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Also - was there another AHMA admit today? Congrats to whoever that is!

Welcome and good luck!! I know the wait for funding can be awful... I'm also Canadian and went to the UK for an MPhil. I didn't hear about my funding until... late March? It can unfortunately sometimes take a while but I am wishing you the best!!!! UCL is amazing apparently and I am SO jealous of the Classical Studies library at Senate House - I used to brave a two-hour bus ride to London just to use it.

It's February 25th to 27th

Waitlisted at Stanford... and also messed up my GRE stats when posting my result on the board for a second time lol

It's not really about the ire of my boss - I work in a university academic office so they're really supportive. It's that I have a finite number of vacation days and sick days in my contract, and they accumulate per month. For every 15 days I work I accumulate 1.5 sick days and 1 vacation day. So I don't have a ton on hand, and I just had to book two for a really important interview (I mean, it's basically my top choice) the weekend before this prospective weekend. It will have a financial impact in the long run because it means that in the summer when I take vacation time from this job, which I need to pay my bills, to do archaeological fieldwork, I will be unpaid for a week... I could call in sick - just that I can't call in sick for every school's weekend as they'll get suspicious. I'd say this school where I've been accepted is my 4th choice out of 7 so I think it might be worth it just in case. I'm shocked to hear it's so common, as I would get in a lot of trouble if they find out I'm not actually sick on my sick day...

Hi! So I've just been accepted to a program and invited to the Prospectives "Weekend" in late February that includes two weekdays (Thursday and Friday). I'm not sure I can make it though - it's just a week after I go to a four-day Recruitment "Weekend"/ Interview for another program (which has not made final decisions yet) and I cannot really take further time off. What do I do in this case?? Do I just explain? Say I'm willing to come on an actual weekend on on Friday/ Saturday at best? Offer to speak with them via Skype? I don't want to sound rude at all or like I'm not taking the offer seriously, but I have a finite number of days I can take off, and I need to save as many as possible for a few weeks of fieldwork in June (which is directly related to my applications and my field).

Thank you!!! I'm excited - though I'm not sure I'll be able to make it to the Prospectives Weekend. It's the week after the Michigan interview and I don't know if I can take another two days off! I'm also trying to save vacation days for fieldwork this summer so I'm very conflicted!!!! I'm interested in whoever posted the Berkeley interview - I thought they didn't interview, but maybe that's only AHMA...

Just heard from AAMW! Got in with invite to prospectives weekend in late Feb!

Oh wow - is that new? I know a friend was accepted into Classics without an interview in the past, and another friend into AAMW. Maybe my friend is a prodigy

From what I know, Berkeley AHMA does not do interviews - not sure whether Berkeley Classics do but I assume not given that the committees are essentially the same. UPenn Classics doesn't nor has UPenn AAMW in the past - not sure whether they do now. I did speak to someone at AAMW informally over Skype in December, but I think that was just because he preferred that over lengthy email exchanges. I'm personally curious as to whether Stanford interviews - I personally have no clue but would love to know! Any other specific programs you're curious about?

that's hilarious!! At least they gave you another chance - I've found departments are more flexible than I thought they'd be. I didn't send official transcripts to Stanford initially as I didn't know they needed them (to be fair it's pretty uncommon!) and then they took ages to arrive.

Thanks for this info locheaira! I applied to classical arch there so this information is really useful, one less app to worry about. (I actually dreamed about a UNC rejection last night lol) Congratulations!!! Getting into a top choice is amazing

haven't heard anything from either! I have a friend at AHMA and she hasn't heard anything about decisions being made, but historically they do make decisions during the last week of January. congrats btw!!

Does anyone want to claim the acceptance to Duke? I've applied there.... guess I've not been accepted

Yayyy good on you!! Congrats!!! I applied to UT Austin last time around and they didn't answer me even after they had sent out a load of rejections so I withdrew my application in anger LOL last time I interviewed at IPCAA the IPGRH and Classics people were there too, and we mingled a couple of times. IPCAA's weekend this year is Feb 18-21 - my flight is all booked! Hope it's the same weekend, would be cool to see you there! ?

Congrats to the person who has just posted an acceptance to Classical Archaeology at Oxford! I went there for my Master's - feel free to ask me any questions you might have!

Thank you! I have a few friendly acquaintances at IPCAA too and they seem to love it there. I'm thinking of reaching out to them for tips on the interview but not sure that would be the best idea... definitely nervous about it!!

Ohhh so they have a two-step process! That makes sense!

It is indeed a little strange! I also interviewed for IPCAA 2 years ago when I was about to finish my BA (didn't get in, obv) and I know the IPGRH people were also in town for recruitment weekend then, but maybe IPGRH has changed their strategy? Could it also be distance? Are you very far from Ann Arbor? I'm quite close - realistically it's only a short flight or an annoying Greyhound away for me.

Now that I have spent around 6 hours freaking out... got a call from IPCAA today & invite to recruitment weekend next month.

Hey - thank you so much for this amazing response!!! I've seen your replies in other threads too and they've all been very helpful! He and I are both very grateful that you've shared this information Glad to hear that it's okay to apply afterward - I don't think we'll be married until summer 2017 at the earliest and we're definitely not ready to do it this summer!

Congratulations and good luck!!! That certainly was fast! When did you submit? I know their deadline was not that long ago! (I've not applied to IPGRH, but to IPCAA, so this has piqued my interest...)

Hi all, I've got a visa question here! I've read a lot of previous posts about J-1 + J-2 procedures so I'm okay on that front, but I'm just wondering if any of you have had a situation similar to mine. I will hopefully begin my PhD in September in the USA - I am Canadian. My partner is British, still living in the UK, and would like to join me in the USA, but we certainly will not be married by the time I start the PhD program. I'm hoping to get a J-1 visa (as opposed to an F-1), but do any of you have experience of applying for the J-2 after the J-1 application, for a spouse to join you after your first year (i.e. second, third, etc.)? Does this complicate things more? To be honest I'm not really sure exactly when or even where we'd get married as we live on two different continents at the moment now that I've returned to Canada......... Also, do any of you have experience of a spouse on a J-2 visa being able to apply for a different visa once they've found work? My partner is an engineer and hopes to find a good job once he joins me, so that he won't necessarily be in the US as my dependent for the entirety of my degree - but I don't know if it's possible to just switch visa status like that... probably a stupid question but I find this visa stuff so confusing. Any help would be super duper appreciated! Thank you!

So, firstly, I'm an archaeologist, not a philologist or an historian, so I can't say much about how good any specific Classics departments are. I did however remember this thread... it has some good perspectives not only on the usefulness of ranking at all, but on which programs are viewed as the strongest. There are some arguments about some personal opinions on that thread! And of course, some situations have changed based on very recent faculty changes over the last few years. I'm personally of the opinion that a better fit in the department (in terms of your research) + good funding is more important than where a school is ranked on a list, but admittedly it is best to try for the top schools if you have the requirements for them (grades, language prep, etc). There are a number of non-Ivies that are pretty high up there too, Ivy League status isn't everything...!

5 down, 2 to go for me... hope yours have been going well!