MDarwish

Mine was online a while back and I applied pretty late in the process, so I'd definitely follow up on that.

Where are people thinking about living? A friend of mine (who's also starting the Arab Studies program) and I have been looking at places in Rosslyn, but I'm stuck in school for another two weeks and she's on the other side of the county, so we're not sure when we'll get to seriously look at getting a place.

MA in Arab Studies (Culture and Society) as well!

Would anyone who's going to the open house for GU's MA in Arab Studies send me a PM? Thanks!

I second what katemiddleton said. I wasn't able to visit any schools, but most professors would be glad to give you at least 10-20 minutes on the phone.

The Green Bean and Kate, Also pretty surprised that humanities haven't heard back from UChicago. Has anyone called recently?

Just got accepted to Georgetown with full tuition for the first year! Looks like some others got a stipend on top of that, but mine didn't specify if it was FLAS or not. Congratulations to everyone else!

I've never been able to visit Austin, but I hear that while it's surrounded by Texas on all sides, it's not really part of Texas

Congratulations!

I wonder if that was only to those of us who applied for FLAS for the MA, or if that was all FLAS applicants? Fifty does seem very low, and one out of five doesn't seem all that competitive either... doesn't quite add up.

Seems like all of the people hearing from UChicago are in social sciences. I'm guessing that you might have applied through humanities as well? And NYU told me that decisions would be out either this week or next. I've already received an email about FLAS from them, but haven't heard anything about admission. Did you apply to Arab Studies at Georgetown as well? They're the one program that I haven't gotten any response from about when decisions might be out.

The Near Eastern Studies MA? They told me definitely within the next week or two.

Which program at Chicago?

Has anyone heard from the Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies MA program at University of Virginia for Fall 2011? The website said that they would try to notify applicants by mid-December, but I haven't heard anything as of yet.