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Thanks! As I mentioned to fuzzylogician in a PM, I've gotten such an overwhelming amount of encouragement to apply out East (both here and from folks in my current department), I'm hoping to be able to apply to some of them. I will definitely take a closer look at Cornell!

Thanks goldenheartmountaintop and fuzzylogician! As I compile and refine my list, I'm curious how many schools anyone is planning to apply to, or, if you were successful in a previous year, how many schools you did apply to? My perspective is definitely being skewed by studying in the UK where 4-5 applications is considered a lot.

Yeah, unfortunately geography is playing a serious role here, otherwise those schools (plus Northwestern, UMD) would be on there. I guess I could apply to some of the programs back East and see if I get in, but for family reasons I'm not sure if I would be able to go even if I got in. Ok yeah, I wasn't sure about UBC! I havent' run into much work that's come out of there and I was confused by their faculty website. I keep hearing UBC is great for these things but I haven't seen much evidence online...I'll give it another look!

I started this thread cause I'm jealous of the Lit/Rhet/Comp thread that already has like 14 pages. So I'll start: Schools: For sure: Stanford UC Santa Cruz UC Santa Barbara UC San Diego University of Arizona UT Austin UC Davis SFU Maybe/Probably UC Berkeley USC University of Washington University of Oregon I'm interested in syntax and its interfaces, with an emphasis on syntax and pragmatics and ambiguity resolution generally. I've been working a lot on ellipsis this year, and dabbling with psycholinguistics too, so we'll see where this all goes! Clearly I'm trying to stay in the Western U.S. I'll be applying for a PhD as I'm doing an MSc in Scotland right now.

Hi Everyone, So now that the dust has settled and people are more or less committed for next year, lets start neurotically planning for the fall! What schools are you planning on applying to? MA or PhD? Do you still have to take (or, in my case, retake) the GRE? General application excitement/dread/banter/questions here!

Cuddliest picture ever.

I should add that after about 6 months of existential crisis I did apply to 5 programs the fall after I graduated. It was a great decision, leading to the masters at a great school etc etc

I took a year off and it was worth it. I love what I'm studying, I love my program, and I'm more sure than ever that a PhD is what I want to do next. When I finished my undergrad, I mostly wanted to crawl under a rock and die. My year off was hard but it was totally worth it.

I'm generally not a fan of dredging up old posts, but I thought I'd bite in order to lol heartily at my comment from last year. When I said I had no idea what I was doing, I was serious...a year on and I'm about as far from sociolx as you can get without straight up being in a different field. In any case, the flavor of the week here in antecedent-ville seems to be syntax-semantics, syntax-pragmatics, and psycholinguistics, all in how they relate to resolution of syntactic ambiguity.

Is it too late to apply to Purdue?

Last year I seem to remember he was just not really into responding to emails. I also remember someone telling me that would be the case, and they were right! So don't worry, it's him, not your admission status.

Yaaaaay phonolog! My heart was breaking for you, I'm so glad your story has a happy ending.

Warning: (in regards to your pending Oxford status) doing one of those British English language masters degrees may turn you into a linguist! It turns out linguists also love a good computer scientist, so you'd be popular at least

Something that's really hot in the UK that has seemed to be a bit slow on the uptake in the US is corpus linguistics applied to literary studies. It tends to fall under DH, but here there's a whole field called Literary Linguistics and it's studied there. There's a cool project being done on Gender and Renaissance drama in Glasgow and another one on Dickens at Uni Nottingham, off the top of my head.

I thought UT Austin had a pretty competitive funding package?

I'm at Edinburgh for linguistics and it's great, I'm really happy with the program. There are some pretty big names here, and a lot of important scholars are invited as speakers throughout the year. My focus is syntax, pragmatics, and psycholinguistics. Send me a PM if you want to talk specifics! UCL is great for theoretical syntax, for sure. I have a cohort-mate who got accepted their for his PhD and he works on ellipsis and semantics/syntax mismatches.

I'll be applying in linguistics next fall, but I've already started planning so I thought I throw in my two cents. I've got a list of schools and POIs going, and I've been trying to gauge how much work to put in to retaking the GRE. There's not really a question about retaking it, so much as how much of my time should I devote to studying for it. I'm just thankful there's no linguistics subject test, because I pretty much bombed the literature one last year! I'm limiting my school choices to relevant programs in the Western half of North America(California, Oregon, Colorado, Texas, Arizona, and British Columbia, basically). Out of those I think I have at least 10 schools, though I kind of wish there were more programs with good fit I could apply to.

Is it bad that I kind of wish there was a column for 'avatar' in the google doc? I seem to associate users more with their avatars than their usernames Anyway, congrats everybody! You made it

In the UK you can get into an Informatics/Linguistics taught MSc with little or no programming experience. I know someone who got in to the University of Edinburgh study machine translation who had no formal computational training.

I'm doing a one year masters in Scotland and my boyfriend of 3 years is back in Vancouver. It sucks, but with Skype and Viber and a few well-timed visits it's been doable. I'm restricting my PhD applications next year to programs in western North America to be as close to him and and my family and his family as possible, but it's hard to find a good compromise. Luckily, after 4,000 miles, anything closer feels like it will be a piece of cake My mentor from my undergrad lived in Vancouver, and had been married for 25 years to her husband who was also a tenured prof...in South Carolina! She once turned to me after getting off the phone with her husband in her office and said, smiling sweetly, "Don't fall in love in grad school." Apparently they met in the library at UC Berkeley, which is romantic I guess

Austin had the best cohort ever last year! You should definitely at least visit, even if you do decide to stick with UPenn...

When I was in the English department, this was my number one goal (you can check the UT Austin and other threads from last year if you've forgotten ). I may have migrated to the linguistics department, but I can still say congratu-fucking-lations, that is an awesome program and you are going to have such an incredible time there. The cohort from GC last year was amazing...you'll have to go pet Fiona Thunderpaws' cat and give Marlowe a high five for me.

Thanks guys, those are some great ideas! I'll be in either Vancouver, B.C. or the Bay Area of California next year (I'm not actually Scottish, just doing my MSc here), so I guess I'll start reaching out to people in a few months to see if I can make any contacts. mylime, out of curiosity, what kind of organisations did you email? I'm still fairly new to the discipline, so I'm not sure what kind of places would hire a volunteer/paid linguist.

Hi everyone, I'll be applying for PhD programs next fall, but while I do that I would like to stay plugged in to academia in some way. My prof recommended a research assistantship, and suggested a mailing list to join, but I'd like to find other options. I already subscribe to LinguistList, does anyone know of any other databases/mailing lists that would have this kind of information? Also, is it ever acceptable to email a professor from a school in my city that I don't attend and ask if they need a research assistant? I feel like that's kind of forward, but who knows. Thanks!