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Congrats! What are the schools, if you don't mind me asking? I'm sure a lot of hard decisions lay ahead.

Yeah, I'm so ready to just know everything, one way or another. Then there will be no more 3am gradcafe/email checks just in case.

In my opinion, kinda low based on my remembering of the data I looked at over the weekend. Yale is most likely and will probably be within the next week, but they've trended closer to Feb 20 recently. Actually wait also very strong maybe for Columbia now that I look at the data again.

Lol me too because I applied very widely in anticipation of lots of rejection.

Lol I mean it was me, I guess my messages earlier were vague about that. I'm just surprised that no one else has heard because my portal is now updated and everything, and it's not like I've won some special wustl award or have had contact with any faculty that would warrant an early notification.

Not at all haha, I've taken 1 intro comparative course (and threw up during that final) and that's it

It could possibly just be Americanists. Of the 3 admissions I know, they're all Americanists and the email was from an Americanist.

Same, we're like admissions twins It was an email.

Cool, I just think it's odd that there is like one record on grad cafe of it. It is a small programs though, so I suppose there probably aren't very many admits.

Hey, I didn't apply to Caltech because honestly their previous math coursework recommendations were intimidating, among other reasons. I'm wondering if you've previously fulfilled all of them (presumably with stellar grades)?

Anyone have news from Washington University in St. Louis? There's only one thing this year on the survey page and it's about time we've heard from them.

Email. I don't think the application portal will be updated until the central grad school comes out with the formal offer

In at UCLA from midnight where they sent it (PST) : truly the oddest of timing.

I've gotten some emails from my subfield professors, but no specific info about the visiting day.

In my experience, every school I've gotten into provides some type of travel arrangements or reimbursement for travelling, as well as having you stay nights at a hotel or with grad students, and it almost universally seems like it's enough to make it across the country spending $0-$100 out of pocket. I wouldn't be surprised if some less-well-funded schools are not able to offer support, however.

I feel the same, but I have to remind myself it's only 12:45 on the west coast!

Yes, so much. I have a trillion emails that I haven't answered yet because I don't know what to say. I'm thinking a "I look forward to meeting with you during the visitation weekend." Honestly what I really want to ask them is about what faculty are going to move/retire and what faculty will be joining them soon, but I feel this may only be appropriate to ask in-person.

I wouldn't visit unless they invite you to the visit. I'm honestly not sure about the pro/cons of contacting the faculty.

From the results page, I only counted one wait-list -> admit on the PhD side since 2014. Of course, this was a cursory glance on mobile and also not all results are reported, but it's pretty clear that they typically waitlist a lot of people who in the end will be rejected.

People accepted later at top programs (like beyond the regular wave of accepted applicants) are almost always waitlist->accepted, not late acceptances, and had previously been notified of their waitlist status.

Definitely helpful and congrats! I wonder what the hold up is. Maybe figuring out funding packages? I know they've gotten flak before for admitting students without full guaranteed funding.

It's awesome they have things spelled out nicely like that. I wish other schools were similarly transparent about the timeline. I guess anyone who cares about Vanderbilt admissions all have that information so my guesswork is unnecessary there.

Not at all, just really a big fan of the word "y'all" and decided to jazz it up. Totally unrelated to anything political science, but English really lacks a formal "you all" single-word and it really pains me. I could use "everyone" but that's too many syllables and feels impersonal. There are regional varieties like ya'll or youse or yinz and things like "you guys" but these are all problematic in their own ways.

Did they only offer interview dates that were this week? Any mention of result dates?

Howdy y'all, welcome to another episode of "What Big Name Schools are Going to Drop Some Decisions This Next Week?" ??? Standard caveat (to be read aloud super quickly) : There are always reasons why things aren't the same year-to-year, like new having a new DGS, someone being out on vacation or an emergency, or conference timings. It is way above my paygrade to verify whether or not any of these things are at play. I do not and cannot guarantee that any results will come when they are predicted to off of historical data -- and frankly, if I could, I would be monetizing the heck out of it. These are ordered pretty much by when I expect to hear things back and that could possibly be next week: UCLA: Since 2011, results have always come by the first week of February. By all estimates, this year is on the late side for an otherwise pretty consistent school. Forecast: Very soon UC Davis: Same deal as UCLA. WashU St. Louis: I've seen as late as Feb 15, which as you would know it, is indeed next week. Forecast: some point next week. There's more variance across years for WUSTL, so don't put more money on it coming out on Monday versus Friday. UNC for those outside of the American subfield: Not sure if any of these have come out yet? The results page only indicates the American subfield. I haven't seen anything come later than about Feb 13 historically. Forecast: some point next week, possibly divided by subfield Cornell: Another high variance school. Have come out as late as Feb 26 but more often than not in about the second week of Feb. Forecast: you can get your hopes up but please not too much that we'll know by the end of the week Stanford: Looks like they try to stick around the mid-point of February give or take a few days, but have historically been as late as Feb 20th and as early as late January. Forecast: I don't know about anyone else, but I am ready to have one of my greatest hopes and dreams crushed pretty likely by Friday of this week as the Stanford math department announces that they have discovered the smallest non-zero number, and that number happens to be the same number as the Political Science department acceptance rate University of Pennsylvania: Looks like they try to keep it approximately around Feb 15-20. There's a bit of variance though. Forecast: More likely around the 18th, but possible late this next week. Columbia: More variance in more recent years, but looking at the historical release record as a whole, they seem to aim for mid-February. Forecast: We could be getting this as early as Monday next week but also maybe not for two more weeks, who knows. Vanderbilt: I believe interview requests have already gone out, and conventional wisdom is that at Vandy, no interview=rejection. They have been as early as next week but I think the interviews aren't until next week (it could be cool if someone confirmed this, I didn't apply to Vanderbilt) edit started earlier this week, so decisions probably won't come until later. Forecast: The last three years point to Feb 20-something, this is probably something worth asking in your interview if you want a better answer than this magic 8 ball I'm using an official answer Georgetown: These went out Feb 17 this year and last year. Previously they've been a trickle starting around now. Forecast: probably not until the week of Feb 17, though if we get any notification of like only 1 or 2 people hearing back, don't freak out too much Notably missing: Harvard (will almost definitely make us wait two more weeks) and Yale (has released as early as about 2/14 but that does not seem to be the recent trend. It seems like they like 2/20 more these days).