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Also to clarify for me: I wasn't talking about reapplying, I was talking about inquiring with my program about deferring for a year. I don't know if they would've let me, but I decided against it anyway. For what it's worth, I agree with @lkaitlyn that nobody should be taking out loans for a PhD...you shouldn't go get your PhD unless your tuition is totally free and they are also paying you a stipend.

Honestly my biggest concern is the Fall 2020 semester being all/mostly virtual. I will not learn well at all. I'm considering asking about deferring my acceptance a year.

Yeah, this thread is now useless, it's crazy how quickly things have progressed since I initially posted on Tuesday. I assume they're all canceled at this point. Wash your hands and stay home, people!

I've heard today that Michigan, Duke, and Penn have all cancelled.

Has anyone's visit day been cancelled yet? Was thinking that keeping a running tally would be interesting and possibly helpful for those of us that have late-March visit days and are trying to predict if they'll still happen...

Yeah, I mean the PhD in Soc...I figure MAPSS is on a different schedule. Congrats though, MAPSS is amazing!

Has anyone still not heard back from U Chicago?

Interesting, going off PhD Stipends website it looks like NYU overall pay is between $30-35k, and as someone with more NYC experience than I'd like, that amount is hard to fathom especially given that NYU is in a very expensive neighborhood. You're either going to spend 70% of your stipend on rent (for a small shared apartment) or have a super long commute. I didn't even bother applying to New York City schools because of this.

Me too. No clue how UCI, UCLA, Berkeley, and NYU/Columbia/CUNY students do it.

Can anyone claim Princeton admits? Are they coming from POIs or is it an individualized email or something? It seems so strange to only have 2 admits posted, 6 days apart...

I find it so interesting that at this point (February 19) last year, this thread was already at page 40...they were exactly twice as talkative as us! I wonder if they're the outlier or we are?

Still not sure what you're hoping to get an answer to, but I'll just give my two cents relative to your mentioning a job as a professor: the best thing you can do to predict what job you'll get is to look at the past few years of placements for whatever program you're interested in. If you feel comfortable sharing the specific program name here, I'd be happy to go track it down and look it over too.

Just start a new thread for the topic. But I'm not sure what your question is.

Yeah, mine also says that. But I didn't even get an interview, so I definitely didn't get in. Probably just a system issue.

Damn. Sending out acceptances on a Sunday night? That's a first.