eggsalad14
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Understandable about your perspective of withdrawing. I guess I drew upon my own undergrad experience with withdrawing an application from a school, and it was definitely out of a "F you, I got into somewhere better and I don't care if you reject me because I reject you" mindset for me (I promise I've since matured). Understandably, things are much different in grad school where rankings are somewhat less arbitrary than undergrad rankings, and faculty members don't seem to hold grudges as badly as undergraduate offices of admission. My bottom line is still that it's probably not that big a deal, and if it were, admission committees would do something about it. And that my intense curiosity as to whether or not I got into Eastern Western North Dakota State University is going to get to me, even if I get into Harvard tomorrow. Cohortwise yeah I did mean in general and on average. I know there's always some year to year compensating for deficiencies in the last year even at schools as high ranked as Duke. I wasn't aware that some schools could only put out a certain number of offers (seems weird because you'd think at the heart of the matter is the money they ultimately give out, not the total amount of people accepted). I'm no advocate of small government but wow that is some big government bureaucracy ??
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Depends on what you mean by "normal." Is it within the realm of possibility? Yes. Does it happen to some people every year? Yes. Was there some guy last year that applied to 15-20 places and got rejected by his safety schools but into NYU and like, Arizona only? Yes. Assuming you're in at Madison, rejected at Berkeley and GWU, you can't interpolate that you'll only have one acceptance come the end of everything. Obviously it depends on your stats and written parts of your application, but Berkeley probably has among the lowest general acceptance rates of the schools you've applied to. Apparently according to someone earlier in this thread GWU only takes 4 Americanists and they're not a methods school whatsoever so you get a double whammy of weirdly low subfield acceptance rate and maybe not the best fit. UCSD, UNC, WUSTL and Vanderbilt are definitely peer schools to Wisconsin so I'd be surprised if you didn't get some bites there. The rest are kinda crapshoots for anyone but still definitely possible to get into them.
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Because theory is largely the least popular field in terms of number of people. Job prospects are bad, a lot of people who would do political theory do phds philosophy instead, and a lot of programs don't even have programs in theory.
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TIL I am an affirmation junkie But sort of joking aside, I kind of agree with you on some points but think maybe it's a little extreme. It definitely doesn't make sense to attend visits for schools that you 100% know you won't attend. I'm sure people do it, but doing it makes no sense unless you're trying to like accrue airline miles or visit that city in itself (and don't actually go for these reasons). But it's a waste of time all around. Still in school? You'll have to miss class, miss time to binge drink/work on your thesis. Have a job? That means you need to take PTO or get less in your next paycheck. Plus, you'll have to sit around in presentations that have no relevance to you, and lie about actually considering that school. This is why I want to add on a little piece of my own advice: make sure you're scheduling your visits at places where you're really considering, even if it means waiting a bit for more decisions. Sometimes (especially if you're waiting for Stanford or Harvard, who are kind of late sometimes) this isn't completely possible if other schools have RSVP deadlines, but what I generally mean is don't schedule your Wisconsin visit the day you get admitted, when you applied to the entirety of the top 15. On withdrawing before hearing anything back from certain schools -- it sounds maybe kind of eager to let others know "I got into somewhere better than you, I need to let you know your school has no chance now" in my opinion. If schools are really concerned about their yield and about how long it takes to make funding packages, they ought to do what I've heard Emory (used to?) does: call up applicants and ask if you'd like to still be considered for admission. Besides, virtually every school uses a waitlist -- they'll get the cohort they want regardless of if you withdraw your application now or decline on April 14. But also, I've paid over $100 each to apply to schools, I think I should be entitled to a decision. I like to think the costs of making award packages are built into that fee. Again, if it's really a burden for programs, they can shoot me an email and I'll happily click "I no longer wish to be considered at The University of Northern Southern West Virginia." That being said, yes, don't wait until April 14 or 15 to say no to places that aren't on your radar. This is universally good advice regardless of any circumstance. It's the kind thing to do -- you're going to save an anxious young adult a lot of stress.
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it's an old one, but it's fairly comprehensive and based on my sample size of 2 that I currently know, it's quite accurate (ya know, accounting for the fact that 2012 and 2019 don't line up exactly on the same days of the year vs day of the week)
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I thought there was a good thread that I found a while back. When I'm home I can try to find it for you.
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Sorry I realized I sounded more hostile than I meant to be. My big point is really that if you wait a bit, you'll have a lot more info about where you've gotten into, and which schools you're really considering. Ticket prices don't jump too much until maybe 2-3 weeks before the flight, so you'll be okay if you don't have 12 contingency plans right this moment.
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Lol I feel like this is really getting ahead of ourselves. There's a thread awhile back that has some old visit dates, and I'd be surprised if they deviated much from previous years. Top schools will try hard to not make theirs intersect.
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Have you tried clearing your cache and cookies? I've heard that sometimes solves things. I mean, I understand sending out some rejections first (people who don't make it past the first round), but it makes less sense to send out wait lists and rejects first, because by virtue of knowing who has a wait list and a rejection, they must also already know who is accepted.
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They've never gotten back this early in the year. We probably have at least a week or two iirc
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I think it might be too early to come off that anxious about it. And a lot of wait lists aren't ordered in a nice way -- it could very easily be a "if this one student who studies the influence of tubas in Latin American elections says no to us, and everyone who says yes to us is a dude, we'll admit latam tuba chick." An email reiterating that that school is a top choice for you could be good.
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I have no stake in the UVA game, but has it only been wait lists and rejections that have come out? Interesting because those are hardly ever the first out. Maybe those without options on their portals are acceptances.
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I'm pretty sure they mostly mean flight, as I know that's something a lot of schools won't do for international students
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Shortly like today or like the next week?
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Got a portal update for Berkeley. Those who haven't heard yet might have something too, not sure
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Oh boy do I not miss those days I spent on college confidential though. (shout out to the undergrads that rejected me on that same ivy league decision date, y'all missed out)
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Not personalized aside from what someone can easily do with a mail merge. It still says submitted.
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American/methods. Idk how time zone would play a part.
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Lol big jk just got a Berkeley acceptance haha
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I'm guessing at this point by the lack of other people reporting, it's probably either a special case or a troll, not the floodgates of Berkeley opening up.
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That's what I meant, yeah. Mine just says submitted.
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I think the entire phenomena of being paranoid about admissions is somewhat American (and if you don't believe me, look up "college confidential"), and I assure you that students with foreign degrees do get into grad schools.
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Someone on the results page. Not me or anyone I personally know haha
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Someone reported a Berkeley admit via email... There's nothing on my Berkeley account as of right now. Can anyone confirm?
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Not at all personalized other than having my name instead of "dear applicant," but I received it maybe 1/2 hour after that one person reported it on the survey results.
