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Anyone claiming the most recent Harvard acceptance? 😶

Cornell appears to be out. Waiting was like death by spoon.

No fr I was talking to my undergrad advisors about how to impress them and they were like it's them then trying to impress you. I'm just sitting here like clearly you've never met an anxious person bc that does not matter to me. I'm gonna view this as an audition no matter what!

Oooo I feel like meeting with people you want to work with is the biggest, but I think from a practical sense, scoping out where you might want to live is a good idea if you have time. Scratch that, make some time to do that.

This has been the most helpful this forum has ever been it's it's not even close

Thanks for being up front

The question we all have, and the one I wanted more evidence of, is are we going to lose our positions or funding if we don't accept now? That is sort of what @OhMy READ THIS was suggesting, and I have seen some evidence that this is the case for some schools, but not most of them. @A Dalek is suggesting the same thing, so I guess I am asking if that is this going to be a mad dash to fill positions, or can I afford to wait to get off a waitlist? I feel like this is the crux of our argument, but the one thing no one is willing to say out loud, only insinuate (perhaps for a good reason, I will admit). I sincerely appreciate anyone who can help us here. A special thanks to @A Dalek for giving us some insider information.

Saw an article today saying Pitt unfroze their PhD admissions. Good news!

Do you have some other source other than personal connections to substantiate this? I am not saying what you are saying is false. But if it is not true and people quickly accept places without due diligence, that could have catastrophic consequences for their program experience and careers. Once again, I am not saying that you are necessarily wrong (but I pray to God you are), but I hope there is more evidence for what you are saying, given the advice you are offering. Unless what you are saying is true, accepting before the visiting day seems like a bad idea if you have several good offers.

A source at Harvard told me that this is exactly the case.

Sorry, I did not see your post @PLSC25.What are the odds this spreads to other cali schools? I have no idea how to deal with this btw. Write your reps, if you are American.

Some of my friends have had their funding offers retroactively cut down for their PhD offers bc of the Trump cuts. UCSD specifically

Can you ask them is I, Gryad Yuat, and my friend, Dock Triat, and on the list? Or my other friend, Can Bridge?

We really gonna get GTA 6 before we hear back from Harvard...

Not in a similar position, but if *this* is what we get after 2 months of fuckface von clownstick, it will almost certainly be worse after a year. Do you mind me asking where you got in?

Rip Piper Ericksson man... Someone's got enemies on grad cafe

Cornell came out the last time we talked about books and coping mechanisms. I see a pattern (N=1, r = 1).

Any answer to this should be prefaced by saying that if I knew what grad schools wanted, I would have 1) applied to fewer schools and 2) gotten into more schools. However, I am in the dark about what they want and so that was not my experience. Any advice I or anyone else gives will probably give you the same experience that most of us are having right now: applying to a dozen schools and getting into, like, maybe one or two, if any, of those options. However, I feel like I can say a few things. My impression is that there is (to put it in terms of social science) a series of (largely) necessary but not sufficient conditions. In fact, I would posit that there are NO sufficient conditions to get into a program. That is beside the point because I think your friend is not under the impression that there is a magical statistic or resume experience that will get you in. I think that a good GPA is one of those necessary conditions. Unlike GRE, which can be variable depending on how things go that day, GPA is a good indicator of how you will do in school (not a measure of intelligence!). Consequently, you need to have a good GPA to get into a good graduate school. The bigger question is what the cutoff is. I don't have good answer for that, but depending on what your friend means by mid tier, I think their GPA is good enough. A 3.7 is nothing to be ashamed of. That like, an A- average? I had a friend get into Stonybrook with a 3.5 undergraduate GPA. If your friend would be happy going to Stonybrook, all is well. I have no idea how being in a non-US program would affect their chances (I am guessing from your post that this is the case), but I would be wary of people saying that it hurts your chances. I have met many people from Europe and Latin America programs who went to US programs, for example. People who blame their rejection on that factor are likely making an atomistic fallacy. Saying that one is good at methods probably won't be good enough. I know the op is just summarizing, but telling rather than showing is a weakness I don't think is unique to me. I hope that taking methods courses is not the only thing they have to show for it, but that they also have a writing sample or a published paper showing that they can use those methods. Random crash out from me. I hate it when people get rejected and say "3 papers in top journal" what do you mean by that?? You have 3 papers in APSR, CPS, AJPS, Comparative Politics, and Democratization??? Or does a top journal mean anything in Q1 or Q2? It's not related to the post, but I crash out (for not real reason) every time I see someone post about publishing in an ambiguously "top" journal. Okay, I'm done. Your friend seems qualified enough. If they don't get it, it's not that they were not good enough. Not getting in anywhere is not an indication that you are not smart. I hope your friend is feeling healthier!

This shit boring can we get some post on here or something? Like, what are some things we do when we are waiting for admissions but too anxious to be productive? I read the Mistborn Era 1 series.

I'm thankful that Cornell said there were no IR admissions this year. It saved everyone a ton of time and money, though it's still sad for all the IR folks.

I would not take the two Chicago acceptances seriously until someone claims them. This feels like the Princeton posts, where some (potential) trolls try and freak us out. Admittedly, prospective grad students might be the most neurotic group I've ever been apart of, so its working.

If you are the person with the 4a/0w/ 0r/8p stat line, let me say that is crazy and we wish we were you.