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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!!

I don't know what NYU is doing -- is this the same as Admit Weekend, or is it for everyone who's applied? Everywhere I was admitted last year had Admit Weekends (or Weekdays), and I know we're having one this year. I didn't encounter anywhere where they had an Applicants' Weekend, although some places said I was welcome to drop by if I wanted to meet faculty or something (I didn't).

That's "far fewer" than this year's cohort (we have 20), yes, but only slightly smaller than

No, I'm not a grad student liaison. We first-years had a meeting with the Director of Graduate Studies yesterday to discuss how our first year's going and to prepare for our Spring Review. One of the things we talked about was the economic situation of the university & dept. Someone asked whether the economy had affected the size of this year's admitted cohort, and that's when the DGS said that the decisions were made last week and that notifications were going out. If you guys have any questions about Stanford, or about the app process in general, feel free to get in touch w/me. I definitely know how stressful this month is, and since I applied to WAY more schools last year than I needed to, I do have (year-old) experience with some schools' admit-reject dates/means of notification/etc. I'm only really here at the moment because I'm procrastinating, lol, but I'm always happy to talk to prospectives (and to admits! I'm really hoping to get an admit in my field. )

As a Ph.D. student myself, I'm personally getting antsy to see who our admits are going to be (I know, I could just wait until Visit Day in March, but...), so if I'd been in contact with an applicant I might contact them again just to see how they're doing, see if they've heard from our department, etc. It seems a little much to think a grad student might be doing a little spy work like you imply in your second option, but given that I know a lot of depts. are cutting back on their admit class this year, I suppose it could be possible. If you're worried about that, you could just email back something pleasant and upbeat reiterating your interest in the program but not mentioning whether or not you have any admission offers yet.

Last year's cohort was larger than normal. We're not taking a number that large, but I believe we're taking a number comparable to previous years.

Well, I don't know exactly when you'll be notified. I believe it's normal to have advisors make the congratulatory email, so times will vary. And I don't really know when rejections come through, or how that happens. All I know is that decisions have been made and people are being notified.

Decisions have been made. Notifications are going out now.

I would definitely go to the US school. With all the pluses going for it, there's no reason to shell out that much money for a degree which will let you enter a market this bad.

I declined Yale and Cornell today; I don't know if either have waitlists but if they do there's a History spot open. Hope that helps y'all!

Entering the Ph.D. program in History. See you all there!