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I’ve already committed to Cornell for my PhD, but I find it fascinating that I still haven’t gotten a decision from Georgetown lol. Are they really taking this long just to send me a rejection email?

This is the gradcafe biology PhD forum that I was able to find: https://forum.thegradcafe.com/topic/166585-2024-biologicalbiomedical-sciences-phd-applicants-and-admissions-results/

American politics, their poli sci PhD. I’m not too mad about it, as I have more appealing offers elsewhere

I’m sorry you didn’t get good news 😕

I emailed Georgetown about the status of applications, and received this response: “At this moment, the admission committee is still reviewing all applications, so decisions have not been made as of yet. There is not a concrete date, but all applicants can expect to receive a status update in 2 weeks near the end of March. Hopefully this helps, let me know if you have any questions.” This answer is bizarre, because I’ve seen some people on here say they already had their visit days and everything lol. Also, many people have reported receiving decisions from Georgetown, so idk

I was waitlisted. But because of other offers I have received that are more attractive to me, I requested to be removed from the waitlist, in hopes of helping other applicants potentially get admitted.

Hi all, I hope you’re doing well. With just under a month from the April 15th commitment date, I’m pleased to say I’ve tentatively decided where I’ll be attending for my PhD. I applied to 15 PhD programs and was admitted to 2, rejected by 11, and have 2 decisions pending, though given my current acceptances I would decline them even if admitted. The two schools I was admitted to were Rice and Cornell. I’m going to be accepting Cornell’s offer, and I will decline the offer from rice soon, to hopefully allow for waitlist movement.

Rejected by Michigan state. No email yet, but I checked the portal, which had a rejection message

Question for those on this forum: is there any substantive difference between PhD programs titled “Government” vs those titled “Political Science”. For instance, Harvard, Cornell, and Georgetown all call their PhD programs government. My understanding is that this is merely a name thing. Anyone have any thoughts?

Georgetown historically sends rejections very very late. Sometimes late March or early April.

I’m going to assume these schools have relatively little waitlist movement haha. My guess is that many of those who get admitted likely accept their offer.

Thank you! I’ve gotten into two schools (rice and Cornell), so once I’ve gotten to attend both of their visit days, i do plan to make my final decision shortly after, in hopes that it allows for some waitlist movement.

What is meant by the April 15th deadline is firm? Do you mean an admission offer must be accepted by April 15th or it is at risk of being lost?

People who were admitted to Georgetown, did they already have their visit days? I haven’t heard anything from them yet, so I’m assuming a rejection at this point

I applied to Pitt and have no idea what’s going on with them. It’s now March 1st, and with the commitment date being April 15th, you’d think we would have decisions by now