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Great idea!! Will be keeping up w/ that thread! I'd personally love to workshop SoPs

Alas the wait continues. Also not to be a super creeper or anything, but I just saw your research interests on your page, and they sound really cool and somewhat similar to mine!! Would love to connect some time! Im primarily interested in food and culture, and how that they are mediated in online platforms-- broadly speaking of course. :-)

Any news from NYU from anyone? Haven't seen much if any updates on the results page from NYU-- not even on the rejections front.

Thank you both for your insight! I really appreciate it. I have to admit that I didn't put as much effort into my SoP as I probably should have, although I don't believe that I lacked seriousness while working on it. In the future, I know that I will refine it. I especially like what you said @rkstahl about focusing on one project. I will be more detailed for sure. Thank you very much also @farflung ! You give me hope that I will succeed in another round. I'm looking forward to taking a year or two off at the moment. I hope everyone receives answers soon! I think we can all agree that disappointing answers are better than none....

Congrats to all of you getting interviews, and a special congrats to those who have gotten acceptances!! I have a question about the substance of applications. I'm asking not because I'm salty that I've gotten 3/6 rejections so far (LOL), rather I'm asking so that next time around I can have a better sense of what I need to be doing. Have any of you published anything? What would you say were some of the strongest points of your application/CVs? For example, I (thought) my SoP was very well written and outlined 2 good examples of projects I have and could undertake in the future. Also, I will be presenting at an international conference this spring; have received 2 FLAS fellowships, am editor for an art platform, and have research experience in a relevant field, and a bit of research experience in Anthro (I'm a Linguistics major!). I keep hearing about my peers publishing papers and all, which is FANTASTIC!, but I wonder if that's what places like Berkeley typically look for/admit. Thanks, and may the adcoms smile upon our apps favorably michelle

Yess can someone pls claim? Also-- do y'all think that they are only accepting people they interviewed? Personally I didn't get an interview, so that's why I'm asking lol. I've already accepted I'm not getting in anywhere this cycle -which sucks!- but I'm looking forward to some time off from school. But anyway........

I love this so much!!!!!!! Thank you for posting. You totally just made my day!!!! Sending you positive and encouraging thoughts your way ❤️

We are in the same boat, then. My program (Anthro) is 'supposed' to have a feb/march notification window, but I've received swift rejections. Definitely sharing the same concern about interview invites right now :/

I would like to add something: my mentor, who is my biggest intellectual inspiration, told me this evening that her first time around applying to grad school, she got rejected by everyone. But, seeing where she is now, and what an amazing human being she is as well, it is starting to seem that not getting in this first time is not....the end of the world, contrary to popular (my) belief.

I applied to six, and the two that have responded so far have rejected me. One of them is my alma mater-- ouch! Anyway, best of luck to all of us, though personally I am slowly coming to terms with a possible reality that doesn't include grad school, at least this year. :-)

@kekology4 ah hope so! Best of luck @TakeruK true all very good points, thx!

Hello my nervous peers, since im religiously checking my email these weeks, I thought I'd take a moment to ask you to speculate about the following as we communally procrastinate and await messages of admissions and rejections. I submitted an app to UCLA's anthro program in December. Shortly thereafter, I received an email notification from Academia.edu telling me that someone from LA googled me and incurred upon my Academia profile. If you're not familiar with Academia it's a website where you can publish/share your research. I don't have anything uploaded; I just have it to follow certain researchers and publications. Do admissions overlords google potential students? What could that mean? Is this common? Best wishes, fellow budding scholars

Haha good luck to you! Good question--what stage of grief is this? I don't know, but if I figure it out I'll let y'all know after I finish this slice of ice cream cake. Stress eating is not a thing right?

Hi! I just heard back from the first two of 6 programs I applied to...rejected to both! I have the same concern as you... if I haven't heard back from other schools- is that a rejection too? I heard some people got interview invites to Berkeley today.. :/

I love this and I feel this! I just got rejected from UOregon's Anthro program. That's 2/6 rejections so far (rest are pending). I supposedly had the strongest apps for the two schools I've gotten the No from, so I think, unfortunately and realistically, that I won't get in anywhere else. I'm definitely bummed, but I'm trying to look on the bright side: I can have a puppy now, do yoga, plant a garden, read for FUN-- who knows! A 9-5 job for a while might be just what I need right now. I feel really burnt out as I start this final semester of college. I think this is a blessing in disguise. The hardest part might be telling my Rec letter writers that I didn't get in (anywhere..). It's embarrassing! How are you all coping with this? What are your plans? I'd like lastly to note that I will be moving to Oregon and looking for jobs there..just because I can. Young, childless, degree-holding, and with a positive attitude: things could be worse?