[Fall 2017 PhD Application]

Does anyone know anything about the Institute of Linguistics at the University of Minnesota? 

Since I submitted my application before 15th Dec, nothing is heard from them. The application status on the portal is still "AWAITING FOR PROGRAM DECISION"...

It will be March tomorrow, I just want to know when they release the results. 

[Does it mean that I have been silently rejected?]

I got in finally. but without fundings for the first year. Sigh...

[Does it mean that I have been silently rejected?]

14 hours ago, fuzzylogician said:

There is no one sweeping answer, unfortunately. In general: rejections go out (much) later than acceptances. Some waitlists are "silent", so you might not accepted or rejected right away, but instead kept on the back burner until the school sees what its first batch of admitted applicants does. To my knowledge most of the time domestic and international students are considered at the same time, especially at private schools. There may be some differences at State schools, where funding for international students may be more limited. Whether that means that international students are reviewed later, I don't know (I don't think so, but I wouldn't bet too much money on that guess). As for interviews, again it depends if the interview is with the entire committee or some subpart (or just the POI). If it's with some subpart of the committee, it's entirely possible that not all requests will be sent out at the same time, but I think it's a safe bet that they probably wouldn't be spaced out too far apart. Eventually all the linguistics departments I know make their admissions decisions as a whole, after receiving some input from the admissions committee. So at the end of the day, there will be one or more faculty meetings where promising files will be discussed. Things will get moving (files read, interviews held) in preparation for this grand meeting. Those meetings tend to take place in January or early February, but beyond that, the best advice I can give you is that the Results search can give you some idea of when that happened in previous years, but no one can tell you anything more accurate than that. 

Thank you for your explanation. 

I think, all that I can do now is to wait...silently...

[Does it mean that I have been silently rejected?]

21 hours ago, humidz said:

It depends on the place, most do it by subfield with some time difference, and things can be spread out over at least a week easily. They also might have an internal wait-list etc. Don't lose hope yet.
Rejection letters are sent out pretty late by most places, however.

What I can do now is to wait..no news is good news..

[Does it mean that I have been silently rejected?]

I have seen that someone has put his/her acceptance to Linguistics PhD of SUNY Buffalo.

But I have not heard anything from the department.And nothing has been updated on the application site. 

I don't know whether the interview requests are sent at the same time, or sent seperately according to subfields....

Or applications are reviewed differently for US applicants and international applicants. 

Are acceptance letters sent prior to the rejection letters? 

These things are haunting in my mind recently, which is really annoying. I am now so anxious and depressed......

 

[info on grad programs in computational linguistics]

Tulane University also has MA program of computational linguistics. 

But I don't know whether it is worth going. 

 

[How to deal with this anxiety?]

6 minutes ago, GeorgeC07 said:

Ah the winter break's gonna last till early January, maybe January 5th. I just found a silly mistake in my sop yesterday, but there's nothing I can do about it anyway. 

So you think 28 is late for marriage, too? I guess it's the same around the world then. My parents' been bugging my sister, also 28, to get married for a few years and she just quitted her job to join medical graduate school this September. =。=Now only god knows when she'll marry, since she's aiming at Ph.D.

Actually  I don't think getting married at 28 is late, but my parents do think so...because people at the same age with me here are almost married..and many of them have got 2 kids...what a terrifying world!!

Anyway, I'm aiming at PhD, and I also quitted my job this June for it~ 

[How to deal with this anxiety?]

same anxiety here. 

don't know what to do after sumbitting all my applications, only to check all the application sites.

I cannot reread my SOP, cannot remind myself of my mediocre GRE scores and TOEFL scores....these things drive me mad...

ps: when will the Christmas holidays end? 

As a 28-year-old old unmarried youth, the only thing I could do, if I am rejected by all the schools, is to ....get...married....[laughing cry]