[Fall 2017 Applicants]

To all of you that are waiting to hear back from Irvine -

Did you contact your POI before applying? (Email and/or phone) if so, do you know if that correspondence replaces the "interview"?  Or do they only interview people who didn't contact faculty beforehand... I'm really confused. 

[False alarm]

Same. I got an email notification on my phone and IT WAS TARGET. Needless to say, I wanted to scream..

[Fall 2017 Applicants]

Anyone heard back from UCSB?

[2017 Applicant Profiles and Admissions Results]

Has anyone heard back from UCSB anthropology yet?

[How do I do this?]

@GeorgeC07 I actually have no idea. I'm in anthropology, not engineering. But I also have been back at work at UT since January 2nd and it feels like no one has been back on campus yet...

[How do I do this?]

@GeorgeC07 I'm very confident that admissions committees are not made up of exclusively retired or emeriti professors. There also will probably be a senior graduate student or two on the committee and multiple current professors. Also, the POI you want to work with will have immense sway in the decision to admit you or not. If he/she/they wants to work with you, they will make sure you are admitted. Maybe that is not so in your field, but in the Liberal Arts/Social Sciences/Fine Arts, that is how the process works.