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Historically OSU has had issues funding all of their students, i believe they make those decisions near the visit date. If your letter doesn't talk about it i'd reach out to the DGS and ask.

that's cool and all, and sounds interesting, but what i'm saying is that no one on this forum or really anywhere will be able to say if you have good fit or not. The only people who will know are in the Adcomm. There are so many variables that we, as applicants, have no control over. For example, the faculty member that you cited may be leaving on sabbatical, switching schools, changing research areas, or may simply have too many students to work with. At the same time the Adcomm may already have accepted students studying your topic and may want a more balanced class or something like that. As i said your profile looks pretty good, i don't see any blaring issues. Plus it's good that you applied to schools with more then one faculty member. But again, at this point the unknown factor has taken over.

You seem to have a good profile, but the one thing that you can't really tell us is honestly the most important thing, and that's fit. It generally comes down to that, how you fit in with the faculty and their research interests.

Haha ya. That Feb 15 deadline for Tulane looks awfully nice right about now.

Bruh it's horrible. At work i don't really do stuff for 90% of the day so most of my time is refreshing this and the results page.

yup. I am

NOPE, haven't heard anything. According to the results page for past years they release through their website, so i've been checking it like every hour or so.

So, I can only speak from what I saw last year, but northwestern really blows when it comes to notifying applicants. I think last year they stretched it all the way to March before they told folks. It really sucks the way they do it. i think a lot of you guys will unfortunately be waiting a while for a closure with them ?

Definitely think they are better then OSU. Like a badger is way better then a Nut

Did they ask y’all if you have outside funding?

omg that's so evil

yeeeeeeeee. i noticed that too. I'm hoping that today and tomorrow will be exciting, but i think next week will have more action.

Lol same thing happened to me. Rejected from all 6 i applied to. I'm also less obsessive than last year, but i think a major reason for that is the fact that this time around i actually have a job so i have something to do for 8 hours a day, as opposed to last time when i was a college senior with A-LOT more free time. Best of luck to you this time around!

That is what it looks like. In the past they've started to accept people around the 25th all the way to the 31st. And thanks! Lord knows i need it.

It looks like CU Boulder will also release before Feb. Or at least that's what i'm hoping

No problem!

You should probably head over to the "government affairs" forum under the professional programs section. This one is mostly talking about political science program that lead into academia.

I think in general starting next week we will see a lot more decisions. It seems that most schools that get back to students in Jan do it after the 20th.

Welp today's the 15th, good luck to everyone who had admissions deadlines today!

Looks like there is another Cal posting. Anyone claim it? or is it another spam?

I applied to six PhD programs, all in the US. My focus is on security studies.

So i know that its super unlikely that they would be released this early, and it appears as they are fake as no one in the forums has stepped forward and claimed any of the decisions, but there are just so many posted that it seems super strange. In the past people have posted like one or two Harvard acceptances this early as a troll, but i don't think there has ever been that many fake posts. So either they are real and its just a coincidence that no one here has had any, or someone is really really bored.

As others have said that's fine. Most programs do not require calc or anything that advanced. Stats and research methods are whats generally expected by adcomms. There are some notable programs (Rochester, NYU, maybe a few others) that are very math oriented which will want to see some advanced math, so just avoid those.

Ooooohhhhhh. you right. More have populated. Guess they just decided to come out super early, which is nice.