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I'm going to attend University of Chicago. Interesting professors, interesting students, introduced to some new fields during my visit, and there's lot of interdisciplinary cooperation there.

I'm going to get my BA in linguistics and mathematics this June. I have done a lot of pure maths but as for linguistics, I've taken more topic courses than core ones (syntax, phonetics, etc. I haven't taken phonology and semantics). GPA ~3.9, but have had quite bad freshman year. GRE V 750 Q 800. Language background is pretty good(native in Mandarin and two dialects of Chinese, fluent in English, German, French, know Latin, Greek, Gothic, Maori, and bit of Sanskrit). But my recommendor told me that I would be competing with many master students, and what I lack is a specific goal. (My primary interest is historical and formal, but can do computational as well) So far only waitlisted at UChicago, and no news from all the other schools.

fuzzylogician have you heard from UPenn after the interview?

barredell, are you the one who posted acceptance from UPenn a long while ago?

Hi I applied to 5 programs and have heard from UChicago (waitlisted because they don't have enough funding). I do linguistics and pure maths for my BA. I'm interested in Indo-European or Sino-Tibetan linguistics, but I think formal theory is also a fit for me. I have done 2 phone interviews with the remaining 4 schools, but haven't got any news during the past week. I did more work in maths than linguistics actually, including rewriting and simplifying some proofs for topology. I don't intend to do phonetics, but my undergraduate research is in that field (I'm a computer science person too). My writing sample is about typology. I'm really worried that I might get no offers from any of the schools I've applied to.