Justanotheraspirant

Well that happened fast enough. Rejection from UW. Done waiting, my only acceptance this cycle is from CU Boulder. I do want to accept, but I will take a bit more time to make my decision. Good luck to everyone else who is still waiting for decisions!

If anyone is waiting for UW decisions, I asked today and they said they expect them to be sent by the end of this week or possibly early next week.

Thank you and yes, stay optimistic! We can't mind control the results, but at least we can control our state of mind. Wish you at least one ideal result!

@wanlichangchengHow's it going? I remember you were still waiting to hear back from a bunch of places.

I'm still waiting for UW (Seattle) and if I get in, I will have to make a decision between UW and CU Boulder. I like both places, but they both come with advantages and disadvantages. I would love to get in touch either way. So close to the end at this point, but still feels like a hot mess.

Sorry to hear and I hope that out of the remaining ones you get the one that best fits you. How many more schools are you waiting on?

Finally got the Princeton rejection too. I had said goodbye a while back so this just helped make it official once and for all. Maybe another year will be my Princeton year. Or maybe never. In the meantime waiting on one more school, how nice it would be if they also sent me their decision today.

And you still have ten programs to hear back from! Hang in there. Let‘s keep hoping this week's the week... or at least that this month's the month. It'd be nice to give March a clean slate.

Who else here has applied to Princeton's EAS program and hasn't had any interviews (like me)? I am really not waiting for anything else but the rejection letter to come, but before it actually gets here, you know, that 0,0000001% of "maybe" just won't leave me alone.

Wow, imagine the strength you need to wait until the very end to hear back, but good for your friend! I also think that what you're saying might be true, in which case I would like to know not because I'd be hoping for an acceptance, but because that would at least be an indicator that I have a relatively strong application. THAT would be really good to know.

Thank you @wanlichangcheng! I was told by a former Princeton EAS PhD graduate that the EAS Department always does interviews, so I always had that in mind and thought that no interview was a direct sign of a rejection. Bu then I thought to myself, she started her program there ten years ago, so it's not impossible that things have changed a bit since. Based also on historical data as well as on information I could gather from other places, my conclusion is that every department at every institution operates differently and there's no way for us to know anything for sure! Like nothing! That's why only those final confirmations (whether acceptances or rejections) can give us the only accurate answers. I'm applying for Early China and because of that my options are very limited, both in terms of universities and potential advisors, so yes, expectations are kept as low as possible. And yes, the poor civil service aspirants of the past definitely had it much harder than we do, if things don't work out we at least have other options in life besides academia, whereas many of them were pretty much unequivocally focused on that one direction. Good luck to you too! Patience and ease of mind!

Did you interview with Princeton? I've not had any interview and haven't heard anything from them, which I assume is a clear sign of a rejection, but I do wonder if everyone they're considering was actually called for an interview.

Continuing the CU Boulder thread, I also just received an email asking me if I would be interested in the MA program instead of the PhD and to set up a short Zoom interview with the faculty "to get to know me a little bit better". @Beijing Koala and @BanjaraSoul In the emails you received, did they specifically say it would be a funded MA? Or did they only tell you that after you asked? I have heard before that they do offer TA positions to all incoming MA students and I have indeed submitted the TA application, but I just want to be extra cautious.

Thank you and may we all continue to patiently wait.

Congratulations for receiving the offer! Based on what I talked about with my POI before applying, it seems that they're mainly offering MA positions even if we are applying for PhDs, so that's not unusual. And it's probably for the best, their department is really tiny and I don't think a PhD there is really that feasible.

Anyone heard back from University of Colorado Boulder? I saw the one post on GC about an acceptance on Jan 23. Since I see so many international students, I'm now starting to think if some schools contact them earlier as they would need more time to prepare afterwards. Or obviously I'm probably just trying to make up excuses for not hearing anything back ?

很遗憾，希望你申请的其他地方能有好消息！

Hello everyone! This is my first time applying to a doctoral program and I don't personally know anyone else doing it this year, so just seeing other people listing some of the same universities as myself is amazing! My main interest is Early China and I've applied to Princeton, University of Colorado Boulder and University of Washington. Have not heard back from any of them (UW doesn't do interviews, I know Princeton does them, not sure about CU Boulder). The first part was just me saying hi. The following section is just some random thoughts: I don't know anything about how this works, but thinking of my interest and seeing @BanjaraSoul's and @Beijing Koala's interests, I wonder: although it's the same department we're applying to, wouldn't there be different review committees for different tracks? Just here we already have three different tracks (Japanese literature, Modern Chinese Literature, Early China) and surely there are even more. And if there are different committees, their review and decision timelines might be different... but then again, I think of the faculty at places like CU Boulder and UW, and considering how few people they have, I guess it would be impossible to form different committees... A place like Princeton could do that though. So far, I have only seen the two posts on GC about interviews at Princeton, one posted Dec 30 and the other Jan 4. Does anyone know (either personally or from other places) of anyone else receiving interview invitations? And yes @BanjaraSoul, let's keep each other some more company during this period! We might all be in different time zones, I'll just post mine here for reference: US Pacific Standard Time (UTC-8). Hope to see more posts here, any random chat will warm my heart!

Any news anyone?