[Rice Sociology PhD 2011]

I saw a post about being invited by Rice for interview in late Feb. Does it mean that those who are not invited have already been rejected?

[Is Purdue Sociology Ph.D. program good?]

Congrats! It has been increasingly difficult to get in Purdue these years, I know they only select 10 out of nearly 100 applicants for admission each year.

BTW,what area are you going into?

[Calling all lurkers...]

Agreed, I also encourage lurkers to share what's going on. Join gradcafe! Tell us where you're applying, where you get in, rejected, etc. This website has been an excellent tool in many ways to navigating the grad school application process--offer some input back, please. I think I lurked around for a few months before joining as well, and I really like the interactions I have here. So, sign up!

Another random thought, I love how the "introductions to 2011 applicants" thread I started last fall has over 2,000 hits, and only 22 replies. More real people, not guests, should be a part of the forum and share their info.

I've also applied to Rice for the Fall 2011 term, I just wanna say the secretary there has a very very very terrible attitude! It's just not in her to reply emails or pick up the phone when I call her during her office hour.

[Help!]

I received an admission (Master,F11,TAship to be discussed in March next year), the school asked me whether I would be willing to attend and I said yes.

But now I blame myself for rushing into this decision, so I want to know if later I choose to go to another university instead of this one, will I suffer any bad result?

I mean will this school tell other schools to reject me for dishonest or even sue me for changing my decision?

[Do grad schools see senior year fall quarter grades?]

I go to a school on the quarter system, and the fall quarter ends a week or so before the Dec 15th deadlines.

From what I understand, grad schools wont see your fall quarter grades during the admissions process if you request transcripts from your school before your fall quarter grades come out right?

You're right. But since some schools may later require you to send a complete copy of official transcript to demonstrate your graduation from your undergrad institution, you may not want your grades look bad in your last semesters.

[Can I get the assistantship?]

I want to apply for soci gradaute school, but my undergraduate major is not soci and I have no undergraduate credits in soci either .

It's so frustrating to find that many sociology grduate programs only offer assitantships to applicants with undergraduate sociology credits.

So can my auditing soci courses experience help? The soci professors from my soci courses have agreed to demonstrate my mastery in those courses in rl,

so can this help me become eligible to compete for assitantship position?

p.s. I have some soci research background, such as publish papers and participating in researches, and my GRE scores are good.