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Hi all, I got admitted to Syracuse this evening with a nice fellowship. It's nice to have a funded offer.

So's I am clear, did all the UCLA updates come with an email to check the website? I guess if they are doing it alphabetically I'll be among the last to know.

Last year, acceptance letters went out 2 weeks after PSW. Rejections went out 3-4 weeks later.

Dear UW-Seattle person: How close to the east coast do you live?

Yeah, I still don't have a decision either. Is it correct to assume that people are going to the Decision Status Login page? Is there another page?

I was accepted at Robinson College too!

how many South Asianists?

I think someone posted last week that the official notifications for Columbia would be out at the end of February. Up to now the notifications have been informal emails from professors. As has also been noted here, you're not rejected until you're rejected.

This is consistent with my experience. I wasn't aware of the skype option. The weekend is 2 weeks later than it was last year. That pushes decisions later. Blast.

Does the forum think that Washington and UCLA will be March notifications? I am thinking that NYU will be roughly two weeks after PSW.

That sounds a lot like criticisms of programs in the UK. I've looked at new hires at a lot of different kinds of schools and there are plenty of Ivy grads in the mix. Could it be that graduate school is what you make of it?

According to the National Labor Relations Board's 2004 decision, TAs at private universities do not have the right to unionize. By not allowing students to TA, the school keeps graduate students from having a claim to form a union. NYU students' efforts to unionize have been the most well-reported, but it's not a problem unique to them.

NYU is the only other program that comes to mind that doesn't require teaching. For whatever reason, it doesn't seem to hurt career prospects for Princeton or NYU grads.

Astarabadi, I am sure you have considered this, but one reason stipends may be different is due to cost of living. a higher stipend in NYC or LA than in Chapel Hill, for instance, isn't necessarily more walking around money.

I think that NE Nat said that the decisions would be made prior to the 6th. Last year, I was waitlisted via post around Valentine's Day. Acceptances might be relayed via email, which would have a quicker turn around.

So, out of curiosity, will you be declining offers of admission in hopes of receiving an offer at your top choice in April? I ask only because where you are admitted someone else will likely be wait listed and hoping that you will accept or decline an offer quickly so that he/she might have a chance at getting in off the wait list. In terms of being wait listed and not ultimately receiving an offer, I contacted my POIs immediately and asked what I needed to do to improve my application. Then, I started in with those suggestions. It helped the last 8-10 months go by in a flash.

Okay, one person who mentioned they were invited to NYU's prospie weekend: what do you know (meaning, mostly, when is it)?

Oseirus, your deference to experience is inspiring.

I voted that up because it's true.

You'll do yourself a favor to understand the non-Sanskitic roots of Urdu. There are a lot of similarities, but Urdu writers in Urdu will use considerably more Arabic and Persian root words than a Hindi speaker writing in Urdu. Also, there are confusing differences in syntax if you try to approach Urdu through Hindi.

the Dirks/Chatterjee seminar on Indian history at Columbia.

What's up with the negative vote for this comment? I mean, a bit tactless, but honest and consistent with what New England Nat led us to believe.

I'll jump into the language bit. Depending on the period of Indian political history you want to study, you might want to brush up on Urdu more than Hindi. Modern Indian political history will offer a lot of sources in English. Luckily, Urdu and Persian are similar. Also, more broadly, does the forum think that comparative history is something that one moves toward through a career? It's a thought that I have about interdisciplinary work in general. I mean, on some level, you have to become expert in two disperate things, whether it's governance/governmentality/politics or if you want to combine anthro and history, or literary study and history. They are independent modes of study and each needs to be respected on its own terms. Or, can you use tools from other disciplines and call that interdisciplinary? Just a thought.

How does one navigate to this page?

It's probably nothing, but the UM post has it located in Ann Harbor.