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Yeah, it's smaller than our last three years. (2015: 24, 2014: 26, 2013: 21.)

Well, it's a small group - not everybody does gradcafe, haha. They gave us the go-ahead to contact the admits and woo them into coming, so I'd imagine that most if not all POIs have been in touch already. The department is pretty on top of these things - I doubt they'd want an admit finding out about their admission from Mary Sue Third-Year.

They didn't include the country breakdown on the East Asia admits this year (they sometimes do). If you're wondering if you're on there, PM me your first name or surname and I can verify. I don't know how many applied, sorry. I'm not on the admit committee, just get the department emails, lol. (I'm ABD.)

Nope, not on the list. We took two last year, and they both came. So my guess is that it wasn't EME's turn. (I am not plugged into the nitty-gritty of admit decisions though.)

Don't know if this has already been mentioned (I only checked the last five pages), but Stanford sent out its list of admits to current students just now. We took 15, and we've been given the green light to contact them, so I assume POIs have been in contact already. Field breakdown: Britain - 1 East Asia - 2 History of Science - 1 Jewish History - 1 Latin America - 1 Middle East and Central Asia - 1 Medieval - 1 Modern Europe - 1 Russia/E. Europe - 1 United States - 5

Just to tidy up this conversation, our Chair officially emailed us yesterday that Fiona Griffiths (who was visiting from NYU) will be with us permanently. Thus the admission of a medieval admit, because the program is underway once more. (This is what I had heard unofficially but didn't want to confirm until I had official word.)

I can't give details, but I just got a PM that shared some info, and the medievalist admit at Stanford should be fine. Sorry to be vague.

Yeah, it would be. On the other hand, we have crazy good stipends and support & a big institutional name, and if the student has at least a secondary field connection with a professor already here, they might be willing to go for it. [support info, for the record: five years at $28K annually (plus four years summer support, an additional $5K each summer), tuition, health insurance (really good coverage, includes things like trans surgery), conferences and research travel (3 grants for each, $1500 for each grant - so $9K total).]

Yeah, Stanford. I don't know what's going on with the medievalists - we had a search in early 2013 and I know we made an offer, but I think it didn't work out. But they have an admit on the list, so who knows. Maybe one of the Early Modernists is looking after them; Baker, Stokes, or maybe Findlen (Early Modern Europe) or Como (Early Modern Britain) might be possibilities. The admit does early religious stuff (to be incredibly vague/circumspect). Perhaps we're running another medieval search soon, and they're accepting this kid with the expectation that they will soon have a proper POI. (It's not absolutely critical to have a POI around first year; I know people whose POI's were on sabbatical their first year, and they turned out fine.) One thing to keep in mind is that we need TA's for undergraduate classes. If they're expecting to have a medievalist soon, they need to accept a medievalist grad student this year so he/she will be ready to TA next year (we don't TA first year).

Sorry, no idea about that. I'm not involved with the Graduate Admissions Committee. I almost volunteered, but I think it's unpaid and this dissertation isn't going to write itself.

Yeah, I was a bit surprised by that myself, so I looked into it - two years ago we enrolled one Korea historian and last year we accepted a Japanese historian, a Japan/Korea historian, and a Chinese historian (not sure how many of those three enrolled). So it was China's turn, I'd guess (especially if the enrolled Chinese historian last year didn't accept our offer).

US is always our biggest field. It took 5 admits this year. Other fields - Africa (1), Britain (1), EME (2), East Asia (3 - all China this year), History of Science (2), Jewish (1), Latin America (1), Middle East/Central Asia (2), Medieval Europe (1), Modern Europe (2), Russia/E. Europe (2), Transnational/International/Global (1).

Current Stanford grad students were emailed the list of admits this evening. Congrats to anybody who's on it. We took 24 admits (happy to break down by field if anyone wants to know - most fields only take one or two).

I also saw an applicant from my very small undergrad school on there. I could probably figure who it was out if I tried hard enough. That table seems like a very handy, simple INTERNAL way to know at a glance everyone's statuses (although if it was internal they could also have applicants' names on there). But I really don't think it's such a good idea to have it out there on the public Internets...

This post made me so happy for you! Congratulations!!