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it was me! wooo! after I got my rejection from Penn yesterday and heard of other CUNY acceptances, I just gave up and called. I am totally thrilled and the more I read about the program and hear from people who know the person I will be hopefully working with, it sounds like she is the best possible person for my research interests. now I'm just concerned about the funding issue...CUNY's system was really confusing to me even after talking to the DGS. I'm hoping since I applied for consideration with funding that something will come through since there was a separate deadline for admission without funding. honestly, though, I am too excited about having FINALLY gotten into a program that seems like a great fit to worry about it too much just yet! thanks, all of you, for being so supportive. if this were real life, i'd take all of you out for a really stiff cocktail.
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charis,
I didn't hear anything yet, but thanks for the update. I'm still a little nervous to email them and say how gung ho I am about the program as I'm still waiting to hear back from CUNY...not sure what to do. Will you accept an offer from them if you get one? I, too, am a little nervous about a huge public university and about living in Ann Arbor!
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I'm interested in them mostly because they seem to be the only program interested in me
. I was surprised they even waitlisted me because it wasn't a very good fit. I had thought of writing and letting them know how interested I am and inquiring about the waitlist, but the DGS asked me to inform them of other offers and I'm kind of embarassed that I haven't received any. I'm not sure how to dodge that fact... any ideas? Ugh. -
hey charis,
I'm also on the waitlist at UMich. so far it's been the closest thing I've had to an offer, although I am still waiting to hear from one school (CUNY). did they give you any idea when final decisions would be made there? I'm super anxious. and, congrats on BMC. I applied there and visited - the campus is gorgeous and the department seems wonderful!
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stylefaxee - my friend got a rejection from cuny today! she applied to a different field than both of us, however. looks like they're on the move.
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I'm still waiting on CUNY and Iowa ...
I called CUNY today (saw two posts about acceptances - made me a little nervous) and they said that decisions are beginning to be made but the process is "ongoing" and we should hear soon. Could they be more vague?
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hey traveling - thanks for the info on CUNY. did you have any better of an understanding of their financial aid than i did? when i visited, i spoke with the director who told me that "most students are funded" but was super vague about it. i can definitely sympathize with you, however... i have a MA as well, have published on my topic and worked alongside a major curator at a big museum on an exhibition related to my topic and have still been rejected across the board. i know it probably doesn't make you feel much better, but you aren't alone :|
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travelingartmuse - when/how did you hear about CUNY? it's the only program i haven't yet been rejected by, aside from one wait-list...
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i guess this is essentially a rhetorical question, as no one here is on an admissions committee, but i'll throw it out here in case anyone has thoughts - one of my advisers spoke with the person I applied to work with at the school i'm still waiting to hear from and found out that she's on sabbatical this year and not on the admissions committee. i met with her and the dept. chair back in december and both encouraged me to apply...no mention was made of her taking or not taking students. is this going to knock me out of the running for this school too? it's pretty much my last hope of going to grad school next year. i am so ready to give up!
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wow, 17thscream! our interests are really close. i don't think i've met anyone else in my time in academia who has also been interested in 19th century German art. so did you work with Cordula Grewe at Columbia? I applied to work with Hertel also. I was hoping to write on the revival of tropes and images from the Northern Renaissance (femme fatale, the woodcut, so on so forth) in the work of Klinger and other symbolists. unfortunately that idea hasn't gone over so well
i wrote my MA thesis on the Neue Sachlichkeit. I'd be very interested to hear where else you applied/who else you applied to work with for my applications next year. I had a heck of a time finding people who were willing to work on German art and many of the programs I did apply to were a pretty awkward fit. -
hey 17thscream,
thanks for posting that...very interesting, and not what i expected to hear. yet another attempt at finding logic in the admissions process disproved. for what it's worth, i also applied to bryn mawr and it seemed like a great program. it also sounded like they accepted basically no one, since they are so small, so congrats! what are your research interests/who did you apply to work with there?
