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Just now, laveritecestla said:
Just got the email that results are posted!
I think the website is down because of this. I can't see my results!
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Cornell’s adcom met yesterday. A prospective visit day has already been confirmed. Students are getting the final list of admits on Friday.
- historygeek, Balleu and elx
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Walking home with colleagues and sparking a spliff is as normal as going to a bar at my university (Ivy).
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13 hours ago, Nicator said:
Thanks for the heads up - glad to know the wait is nearly over.
You're welcome. We were informed that we'd be receiving the list of admits by the end of next week, which indicates the department plans to finalize the admits by midweek next week.
Prospective students will be visiting campus in mid-March.
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5 hours ago, elx said:
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Thanks for the update! Do you know if they'll just send acceptances out first and then keep the rejected ones waiting til March/April?
You're welcome! The admissions committee did in fact meet yesterday, so I would imagine decisions would be sent out over the next week or so. In recent years, acceptances (usually in the form of a letter from your POI) are sent first followed by rejections a few days later. They do use a waitlist, though I am not sure if they will use one this year.
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7 hours ago, kahena said:
@Assotto you mean for the PhD in Africana Studies?
Yes!
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FYI, Cornell interviews have taken place, and prospective students have been invited to campus.
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Currently at Cornell and happy to answer any questions folks may have.
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You might be interested in Cornell's program. Carole Boyce Davies might be a good research fit.
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18 hours ago, Balleu said:
Hi folks! Thanks for starting this thread, hbhowe. It was the push I needed to move from lurking to posting.
I'm a few years out of undergrad at a state school in the Pacific Northwest. My thesis was on Nigerian market women's resistance to an attempt by colonial authorities to impose price controls. My interests have evolved since then away from straight African history toward the Atlantic African diaspora; chronologically I expect I'll end up working in the sixteenth and seventeenth century, geographically in the Caribbean, thematically in the overlap between environmental history (especially food) and social history. One of the POIs below put together a very helpful sample comps list for the Atlantic African diaspora, so I'm doing as much reading as possible before going into writing SOPs.
So far my list includes:
- NYU (Morgan, Gomez, Goetz)
- Brown (Ferreira, Cope, Jacobs)
- Cornell (Greene, Byfield, Bassi, Craib)
- UNC (Lindsay, Radding)
- Johns Hopkins (Morgan, Johnson)
- Columbia (Brown, Lightfoot)
- Princeton (This one is a maybe for me right now, but I can see how a combination of Adelman/Candiani/Kreike could get me where I want to be)
- U of Toronto and U of British Columbia for funded MAs.
- I am very open to feedback on this list. Please, let me know who else I should consider.
GRE is over and done with! I actually just got my scores back today. Glad that hurdle is out of the way and that it was less onerous than I expected. I'm revising my thesis into a writing sample, which my thesis adviser graciously offered to read and workshop with me, so that's next on my to-do list.
Good luck to all and I look forward to getting to know you over the next year.
Happy to answer any specific questions about Cornell.
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I faced a similar issue when I was awarded a short-term fellowship during my first year in my doctoral program. My gut reaction was to not post anything to my social media because I know how it feels to constantly read other people's achievements and feel like I've done nothing.
I got conflicting advice. A fellow student in my program told me not to post anything. A professor/mentor practically scolded me for not sharing my achievements with my professional network online. Your post could actually go far beyond just celebrating your achievements. (It could prompt colleagues to apply for that fellowship during the next cycle, consider submitting an essay for that paper prize next year, etc.)
I echo the earlier comments in that you should figure out a system that works best for you. I do think as women/people of color/queers we should be tastefully promoting ourselves and our accomplishments. If you don't celebrate yourself and your achievements from time to time, who will?
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9 minutes ago, Herxidor said:
The only change I noticed is that when I click the Applications link within the portal that the background for Current Applications is light blue. Maybe it was always like this & I didn't notice?? Does anyone else see this?
The light blue signifies the Application that you last opened.
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My portal has definitely changed. It takes me to a page that allows access to "Applicant Module 2.0." This has never happened before. Hopefully this means decisions soon.
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Find out today that a professor whom I was going to ask to be on my dissertation committee is leaving the department this year.
Now I have to find another (which is totally possible, but still).
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20 hours ago, nerdbird said:
Has anyone gotten rejections from NYU, UT Austin, Cornell, or Duke yet? Still waiting to hear anything from those places, and it's making me antsy. Good luck to all!
Cornell decisions were made a few weeks ago. From what I hear, offer letters should be sent out by the end of this week.
