sunflower1717

Congrats! I'm still waiting on news (though, now I'm thinking it might be bad news). Did you receive an email and/or update on your application portal?

I also received this email! However, I haven’t received an invitation to interview or any other communication. Guess I’ll just try my best to be patient for the next couple of weeks!

I applied to the Curriculum and Instruction program. No new news or interview offer, just patiently waiting!

Thanks for the update! Glad to hear you had a really positive interview experience. I'll try to keep being patient and not check my application portal every single day!

@Teacher 2021 Inquiring minds want to know Did you have your interview? And did you learn any new information? With one week to go until we're officially 6 weeks past the application deadline, I'm getting very anxious!

Congrats on the interview and good luck! I'd love to hear if they give you an update on when they will be making/releasing their decisions.

Hi! Did you learn any new information from your meeting with the faculty member?

That would be great! I agree, it'd be nice to hear from someone else who went through the process. I met with a faculty member before the application was due, they didn't mention interviews but I definitely should have asked!

Hi! I also applied for the Ed.D online program on 1/15. The website says decisions will be made within 6 weeks of the application deadline, so I'm trying to be patient until then. I don't think that this program does admissions interviews, but I'm not entirely positive about that. Good luck!

Hi! I'm not sure about how close an interest has to be to yours, but from my own application process, I've had more positive communications and acceptances to programs with whom my interests closely align with the professor(s) I indicated. I also had kind of a niche research interest within the realm of education. One thing that I did to identify professors/programs is search for peer-reviewed articles on my research interest, look at the author(s) of the article and then google that author to see if they are currently a professor in any education PhD programs.

Congratulations on your acceptance! And, no worries re: the bearer of bad news, I was already working off that assumption. I just wish they would go ahead and send out the rejections. I suspect schools that draw the process out might have an internal waiting list and are waiting for admitted students to accept their offers. A few people posted acceptances to Berkeley on the results page in early February, but no one has posted any rejections yet.

I applied to urban schooling PhD and haven't heard anything yet. While I'm sure I'm waiting on a rejection (someone posted an acceptance on the results page a couple of weeks ago), I wish they'd let us know!

Did your PI reach out to you about the waitlist or did you get an email from the admissions director? I'm trying to decide whether I should reach out to my PI or not; I haven't communicated with them since submitting my application so I am not sure if it'll seem too out of the blue. And yes, I do recognize that I'm probably way overthinking this haha

That's nice that your PI updates you! I've been told that I'll hear no later than April 8th, which is honestly surprising to me since the deadline for admitted students to accept is April 15th. I emailed the Director of admissions to confirm my interest, but i wonder if it's worth reaching back out to my PI as well? I don't want to over-communicate, but I'd love more information and to make my interest known.

Saw this thread for a few other disciplines and thought I'd start one here. Anyone else waitlisted? How are you handling the waiting game? I'm waitlisted at my top choice and am trying hard not to get my hopes up!