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  1. @mrs12 Haha no worries! And I'm guessing I wasn't their first choice as they only notified me of the Fellowship a few weeks ago, presumably after someone else turned them down lol. But yea good luck on your interview, I'm sure you'll get the fellowship!
  2. @mrs12 Thank you so much! I'm leaning towards Yale rn as they just offered me a 25k fellowship, so it's pretty hard to say no to. Lol I'm guessing someone turned them down for Harvard or Stanford (thanks to whoever that was!) Columbia and Georgetown didn't give me anything so it'll be really expensive, but I'm still gonna go check them out at the open houses. Maybe I'll see you there! (at Georgetown) Sorry for the late reply btw, its been kinda hectic! I'm at the Midwest Slavic Conference rn at OSU, it's a really great event!
  3. Btw both Columbia and UIUC came out and I got into both @mrs12 Are you planning on going to the open house?
  4. Just a heads up for those who applied to Georgetown -- the decisions are out! And I got in!
  5. @Procfev Stanford's decision just came out, check your email. Lol I didn't get in - I guess that makes my decision easier, either Yale, or UT Austin full ride. Unless I get into Georgetown and/or Columbia and they offer me $$
  6. @Procfev Congrats on getting the Harriman interview! I'm not sure about Stanford, but I was expecting it to be later as their deadline was later than the others. Looking at the past decision dates I'd say it'll probably be out within the next couple weeks...? So where else did you apply? And how's Moscow? I was there this time last year
  7. Lol I didn't get in :/ oh well, not super salty about it, still got Yale, and UT Austin w/ full ride. Let's see how I do with Georgetown, Stanford, Columbia, and UIUC lol
  8. @JN53 Will do! Lol still nothing in my inbox and the portal hasn't updated either. And I think I'm probably gonna try to visit Austin and New Haven over spring break to check out the cities and if possible the programs. @lawine Yea I'm honestly surprised and really grateful! And lol yea when I saw the 9 years of experience plus 2 regional languages I was pretty intimidated too haha that's a hell of a profile! Кстати, I just saw someone post that they got waitlisted today on the results section, didn't state their profile though.
  9. @JN53 @lawine Wow congratulations you guys!!! That's incredible! Do you guys mind saying at around what time you guys got the email? I haven't heard anything yet and I've been refreshing my email like every few minutes for the past couple days :/ Ughh I don't wanna jinx it but I'm guessing that's probably not a good sign. Блиннн... At this point I'd be happy with a waitlist tbh... lol
  10. @katieb93 I'm sorry to hear about all this :/ But when I was asking my advisor about applying to grad programs, she said if I don't get into my top choices, a method of gaining entrance is to take graduate classes there as a non-degree student or work as a research assistant for the professors you wanna work with -- this way you would established those relationships that would help you get in.
  11. I'm still waiting to hear back from UIUC! Haha did your profs mention when they're gonna send out decisions? Or if you remember when you heard back when you applied? Just asking cuz their deadline was relatively early (1/1). But I actually applied for the MA in REEES not the European Union Studies program, but I imagine there's a lot of overlap between that program and yours...? The program at Yale also has a wider scope than the other programs -- covering not just CIS/former USSR but also EU -- so I'm guessing it's similar to the program you're finishing up now.
  12. @lawine Oh wow congrats on the Advanced Opportunity Fellowship and 5k for summer research! And thanks for the offer, I'll drop you a line about Wisconsin, but I'm mostly concerned with employability post-MA -- u know it being a terminal degree and all... I have no desire in going further into academia, and instead would like to get a think tank policy gig focused on the region or something in the private sector would be cool too. @ignoredfab Thanks for your input, really appreciate it! I didn't apply to Princeton precisely due to their lack of a formal Master's program, but would've loved to apply... it seems that maybe they had an MA program before but it's not a thing anymore lol Yeah when applying I looked on the different sites to read about the different professors and included some I'd potentially like to work with in my SOPs, but didn't get around to actually contacting any of them though. Yale's website isn't that user friendly tbh, hard to distinguish between the REES professors from the ones who are not, so one of these days I'm gonna take a closer look -- because I mean as the most prestigious school I've gotten into so far, unless I get a full ride at OSU or get into Harvard or Stanford, it'd definitely be my top choice. Also, I've heard good things about Chicago and Berkeley in this field, but when I looked for programs, it seemed like they have discontinued MA programs in REES. Chicago has some Russian-focused programs through broader social science degrees I think, but it didn't resemble the other programs, so I didn't end up applying. And Berkeley's REES just straight up doesn't have website that worked :/ And yeah in my interview with Harvard they asked who I'd like to work with, so I'd say it's pretty important!
