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HI again anthroman, I wish we were not living in two time different zones. When I read this guy's post, you have no idea, how desperate I got. I told my partner that Good had taken up another student with a menial topic and I'm sure he wouldn't take up two advisees in a given year. I just felt (un)official rejections would be coming one after another and it was like the walls of the house were getting demolished with me at the center of the house. This guy's so offensive. I'm really happy you raised awareness and clarification. When I told the GSAS' secretary that such update had been posted in this forum, he asked me to stop reading this sick website and I felt really embarrassed. Not getting rejected until the last moment is better than an early indirect rejection. I don't know why Brown folks have given both of us such false hope. This scholar told me that their program would be perfect for me and I would be a great recruitment to their program. Wouldn't you naturally think you'd be at least short/wait-listed? Guess what? my fingers are now fused as I've been keeping my fingers tightly intertwined since application deadlines,

Hi Anthroman, is what the stevensactown has said total crap? How is it possible that Good has taken someone with such non medanthro topic? I think I'm also so awkward at getting jokes at this level of my life. I just called the department and they said they didn't even have their final committee yet. They said I should expect to hear the notifications sometime in the first and second week of March. How did this stevensactown hear about their sacceptance? It should be through Good himself if that's true, Please help me get some insight. I think I've been a good fit for Harvard, however, Yale is my first choice indeed, cheers

Hi Tonights, it was only one. did you see more of the interviews? Which MA programs have you applied to?

Congrats darling, So Harvard has started their notifications too! I think I'm also rejected from Harvard. I also wanted to work with B. Good. I am sure he wouldn't take up two advisees this year,

Forgot to add that I had really great communication with two faculty members at Brown and they always urged me to apply with a lot of green light signs. Even an important big name of them did look over my SOP before I officially submitted my dossier and he said that was superb and one of the best ever. Yet, the notification came along as a bold rejection! I hope the contrary would apply to your Stanford's application!

I don't know why shouldn't you expect so? As far as I've checked the results page, Stanford has not started their notifications yet. I've not applied to Stanford but I do do hope you'd get in if that is your program of choice. Lucky you at least you have one good offer in hands already. Oxford is superb in sociocultural and bio. Are you a sociocultural anthro?

Hi mate, I truly appreciate for you have posted the case of your friend. I'm quite relieved now but frankly speaking, I'm still quite jealous of the guy who got one in the results page. Could you please let me know if your friend ever gets an interview? I prefer to be realistic these days. I just heard from the other guy that UPenn would apparently take up only one as their new COHORT of anthro this year. That's crap but most likely true!

In this sense, I should be expecting another rejection from UPenn as well. Do you know anything about Michigan, Ann Arbor?

I've kept asking for HASTS applicants but it appears as if I'm the only applicant to HASTS this year (YIPPIE)! Plz post your updates regarding HASTS! I saw in the results page someone got an interview on 3, Feb. I know they'd call for interviews in Feb and I've never hated Feb days flying away until this year,

Hi JHU applicants, Any idea when they'd start notifications? Any interviews for JHU or they'd reject as simply as Brown did?

Anyone has any idea who got interview for HASTS/MIT? No body seesm to have applied to HASTS here!

Hey dude, that's really wonderful you got interview from one of your top choices. I hope you'd get another interview from NYU too, which is also my top choice after Yale. Yale's breaking the 25 interviewees to some 4, 5 finalists; so it goes without saying that I wouldn't come out of stress until I officially hear back from them. I hope the result wouldn't be the same as Brown or even the wait-list that sucks. I'd love to get in NYU but I personally don't think I could get in since it's one of the most competitive schools. To me, Yale comes even before NYU. Do you have any idea about UPenn? you've applied to, haven't you? I was also officially rejected from Brown

Hey Siad, you got any news from NYU, Columbia, CUNY or UPenn yet? how many acceptances you got so far? did you get an interview from Yale?

plz post your updates as far as Yale's interview's concerned

Hi pal, I just had my second one and my interviewer confirmed that they'd taken up 25 applicants for interview. They're going to have the final meeting on Tuesday. I wish we could both get in. Fingers crossed you'd do good in the interview. What I really don't understand is how they're assessing based on the interview because they don't ask much. Don't you think so? Did they tell you they're gonna take up only 4 finalists? As I know, they took 6 last year. Yet, who cares, 4 and 6 are not that different. I'm so unnerved at the moment although my interview went well,

hey medanthooo, Did you do your Yale's interviews? What's up? I'm having my second one with an hour and I'm about to pass out. How many interviews did they give you?

