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As the others have said, checking out the programs websites for what schools generally offer in terms of financial aid packages. Typically a school's enrollment is constrained by funding (which means that if you get in, you usually get fellowships) If you have specific or general questions regarding linguistics, there's always the forum here and you can feel free to PM me.

Linguistics programs are no different, except that maybe cohorts are a little larger. To give you an idea, UMass Amherst had 147 applicants for 7 spots. UCLA only gave offers to 5% of students who applied. (I think they gave 12 offers, not sure on their cohort size) You can look through CVs of current grad students and the results board to get an idea of the typical candidate.

I think that a certain aspect of the SOP is not necessarily to detail in specific terms what you hope to expect in research, but more so a narrative of your own preparation and what tools your background offers you to be able to do well in a program. My undergraduate training is minimal compared to some of my colleagues at other schools (intro + 1 course in each subfield, and I haven't gotten to OT or Minimalism in any course), but I think, as LinguisticMystic mentions that, preparation outside of linguistics can be made relevant to your application. Going to conferences are a really good idea, it was there that I was able to find out more of what I wanted to do and also got to see what kind of problems are being worked on by professors.

@Cockneysparrow: PM'd you and radiowires just so we don't overload this topic. And yup, I'm a phonologist

@amyjoust it's all about telling your story in your application a way which lines up your background an interests with the department's interests. So yes, maybe a MA in TESOL might be most applicable for an Applied Linguistics, but you can likely tell your story in a way that can get you places Might as well mention here that I'm going to MIT next year. I'm pretty stoked

wame0601: A lot of Canadian programs offer funding (to Canadians at least), uOttawa, UBC and McGill to name a few at the MA level. SSHRC and OGS both offer MA funding. I say this because you mentioned being Canadian in that other thread.

@Reddawg50, each of us emailed our POI. I think the fact that we're international is besides the point

Appears like the Chicago decisions were in fact made a while back. I emailed my POI as I was making travel plans and got rejected.

@fuzzylogician, amen to what you're saying. I've met a number of graduate students pursuing PhD's in Linguistics with little or no formal training in their undergrad. For those of you with interviews, consider fuzzylogicians post carefully and emphasize aspects of your undergrad career which make you well prepared to ask good theoretical questions. For me, it was my electives which prepared me for a PhD more so than the few linguistics courses I've taken. Also, any word from Chicago?

MIT acceptances are out, they took 12 students out of 200+ applications. It's been a rough season all around. Hope you all get some more news tomorrow

nicolemc, word on the street is for SSHRC MA, getting forwarded to Ottawa usually results in funding. (i.e. a rubber stamp) You should let them know the good news! They will likely have a good idea of the MA yield.

The website doesn't have my decision up yet, so you can take that as a data point.

Ehh, I'll just post here. Just got the official offer now. Open house March 5-6

I'll post on the results board when I get my official offer, just so everyone is aware of the timeline

Got accepted to UCLA with 5 years of funding Personal email from POI mentioned that the graduate director will be emailing admitted applicants with official offers of admission. Good luck to everyone here! Hopefully you all hear back soon

elizabethrose14, who is your POI for Pitt? I worked at Pitt on the applied side this summer, and met with a couple professors and current students. Might be able to offer two cents if you message me.

Speech pathology applicants generally hang around in the Life Sciences forum

I've taken a look through last years thread and I saw that a lot of people were able to negotiate with SSHRC later on to get their award upgraded. I'm a 4th year undergrad, and am applying to some masters programs in Canada. I'm curious to know if (hypothetically) I were to get an award and choose to attend a Canadian MA program, would I be able to 'downgrade' the award. Any ideas?

The B pile are applications not forwarded by your university, so if you've heard that you've been forwarded that means you're in the A pile.

Yup, just heard back from my university. Haven't heard any word from SSHRC yet, but it's encouraging news. I'm applying for the PhD fellowship, if the masters is any different. (We should really be getting all our notifications in now, given the deadline for forwarding is the 9th)

Awe, I'm so happy to see us all submitting applications. For me UCLA kind of got my in gear with respect to finishing polishing my writing sample (Laboratory phonology thesis proposal, which in its' original draft was a little bit heavier on the laboratory (methods) and less on the phonology). UCLA & Chicago are in, MIT, Rutgers, UBC, and uMass are left to go. All of their applications seem to have pretty straightforward requirements. UCLA's requirement of a 'list of courses' was useful to get thinking about the other places. I had a little panic attack that my GRE scores weren't sent to Chicago, but they don't start looking at the applications until January, and my scores should be in by then! uMass is pretty funny for me, as my references haven't gotten any emails from them. I think you have to submit your application then they send out the reference emails. Anyone else have any experience with uMass?

Woo! I'm applying to a number of programs, with a focus on phonology, the p2 interface and wherever computation intersects the two. I'm doing some laboratory phonology work for my undergrad thesis, and my background is a double CompSci/Linguistics major. I'm looking at UMass Amherst, MIT, UCLA, UChicago and Rutgers with a side order of UBC and uOttawa for MA. (yay Canada). Northwestern is also super cool, I suspect it'll be a coin toss to decide between Northwestern and UChicago. I want to keep my list on the short side.