stressedimposter

Interviews and even waitlist details have been updated on the board. Someone on this forum has reported having got an admit into the MA program while they applied for the PhD. I haven't heard a peep and the portal resolutely says 'No decision'. But I am guessing it is a reject if I haven't heard anything till now! Sorry for giving you less than positive news.

Oh yes! Why would they do that even?
This was so ridiculously sloppy. I still cannot get over the 'Fw:' bit. 

Just got the reject mail. With the standard 'Decline.pdf' attached. And to add insult the subject said 'Fw: Admissions Letter'. Not even a mention of my name. ?
Sorry. Just sour grapeing about this. 

Hey Y’all,
I went a little overboard and graphed all the decision data from the Fall 2018 cycle for the schools I’ve applied to, then decided someone else might find it interesting too. It’s not well done and is hard to decipher in the photographs (I felt like doing it by hand instead of on the computer for some reason), but you might find it interesting if you happen to have applied to any of these.
 
Y-Axis: Schools/Programs
-Binghamton SUNY
-Brown
-Cornell
-University of Oregon
-UVA
-Vanderbilt
-Vanderbilt Sociology (probably not helpful for any of y’all, but I originally made it for myself so…)
 
X-Axis: Dates
 
Color Codes:
-Green- acceptance notification
-Red- rejection notification
-Navy Blue- interview notification
-Pink- waitlist notification
 
Disclaimers:
*These include formal and informal interviews (anything anyone tagged as an interview on the results page)
*Only data from the Fall2018 cycle
*Sample way too small for most to have any significance whatsoever and admissions procedures can change year to year
*Obviously these data are all from the self-report page so it’s probably not terribly valid as a whole…
 
They're too large to attach but this is a link to the Google Drive Folder with them. If I had more time I'd do them digitally and go back 5 years, but I think I've maxed out my procrastination allowance today and need to get back to real work. 

@bonesandbakesWelcome to hell! I did not apply to Penn or know any Penn people but I looked at the Penn results for past years and I don't really have a concrete answer for you. I did notice that the person who did specify what area they were interested in said they were BioAnth and others have mentioned  being on a (long?) shortlist. Based on previous years it doesn't seem like they're formal interviews but maybe potential supervisors reaching out to applicants that really stood out? Also the Penn Anthro Website doesn't say anything about interviews as part of the process, so I wouldn't think that not getting an interview request implies a rejection. I think that very few schools do formal interviews as part of the application process. Off the top of my head I can only think of CUNY, Berkeley, Duke, Notre Dame, and maybe Harvard (the website does say that you don't necessarily need to be interviewed to be accepted but previous years' results kind of say otherwise)?
Also when did you Skype with your potential supervisor? Did you reach out to them? If they reached out to you that could count as an interview.
I think it would be useful to have a thread where we make a list of schools that formally interview and like what it means to get an interview for schools that do not usually interview? What do you all think? Is there already a thread like that? Idk.