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Anyone currently in this program or know anything about it (anything that one wouldn't find on their website, of course)? Would love to know if you are having or had a good experience.

Has anyone here had any experience with this program? I'm considering attending and would love any opinions or info about the quality of the program. Did you get anything out of it - a job, great recs for applying to a PhD program, etc.? Thanks!

I just received a rejection from the Columbia Sociology Masters program. I know for a fact that they have not received my 3rd recommendation yet (their website says LORs can be sent up to 2 weeks after the app deadline), which would have been my strongest. Is this something I should email them about or is this normal? I mean, I paid them $100 to review my application, I feel like they should at least look at the entire app...

Thanks everyone, this was helpful. I'll report back in a few months, hopefully with good news!

I am applying to masters programs in sociology with a disastrous GPA. Is there even a chance I will get in or should I start preparing a plan B? UG GPA: 2.1 from a top 20 school that I don't think is known to inflate grades, but who knows (poor grades were due to long episode of depression that I explain in the SOP. I left school, worked, then came back for the final year and did really well.) GRE: Verbal 169, Quant 161, Writing 3.0 (i'm not good at writing under pressure, but I am a very good writer and hopefully that's obvious in my writing sample) I think my writing sample is excellent (empirical research paper I did for a class and have revised) and SOP is strong, with a clear thesis proposal LORs from sociology profs should be pretty good I'm applying to Columbia, CUNY Hunter, Brandeis, and CUNY Queens. Sub-question: Should I tell my LOR profs exactly how terrible my GPA is or just say that it wasn't great (I did really well in their classes so that's not an issue). What do you guys think? Also, thank you all in advance. I've found so much great advice here!