PhDreaming

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This entire process is killing me. Results from applicants in my field are starting to appear but not from my schools. C'mon FEBRUARY! You can do it!

I sure hope thats not true! I mean I good for them, but I have not heard from Stanford yet. Usually they send out invites in early FEB and since they invite everyone to visit campus to pick the final acceptances, it seems unlikely that they would send some invites out before others.

First linguistics related post appeared on the Results Survey. Looks like someone got an invite from UCSC. Congrats to whoever that was!

LinguisticMystic - Who was your POI at UW-Madison. That's where I did my undergrad and wanted so badly to find a way to go back there for the PhD but didn't have anyone to work with. Considered the PhD in ELL through the English department because they have some stellar faculty there (Anja Wanner, Eric Raimy and now Tom Purnell) but I just really wanted to be in a variationist socioling program ... If you get in there and go for a visit it will be hard to leave

I'm a current grad student in Boulder. My opinions are not as positive as most of the other posters but I don't want to be totally negative on here. If you are interested in another opinion, please PM me.

Hey everyone. Two of my schools did not require writing samples for PhD applicants. This seems really strange to me but I was wondering if people could comment on any potential pros or cons of submitting a writing sample. Also, did anyone else have this option and choose NOT to submit a sample? OSU and Colorado did not require one but I submitted on anyway.

JoaniePanic - when I was applying to M.A. programs and my interests were squarely in the pragmatics and socio side of linguistics I was told by a POI that the Q sections is WAY more important than the V section. Verbal was almost not even relevant.

Way late to this topic but if anyone else comes across it in the future, I had to throw out Georgetown (linguistics) and University of Wisconsin (department of English) as two GREAT places to study SLA. Just an FYI

Michael Silverstein is my hero. Once I figured out how to read him, my life got so much better. And a good friend of mine at UChicago has told me some really funny stories about the man. Almost applied there but decided against it.

No love for sociolinguistics in this piece? For shame.

My favorite answer to give when this questions comes up while socializing/flirting: "I'm fluent in the languages of love and physical pleasure" ::wink::

When I was applying for the MA I contacted a bunch of professors and the only one that I communicated with was at Colorado (which is where I ended up for my MA). I only applied to two other PhD programs not here at CU and has met the people I wanted to work with at the most recent Linguistics Summer Institute so I didn't e-mail them during the app process. It seems like a fine line to walk but I think generally professors like when people are interested in their work. If you haven't already, Monica Macaulay's book "Surviving Linguistics" has a nice chapter on the application process that mentions this topic.

linggeek - where did you end up applying? I know it's too late and I probably don't need any more competition but Stanford is great for p-side and socioling.

lagarconne - my advisor (a linguistic anthropologist) told me to NEVER pay for a PhD. If you do, you are doing it wrong. If you are the right fit for a program, they will want you and they will fund you. Kind of blunt but I think she makes a good point. I am paying for my M.A. right now but am only applying to schools that I know will be able/willing to fund me for the PhD level work.

Hello! I'm new to this forum. Took me way to long to figure out how to find it again after my browser suddenly quit but IM BACK! I will be finishing my M.A. at University of Colorado, Boulder in the Spring and have just submitted my three apps for PhD work. I feel like three is so few compared to some people but there just really isn't anywhere else I want to go at the moment and worst case scenario I can still apply next year (unless the world really does end ). My school are: Stanford (to work with Penny Eckert, Rob Podesva and/or Meg Sumner) Ohio State University (to work with Kathryn Campbell-Kibler) University of Colorado, Boulder (to work with Kira Hall and Rebecca Scarborough - my current advisors) Athenrein - looks like we are applying to at least a couple of the same schools!