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  1. Can anyone who's attended a visit day as a waitlisted student speak to the experience? Was it awkward meeting with faculty?
  2. I'm on the waitlist at UPenn and am attending the prospective student visit day on 3/22. Got a nice email from the DGS last month.
  3. @Schwein thank you! and sorry about that, must be frustrating! @montanem great news -- fingers crossed!
  4. @SchweinI think so. I got my acceptance back in January. I'm attending the visit day on 3/13.
  5. Visiting Cornell on 3/13 for the Sociology/Policy PhD program! Really excited.
  6. Hi all, Over the last several days I've discovered a wealth of resources on the Internet for new graduate students, many of them directly relevant to sociology. I hope this list benefits others as much as it is helping me prepare for the challenges - and enjoyment - to come. How to Get the Mentoring You Want: A Guide for Graduate Students (University of Michigan Rackham Graduate School): http://www.rackham.umich.edu/downloads/publications/mentoring.pdf Grad Skool Roolz: Everything You Need to Know about Academia from Admissions to Tenure, by Fabio Rojas (Sociology at Indiana): https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/93455 No More Lame Prosems: Professional Development Seminars in Sociology, by Chris Uggen (Sociology at Minnesota) and Heather Hlvaka, Sociology at Marquette): http://users.soc.umn.edu/~uggen/uggen_hlavka_ch_08.pdf Talk given to the First Year Graduate Student Proseminar at the University of California, Berkeley, Sociology Department, Fall 2007 (John Levi Martin, Sociology at Chicago ): http://home.uchicago.edu/~jlmartin/Talks/Notes on talk to graduate students at proseminar.pdf How to Survive Your First Year of Graduate School in Economics, by Matthew Pearson (Economics): https://law.vanderbilt.edu/phd/How_to_Survive_1st_Year.pdf How to Publish, by Kwan Choi (Economics): http://www.roie.org/how.htm Info and Advice for Graduate Students (University of Maryland, Economics): http://terpconnect.umd.edu/~limao/graduate_info.pdf Advice for First-Year Ph.D. Students in Economics at Cornell: http://www.economics.cornell.edu/graduate-program/gsafe/advice-first-year-phd-students-economics-cornell Reflections on Surviving the Academic Job Market (R. Karl Rethemeyer, Public Affairs at Albany): http://www.albany.edu/rockefeller/gateway_docs/job_market_resources/2014/ReflectionsJobMrkt_AoM_July14.pdf Graduate School Success by PhDs.org: http://www.phds.org/graduate-school-success Peter Bearman's AMA - Sociology Job Market Rumors: http://www.socjobrumors.com/topic/peter-bearmans-ama Looking forward to reading others' discoveries as well!
  7. I would contact them, esp. since you've got the time pressure. I received an email from Beverly Silver on 2/15 notifying me that the department had sent out its 4 acceptances and I was on the list of alternates. This occurred after I had emailed Linda Burkhardt on 2/8 asking for an approximate timeline and she replied, "Our committee is in the process of reviewing the applicants. We hope to have some decisions by the end of this month." Congrats on your NYU acceptance!
  8. I also found this table for Cornell - just select Sociology in the upper right: https://public.tableau.com/views/Assessment-Selectivity/Selectivity?:embed=y&:display_count=yes&:showTabs=y&:toolbar=no&:showVizHome=no
  9. Adding to the discussion, I'd like to recommend Fabio Rojas' book, Grad Skool Rulz: Everything You Need to Know about Academia from Admissions to Tenure. It's only $5 to download as an ebook. I've had my eye on it for a while and downloaded it this morning. From what I can tell, it has quite a lot to offer in a blunt and constructive way. Fabio teaches sociology at Indiana.
  10. For what it's worth, a Hopkins professor told me that "most" Princeton graduate students actually choose to live in NYC because they prefer it to living in Princeton. Good luck in your decision. My guess is you'll have a good sense of where you want to attend after the visit days.
  11. Echoing @theorynetworkculture, I'd be really curious to hear more about this from you or other current/former PhD graduate students. Specifics about your experiences working with faculty and their comparisons of graduate students, including anecdotes about dynamics or others you have heard about, would be much appreciated!
