Karajan
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Congrats to the Penn acceptance!
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Really excited about Northwestern - the faculty are a fantastic fit for me, great financial package, and it was my top choice.
Wahoo! Congratulations!! I was really hoping it was you!
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Congrats to the Northwestern admit!
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Anyone who applied for musicology heard from Yale? I do not know anyone who has been admitted.
Yes, a friend of mine heard that he got in a few days ago.
Congrats on Columbia, by the way!
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Huzzah to those admitted to BU, UT Ausin, and Columbia!
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yale musicology admits are out, too.
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Don't apply to programs where you have a weak to no fit with faculty! Apply to schools where you have a genuine fit with the faculty and department philosophy.
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Received my rejection from Case today. This one really hit me the hardest because it was my top choice. I am yet to hear from Michigan, Texas, Northwestern, Chicago, and Illinois and by the looks of it (by means of interviews and acceptances by other PhD Musicology candidates), I only have a shot at Texas and Illinois.
I wasted so much time, money, energy -- and the time and energy of my recommendees on these ten applications. Damn it.
Try not to be too down
You can always reapply next year. There are some posters on this board who reapplied after a year out and had totally different (and better!) results with almost the exact same application. This is a fickle, arbitrary process -- Give things another shot next year if things don't end up working out this year the way you'd like. Chin up!
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Last year, Yale contacted us very late...
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Congrats to the recent UCLA ethno acceptance! Huzzah!
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Big congrats to the musicologist just accepted to NYU!
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Got my 3rd rejection today.
Needless to say, my enthusiasm is waning
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Hi all! I'm new on here. I found this website yesterday and have read through the post. Good luck to all of those who have applied and congrats to those who have heard good news. I applied to 8 schools for musicology:
Chicago
Harvard
Yale
Duke
Michigan
UNC Chapel Hill
Cornell
Penn
Is it a bad thing if I have heard nothing from these schools? In other words, is it possible that acceptance letters are recieved at different times? I'd love to hear your thoughts.
Hi and welcome! Usually, if acceptances have already gone out from a school and you haven't heard, you've probably been wait-listed or rejected, unfortunately
However, if interview invitations have gone out and you haven't heard, there's still a possibility that you'll get an interview invite -- That happened to me with Columbia last year. -
According to my quick research, it seems that, at the top US places (I included Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Berkeley, Chicago, Stanford, Eastman, NYU, Columbia, Penn, but I could've included many more), the following schools were well-represented on faculty:
Ethno
NYU (4)
U of Illinois (3)
=Columbia (2)
=Michigan
=UCLA
=UPenn
=Chicago (1)
=U of Alberta
=Berkeley
=Northwestern
=Wesleyan
=UC Santa Cruz
=UT Austin
=Duke
=Indiana
Musicology
Berkeley (10)
Harvard (8)
=Princeton (7)
=Cornell
=NYU (5)
=Stanford
=Yale
=Columbia
=Chicago
=Eastman (2)
=Cambridge
=Oxford
=Brandeis
=CUNY
=UPenn (1)
=Amsterdam
=Michigan
=University of Birmingham, UK
=UCSD
=UNC Chapel Hill
=Duke
=University of Pittsburgh
Theory
Yale (9)
=Harvard (4)
=Eastman
Chicago (3)
=Princeton (2)
=Michigan
=Columbia (1)
=Cornell
=Berkeley
=CUNY
=King's College, London
=Stanford
=University of Toronto
=University of Leeds, UK
Composition
=Princeton (3)
=Cornell
=UCSD
=Columbia (2)
=Harvard
=Berkeley
=Eastman
=Indiana (1)
=University of Birmingham, UK
=EHESS
=Michigan
=Chicago
=UPenn
For the record, at Cambridge and Oxford, the most well-represented places on faculty are:
Cambridge (8)
Oxford (4)
Princeton (2)
=University College, London
=Moscow (1)
=UPenn
=Chicago
=Columbia
=Harvard
=Berkeley
=University of Edinburgh, UK
=University of Exeter, UK
=University of York
=TU Berlin, Germany
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Congrats to the Harvard ethno acceptee and musicology wait-listee!
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Try your best to keep your mind off of things if you can -- There's nothing you can do now that the apps are in!
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I was sent a scedule of events for this campus visit to Northwestern, and I figured some of you may be interested as to what this interview entails. The first day is taken up by a class that we can sit it on, and then a lengthier colloquium. The second day we have several campus/library tours, and information meetings with the director of graduate studies. At the end of day 2 seems to be the main event - 6 back to abck 30 minute interviews, with each of the musicology faculty in turn, followed by a reception with all faculty/applicants. The final day is just breakfast and Q&A sessions.
There are also several optional events mixed in - dinner with current students, and a Chicago Symphony Orchestra concert.
Sounds fun! Northwestern is pretty organized: last year, there were few schools I visited where I had to organize my own schedule!
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Way to go to those who were recently admitted to CUNY and UC Santa Cruz
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waitlisted at princeton today. I guess I'm glad they didn't outright reject me, but the lack of closure and prolongation of the waiting game is a real bummer. Whatever. Look like plenty of fine people here got passed over like me
Well done!
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A friend heard positively back from Berkeley, Michigan, and Eastman for musicology
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...And a Stanford admit, too!
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Purple Dinosaur, do you happen to know if music students in all of the disciplines are notified at the same time or is it staggered? Thanks!
They don't necessarily come all at once, but we've found that, oftentimes, all the sub-disciplines are notified around the same time. In other words, it's hard to predict...
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Just stopped by to say good luck, everyone! I was just thinking about how it was at this time last year that I was going through the extreme freak-out phase and checking grad cafe every 30 seconds... it seems so long ago! Just think about how at this time next year you'll be feeling the same way.
If anyone has any questions about schools, I would be happy to try and answer them!
Wahoo! Hello, my fellow 2012 season applicant!
:) Our existence and continued living should hopefully indicate to the current batch that this process will end and you will get through it!
Why waiting is torture!
in Music
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Re: Yale
I know one theorist and two musicologists accepted. Not sure about composers.