illinoisellie
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Saint Louis University, anyone?
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Saint Louis University I/O psych PhD!!!
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Well, I'm waitlisted at one of my top choices.
I sent the "I still love you!" email, but I am now waiting until at least the week after april 15th to start freaking out.
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Yeah. But if you accept one school and then hear about your waitlist school - how can you change your mind?? :shock:
I need more time!!! :cry:
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Well, I might very well be going to Eastern Kentucky - which is in Richmond (not too far away).
So if you need a roommate.... :wink:
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So it's normal to be required to make a decision before you know about funding? I know funding offers depend largely on whether or not the people that were originally offered funding decide to go or not, but for people who were not originally offered funding and cannot afford to go without funding, choosing to accept without guaranteed funding is very risky. I have been accepted to two out of five schools, rejected from one and waiting to hear from two. One of the acceptances, call it Program A, officially stated: no funding (big state education budget cuts this year, read: cutting entire departments to make ends meet), and the other one, Program B, said nothing about funding. Should I pester Program B about the likelihood of funding if I were to accept their offer? These are Masters programs and I intend to continue on to a PhD and enter academia some day. It's looking like my best option may be to wait another year, skip the MA, and apply directly to PhD programs next year, where funding is more ample. Does that sound like the best course of action to you? Everyone says not to go into debt if you plan to become a professor and I already owe tons from my undergraduate days at a private university. I wish funding weren't a deciding factor, but my current debt and future prospects make it so. Any advice or commiseration is welcome.
So I'm not getting any funding at my MS school either - I'm also looking forward to getting a PhD. But I have heard that the only way to make your application better is to get more research experience, so try to get a research-y job, up your GRE scores, whatever, in the upcoming year if you do decide to take off for a year.
I wasn't able to find anything research-wise- I really want to just do a research gig for a year - but can't find one in my area that isn't entirely unpaid... :roll:
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Well, the school with which I am now waitlisted - just about as much stress as an actual relationship - was supposedly getting a heck of alot of applicants. I just hope that all the applicants that got in were awesome, had a high-GPA and had been published at least 5 times (read: got into a better school that they will like more)
I'm not rooting against them - I'm rooting for them! (just as long as they don't want to enroll at my school
)But odds-wise? Probably not very good. I heard from my masters level program that many of the applicants should have gotten into a phd program, but instead had only gotten into that program and were enrolling there. So if you think about how few people have gotten into the PhD programs - surely they will accept their offers.
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UTC - I/O masters
and waiting on a wait list from a certain PhD program...
I think we should hire someone who reads tarot cards - maybe they could figure out which schools we would get into.
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Maybe it's just me, but I really dislike reporters that try to capitalize on people who are hurting.
All that " How does that make you feel?" crap is insane.
Of course, I've had previous encounters with the media in a negative fashion - when I was in grade school I wrote a story about my late grandfather (whom I called G-daddy). The story won a creative writing contest at my school and at the school district level. A reporter called and wanted a copy to put in a story, so we faxed it to them.
They ended up calling us back and telling us that they only wanted to write it because they thought it was about a gang/gang activity.
I mean wth?
Jeez.
Sorry, but I had to rant about that. At least individuals in the media know that we are being affected by the economy.
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Supposedly, you're not supposed to say "yes" to one program while waiting on a list for another program - b/c if you have to change your mind, its bad form (my advisor told me this)
But I totally want to do it anyways
I'm probably going to just ask for a week extension - if I don't hear back from the other program in that week, then sayonara PhD.... :cry:
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For those of us on waitlists, it won't be over til the crow caws....i.e. probably sometime mid-august...
I'm hoping that I will know about my waitlist right before or after the 15th... but who knows?? :roll:
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What an ass! :roll:
Maybe people who want to get PhD's don't all want to eventually teach??
Maybe this guy should have taken his english degree and become an editor or writer (instead of being a pansy and feeling "forced" into becoming a professor - dude. think for yourself. for once. jeez.)
Since he is so upset at having one - he should just give his PhD to me!
I get this kind of stuff all the time - of course its difficult getting a job after a PhD and NO, we are NOT putting 2-5 years of living in a cardboard box working our butts off just to "hide from life/recession/undergrad debt".
