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A friend of mine in the program told me things were really tight and that he'd heard they'd accepted a couple people but without concrete funding offers. This is normally a guaranteed five-year funding program, and apparently, things were bad enough that they'd contemplated not admitting anyone. It's not us, guys. This has just been an all around difficult year.

Hi folks, I'm looking for a little information on the status of applications at the following *linguistic or sociocultural* anthropology programs: Chicago -- I know they extended some offers awhile ago, but I didn't get a rejection letter when some other people did. Ideas? Stanford -- apparently there have also been offers, but I assume they move by subdiscipline. That or they're slow in sending out rejections. NYU -- I noticed the chain above, but am curious as to whether the rumors pertain only to the posters' discipline. I've got an offer that I'm 90% certain I'm going to take, but I'm waiting for funding to be verified. I suppose I'd like to be assured of my rejection from these programs (which offer guaranteed funding for five years) before I make any commitments. Granted, I guess I could just call up the offices... I've got to wonder whether these schools' endowments taking such big hits is affecting their admissions timeline. Still, you'd think that budgets would have been set awhile ago... Thanks for your help!

What? There's another pumpkin out there? Nope, nope. Definitely no law school for me.

Actually, that was just an "Other" via phone; the poster just called to check in. Good luck to you, and if this doesn't come through, the Bay Area is a wonderful place to spend several years!

Anthro/History is a separate program with a separate committee. No news yet, but supposedly they over-enrolled last year and are keeping this cohort small. That's just a rumor, though...