  13. By the way, on a separate note, for those of you really familiar with this field, how do these programs rank in terms of prestige? I know of course the prestige of the institution as a whole matters to an extent (Harvard Stanford Yale Columbia Georgetown being the most prestigious obviously, possibly in that order?), but in the field of Russian/Eastern European/Central Asian regional studies, which departments outside of these elite universities are also considered prestigious? I've heard Indiana and Wisconsin are very top-notch in this field, but how about all the others?
  14. @mrs12 Thanks! And I feel you! Feels like February's just been dragging on... can't wait for March for the decisions to all come out! @lawine Yo me too!! I got the email from Yale this evening and it was such a pleasant surprise, really improved the crappy week I've been having haha (stuck in a group project with group members who don't do work). I'm beyond overjoyed by this, and can't really believe it! My letter also didn't mention anything about funding, and document about financial aid from the link provided in the letter says that fellowships will be mentioned in the letter, so I'm guessing we didn't get nominated for the university fellowships :/ But FLAS is separate from that I believe, so you'll probably hear back about it later. Oh and I got into IU Bloomington too, with a 5k per year fellowship, but possibly more funding options may be released later.
  15. @lawine Congrats! I've also heard back and gotten into Wisconsin and Kansas. Haven't heard anything from any of the other schools yet though. So is it safe to say if you didn't get an interview with Columbia that you're not gonna get any funding from them? But still could get in? I'm expecting to hear back soon from Indiana (submitted app at the same time as my app to Ohio State) but apparently they send decisions out through snail mail only... lol
  16. Sorry for the late reply - school just started back up for me. But wow your focus area sounds so cool! I'm actually also not interested in going into academia, and just intend on getting a terminal master's to gain more regional knowledge (and improve my language skills) before going into either business/consulting or some non-profit/think tank (ideally haha) that is engaged with the region. I also actually just got my first acceptance to Ohio State a couple days ago! I'm so happy about it, and it really helped relieve my stress haha though I don't know about funding yet, they'll release that later. Also, have you heard anything from Georgetown? I had to check with their grad admissions office a couple times to make sure my transcripts were "received" -- I think it's all set now lol. And speaking of Georgetown, if we both are lucky enough to get in, we might see each other there! I was also looking on their website and it appears that they enroll 12-18 students every year, they might accept more to account for those who decide to not attend? I wonder how many people apply every cycle...?
  17. @mrs12 Great to see another applicant in the field! I've studied abroad in Russia and wrote a couple term papers relating to Russia, but I'm interested in the wider region too, specifically Ukraine, Georgia, and the conflict with Russia over NATO. I have some minor coursework on Kyrgyzstan and Ukraine, so I'd be down to learn more about them too. I've only studied Russian though, but would be interested to learn other regional languages in grad school. I was only gonna apply to the Davis Center program, but my advisor suggested that I apply broadly to maximize my chances, so I pretty much spent my whole winter break working on applications. I did Georgetown too (the 500 word limit for the SOP killed me tbh lol), Indiana's REEI, Wisconsin's CREECA, Stanford's CREEES, UWashingon REECAS, Yale Macmillan Center's European and Russian Studies MA, Columbia Harriman Institute's MA, Kansas REES, NYU's Russian/Slavic Studies, Ohio State's CSEES, UT Austin's CREEES, and Illinois Champaign's REEEC. I'm pretty nervous about my chances so I applied to all these schools hoping that I would at least get into one (fingers crossed), the application fees were so expensive though... Since you're applying for Turkic Studies, does that mean your focus is on Kyrgyzstan and the other countries in Central Asia?
  18. Hi everyone! Is anyone else applying to master's programs in area/regional studies in Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia? Any past applicants or people currently in these programs? Also, I have a 10 min interview with the REECA program at the Davis Center this friday and was just wondering if anyone has any advice on what I should expect, how I should prep for it etc.
  19. Hi, So I just recently submitted one of my applications, my writing sample was 20 pages (22 including bibliography) but the program website said the limit is 10-15 pages. The application page listed 20 as the page limit though (probably for other programs). How screwed am I? Is this an automatic ding from adcom?
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