moraurora

Thank you Xavi6. Does that magic sentence come through email or mail? Because I haven't heard it yet, I still feel anxious and uncomfortable reading the email. Edit: the magic sentence is in the email, somewhere in the last paragraph.

I received an email asking questions about my budget. This is a good sign, right?

ok this might a little bit paranoid, but i just re-read that first round notification letter (february 14th). it says that they would be in touch with us in three to four months. i havent paid attention to this before, thinking that they would let us know anyways in two months. but if they mean what they wrote, then we won't be hearing back before may 15th. is this what they usually say in first-round letters? any ideas?

According to sent notifications on February 15th two years ago. I guess notifications will be send out sometime this week and hopefully we will receive positive ones or not receive anything at all which will be a good sign...

hello! yet another applicant here as well. how did you hear about ssrc? through email or mail?

i think sociologyplease is right. if no need to lecture you on things you all know, then act like you know those things.

in the previous paragraph I said: "Being wait listed or even rejected more often than not doesn't have anything to do with you being good enough or not." I meant, usually, this is the case. Of course there are exceptions. to sum up, i definitely agree with what xdarthveganx says.

"You were wait-listed for a reason. That reason being that you were not good enough to be offered the first time around." So I guess those who are rejected totally suck, right? Because they are not good enough even to enter the wait list. I will not say that your attitude is negative, it is, but there is more: You are wrong. I know people who made it to the #1 program but rejected and wait listed from other departments. The program I am in right now (top 5) rejected a friend of mine, but that friend of mine entered into two other programs (top ten) which wait listed and rejected me. Now that's a riddle! Being wait listed or even rejected more often than not doesn't have anything to do with you being good enough or not. I wrote elsewhere, this application process is first of all about luck. I have a friend who is in top 3 program, but if she didn't apply in 2010-2011 but say apply this year, she would not be there right now, because her advisor only accepts students in every 5 years. Last year she was accepting students, this year she is not in the committee. I am not going to say anything else on this topic. I only needed to write this post because there might be people who read the stuff written about and feel horrible. My words are to those: being wait listed or rejected is not related to your "quality". I have had enough experience with this whole application process for years, and I have seen enough to prove that statement wrong. If you're wait listed, hope for the best, if you're rejected, try to find other schools with better fit, and apply again. Best of luck to all of you.

someone posted on the results page that s/he got an acceptance on march 12. it's weird though, because last week someone here called the office and apparently they told that they hadn't notify anyone... anyway, i hope the process is still continuing...

Hey, if universities read this thread, I just wanna say that they should not pay attention to the location info. First it was Barcelona, then Paris and now it's Belgrad, these are just cities I happen to love I don't wanna do wrong to our Spanish, French or Serbian friends! One could see in other threads that people addressing me as their french or spanish friends, when they do that, I skip that part of the conversation and just remain silent when it came to my nationality. I prefare to remain totally anonymous and I don't wanna share info in these forums, so I play with my profile every now and then. It would be a huge, huge mistake to deduce that "oh moraurora must be this serbian applicant". Maybe I should have left that section blank... Anyway, I think it will be a rejection, thanks for all the support!

The deadline was not in december. I am sure of that. Maybe they extended if after you checked out the website, but I am a hundred percent sure that I applied in January and this wasn't a late application. I think that once the decisions are made, applicants should be notified as soon as possible. Making them wait until the end of march is rude and mean. You may ask why this is rude and mean. And I say, WHY NOT? Especially if you are an international student, and it takes weeks for the mail to arrive, the situation is a lot worse. And as far as I understand, A's W's and R's were decided many weeks ago. If the decisions are made, I see no point in making people wait in agony. I emailed Brandeis and they told me that they can't give results electronically. Now I am waiting for a letter which can arrive weeks later. And yes, I don't think this is right and fair.

I applied to sociology program. Haven't heard anything yet. Either waitlist or rejection, though I think it's the latter one...

Hello, I would say that everybody kinda feels insecure during this process, nothing is certain. It seems you have everything going smoothly. I am an international student, so perhaps I don't know the intricacies of the system for US students. There are probaly people who have better advices than I have. But I know that this process sucks, and I advise you to try to relax a little bit. I wrote this earlier in other threads, but I feel the need to repeat: I think it all comes to fit and luck at the end, and believe me or not, luck might be the most important factor. I have seen people got accepted without research experience, without any publication, without prior contact and without your GPA. That's probably because they had great fit and luck. On of my friends got accepted because one professor in the department really liked her SOP and wanted to work with her, and this professor only accepts students in every 4-5 years. Had she applied a year before or later, she would not have been accepted. Of course, the fact that luck is important does not mean that gre, gpa, research, lor etc are not important. What I mean to say is that, you can get accepted with your current stats and experience but someone who does not have them can also get accepted. Just try to do your best and -while I see no reason for you not getting into- if you somehow can't make it in the first round, give it another try. You probably won't feel relaxed until you get into somewhere, but it's the same for everyone Try to keep up the good work, and I believe you will end up wherever you want to!

Hello everybody! I'm just checking as usual Another friday evening's arrived and still nothing right?

I didn't apply to prrograms whose deadlines were in december...