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On 2/8/2018 at 10:44 AM, Siswa said:
Any news from Cornell? They are my last hope > <
Decisions were made this week. Letters should be sent out in the coming weeks.
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5 hours ago, Manuscriptess said:
I think that depends where you haven't heard from yet. If you look on the results page, no one has heard anything (either rejection or acceptance) from Harvard, Brown, Stanford, Cornell, and a bunch of other schools. As long as no one else has heard anything either from those schools, you could still get in.
Cornell decisions should be made by early March.
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1 hour ago, Qtf311 said:
I just wanted some opinions from others. If you have a good relationship with a POI at one school and get admitted but later you get admitted to a “better” school but dont feel the same level of support from the POI at the school, what would you do? Attend the better school and take a chance or go with the former program ?
I am also curious what a good funding offer might look like? What would they offer as stipends and covering other expenses like conference travel? Just curious what other people’s experiences have been.
A good funding package has full funding. This includes a livable academic year stipend for 5 years minimum, paid tuition, and premium health insurance coverage. A really good funding package would also include a summer stipend and accessible conference and travel funds from your department.
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21 hours ago, madamoiselle said:
I just got an offer from Cornell for an outstanding program, and am looking for graduate housing suggestions if anybody has any!
Congrats! Downtown and Fall Creek are where most grad students live. Starting rent for a studio is $1100. Roommates can get your housing costs down to $600 roughly. Avoid Collegetown at all costs because its mostly undergrads with a heavy frat culture. There is also the option of graduate housing on North campus, which will save you a bit of money but is not located near a bus stop with a bus that runs as frequently as Downtown or Fall Creek. For property companies I recommend Travis Hyde Properties.
You can always message me if you have more specific questions about grad student living in Ithaca.
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On 1/26/2018 at 5:23 PM, midwest-ford said:
- Finding basic information about a lot of the programs I researched was inordinately difficult because of poor website design. When links are broken, information is incomplete, and I can't find my way to the course requirements, I'm tempted just not to apply, even to a "good" school. (I mean, I still applied, but I thought angrily about giving up.)
I think it is unfair to applicants that department websites often have severely outdated information. It sucks because a good application will get rejected simply because the faculty member they wanted to work with is either retiring or changing schools, and the applicant isn't told this until after they're rejected. Aside from emailing the department and maybe getting a response, there's virtually no way for applicants to know this kind of information. If they had known the professor wasn't going to be there anymore, they wouldn't have applied!
It's like gambling away $105.
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21 hours ago, fortsibut said:
Oh man, just need to vent a little bit since I just got my application in an hour ago. The way things worked out, I only ended up applying to one school (Cornell) because I didn't have everything together by the time that most of my target schools (Michigan/Michigan State/Northwestern/UW-Madison) had deadlines. Cornell was my top pick anyway of all of them, so I thought "what the hell, might as well just put it all on the line here." Worst case, I'll have everything polished and awesome for the next application cycle, but I'm stressing about this and worried about my odds. But hey, nothing I can do, right? Cornell is a really good fit for me and I should be competitive but of course I'm worried that I messed up a couple footnotes or typoed in my personal statement or somehow inadvertently insulted some of their faculty with a word choice or whatever, so I'ma be neurotic 'til I hear back!
That's my "treat this thread as your own personal blog post" moment for the week. =) Good luck to all of you as we await our fates!
Congrats on getting your application in. If you don't mind sharing, what is your research area/who are you interested in working with?
I'm in the Cornell program and could probably answer any burning questions if you had any.
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57 minutes ago, psstein said:
@khigh, I think you make some good points, but keep in mind that the perspective from inside graduate programs is very different from the one you have outside graduate programs. Also, don't make assumptions about @telkanuru. He's one of the best posters here (as indicated by his reputation numbers!), but he's also been around quite a bit. I know you're taking a gap year, but you sometimes come off as though you've got it all figured out, as do a lot of undergrads. Grad school dispels that notion very quickly.
I will add and say that @telkanuru has many insightful posts that have given me insight into the graduate school/application process before I applied, accepted, and began my program. It may be to the benefit of @historynerd97 to browse through some of those for perspective. Even now as a doctoral student I still refer to some of their posts. @Sigaba also has also made helpful contributions to the History thread.
I'm not sure if this is unique to the History thread but it seems many of the new applicants are always hostile toward some of the more experienced posters. Last year's applicant thread was a trainwreck because of this. Somehow, genuine advice is perceived as snark or some sort of 'ivory tower elitism.' The perspective and advice given by folks who are currently in the PhD process is super valuable and, to be frank, they are not obligated to help anyone. Start with the assumption that the more experienced users just really want to help new applicants.
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