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I guess I'm hoping that a current Grad Center student can answer these questions, but would love to hear from some enlightened recent admits as well! I've yet to hear about funding from the GC. In worrying about/planning for the possibility getting a fellowship, I'm hoping someone can explain how teaching works. I understand that PhD students typically teach two 3-hour courses at one of the various campuses around NYC. Time constraints and logistics aside, I'm currently curious about: 1) Tuition- is it covered if you teach two courses? 2) health insurance? is it offered? What does it cost? 3) What is the pay for one of these teaching fellowships? 4) How readily available are these teaching fellowships? 5) If you have a masters degree, can you begin the first year? (Do you want to?) 6) Tell us anything you think we should know that I'm not asking about! Hopefully a lot of these questions will be answered at the admit open day next week, but just thought I'd check with the reliable gradcafe community for the scoop.

I recently received my acceptance as well and am looking forward to the open house on March 2nd!

Based on the reporting on the results page on this website from recent years, I'm guessing acceptances will go out this week or next. None have shown up on the board yet. Fingers crossed!

I don't know. I had something to add my CV that was a rather important/ potentially influential on my application update that I found out about since I had submitted my app in December. I let a POI know and she suggested I contact the head of the admissions committee with the information, which I did. I think I would only update a POI with such info that you met with or had a really good phone conversation with. Someone who was upbeat about your application. I also had another POI from a different uni ask me in October to touch base with her via email in Feburary, which I did earlier this month. The app for this school was due later, so the previously mentioned update was included in that app. Since she asked me to email her, I simply replied to the email conversation we had had to jog her memory in case she had trouble remembering me. I very simply said I was following up with her to reitterate my interest in the program. It was a three sentence email. I didn't hear back from her, but am crossing my fingers that she hasn't replied for the reason a previous poster mentioned: so as not to give any indicidation as to what a yet unknown decision might be. So, I am beside myself waiting for results to start coming!

I have two book reviews and one article in an online journal.

This happened to my partner when he was admitted to a PhD program. His POI was going to be on sabbatical during the first semester of his program and they didn't want him to feel lost coming during his first semester. Of course, they didn't tell him that up front. He only found out later.

Yes, funding there is great. I have a friend who started a PhD there a few years ago, albeit in ethnomusicology. In addition to full stpend, health insurance, etc., he also received a $1000/year book buying allowance! I think NYU would be a great place to go to school.

Well, I thought they were saying there was only one male in the cohort. I agree. It looks suspicious and I wondered too if it might be someone just messing around, which is annoying. Surely this site has a way to track such things. I hope they only let registered users put up their results.

Hey there, Yale applicants. It looks like a couple of people have received admissions decisions! On the results page: one accepted, one rejected. Are these real? One of the comments is... weird. If you received a decision, please tell us about it on this page! How did you hear? What was said? What are your stats? THANKS!

Someone's day eventually will be ruined one way or another, either when they get the email/letter themselves or when others start updating the results. The waiting is horrible, so I say updating is most helpful. If someone doesn't want to know, they don't have to check the results page.

Well, some programs to which I applied made it very clear that getting in touch with profs in advance was helpful to an application and that profs have some pull, even if they aren't on the grad committee, with students being assigned to them as their POI. Profs at NYU and students to whom I've spoken have said it's a much more impersonal process there, that it is often about where you went to undergrad, GRE, GPA and less about interests and making the right match with a POI. I find that hard to believe, but just wondered if anyone else had heard the same thing. NYU has amazing scholars I'd love to work with because I think our interests are so similar. I guess I feel like my stats aren't as great as some others and that I have a better chance at schools in which they really consider the match of the prof to the student.

Yes, I've been reviewing last years acceptances/rejections in the results section and now am on pins and needles knowing most of my schools do acceptances in early-mid Feb and follow up with rejections. I can't decide if this website is comforting or not! Hahaha! At least we can all stress and commiserate together. Let's all keep each other posted.

Where do you find last years results on this website?

Thanks, socgraduate11! What about you? Who is your POI? Area of interest? What other schools have you applied to?

Hannah Brueckner. My interests primarily are in sexuality and gender. I want to continue work from my MA thesis toward a dissertation. Some of her work is related.