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  1. Alright, who's claiming the two Michigan acceptances?
  2. If your main interests are political economy and social movements within a Marxist framework, I'd look into the following programs in this order: 1. NYU: From speaking to folks in the program, it looks like the best program for Marxists.There are faculty members like Vivek Chibber as well as a number of grad students who do related work. The downside is it's a really hard program to get into. 2. Wisconsin: This should be fairly obvious because Erik Olin Wright is there. However, I hear NYU would probably still be better in terms of training. Again, really hard to get into. 3. UC-Berkeley 4. Johns Hopkins I have similar interests but I'm also interested in development. I wasn't able to get into NYU, Wisconsin or Johns Hopkins (didn't apply to Berkeley).
  3. I wouldn't worry too much about your background. I got a minor in sociology while my bachelors degree was in engineering. I still got into a couple of top 20 grad programs in sociology. Like the others have mentioned, LORs are important as well as a strong personal statement.
  4. Does anyone know if deferring enrollment by one year is possible in any schools? I am an international student and would just feel more comfortable saving up some money from my job right now and then going back to school (I also need to show funds for a year's worth of fees for immigration/visa purposes). Any thoughts?
  5. Another acceptance, does anyone want to claim it? Any other details?
  6. No, I don't see any other acceptances posted either. Don't know what's going on
  7. I am an international applicant . The prospects for me look bleak since I'm assuming it's been over an hour since the phone call.
  8. I know a bunch of Canadian programs offer funded terminal masters degrees. If you are open to getting your masters outside the US and then applying to American PhD programs later, then you should look into this.
  9. Congrats! I'm waiting to hear back from Johns Hopkins too. However, it doesn't seem like many people from here applied there. From looking at previous years, I believe we will start to hear back from them in a couple of weeks
  10. I'm in at U Arizona. I was notified by email on Monday and the letter should be coming soon. I was also rejected by Wisconsin and UCSB in the past couple of days.
  11. Just saw the reject letter uploaded to the status page. Got an email directing me to it.
  12. I am waiting to hear from NYU, Johns Hopkins, UCSB, UCI and Arizona before I even start thinking about where I want to go. I also applied to Wisconsin but I haven't heard anything yet so I assume that it's not good news. My broad areas of interest are political economy, development, state theory and social movements.
  13. Congrats! What other places are you waiting on and what are your interests? Thanks!
  14. I was right. Just got accepted. Email from DGS; offer includes tuition, health, stipend. It's my first acceptance and I'm very excited!
  15. Looking at the results from previous couple of years, acceptances from Indiana went out in the weekend after interviews, mainly on Saturday.
  16. I find this thread interesting and I largely agree with sleepycat. I was having a similar discussion with one of my advisors when I was getting ready to apply to programs. I asked him if I should make it apparent in my personal statement that the main factors in my decision to pursue sociology was my political work and activism. He had no hesitation in saying that adcoms would much rather hear that you are genuinely passionate about social justice/change rather than solely about some abstract theoretical issue in academia. But I guess the main point of contention here is whether or not such political/ideological affiliations would compromise academic rigor. My own feeling is that there is a false dichotomy here. We would do well to recognize that it is impossible to separate our academic work from our subjective views about the issue we are examining. Our work is shaped by this orientation, right from the beginning with the types of research questions we choose to ask. Therefore, we have two choices; we can either decide to be open and honest about the analytical framework we are working within or we can make false claims to objectivity. A lot of academics adopt and buy into the idea of "objective" social science without realizing that their work is influenced by social context as well as their own ideological dispositions *cough neoclassical economists* . About academic rigor, I don't see how dubious work can go far or be influential in academia. And I want to echo what others have said: I don't see how it would that sort of work would be helpful in furthering my agenda.
  17. Well, she did say by the end of this week or early next week. I can't wait to hear back though. I feel pretty optimistic about it.
  18. So, there seems to be another post for a ucsb acceptance. I'm just wondering if it is the same person who got the call earlier (but just recieved the email now) or if it's a new acceptance. I'm getting a little anxious about this. Thoughts, anyone?
  19. Mine seemed to go just like everyone else's description. good luck.
  20. I am interested in political economy, development, state theory, social movements, Marxist theory etc. I applied to nyu, wisconsin, johns hopkins, indiana, ucsb, uci, umass, arizona.
  21. I got an email for a phone interview too. It mentioned the same thing about goals/interests/aims. My SOP contained my general areas of interest as I do not have any specific research proposal in mind. I hope it goes well and we hear some good news soon. Good luck everyone!
  22. My list: Wisconsin NYU Johns Hopkins Indiana Arizona UCSB UC Irvine UC Riverside UMass Amherst SUNY Binghamton Boston College Maybe it'd be a good idea to say what our interests are too? Mine: Political Economy, State theory, Development, Social Movements
  23. Hey, few questions: My broad area of interest is political sociology (state theory, social movements, pol econ of development, world systems analysis) I am looking to apply to about eight programs. Does anyone have any recommendations? I don't think I can afford to apply to too many top-tier schools because I'm not sure I'll get in. Brief profile: I am graduating with a bachelors in Chemical Engineering along with a Sociology minor this semester. I decided to apply to sociology grad programs early this fall. My overall GPA is 3.62 (4.0 scale) and I do have a sociology GPA of 4.0 (although I'm not sure this matters because I have only taken 4 with letter grade; 1 was transferred). I am going to be taking the GRE mid November and I think I should score in the 1300 range (using the old score system). I am getting LORs from professors/instructors with whom I've taken soc courses (including a grad seminar on social movements). I do not have any research experience in sociology. My final paper for the grad seminar was more of a literature review on the topic I was writing on. -Now, keeping all this in mind, what programs do you think I should be looking at? I don't think the engineering background will go over particularly well so I'm kind of scared that I won't even be admitted to mid-tier schools. Some of the schools I looking at are UC-Irvine, UC-Riverside, UC-Santa Cruz, SUNY Binghamton. I'm not sure if I should be applying to more elite schools like Johns H, NYU, Indiana, UMich. What do you think?
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