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annetod

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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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!
  4. I've heard today that Michigan, Duke, and Penn have all cancelled.
  5. 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...
  6. Yeah, I mean the PhD in Soc...I figure MAPSS is on a different schedule. Congrats though, MAPSS is amazing!
  7. Has anyone still not heard back from U Chicago?
  8. 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.
  9. Me too. No clue how UCI, UCLA, Berkeley, and NYU/Columbia/CUNY students do it.
  10. 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...
  11. 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?
  12. 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.
  13. Just start a new thread for the topic. But I'm not sure what your question is.
  14. 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.
  15. Damn. Sending out acceptances on a Sunday night? That's a first.
  16. Also curious about this...seems strange. Though I realized that last year, most acceptances were posted February 19 and February 21, but there were also acceptances posted on Feb 8 and even Feb 1. Maybe they are just very sporadic?
  17. And I got another rejection from Northwestern! But we live to see another day.
  18. What the hell!? Every program is way late and then Princeton comes out of nowhere a week early??
  19. It really seems like every program is later this year, doesn't it? And perhaps related, I find it interesting that on February 12 of last year, this thread was already at page 26. Although perhaps they were just more engaged/talkative than this year's group.
  20. YES thank you. Better yet, don't ask at all! We're just prospective students too and we don't have any insider info at specific programs. Just look at the thing I posted that compiles 20ish program notification dates, or search the results page for last year's notification dates for the program you're interested in.
  21. Perhaps I'm missing something, but the solution seems super obvious to me: tell the school you're no longer able to attend the visit day but you're still interested in the program. Go visit your top 2 choices, if you love one/both, then enroll in one of those. If you don't like either of them, then just figure it out from there: you can circle back to the original school and try to have some phone calls or visit on your own, and make your decision after that.
  22. ^^I reposted the above from last year's thread. Please, before aimlessly asking in this thread if anyone has heard back from XYZ programs or if anyone knows when they will hear back from XYZ programs: 1) Check the results board for 2020 acceptances/rejections, then 2) Go look at that list above. If neither of those turn up anything on your program of interest, the most efficient thing to do is search the school's name and sociology (so it'd look like "Rutgers sociology") in the results board search bar, and look at when that program has released decisions in the past few years.
  23. Anyone else freaking out waiting for UT-Austin? The last 3 years they sent out acceptances on January 29, 25, and 24...looks like this year won't be until February 3 at the earliest at this point (assuming they don't do it over the weekend).
  24. Well the difference in time between an acceptance notification and official decision letter is typical. And there are plenty of programs that are known for trickling out acceptances over an extended period; Michigan isn't one of them and it doesn't look like anyone has ever been notified from Michigan before Feb 10 over the past few years according to the results board, hence my surprise--and I also just wasn't aware that you could email professors well ahead of time and potentially learn about your acceptance that way, so now I'm questioning if I should start doing that! Editing because I forgot to quote you @passere
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