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On 3/21/2020 at 7:47 PM, lkaitlyn said:
How's everyone doing amidst the chaos? This month has gotten crazy.
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.
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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!
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I've heard today that Michigan, Duke, and Penn have all cancelled.
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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...
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8 minutes ago, SocAnth_Lou said:
I only applied to the MAPSS with a Soc concentration, but I just got my acceptance letter on the website!
Yeah, I mean the PhD in Soc...I figure MAPSS is on a different schedule. Congrats though, MAPSS is amazing!
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Has anyone still not heard back from U Chicago?
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1 hour ago, lkaitlyn said:
NYU funding is do-able in NYC because it's all fellowship, so teaching on top gives you ~$40k. I agree for the others. This is why Columbia students are probably going on strike soon and the UCs seem to be as well.
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.
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28 minutes ago, HoneyBoba said:
I dunno about anyone else, but there's a few schools that I intentionally didn't apply to simply because I wouldn't be able to afford to live there... It's sad, but I guess that's how it is.
Me too. No clue how UCI, UCLA, Berkeley, and NYU/Columbia/CUNY students do it.
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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...
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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?
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1 hour ago, jamieack said:
I'm not really sure if this is the right thread to post this in but I'm not sure where else to turn. I've only been accepted to 1 PhD program that was close to the bottom of my list, and all other schools I have heard from have been flat out rejections no waitlist. I'm about to graduate from undergrad, and I would like to go straight to my PhD (I don't know what I'd do if I didn't) but I'm worried with how competitive everything is I won't be able to get a full time job as a professor if I don't get my degree from a top 25 sociology program. If there's another thread this is more suited for please let me know.
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.
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29 minutes ago, jamieack said:
I'm not really sure if this is the right thread to post this in but I'm not sure where else to turn. I've only been accepted to 1 PhD program that was close to the bottom of my list, and all other schools I have heard from have been flat out rejections no waitlist. I'm about to graduate from undergrad, and I would like to go straight to my PhD (I don't know what I'd do if I didn't) but I'm worried with how competitive everything is I won't be able to get a full time job as a professor if I don't get my degree from a top 25 sociology program. If there's another thread this is more suited for please let me know.
Just start a new thread for the topic. But I'm not sure what your question is.
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3 hours ago, Meylinaless said:
Good morning! I hope the waiting time is over or almost over for most of you!! We are almost there!
I was just wondering for those who applied to UChicago and have not heard back yet, does the admission portal now asks you to submit official transcripts? I do not see any decision letter or status change...so I find this a bit puzzling.
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.
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3 hours ago, GradStudentFall2020 said:
From Harvard Chair of Graduate Admission Committee:
"We received close to 300 applications to our PhD program and out of those, we were allowed by the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences to make offers to just 10 people."
Damn. Sending out acceptances on a Sunday night? That's a first.
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42 minutes ago, PoliticalSociology said:
Any explanation on the Princeton acceptance? Strange to just see one posted...
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?
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40 minutes ago, lkaitlyn said:
I'm beginning to tell myself that next week will be the week we hear from most places so I don't spend tomorrow and Friday being the person in that spinning chair gif someone posted above.
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.
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2 hours ago, lkaitlyn said:
Please dear god don't post a school on the Results page to ask about it. Ask here. Whoever posted a UMich result to ask if it was out gave me a heart attack!
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.
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1 hour ago, SOChelp said:
Thank you all for the wonderful advice. The situation I was in was largely due to the fact that the school had given a very early deadline to RSVP. After receiving information about the open house I was given 6 days to make a decision, and since they were reimbursing all travel costs, and at the time it was the only school I had been accepted to I thought why not. Since then I, very surprisingly, got into both of my top choices. You guys gave wonderful advice from both sides so I'm gonna sit on it for a few days but if I decide not to go, just reject the program entirely in order for other students to get a chance. I just wish they had given more time for students to RSVP!
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.
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^^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.
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On 1/2/2019 at 12:27 AM, sociopolitic said:
I've scoured the results page from last year and compiled a list of dates that various departments released decisions. I think there's some variation in these dates from year to year, but I still thought you all might find it useful. These are all strictly for sociology doctoral programs (which is to say, I haven't included any development sociology degree programs or terminal masters programs).
(I've only done this for the top 20ish programs though -- feel free to add any that I missed!)
Berkeley - Acceptances released on Jan. 26
Michigan - Acceptances released on Feb. 9
Harvard - Acceptances released on Feb. 10
Princeton - Acceptances released on Feb. 1, 8, and 19 (not sure why so spread out)
Chicago - Acceptances released on Feb. 6, interviews requested in the second-third week of January (not clear if interview is required of all admitted applicants or not)
Stanford - Acceptances released on Jan. 26
UCLA - Acceptances released on Jan. 12, 20, 26, 30, and Feb. 13 (as with Princeton, not sure why so spread out)
UNC - Acceptances released on Jan. 22, 25, 26, 29 -- most released on Jan. 26
UW-Madison - Acceptances released on Jan. 31
Northwestern - Acceptances released on Feb. 15
UPenn - Acceptances released on Feb. 23
Columbia - Acceptances released on Feb. 6 and 7, but mostly on Feb. 12
Indiana - Acceptances released on Feb. 2, 8, and 10, interviews requested on Jan. 30
UT-Austin - Acceptances released mostly on Jan. 25, some on Jan. 28
Duke - Acceptances released Jan. 29
NYU - Acceptances released Feb. 16 (REJECTIONS NOT RELEASED FOR A WHOLE MONTH AFTERWARD; this is not the case for really any other department)
Washington - 1 Acceptances released Jan. 18, most acceptances released Feb. 5 and 6
Yale - Acceptances released on Feb. 15 and 16
Cornell - Acceptances released on Feb. 15
Brown - Acceptances released on Feb. 14
UC Irvine - Acceptances released on Jan. 15, 23, 24, 25
U of Arizona - Acceptances released on Feb. 3
Penn State - Acceptances released on Feb. 3, 5, and 20
Minnesota - Acceptances released on Jan. 31
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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).
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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
2020 FALL APPLICATION VENTING THREAD
in Sociology Forum
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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.