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My area is South Asia. Feel free to PM me to discuss - would be happy to help.

I'm finding it so hard to decide right now. I'm in a situation where my MA program has offered me the option to continue to a PhD, which is great because it is one of my top choices, I really like the department (faculty is approachable), the graduate students are friendly, no cut-throat competition, and a mix of TA/fellowship funding for four years. The kink is that if I do continue, then I can switch my status from MA to PhD now, apply for summer preliminary research funding etc and all those deadlines are in a few weeks. This means that the sooner I decide I can just get started on those things. On the other hand, I haven't heard from two other programs ( which are top 10 and top 20ish schools). Ideally, I would have liked to wait till I heard from everywhere to finally decide but since I have these formalities to complete at my current institution, I'm just stressed! My gut feeling is to just continue in this program because I do like it here, but somewhere in my mind there's a "what if?" and "will I regret jumping into this?". Ugh.

I do feel like they're so slow this year! I tried contacting some of the schools I applied to but none of them really said anything about an expected timeline.

Thanks for your response! Good luck with your applications.

The anxiety is real! Sigh, here's to the beginning of yet another week...

Those who interviewed at Brown, could you share your subfield please? Thank you!