RyanHGSE17
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On 2/10/2021 at 12:15 AM, crthomps said:
@RyanHGSE17 Can't say for sure what Austin is planning to do, so I could be wrong! But this year does seem to be a whole new ballgame.
Those numbers are from the departments themselves, unfortunately. Cornell accepted 4 on 187 applications, while Chicago will take 4-6 on more than 300 applications, though I don't think those acceptances have quite gone out yet.
Holy shit that's low.
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3 minutes ago, crthomps said:
Still all quiet from Austin, though decisions should be imminent (last year it seems they were mid-late Feb). Seems like more and more decisions are rolling out early this week, so it could be any day now.
Also seems like Austin may be taking very few people though, if the numbers from schools like Cornell (4), Chicago (5), and Michigan (2) are any benchmark...
Where are you getting these numbers from? If the grad cafe results page, I'd say that's not very representative at all. Very few applicants, in our field at least, use this site.
Last year, at UT Austin, per their published admissions statistics, 54 applied to sociocultural anthro, 7 were admitted, 3 enrolled. If you head over to grad cafe results search, only 1 person posted admission to Austin Sociocultural (and only 1 other posted admission to Austin Anthro)..
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5 hours ago, LilyKitty said:
Aha, but I see two lucky candidates above having been invited to interview weekend virtually. Seems the ball rolls in its original schedule lol. Thank you so much for your informative help:).
No, as I said earlier. This year interview invitations were sent one week later than usual. This is not "its original schedule" They are always sent on the the 3rd Friday in January. But, as the third Friday in January was a holiday, they were sent in the 4th. That is not the original schedule.
Rejection and Admission notifications come at the same time for all candidates. Previously, when interviews were held in person over a weekend, sometimes faculty found ways of informally notifying candidates of their admission or favorability, in particular, for inside candidates.
Rejection and admission notices will come during the final week of February, or, if notices are delayed by one week as invites were, you will receive notification in the first week of March. All notices are sent at roughly the same time, I believe. These notices are sent formally though the Apply Web system, unless you are a Fulbright scholar.
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Third week in Feb, could be 4th this time as everything was a week delayed.
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55 minutes ago, crthomps said:
@RyanHGSE17 nothing at all yet from Austin. I know a number of us here have applied there, and no interviews or anything else have yet been posted in results. We should hear something in the next couple weeks I’d imagine.
Nice! I applied mostly to work with Christen Smith- only to learn she's basically .25 antrho, .25 Africana, and .5 directing a center. Hasn't taken anyone in anthro in years. Ha!
Was waitlisted last year- but I think it was more of a soft rejection thing.
Would love to read other folks SoPs- send me a direct message if you'd like to swap / share!
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Anyone hear from UT Austin at this point? Sociocultural Track? They're usually a little later in the game, but thought I'd ask-
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Every year for the last ... 5 years at least(?)... they've sent on the third Friday of January. That would have been last Friday. My guess is that they delayed by one week because the first Friday was a holiday (Jan 1st). Or just nobody posted their interview invite. Last year mine came around 10:30 am EST on the third Friday. Classes started one week late this year at Penn, so I would not be surprised if they simply delayed a week. Usually the faculty meet during the second week of January, then each department chair sends a list of their finalists by that Friday to the dean. Then the dean and the admin people spend about a week reviewing and confirming the finalists. Then they send out an email to all the depatment chairs with a list of all the finalists. The admin making preparations, putts together the email list. Then, that Friday, all the finalists get the email from GSE (not the septic department or advisor), inviting them to doctoral weekend (which last I understood, was still going to happen but virtually this year, for obvious reasons). Some departments start reviewing and reach decisions internally even beforewinter break, but nothing is finalized until their deadline the dean (or vice dean or whatever it is) approves it.
Very short answer, I'd imagine, if they haven't sent it yet, that wouldn't be unusual, and that they will send invites this Friday instead. Their interview invites are sent formally, everyone gets them at the same time.
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So did UT Austin do interviews for all of their Anthro tracks?
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3 hours ago, bearbonbon said:
I've had interviews so far with Stanford and Columbia (both Arch track) which I am surprised I got at all haha. Not sure if Archaeology vs Sociocultural faculty tend to do separate interview times/rounds though?
Congratulations! Yeah it's looking like Columbia and Northwestern have sent their invites already. Sad.
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8 minutes ago, UgnaHav2krythatw8 said:
Thanks
Yes, that was me. POI contacted me via email. Biocultural and medical anth. focus.
Woohoo! That's wonderful! And thanks for getting back to me. I'm hoping to hear back from the sociocultural
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15 hours ago, soupnazi said:
Has anyone heard anything from Columbia yet (interviews, decisions, etc.)? No news for me–I applied for the sociocultural track.
Looks like one person posted a Columbia interview invite. Based on past years I'd expect today or tomorrow.
