openend it,..and,....it was from one of those GRE mail school thingies..-_-
@striped I hope you finally get your reward this cycle! If I don't make it this year I'm going to try again next year, like you did!
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19 hours ago, lisota said:
Congratulations!
I am international applicant, too, and anxious about everything.
I wonder if there are other international applicants here?
Yes, me! I applied at MSU, but I come from a different background (anthro/archaeo) and I'm now really doubting my SoP. But we'll see!
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I'm waiting to hear from MSU! Í did my BA and MA in anthropology/archaeology, and I'm very interested in their human-animal studies program. I don't think my chances are thát great, I've already gotten a couple of rejections and I'm beginning to doubt if they think I'm experienced enough to change fields. But we'll see!
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Ikea sells this type of chocolate candy called Daim (yes, really). Yesterday at the supermarked I found out they sell a cake/pie made of this stuff. Thankfully I have a strong personality and I'm totally not thinking about biking there tomorrow to buy it.
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8 hours ago, mjl89 said:
A useful thread. I am currently on holiday and therefore less stressed than I think I could be, but I honestly don't know what I'll do if I don't get in anywhere. Being an international applicant I keep thinking I've probably made silly mistakes through not understanding the system well enough - since you don't get feedback though I don't think I would necessarily know what to fix if I reapplied. I'm also not really sure how much I could do in the 3 months I would have between leaving my current job and next years' application deadline to improve my application. Thus if I don't get in anywhere I think I may give up on the PhD dream for the time being and return to it in later life if it seems any more feasible. After backup plan b (go home and cry for a while) my plan c/d are travelling or take another international job and decide what to do with your life whilst somewhere sunny.
Same situation here. I'm from Europe and the whole application game was totally new for me. I also didn't get any academic feedback on my SoP. The feedback I got from my rejections is very helpful although of course I hope it won't get thát far that I have to try again next year. But I must admit, rejections are like dementors; they suck the positivism out of you.
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Thankfully I have a busy office job (fancy name for a call center) so I'm on the phone all day. My mobile is next to my keyboard and I get a noticifaction when an email comes in, but its mostly job alerts and Linked In shit. Last week I got 2 rejections on the same day but now things have been quiet for a while. I check my spam box about twice a day, and my regular inbox once (in case my Phone didn't send me a notification).
Waking up is a scary moment, because of the time difference THE email could be in my inbox (but it hasn't been there yet). Í check this forum about twice a day, but not the results page.
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17 hours ago, CoffeeFueledAnxiety said:
Nope, definitely not a thing. I am eating all this loads of carbs and sweets because I really like them, not because the unofficial rejection I got after emailing my top choice program yesterday..
Me too! I had fries and a pizza on the same day because I live in a free country, not because I got 2 rejections in 24 hours.
I have 2 uni's pending, 2 rejections so far. If I don't get in I'm gonna spend about one week drowning in self-pitty and eating chips and dip in bed. Then I'm going to focus on turning my SoP in a real PhD proposal and send it to all European universities that are involved in animal studies. Then, I'm going to search for American schools again for the next application cycle. There were a couple of schools I wasn't able to apply to because I came across them too late, and I've gotten very helpful feedback from my rejections. I'm also going to look for an internship or summer program or something to get more research experience. It doesn't matter what, as long as I will get research experience from it.I think I can affort (both financially as academically) to go through 2 application cycles.
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31 minutes ago, museum_geek said:
Didn't Michigan accidentally send out acceptances to a bunch of people last year? I seem to remember everyone freaking out because they got accepted and then got a "sorry you're not actually accepted, our bad" email a couple hours later.
I think I'd go crazy.
On a good note, I got a 5 month 'contract extention' at my current job! Five more months in a call center (yes, thats what a university degree will get you in the Netherlands), but at least I'll have an income!
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Urg, @GreenEyedTrombonist me too!