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  1. It does seem awfully early. It's also possible that some programs are contacting a few of their top applicants early in hopes of pinning them down, and contacting those lower on the list after doing some financial math and perhaps hearing from these people. I suspect this because I got an admit in late March last year, and was told it had taken them so long because of they weren't sure how much money they could afford to offer me. Perhaps I was high on some unofficial waitlist for admissions or funding.
  2. Some of the Ivies and UCs fly out the PhD applicants they admit, I believe. I think it's really crummy to expect people to fly out for an interview on their own dime when a skype interview should suffice. I could be biased though because I live nowhere near any interesting programs.
  3. Well, it's not much worse than the SoP I sent out last year....
  4. Apparently Embark screwed my application up for a specific reason, but it's all fine now. Often times applications don't log mailed received supplemental materials for days or weeks afterwards. I don't think you should be too concerned, Karajan, this same sort of thing has happened to me before. I hate the limits too. I had to squeeze 50 pages (including a musical score) into 1 Mb for my Davis application the other day. Luckily the system didn't mind that I was about 100 kb over!
  5. So, my top program's website won't let me fill out the fellowship application because "the deadline has passed" even though the deadline is officially tomorrow night. Isn't that swell? This would be the saddest possible reason to take another year off...
  6. Most places don't interview - it seems more common with schools attached to conservatories (where the performance applicants audition as well). Some programs (like Princeton) encourage students to visit before they apply, but I'm not sure how much of a difference that would make.
  7. Well, it's a good thing I was so sure that it was the wrong place for me. It's kind of sad though how I decided to take a year off rather than take their TAship and additional fellowship. I think they must be desperate.
  8. I know I have been unofficially admitted to one good school, but have not gotten official notice of admissions or funding yet. I just emailed the department's head graduate coordinator and got an automatic email that said she was out of office until April 11th. So helpful... I really need to know what's going on because if they fund me, I will probably go there.
  9. I also applied for a masters at the Madison program but will instead probably attend UC Davis, largely for financial reasons though I had a fabulous (and longer than expected) visit at Madison. Some, though not all the classes, were great and the professors were really awesome! Even the seminar I saw which I was told was the weakest wasn't bad at all. I also considered applying to the program you did at Brandeis but my advisor told me that one of her research colleagues on the faculty there did not recommend the program. I have no idea why, but perhaps it might be worth investigating what this may mean. This is only a master's program, so what small advantage in prestige Brandeis has doesn't matter all that much. Both are good programs which could potentially serve as a stepping stone into an excellent (though not for sure Ivy League) PhD program. Even if you did graduate from Harvard with a PhD in musicology, there's no guarantee you'll not be poor for the rest of your life, so I'd say follow the money. If you decide sometime down the road you'd like a PhD in Gender Studies instead, Brandeis would keep your options open. The concept of a one-year MA, especially a joint MA, is kind of weird though and would probably have no real worth aside from helping you get into a PhD program, but it would cost half as much as a normal MA! That's just my $0.02, but this is really for you to decide. Have you visited both schools? Do you know where you'd rather go if funding was equal?
  10. I was in contact with a professor about 3 weeks ago. I got the impression that as of then, there was no funding but there is "some possibility" (ie only a small possibility) that this would change.
  11. I'm not quite sure what happened, but I don't think you need to be too concerned. I think you could still just get your master's there and move on, but if you do indeed decide to go on to a PhD you won't have to reapply there.
  12. I was in a not entirely dissimilar position to you with IU, having missed the interview due to bad weather. One of the professors instead interviewed me over Skype a couple of days ago. Another PhD student at IU told me that they tend to offer interviews to only about 2 dozen applicants, so if you were offered an interview, that means that they consider you a strong candidate for admission. I still do not know the number of students they ultimately admit.
  13. I heard that they get about 80ish apps and ask a couple dozen people to interview. Don't know if that's just for masters or all applicants.
  14. Two early music history jokes of my own invention: "Yo mama so old she don't have a third in her final cadence!" And a pickup line: "Will you let me be your organum, so I can be parallel to all your motion?"
  15. Still waiting from them... Only heard from my ultimate backup so far: CCM.
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