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I don't know when, but I just checked on UW-Madison's website, and they actually have dropped GRE. Thank god.

Well, although I have to receive further information about 10 other schools, I've only been rejected. I'm calling it this year...

Same -.-

Apparently almost all we internationals got rejected, huh

Did they send all admissions?

Hi, a friend of mine who worked on UCLA's admissions committee last year told me that the previous process was as described above. In short, they were inviting over batches. HOWEVER, he does not know if this process will be the same. If anyone has more information, it'll be much appreciated. Edit: Also, he mentioned that they reviewed international and American applicants separately.

If you take a look at the results page, you'll realize that sociology programs usually start to communicate in late January. So, I wouldn't be worried until a couple of more weeks.

I made the same GRE comment, not in the SOP but in a supplementary document that some universities allowed (NYU and UCLA, Brown and Berkeley did not allow extra documents, so, whatever). Hope it works.

In my case, I enrolled in a statistic course at one of the top 2 Chilean universities; tough in Spanish, I published a book review from a U.S. professor, a collective paper was published, got my second experience working as an R.A., led a course at University. But, to be honest, the most important thing that changed was my SOP: it is completely different from last year's. (I got a lot of help from a professor from a certain top 10 U.S. University and also from @lkaitlyn) Also, I sent another W.S., a work-in-progress paper from interviews I've done on my own. In any case, I still don't know if this worked.

From what I've heard, not many universities interview. At least in t20 schools, and I may be wrong. My take for what follows is trying to forget applications until late January. Then, well... sight.

HI So, only have one feeling about this process: nervous as fuck. I'm a second-time international applicant. Last year I applied only to 3 universities (NYU, Madison, Michigan but didn't manage to prepare it well. Now I'm applying to almost 14 Ph.D. programs (they were 15, but I fucked up with Toronto's app) and 1 Master's (well, two, but both in Columbia). This year, a professor of a certain t10 university who is not on the admissions committee helped me to craft my SOP. They also read my Working Sample (which is a paper on Chilean politics) and CV. According to them, I should have a couple of proposals: -I've worked as a Research Assistant on two different projects (almost two and a half years of experience) + Research experience from my BA (History) and Master's (Sociology) thesis. -I have a Masters's degree already (GPA 3.8) - Two journal publications (although in Latin American journals). - One book review - A postgraduate diploma in Statistics (inferential and multivariate analysis, including linear models and non-linear such as logit and probit). - And several public sociology publications. My research interests are political sociology, comparative-historical, Latin America, development, and political economy. I want to do qualitative research for my project. However, I do know quantitative analysis as well. HOWEVER, I'm still an international applicant. As you may know, since our letters of recommendation are from professors from Chile who aren't known abroad (but they are in the country and the region), we have less symbolic credit than other U.S candidates. Although strong letters, I'm still worried. Moreover, my test scores ain't that good. My overall TOEFL score is 104 (29L-27R-24S-24W; 108 My Best score). My GRE plainly sucks (I didn't prepare at all): 155R-127Q-4.0W I'm mostly applying to non-gre Universities, such as Michigan, Madison, Northwestern, etc. (you can see my signature). However, I also applied to UCLA, NYU, Brown, and UC Berkeley. Why did I do that? I don't know. But I also added a note that I don't suck at statistics, and I actually know econometrics --Although I only did it in NYU's and UCLA's applications. TLDR: Although I'm confident about my "credentials" and a t10 professor told me that my SOP and Writing Sample are great (and added a note to my application file), I'm nervous as fuck. BTW: Good fcking luck!!!!

Well, at least you didn't forget to pay the application's fee to a University with all other documents uploaded... yup, that's me with Toronto haha

Good luck to everyone!! I'm hella nervous tbh

I recieved two different answers from NYU: 1) Dear XXXX, Thank you for your email. Application requirements and deadlines have not yet been finalized for fall 2023. Please check back in mid-September, when the fall 2023 application is available, for updated information. Best, Graduate Enrollment Services ------------------- 2) Hi XXX, Thank you for reaching out. The GRE is required and you can find more information about requirements here. Should you have any further questions please contact Professor Iddo Tavory, our Director of Graduate Studies. Best, Celine

UT Austin (optional), Yale, and Northwestern won't be requiring GRE.