strummus

Congratulate for your funded acceptance! Although Duke is smaller in terms of size, I think the quality of your graduate life depends even more on fit, that is, the fit of your academic interest toward Duke/Stanford and their faculty. Both of them have great faculty on Chinese politics/sociology, while their relative strength of sub-areas differ, such as democracy of China, social protest, comparative politics, etc. As for social science as a whole, you should take your research further. Just my two cents of thought. Please share more student contact results, I am actually considering between several of these schools too. By the way, what's your reason to choose Stanford over Harvard? I'm now quite hesitate for asking Stanford on funding issues(I didn't contact any POI prior to application).

Yap, it's a mail. A mail which instantly woke me up prior to my morning coffee. You can use the 'Results' function of this site( it's right under the banner icon) to check for results posted by others. They already gave out some offer in the beginning of Feb.

Just heard from Berkeley's MA East Asian Studies this morning, waitlisted... A direct strike to limbo! It says that their target is a cohort of 8 students, and the deadline for the decision of the admitted students is April 15th. No information on the number of admitted applicants though. It is possible for them to admit a whole more than 8 applicants to this point, right? Does anyone know their policy? Hate to swamp into such situation. Also, congrats to the admitted! Best wishes for those wait-listers, too.