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Pinoy- Things were slow going for me at CUNY and UBC. I called up the departments and they allowed me to send unofficial transcripts and GRE scores as place holders. I also included e-receipts to prove I sent the requests long in advance of the due dates. Try to explain your situation and see if you can work something out like that. Good luck!

I bet you did great. For someone who survived law school the GRE is LSAT lite.

How would you define "friendly toward sociologists?" I can't imagine any place antagonistic to them...

I am part of the sociology program and a week from now visiting the Triangle for the first time. Love that someone started a thread for UNC.

If you aren't averse to going to Canada also consider University of Toronto's sociology program. Barry Wellman is probably one of the most prolific scholars on cyberculture. I will warn you it is very competitive to get into.

Thanks everyone. I am so relieved. As a thanks, I will give you this fun nugget from a UNC alum.

Got off the waitlist at UNC-Chapel Hill!!!! After 13 rejections I finally get into a school. So excited!

] If I go the MA route I want a place where I can get mentoring and faculty attention. I still feel like a raw quantity. At Columbia (and U of C) I would be second banana to the PhD students and it would be hella expensive for a second-class experience. I'd rather have something funded at a less prestigious place where I can get more nuturing. I am still holding hope for a few PhD programs though.

I got offered the MA program after being rejected from the PhD program. It is completely unfunded. Cute to say that I got accepted to the Ivy League but there is no way in heck I am taking it.

I mean the other MA programs I applied to as an emergency. They will most likely offer full funding with stipend. However, the moving and living expenses could cancel each other out as I live in Chicago already. Interesting dilemma if Plan A falls through.

Accepted into MAPPS with 1/2 tuition. As awful as my SoP was I thought they would charge me a 1/2 more than full price. I live in Chicago and I have no UG debt so it is tempting. But if my first 15 falls through I think I'd rather have a funded masters at a less prestigious place.

All I have so far is one waitlist at Indiana. No acceptances at all. I am really hoping those who get accepted there take other offers.

Rejected from both of the above....where is the love?

So happy for you slumgullion! I know how torturous this process has been for you. DId you get in somehwere sociologyplease as well? Perhaps there still is hope.

I think they want to test our deductive logic skills.

Hey surefire and congratulations! Any news on the Toronto MA front? Have they made their decisions?

I applied to 15 top schools. So far its one waitlist, five rejections, eight pending rejections, and a longshot in Toronto. I thought my statistics were strong enough to be competitive anywhere. I spent a lot of money and put a lot of thought into each application. I can understand not getting all upset about an individual rejection but such an across the board repudiation just has shattered my pride. With this looming over me, to be frank, I have a hard time enjoying the things I used to and I don't see myself snapping out of it anytime soon. I can go through the motions and prepare a plan B but I just can't seem to have genuine fun anymore.

In addition there seems to be a lot of people who have had lots of success in their application cycle out of an MA program this. I think a lot of us would be appreciative to know where you guys went and a little about your background so we can get an idea of what schools are successful at placing their students and to also know there is a tomorrow if an application cycle goes bust. elw4y8 provided a great example.

Glad this thread came back up. I just want to ask about fit vs. connections when it comes to apply to terminal MA programs. If all goes to hell, I have had a long time correspondence with a professor who has very similar interests and really wants to work with me. However, the schools is hardly a name university, the department is pretty small, and it doesn't seem to have connections. There seems to be other programs that seem to have connections but do not offer the resources to pursue my interests. Obviously it would be preferable to have both; but would it be better to have a department which supports your interests so you can show work in your areas of interest once applying for PhD programs or ones that has connections to PhD programs even though what would be studied would be peripheral to my main interests?

Other have already touched on the cliches of using methods as tools and having the question take precedent first (and the resulting love of Northwestern; call me ). That is how I feel. Although qualitative approaches seem more intuitive to me I feel its imperative, especially since I have an interest in social networks as it pertains to the internet, to get a strong background in quantitative methods as well as things like game theory. It just seems like one of those things, like logic classes in undergrad, that will alter the way I think to the point where I'd become a better student.

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Ohhh heck yes. If I got admitted rather than waitlisted I wouldn't be so on edge about all these rejections. All I need is one and if worse comes to worse hope those accepted to the schools I've been waitlisted to go elsewhere. In the meantime to quote Tommy Wiseau: "YOU ARE TEARING ME APART!"

Rejected citing fit with the program. I wrote it off after acceptances came anyway.

The first thing that came to my mind is time. If you share a place with someone chores are delegated and there is more time to study and less time for errands. Not to mention moral support through tough times.