  12. I've wondered the same thing so am looking forward to hearing others' thoughts!
  13. Thanks for starting this! I'm starting to think ahead to my Cornell visit and UPenn visit and what my "strategy" will be for each.
  14. Glad Harvard didn't keep us in suspense any longer. (Also rejected. At least the email was polite.)
  15. Definitely check out Magoosh and the Manhattan Prep Quant series of books -- you'll see it in the required materials for the 6 month plan. Those two resources taught me the content (extremely well) and also helped me build strategy along the way. I started out getting 6/20 on my diagnostic and made it up to 157 which was good enough for Cornell at least (and considering I'm a qual person who wants to do mixed methods as well). Sorry Sasha but I would not recommend Kaplan - they will teach the content too quickly for a math beginner like you/us to absorb and it's very pricey. I would try to learn as much as you can using the above named resources - it can be done; set up a schedule in google drive and share it with a friend who will keep you accountable - and then shell out for a tutor if needed. I think you'll be surprised how much you'll learn and improve this way. With the Magoosh membership you can also email the expert tutors an unlimited number of times with questions.
  16. Amazing! Congratulations! Soak up ALL of the good feels!
  17. Hmm. The Harvard acceptance posted on 2/14 (states via phone call) in Results didn't specify that it was for the Joint program, so I'm pretty sure it was for the Sociology PhD program.
  18. @montanemand anyone else looking to improve their GRE score (especially quant): I highly recommend Magoosh as a prep source. I purchased the premium membership ($79 when it was on sale) and followed (imperfectly) the 6-month math beginners study plan. The Magoosh instructional math videos are GREAT. They really break down the content conceptually such that I understood math better than ever, and the practice problems were on-point. Besides the practice problems contained in each video, there's a library of over 500 math practice problems and Magoosh keeps track of amount of time spent on each question compared to what is optimal for that question, as well as subject area and difficulty. The verbal program is similar but for me I needed to make the biggest gains in math so that was my focus. There's a supportive Facebook community for Magoosh GRE students and I'm even pretty good friends with two people I met there. The other resources that the Magoosh math plan recommends also round everything out. I ended up scoring 157 on Q which was exactly my goal (reported as the average for admitted Harvard Sociology PhD students). I hope you give it a shot! I have a referral code too, but that's not at all motivating this post!
  19. I'm inferring by the language of the dept. chair's email that they've extended the first wave of offers and possibly/probably? notified others of being "alternates" (that's the term they used, not wait list) as well. It is interesting to me that UPenn invited me to their prospective students visit day (not with a stipend, but still) and Hopkins did not. Thank you! I am thrilled about Cornell; truly think it's the best place for me, and faculty have been so engaging in emails we've exchanged since my acceptance. Can hardly wait for the visit day on 3/13. Congratulations on your Penn State, Ohio State and Minnesota offers! Fantastic programs!
  20. I feel for you. There's probably no good time of day to receive a rejection email, but I can tell you that receiving my waitlist email from Hopkins (which, given context of my relationship with the department, came as a surprise) last Tuesday at 9pm, when I was trying to wind down and go to bed early after staying up way too late the night before due to excessive caffeine intake during the day, messed ALL of that up. I was awake until 2 AM. I encourage you to reach out to friends, especially those who have been through this process before, if you have them!, to help yourself process and cope.
  21. Hard to say. This is the first paragraph of the email: "I am writing to notify you of the status of your application to the Ph.D. program in Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. We are very interested in admitting you to our program, but are currently awaiting authorization from our graduate office to extend additional funded offers as we wait for responses to come in on those extended to date. If we are authorized to make additional offers in the next several weeks, we may be able to offer you a spot in our 2017-18 entering cohort, along with a very generous five-year financial-support package that I think you would find competitive with those given by other top universities."
  22. Thanks for doing that! I guess Harvard doesn't do a waitlist, per results from past years. I suppose our rejections are coming via postal service.
  23. I am. I live in Baltimore and have worked part-time with the department over the last year. Faculty were very encouraging about my prospects there, so I was pretty surprised to be waitlisted. One of my POIs replied to the Department Chair's email telling me that funding is especially tight this year and they won't know for a week or more if they'll be able to make more offers. Happy to answer any other Qs but that's about all I know.
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