taraeh
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Just got put on the "short waitlist" at CUNY with invitation to admitted students day- will anyone be denying acceptance??? Anybody have any idea how their waitlist works? Already live in Manhattan and would LOVE to go there.
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19 hours ago, e2e4 said:
cuny also made contact with me today -- details re visit day. no letter though..
So you didn't get an official acceptance? Just a letter asking you to come to visit day? When is visit day?
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I just had a missed call from a NYC number. Looked it up and it was from CUNY. I called them back and they said they have no idea why I have a missed call and they don't call pending applicants. Disappointing... yet, mysterious.
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11 hours ago, niceward said:
Just curious... Anyone else applying to CUNY, Rutgers, JHU, Brandeis, or Brown? I've yet to hear from any of them. All theory subfield.
I applied to CUNY, Rutgers and Brown... I expect Brown any day and Rutgers mid Feb and CUNY in March. LONG wait left. Also still waiting on Cornell, Columbia, Yale and The New School.
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1 hour ago, Dwar said:
Thank you so much!
ALSO, I'm not seeing any rejections out yet, so not sure what that timeline will be, but I do know that CU likes to hold a large waitlist so if you don't receive either an acceptance or rejection then I would assume you're on that. I know last year they drew alot of students from it.
Dwar you got in to CU??? WOOHOO!!! Excited to hear that! Two years of this and it paid off! My fingers are crossed I get similar news - I can't possibly come back a third year.
- niceward, Dwar and GabriellaG
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I just received my rejection from Northwestern. Super bummed - it was my #1 and I networked the hell out of the department. They emailed me to check website- I applied for CP.
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I actually think the northwestern admits are accurate. They often put very little weight on the GRE and a good GPA from a good school goes a long way (which the previous low GRE post had). A lot of people don't know about this forum and only check the results page which is why people have conversations on there instead of here. Last year they came in one wave about the third week of Jan too. I hope I am wrong - but I have lost a bit of hope at this point.
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13 hours ago, StarkDark1 said:
I see that 4 or 5 people have already got acceptances.... some of them on Friday of last week. Seems a bit early compared to previous years. Starting to feel nervous. ? Congrats to those who were accepted though.
This is best asked on the 2019-2020 application thread. There are about nine pages of discussion regarding acceptances and what schools are posting when.
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1 hour ago, Dwar said:
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!
Yes! We are back again this year Dwar. I was finishing grad school at Columbia last year and OBSESSED about getting in somewhere because I forgot what life was like without school and didn't know what else I could possibly do. Now, fortunately, I am making quite a bit of money, traveling for work, writing, and teaching back at Columbia. I would love to get into a program but feel equally satisfied with the direction life is going and am realizing that I can do a lot of things without a PhD that I thought I needed a PhD for... imagine that. Best of luck to everyone!
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23 hours ago, Morning123 said:
I am also waiting each day for responses from GW and UNC, as it seems it was around this time in previous years that they sent results. How are you all coping with the stress and uncertainty? I am especially afraid of being rejected from all ten places I applied to, although I know it's a scenario I should prepare for. Would appreciate any words of wisdom!
Last year I was rejected from all eight schools that I applied to. It was horrible. Good news, if that happens, it makes the second time around less stressful! I am nowhere near as obsessive this year as I was last year and it gave me time to make my application that much better. We still have a long ways to go - hope for the best and prepare for the worst.
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8 hours ago, harshz3792 said:
The post says accepted via Phone on 23rd January. I think whoever posted it forgot that 23rd is tomorrow!
They could also be in Asia and actually received the call on the 23rd.
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14 minutes ago, sloth_girl said:
Below is a table I made using previous year's admissions data. I know Wisconsin told me they would have decisions by end of the month.
This is everything. Thank you SO much.
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2 minutes ago, TiKei said:
Hi. Just as I was reading this.. puff- (1) Inbox... Alas, another rejection... [edit: just so we're clear-- a rejection from Northwestern!]
Best wishes~
Seriously!??!?! BUMMER! I have so much homework and so little focus. The (0) Inbox is distracting...
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C'mon Northwestern!!!! What the heck?? Waitlisted? Rejected? Something? ANYTHING? It was my greatest hope, and my last hope... funny how that works.
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Ok so I just went up and spoke to them (Columbia) and they said they will be rolling out admits/declines over the next two weeks. I tried to pry more but she wasn't having it. I did confirm though that it is not sent by subfield - she input them in "the system" and the "the system" sent them usually within 24 hours and all decisions had not been made - she was inputting as she received them. I think all of our assumptions based on previous years are deeply flawed...
- GiornoGiovanna, Onwarrdz and Dwar
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Did Columbia's email come from a Ms. Achar? That is where I am heading now.
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1 minute ago, Onwarrdz said:
I'm assuming if we haven't heard from Columbia it's a rejection? One of the entries on the survey page says it was a generic email, so it makes me think they sent them all out at once, and aren't like, going slowly through the alphabet/by subject. Oh well!
I am going to pop my head in the admissions office in a bit and ask. Will let you know!
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Just now, sandmoon said:
Thank you!! Yes, CP. I think the admin person is sending out the emails individually, so maybe yours will arrive shortly!!
No update on the website. It still says "submitted".
I'm very surprised I got in though. I struggled to write the "fit" paragraphs in my personal statement, and their application was due earlier than the other schools. There must have been a million typos in the statement.
I am currently sitting outside there office (I am in MIA here) - tempted to just walk in and ask
Yes - early application was hard but I have two solid recs from the dept so I am hopeful (although extremely non-traditional). CONGRATS again!
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8 minutes ago, sandmoon said:
claiming a Columbia acceptance! no details on funding though.
Congrats!!! Were you CP? Did it update on the website? AHH! anxious
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47 minutes ago, Tobz said:
in case anybody is interested: i just called up northwestern and the graduate program coordinator told me that they were still waiting to send out an entire second wave of decisions over the next two weeks so i guess the wait may still be a little while longer
Thank you so much. I have some contacts within the department and they didn't seem to think that all the decisions had been made yet either. I am holding out hope - I networked there pretty hard and feel really confident about my fit. I am not assuming a rejection at this point at all...
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Have any Northwestern Comparative Politics people heard anything? I know American/Theory have but it doesn't seem that ANY CP Northwestern applicants have heard back? Accept OR reject?
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11 minutes ago, dvxyzijil said:
Your experience is a good counterexample. My West Coast instincts might be proving a little maladaptive here.
But my experience has been that colleagues (who work together regularly) call each other by their first names. That’s coming from think tanks, development NGO’s, and my undergrad institution.
I would say to keep an open mind about dropping titles, especially if you’re headed out west. Using titles in a more casual department might be seen as overly formal and even obsequious.
Of course, if you are colleagues who work together regularly that is fine. I assume this person has never met the professor and is hoping to start off on the right foot. I am a current graduate student at Columbia and with faculty, first name basis must be earned or used only when expressly given permission.
These professors don't owe you anything and although this is not undergrad anymore, being a graduate students doesn't change your student status. You will be working for them and learning from them. For now, be safe and treat them like your boss. If they come back with "please call me ___" then great. Until then, do yourself a favor and call them the title they have worked really hard to earn.
Again... I have a lot of work experience in some very big organizations (think tanks, academia, IGO, etc) and it has been my experience that calling anybody by their first name, especially in this capacity, is presumptuous.
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