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6 hours ago, UgnaHav2krythatw8 said:
I heard from Northwestern, interview weekend set for last weekend in Feb.
Thanks! Congratulations! You were the one who posted to the results? Did you hear from POI or from dept.?
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Thanks! You were the one who posted to the results? Did you hear from POI or from dept.?
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Has anyone else heard from Northwestern or UT Austin yet?
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6 hours ago, SmauelJ said:
Hi, cograts on the interview. Have you heard anything back ever since the interview? Heard from graduate students at Santa Cruz that the department all admits students without interviews... Have no idea what is this year’s policy.
I love this info.
Also, I'm so glad this thread is proving useful to folks!
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Hi all,
I wanted to start a thread for folks to post interview invites to Anthropology programs. I saw a post in results from someone invited to interview for UC Santa Cruz's Anthropology program- yet previously there seem not to be interviews. Thought this would be a good place to share our knowledge of interview notifications.
Here are the two I know:
Columbia - Expected Interview Invite Week of January 27th
Northwestern - Expected Interview Invite Week of Jan. 27th
Curious if anyone else received invites to UC Santa Cruz, or other schools you know will extend interview invites.
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On 2/20/2018 at 7:20 PM, easteregg said:
@RyanHGSE17 just want to chime in that higher ed also has the fewest number of "required" classes at Penn GSE (in case someone reading here is wondering haha). Technically no specific classes are required, just need to take 4 classes in higher ed which is similar to ECS (3 specific classes required + one research class). Friends in RWL say they are required to take like 6 or 7 classes and have a required fieldwork too.
Sorry for the confusion. That's actually not true. In RWL you have to take 3 classes, but 11 total. If you want the READING SPECIALIST CERTIFICATION, those have very specific requirements.
My impression from the website and convos with other higher ed students is it is more restrictive but it sounds like you are here and in the program and maybe know me so I'm glad it worked out.
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On 2/17/2018 at 2:34 PM, llap8 said:
Thank you for your response, that’s great to know! They did follow up pretty immediately with me, and my interview is scheduled for this coming week. Do you by chance have any insight on what to expect? I was told that the interview should be fairly informal. Thanks again!
Nope. I think it's informal and I'm quite sure you'll be fine. :-) Welcome (probably) to penn.
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On 2/16/2018 at 8:01 PM, ohrice said:
I did not. Guess I didn't get in!
#SameGirlSame
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On 1/11/2018 at 1:43 PM, ohrice said:
I had an interview with a professor from UCI back in December.
I applied to Harvard, UCLA, UCI, Stanford, Berkeley, and UPenn.
Did you hear back from Berkeley yet, by chance? I think their offers went out today.
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On 1/28/2018 at 8:39 PM, clc1520 said:
hey there! i was accepted into the M.S.Ed in Education, Culture, and Society at UPenn with a 10,000 scholarship. a few questions: do folks who have gotten in / received merit scholarships recommend asking for more aid/scholarships if other schools offer you more / have you had success with that? additionally, after merit scholarships go out, is more aid usually offered?
Hi there. Congrats on your acceptance. I go to penn and am very close with the people in that program, and very familiar with it.
I know in the past, yes, people have leveraged offers of aid at other universities to make a case for greater aid at Penn. And it has worked. You'll need to correspond directly with Jason, the director of aid at GSE.
Yes, maybe a third to half of folks in ECS are focused on academia as opposed to pragmatic study. The required courses are heavily anthropological-historical, and you're allowed great flexibility outside them. That said, this program, next to Reading Writing Literacy, has by far the fewest number of required classes. You can audit/take more pragmatic classes from the Nonprofit Leadership Development Division, too. You have 6 required courses that are entirely up to you. And you can take electives anywhere.
Best of luck.
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On 2/11/2018 at 7:49 PM, llap8 said:
Hey clc1520,
I think that’s why I’m confused. I’m seeing people say that they’ve been definitively accepted or rejected (usually around 2/5), but I haven’t seen many people say anything about an interview. Maybe the SMHC directors are somewhat unique in asking for interviews. I appreciate your kindness, I’m hoping it means I’ve made it through some sort of a cut!
Congratulations on being accepted, that’s fantastic!! We’ll see how long it takes to hear back after the interview. I don’t think I could stand waiting as long as you did, haha.
If you got an interview for the mental health counselor program, it typically means you are admitted. I go to Penn and know the chair of that dept. well. Have they just not followed up with you to arrange the interview time? Could simply be an admin snafu.
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Has anyone heard back from UC Berkeley GSE, yet? Or applied?
I emailed admissions coordinator, specifically asking if initial offers were sent out yet. She replied saying "Admission decisions have not yet gone out. Decisions should be out by the end of this month."
But it's weird, because somebody posted a result on February 7th. Anyone else have info here?
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Oh I wasn't asking about UChicago. I was asking about UT Austin.