soliloquy

I'm going to the prospective students' weekend visit on March 1-2! But it's only for Classical Studies as far as I know, don't know about the other programs like Classics...

Same here, I haven't heard from them yet. A coursemate of mine also applied there and hasn't heard either. After all, they say that offers are made between Jan 15 and Mar 15 somewhere on the grad school website... On an unrelated note: Cambridge has just started sending out decisions -- check your emails!

I heard from them in early March last year, that's why early February seemed overly optimistic to me...

It must be a Classics postgrad thing -- both MPhils and PhDs. At the end of my Cambridge interview, I asked my interviewer when I should expect to hear back, and they told me that decisions should be sent out in mid-to-late February -- but of course this is only admissions, not funding decisions, which (they said) will start trickling through in March and will continue all the way through May and beyond.

I'm so happy for everyone too! Fingers crossed for Villanova, keep us posted I got into Columbia, that was definitely one of my dream choices!!! I'm very tempted to accept, but am still waiting to hear back from Princeton and Cambridge, also my top choices... it's weird though, I haven't heard anything at all from Princeton, don't they even do interviews?

I'm not sure yet, I love their program but I'd so much prefer a good ol' Skype interview rather than having to fly there from England... especially at such a hectic time of the year! Are you? Congrats to you and to everyone, by the way!

I got Reed's email too!

Omg congratulations, that's an incredible round indeed! which program did you apply to at Berkeley? I went for AHMA and am still waiting to hear back... I'd love to, but it's quite a long trip from across the pond! I'll think about that

It was me, actually! I'm so happy did anyone else hear back?

I'm afraid I have no idea...

As a current student as well as recent interviewee I'm fairly expert on this The interview is divided into three parts: first they ask you generally about your interests and past work, then they discuss your proposal with you -- methodology, approach, impact etc -- and finally they try to identify with you your training needs -- hands-on archaeology, epigraphy, German, numismatics, you name it. Let me stress that the final part is IN NO WAY intended to spot your weaknesses and use them against you: admitting that you can't even read German, for example, will not impair your application, since the Faculty is well equipped to cater for that need once you're in. The point here is assessing your own ability to identify the areas you need to work on, especially with respect to your future research.

I have the same problem with Berkeley: I saw on the results page they have already started sending out some decisions, but haven't heard anything at all so far!

Hello! Long time lurker, new poster. I've applied to a bunch of Classics (Ancient History) programmes on both sides of the pond: in the last two weeks I had interviews with Penn, Chicago and Cambridge, and will soon have one with Columbia. Today I found out I've been put on the wait list at Chicago... which is not bad news per se, but I'm a bit bummed nonetheless, mainly because this one is the first actual feedback I receive this season. good luck everyone, let's support each other!