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Congratulations! Cambridge is great.

Even if they were safety schools, there is certainly a lot of hope for you! You have 13 applications left! You never ever know what goes on in the department, what they are looking for in this particular cohort of students, what the inner 'political' currents are, etc. You have absolutely nothing to worry about at this stage.

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I absolutely would waive your right. It is matter of respect to your professors.

Are you applying for Clarendon? When are you, guys (and girls), usually nominated and notified of funding? AHRC nominations (by the department) are announced in March and results are known by May, I guess. Waiting is so difficult!

A great thread! Well done for starting it. I looked at the History placements of one of the 'Ivies' (dreaming is not prohibited, right?), and my impressions were the follows: 1. University-of-Awesome Graduates often end up in tenure-track positions in second-tier institutions (not R1). However, these are tenure-track positions (Assistant Professor)!! 2. University-of-Awesome graduates often take postdoc positions, and these normally will be in other 'Ivies'. A general impression: it's all down to luck but there are jobs out there for the cream of the crop.

Nope, no news yet.

Congratulations! Social Anthropology D.Phil, right? Any news on funding yet?

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This is priceless.

Thank you. I got accepted into the D.Phil. programme in History.

My experience this year has been quite positive. I got notified by e-mail two months after submitting my application. I was offered to get issued a real letter if I wanted to. lol An e-mail was sent on Sunday (!) - this is what surprised me the most.

I would pretend this never happened. None of it: neither the application nor that silly letter from the school. Then I'd go on a shopping spree.

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OMG, I love you for asking this. I thought I was the only one who was wondering this.

Just flow with the stream. I would go to all those interviews and not mention the word 'grad school' at all. Congratulations on your interviews and good luck securing those positions. A back up plan never hurt anyone.

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MGIMO is Russia's premier school. Full stop. Lots and lots of members of political elite of Russia, former Soviet states and probably many Eastern European countries either graduated from there or wished they did. The masses of those countries think of MGIMO as something ... very elitist and hardly reachable. What its reputation is in the Western academic circles, that I don't know.

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