Albert01

Hey, you still have other schools to come; I would not try to sugarcoat since I am in a similar shoe and partially understand how you feel and the level of stress that you suffer but still, it is ok to think about what comes next after all the results come out. As we all know it is a highly idiosyncratic procedure; you never know what would happen.

Theory - philosophy of social science (epstemology and existentialism), theory of political representation (especially in undemorcatic or non-democratic context) Methodology - collective action theory My ultimate goal is to build a theoretical, analytic framework of politicla representation based on collective action theory

Same here. Rejection from Wisconsin, nothing from Duke, Northwestern, or Princeton. Just keep waiting for UCSD and WashU. Bad thing I live on the 2nd floor.

Rutgers announced? where can I check? via Email or portal?

Congrats, good for you! I think it means that I am rejected.

Yeah, I checked and still nothing.

Not until now. I am losing hope for U minn...

Northwestern says in its FAQ, "When or how can I expect to hear of an admission decision?" as follow: "Usually by mid-February, and we do not send all decisions at the same time. The decision on your application will be communicated to you through the online application portal. Once a decision has been reached a new ‘View Decision’ link will appear. If there is not yet a decision, there will be no link. You must log into the online application portal to view your decision, you will not receive a message. You will only receive a letter if you are admitted." So it seems that the school tends to send out its decisions sporadically rather than at one-go.

Not really. I am international. That may be the factor, but still, nothing in my inbox.

Wow what a great detective, impressive reasoning!

mee tooooo.

By far, I, also an international do not get any email from duke, which makes me nervous...

Anyone heard anything from anywhere yet?

Yes, they did although in unofficial form

Plus UCSD maybe?

I don't think they would expect that applicants are able to produce any complete product (in a publishable level); and if you are able to do that, then it must be a great news for your admission. For GRE, Let me summarize the whole situation how GRE works in your application in the limit of my understanding. It mainly works as threshold; if your score is below what the committe expects you to be, then, unless your other materials (such as high grades in several math or stat courses for low Q score) compensate it, the committee may not look into your application seriously. After you pass this threshold, your SOP, WS, LOR, and other stuffs will do the rest of the work.

They must be more important than GRE, especially SOP. Proof: with 167/170, I am rejected from several schools (not even the very top-ranked). Fit seems to be very important. For the GRE importance, one thing is for sure. IF committee does not consider GRE seriously, the internationals like me who have not much things to show but GRE would not have any chance of admission. For Americans and American-educated, I am not sure.

That is somewhat ridiculous but true... I think it is because the committees want to level-out the difference between the schools and this is more true if you are from international schools. It is widely know that they minus everyone's GPA from foreign schools since committes do not trust foreign curricula (or sometimes, professors); therefore, GRE matters more for the internationals. And for the American (school-attended) students, I am not quite sure... but almost every americans who apply to the phd program tends to do well in V and AWA, and Q seems where there is difference; but unless you apply for the quant-centric program, that would not be a problem.

I mean in terms of exchange rate, GRE is much stronger but basically, yes. As long as you excelled in the math and statistic courses, your low quant score would not be a huge defect. Likewise, if you published a batch of articles (even though on the student journals), I believe that your low verbal score or AWA would be somewhat compensated.

@CandyCanes , I am no expert on this but as long as I know, two are mutually compensable.

Actually, I am ok with the verbal (167). And it is a relief to know that the 'afirmative action' for internationals (is this applying to a theory too?). Thank you. Btw what does it mean that GRE is 'flawed' this season?

Me too, actually, as an international whose mother tongue is nothing to do with english, it was hard for me to get that score haha.

Believe it or not, my score is 167/170 but wisconsin rejected me and northwestern seems to also given that I am a theory and didn't get any contact yet. You never know.

It seems that northwestern DGS is sending out the acceptances for theory now, if we believe the results page. I hope I get one since I am a theory.

Actually my acceptance from AZ came to me after 6 pm by the director. It was informal though you may learn about your status after business hour