cranky

Similar question, only my program is ranked fairly highly but doesn't teach/research the questions I'm most interested in. In any other year, I would take that spot in a second – after this round of admissions, though, I'm tempted to try again after my (fully funded) Master's and try again for the PhD programs I'm REALLY passionate about.

Duke just sent out rejections!

As a European, what’s everyone’s opinion on waiting it out on a - compared to US standards - cheap European Master‘s programme (like Amsterdam’s excellent Social Science Research MSc) and reapplying in 2 years? or is the foot in the door one could have with a programme like MAPSS preferable to that? Several current grad students and faculty at the Universities I applied to have signalled that my application would have been good enough any other year, but with more competition for fewer spots just not this cycle... but I also don’t want to spend another year placing my luck in the hand of admissions committees.

Seems like Berkeley's Demography and Sociology & Demography has sent out acceptances?

I didn’t, but only because they gave us a form to accept our spot on the waitlist and the email itself was p generic as well