Barring that, I can see why he wants to warn individuals who idealize the PhD and the PhD process - I was thoroughly warned by my advisors. If he wants to warn his students, that's great. Just don't over-generalize to the entire population, that's all I ask!!
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I was wondering if anyone here knows about accepting an offer to one school, and then (perhaps) not going to that school if a waitlist spot opens up....???
Does accepting an offer automatically take you off of the waitlist at the other school?
(yeah, i know - probably not, but I had to ask!)
Will accepting an offer and then not going give you a black spot?
(I am also guessing no, because if other schools admit waitlisters until august, someone must have signed up and then dropped out)
I was accepted into a masters program. I had three days of blissful de-stress-ful-ness! Then, the PhD program contacted me and now I'm on a waitlist - and I'm FREAKED OUT AGAIN!!!
I want to know who was accepted into the school so I can email them a "well, you really don't want to go to this program" letter...
But supposedly some accepted people weren't offered much funding, so hopefully they'll drop - I think I can last a year with an outside job and no funding....
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Hahaha!
I have senioritis as well, but, I still have my oral defense to pass!!
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I was accepted at a school just last week - they said they would send me more information in the mail - but I really really need that assistantship!!!
Here's hoping!
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Illinois Ellie-- I'm assuming you mean UIUC? I'm a senior there now. I've been trying to figure out if I know who you are for weeks!
UIUC? for the 70 apps and 3-5 openings? I also include Rice and NIU (PhD) - each of them had about the same numbers - which is odd, considering the masters program at George Mason had 130 applications for about 15 openings - CRAZY!
I don't go to UIUC, but close to it - IWU in Bloomington.
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That's so awesome!!
Congratulations!
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dherres,
I think that was the reason why I have gotten rejected by all the PhD programs I applied to. I just judged the competitiveness of the program based on how many people applied and how many got in.
These numbers were totally screwed up this year though - both a backup and a top choice of mine both got 70 applications and accepted about 3-5.
Depends on how often they update their websites.
I don't even know about how Eastern Kentucky is ranked in terms of masters programs...??
I think we should create a ranking - and get paid for it!
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Huh. I guess I will email GMU about acceptance stuff, then.
I'll let you guys know when I hear back from them!
I think they had a timeline on their website in addition to the 4-6 week thing...
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Nothing here just yet, Malini - hopefully they stick by their online schedule: firm rejections by the end of this month, then the rest by the 15th of April or so...
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Some ad committees are very good at informing students when they are rejected. Some are not.
I really don't mind.
I also understand if schools don't email the individuals who are on waitlists. There is some unsurety there.
But - I do mind when the ad coms have already admitted all the students they want to admit and two weeks later still have not emailed to tell that you have been rejected.
Just a mass email would be really nice.
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Hey Malini!
I applied to ISU's program too - they already admitted as many students as they are going to for this year(they let in 2 i think).
(I go to school right near there, so I heard when their visit day was)
I applied for a masters at GMU as well!
What advisor(s) are you looking for there?
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Originally I applied to 7 schools. Of those, I am now 6 rejections and 1 waitlist.
I initiated back-up apps and have an interview at one and nothing yet from the other.
Here's hoping for a miracle.
I did exactly the same when I found out I didn't get into most of my programs. I just applied for two more backup schools. (And actually found one that sounds AWESOME!
) I hope I get in!!
Out of my first round of apps, I only have 2 schools left. (well, one, if you count the fact I wanted to go straight for a PhD :roll: )
Good luck everyone!!
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Well, I applied to one school Dec. 15th.
They didn't finish "processing" it in the regular Grad Office of Admissions until the end of December/beginning of January.
I'm probably rejected now, but - they never informed me- I had to email them!
I think that after 4 or 5 weeks, depending on the program, you should email them.... if it gets to be more than 6 weeks - call them.
Just look at it this way: Be annoying (not really, just extremely exuberant and determined)! You're PAYING THEM for their time (your app fee)!
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I use "statistics for psychology" by aron, aron and coups.
Though its an introductory textbook, it really helps walk you through the spss analyses and be able to calculate the stats yourself!