scared_phd

I just checked my OSU portal and my decision was posted. I got accepted!! Yay!! I am very excited about this but I am not sure if I should celebrate just yet based on what @jjiffysaid about the funding decision coming later on. If y'all haven't checked back your portal, I suggest you do it. Your decision might have been posted too. Good luck!!

Huh, I just saw this. It looks suspicious tbh. Why haven't anybody claimed an acceptance? Or are they gonna send those after the rejections?

Me too. Why do you reckon international students didn't do well? I thought I had a strong application to that specific program and I am surprised by the result.

Anyone heard back from OSU regarding an interview or the decision?

My subfield is Comparative Politics.

I received an interview invitation from Madison. One of the professors I showed an interest to work with in my SOP emailed me to set an appointment time. He said he just wants to discuss my files and interests and intends to record the meeting for all members of the committee to view. I am pretty psyched about this because I didn't think Madison would even consider me, which makes the interview pretty scary (never been too good at those). Hope this is a positive step. If it is, I hope you all get your interview invites soon! Any tips to prepare would be really appreciated; I didn't prepare for the possibility cause I thought I wouldn't get to do one.

I don't have a lot to offer on the substantive discussion on the GRE as I am not informed on the literature nor the larger discussion but in my experience, the GRE at home is more stringent than the test center. When I was taking it at home, the proctor made the environment very uneasy for me. At one point he randomly took control of my screen without informing me, saying he couldn't see my video while precious test time was running out (I lowkey still blame my less than desirable score on that cuz it kind of threw me off tempo afterwards too). He also kept talking to me saying I should do this and that while I was working on the test and that, in my experience, doesn't happen too often in test centers. One of my friends had his test cancelled after the fact with the proctor citing that my friend went away from his screen mid test. My friend claims he got permission to go to the bathroom that but that didn't matter at the end. Also, in a more general observation, I think cheating on the GRE is kind of counterintuitive as you simply don't have the time to do so. There might be strategic ways to reduce the time spent googling stuff or checking notes but chances are there won't be enough time at the end.

Hello all, I am reapplying to some programs and I noticed my old GRE scores were automatically included in the application. I am retaking the GRE to improve my scores but I couldn't take it early due to numerous reasons which meant I had to submit my applications without the updated scores but the schools I am talking about (e.g. UCSD) just accepted my old scores from the portal and GRE is not flagged as awaiting in my status portal. Should I be worried the admission committee would review my application with my old, not so good scores before I submit my new ones (which should be available by the end of December)?

Hello all, I am reapplying to some programs and I noticed my old GRE scores were automatically included in the application. I am retaking the GRE to improve my scores but I couldn't take it early due to numerous reasons which meant I had to submit my applications without the updated scores but the schools I am talking about (e.g. UCSD) just accepted my old scores from the portal and GRE is not flagged as awaiting in my status portal. Should I be worried the admission committee would review my application with my old, not so good scores before I submit my new ones (which should be available by the end of December)?