Hi Mattsika, Did you get an interview from Yale too? I'm EST + 8 30. I did my yesterday interview at 8 PM my time. Today I will have the other interview at 7 PM my time. Maybe that is over analyzing to the level of OCD but I believe if you do your interview in the evening which would be their morning, that would be better for you because you'll have your entire day to review whatever you wanna tell them and just get more focused on your thoughts. I've not prepared anything in particular but I'm just more comfortable with the evening interviews. It's up to you though!

Hi Moraurora, Just try to be as charming as possible. They would ask you questions about your SOP, background and some classic and modern anthropologists who have inspired you. You just need to mention some names with a one or two sentence explanation. Just be yourself because you are the best. Don't try to show you're well-read. Don't worry about the questions from your SOP coz you know much more than them about your SOP! The main question is why you want to be at Yale. In my Case, the interviewer asked me why Yale would be my first choice while Berkeley, Brown, NYU, Irvine, and MIT seem to be equally a good fit for my project. Don't try to make up some huge reasons to convince them. If you also have some personal reasons that would work too. For instance, I told my interviewer that I didn't apply to West Coast at all because I wanted to be as close as possible to my partner who lives in North East, then my interviewer seemed to be convinced and told me that would be the most important factor. Keep us updated once your do your interviews. Are you interviewing from Paris? I'm in Tehran and I think we are closest time-wise! Is Yale your first choice or what?

Hey medanthooo, I also have one or two interviews left. My first interview was relaxing and cool. How was your first interview? To be honest with you, my first choice is Yale and then NYU. I strongly doubt if I get inot NYU. If I am admitted by Yale, I'd accept my offer as soon as possible. Let's see how it goes. I've not heard from any other schools except for Brown which came in as rejection., Let's keep our fingers crossed we could make it to Yale together! Haven't you applied to HASTS? I think I've been rejected from HASTS too because I haven't got any interviews yet. Feb days are flying away. Cheers,

Have you received other offers yet? Is Yale your first choice or what?

Don't be pessimist dude! if he said so, that's the way it works and I believe it's reliable. How many interviews do you still have? did he also tell you that they'd make the final notifications by the end of Feb?

Hi Polanthro, As I promised you earlier, I mean to tell you about my first interview at Yale. Actually, those who have not been invited for interview are in the reject pile. Interviews would be over until tomorrow, Sunday, and then the final decisions would be notified by end of February. Fingers crossed all of us would get into their program of choice. The interview was so cool, however, I should confess the propranolol thing helped me a lot. What else do you wanna know? I'm sorry if I conveyed the frustrating news to you! I'm sure you'll get into some other programs. I told my interviewer at Yale that I was rejected by Brown in their question why I didn't apply to Brown in spite of my compatibility with their department. She said that would be OK since last year they rejected a talented student who eventually made it into Brown. I should admit that I'm still so stressed.

your initial posts actually helped me stay tuned until I saw medanthooo post. How do they get such info even before their interview? I personally didn't dare to ask such a question in my first interview. Actually my primary interviewer meant to help me get some insight into their department. They didn't ask much, instead, it was me asking more. As you said, how would it be possible to rely on interviews while they mean to help applicants ask more? I doubt if they would treat you like the intelligence service, so to say, they assess you based on what you ask; so weird! I think some program like HASTS has an important interview as it has been directly mentioned as part of the selection process but regarding other programs, including Yale, I doubt if they'd reject some of the interviewees, however, that is possible they'd put some of them in the waiting list. I hope that wouldn't apply to my own case!

Hi medanthro, Who told you that they would pick up 4, 5 out of 25 interviewees? Is your source of information reliable or what?