[2018 Applicant Profiles and Admissions Results]

On 3/7/2018 at 11:35 AM, student_s said:

Heard a rejection from Stanford, 

Did anyone hear from UT Austin or Colorado mines?

Which program did u apply in stanford?

[About UCB ESPM phd program]

15 hours ago, Atayac said:

I'm no authority on the issue so please take this with a grain of salt, but if you weren't invited to the visit day your chances are probably thin. I met someone who was at the visit day but was still wait-listed. 

Thank u but I am an international student,so I have no idea.sigh....

[About UCB ESPM phd program]

On 2/12/2018 at 4:22 AM, Atayac said:

I applied, went to the visit day, and was notified via email that I was officially admitted on February 9th. I know of some folks who went to visit day but still haven't been notified of admission, so I'm not sure where things stand. Best of luck to you none the less!

Hi,does that mean even students without interview may have the chance getting admission? So so anxious.......

[About UCB ESPM phd program]

1 hour ago, rilkehayden said:

I applied!  The interview day was on January 22nd, although I think they had limited funds to bring people to interview, so it's not an absolute no if you weren't invited.  I haven't heard anything official yet.  Good luck!

So anxious.......are there many students getting invited to interview? I felt I had no chance.....:(

[About UCB ESPM phd program]

Has anybody applied for ESPM phd program in uc Berkeley this year? Did u get interview ? Any results? 

 

So anxious for long long waiting .........

[Fall 2018 Admission]

On 1/26/2018 at 12:56 AM, semling said:

Hello All,

Was enjoying reading all your posts, so I thought I'd introduce myself. I'm applying to 3 PhD programs in Arabic (all called different things, though), and one in Linguistics. I have a masters in Arabic from Georgetown, where I focused on Arabic linguistics. I'm an older student and have a lot of work experience and such, which I'm hoping makes me "interesting" in a good way, and not "oh, well that's ... interesting." I have little kids and a spouse with their own career, which makes things a bit more complicated. I'm also giving up a steady, prestigious, fairly well-paying job to live in penury as a graduate student and then join the bloodbath that is the academic job market ... The things we do for love, right?      العربية  

In my current job, I've had the opportunity to participate in admission committee discussions and interviews for a to-be-unnamed Ivy League university, and even though it was undergrad admissions, I feel like it's given me a lot more insight into how the sausage is made, so I'm probably a bit less freaked out by this whole process.

So far three of my applications are still inside the black hole they were sucked into as soon as I hit "submit", but I did have an interview with Yale a couple weeks ago. Which was a relief since I submitted the Yale application two weeks late (I was originally planning on applying to a different department that had a 12/31 deadline, then decided at the last minute to switch to Linguistics, which had a 12/15 deadline). But no one's reading applications over the holidays anyway, and luckily they were understanding about the situation. I feel like the interview went pretty well. (I had a single kicking-myself-afterwards, why-did-I-say-that moment, but I sent a follow-up email clarifying what I meant to say, so hopefully no harm no foul.) When I asked how many interviews they were doing, the prof told me that they were interviewing 12 candidates, with the plan to admit 7 and hopefully matriculate 3. Which I figure puts my odds at 58% — a heartening improvement from pre-interview single digits, I'm sure.

Aside from Yale (which is an awesome fit for me), one of the other programs is also a great fit, one is a good fit but for different reasons, and the fourth is probably a bit of a stretch. I don't think my other three schools do interviews (at least as far as I can tell from the results board from previous years), so I probably won't hear anything until the decisions are made. But in corresponding with one of the professors at the other "great fit" school before I applied, he confirmed that my interests give me a "strong standing as an applicant" and he looked forward to reviewing my application "with enthusiasm". So that sounds like a good sign, right?

Also, when I asked the Magic 8 Ball app on my phone if I'd get into Yale it said "Count on it!"  So I figure it's pretty much a done deal. 

But the waiting is hard ... I have wasted way too much time trying to read the tea leaves on this site ... And I know I'm probably not going to hear back from Yale for another week or two (prof said mid-Feb at latest), and probably another month for the other three, so I don't know why I'm grinding on it now ...

Hi,what is your major or what do u apply in Yale?