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They hosted the students invited for interview a couple of weeks ago and I know at least one offer was given.

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I received that, too! A dear friend is leaving today for their interview week(end) as a musicologist, so apparently there are different levels of consideration? Unsure of why. I went to do a master’s degree abroad when I wasn’t sure the programs I was accepted to the first go-round were the right fit/whether a doctorate was right for me. This gave me time to figure all of that out, come up with better writing samples, and get some new recommendations.

I was accepted at Harvard with a phone call that I missed, and then a follow-up email from the historical musicology advisor. The number was not a Boston area code. It was Oakland.

In a roundabout way, I heard that we should hear by/around Tuesday (I have a fellowship deadline that necessitates making a decision horribly early)

Sorry, just saw this! On my phone. Historical musicology.

I have been in touch with POI before this/had an informal talk last week, but this was the automated “Click link to view decision...” email

In at Columbia! Just received the email.

Ahh interesting. I understood it to be like CUNY used to be, where you are accepted for the PhD but then they expect you to pay for the masters if you do not already have one. So not a true “terminal” masters. But that makes sense with the size of their program combined with public funding issues — safer. Fingers crossed on Yale and Columbia this week; Harvard is another possibility based on what I have heard, but between now and the end of next week seems almost for certain.

Most programs in the US do not accept their musicology/theory masters students for the PhD — but MAPH can get good funding. I got very good packages from both MAPH and Northwestern masters programs my first go round. I think Yale might be done with interviews, although that was not explicitly said to me during mine. Only a mention that they are almost done. And again, Im a historical musicologist, so they may only have been referring to that. Rejections and WL are always slow to be released.

Slow and steady wins the race ? (I always forget about the theorists...)

Cambridge interviews should be finished by now (my understanding was that I was one of the last). Admits should be out this month, I think, but funding might take until March at the earliest. Columbia decisions ought to be out or at least finalized internally next week after the faculty meet. I have not heard anything re: CUNY but they seem to do all their decisions within the next ten days historically as well.

I am actually a historical musicologist, but we have not heard anything yet either as a group other than the languages email, too. The email for more information for me just wanted clarifications on my area of interest. I expect that we should hear within the next two weeks, though, as historically that is (almost) always the case!

Hi Soufie — they generally do not interview all candidates for ethno or musicology to my knowledge. They may reach out to some students (as they did me) for more information or an informal chat. Music theorists have already interviewed, as their program usually requires it.

Yes, this whole process is a bit of a mystery with too many variables to judge — in a sense we are being considered in the context of people they admitted over the last two or three years, too, so that they do not find themselves too heavily weighted one way.

Congratulations! Was it from the DGS, your POI, or some other faculty member?

I know of one UChicago musicology acceptance via a personal email (I think their POI)

One of my interviewers is a theorist and the other a musicologist, so it just works out based on availability. To clarify last post: Harvard reached out to me for more info.

They reached out to me for more information. I have a feeling the interviews are for clarifications, though, when they ask to actually talk to them. My friend talked to Prof Cohn in December, and the range he gave was later in February for theory. My email was from Prof Cohn connecting me with two other professors to set up an interview next week (in musicology).

I am not so sure about this (unless you were a theory applicant to Yale), as in past years they have been separate processes, and the timeline a friend of mine received for theory had it slanted towards slightly later than now

Yale interview invite earlier ?

Every year can be different, but the year I was admitted I was interviewed and those notifications went out the same day as for ethno. Penn does not force you to specialize immediately (even though you have to apply as a specialization), so I would be a little surprised if they did it separately.

I know of at least one musicology admit at Michigan.

It is a funny distinction — in the UK musicology is too inclusive to the point of telling you nothing of what someone does, but in the US it turns into theory versus musicology when it should be “theory and analysis” versus “music history” as subdisciplines. Ethnomusicology is an even more confusing category that can include anything and it gets rather crazy. Edit: Not saying we need more subdisciplines, just clearer names for them in English

I think that was a generic Humanities email, but most movement should happen within the next four weeks. This term is so busy for me, but I already have two paid campus visits involving 14 hour flights, so it will be quite an adventurous one