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does anyone have any thoughts for or against the theory that ivy grad schools prefer ivy undergrads? i have no idea whether this actually is the case, but it seems to have happened a few times on this forum. i did not do my undergrad at an ivy and will definitely be looking more seriously at non-ivy phd programs the next time around...
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mew, that's crazy! it sounds like some sort of mob deal or something. did you at least end up getting into the school you preferred out of the arrangement?
duchess - thanks for the message! for what it's worth, my MA thesis was fairly on a fairly unorthodox topic and so that may lend some credibility to your theory as well. your topic sounds really interesting! i'm so glad to hear you got into UCLA. it's really crazy - and frustrating! - how prepared you can be and still not have anything come of it
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i know! i didn't think i would get in everywhere or anything, but i was hoping for at least one offer! my boyfriend keeps joking that maybe i accidentally made some sort of racial slur in my statement of purpose or something.
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I spent my MA years getting work experience, doing research, teaching, learning languages, and working on some publications so that I could apply to PhD programs. Then after I finished, I took a year off to do research. Unfortunately, it didn't do much as I've been rejected across the board
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I'm still waiting on Columbia...waiting, but definitely not holding my breath.
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stylefaxee - regarding your response - I've thought a lot about contacting faculty members to see what is going on with the programs I haven't heard anything from. have you done this yet, and if so, how did you word it? do you think it's kosher to do that at this point? i'm nervous about seeming like a nuisance but like the OP, i'm feeling pretty nerved up at the probability that i've been rejected all around.
is march 15 an unofficial notify by date? i'd only heard that april 15 was the date you had to decide by...
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hi gradschool - congrats on the penn acceptance. would you mind saying what your field is/who you applied to work with? i applied there too, but haven't heard anything. i think that penn has a strong reputation and good faculty. i would have been pretty happy to go there, for what it's worth.
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I applied to the CUNY Graduate Center, which is one of my top choices. There were two deadlines - Feb. 15 for financial aid consideration and April 15 as the final deadline. I met with the grad coordinator there, who told me that this was because the program had rolling admission. I've tried to contact admissions to figure out when I might hear but they are just sending out a form email because they are so swamped. Does anyone have any experience with CUNY and their insanely late deadline? Any word on when they might make decisions? I'm aware that this would of course vary according to program, but I'm wondering if it's going to be in March or, like....July.
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did you write a BA thesis? if so, maybe that's something that you could work into a publication. I think the key is to have the writing sample include primary research. while I was applying to PhD programs I had to work my MA thesis into a much shorter writing sample and that is what I ended up submitting, and ultimately getting accepted, for publication. I'd check out the Chicago Art Journal, Octopus (I think that's the UCSB one?), the Rutgers art journal (it's something like the Rutgers Art Review?). I think Iowa just started an online journal that may be worth checking out, although it seems like it's just the papers from their annual conference. what's your subfield again? there might be more options based on that, too. I'll keep thinking about it and let you know if I think of any other ones...
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yeah, I'm still waiting on 4! I have no idea what is going on. I don't know if I should just assume all four (well, except for CUNY, I guess) are rejections and get on with my life, or whether I should hold on to some hope? the band aid analogy is a good one.
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hey smellie - you're in art history, right? did you just finish a MA or a BA? if BA, it will be pretty hard to get something published in art history journals because of how stodgy the field is. i had a hell of a time getting part of my masters' thesis published...people did not want to look at anything by someone who didn't have and wasn't yet working toward a PhD. maybe the journals published by grad students (the chicago art journal is the big one, but there's also one at rutgers, i knkow, and maybe ucsb?) might be more willing to consider something from someone who doesn't have a reputation as an academic all-start...yet
i definitely feel you, though... i have two rejections so far and am judging by the results on the board i'm pretty sure i have three more coming!
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I'm also applying to CUNY this year- why did you apply so early? To get it out of the way? I'll probably pop my app in around april 1.
CUNY has rolling admissions. To be considered for financial aid, their deadline was Feb. 15. They will consider unfunded candidates until April 15, or at least that was how it was explained to me by the director there. It was really confusing - I had to ask to figure out when I was going to send things in.
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hi stylefaxee - I heard from Michigan about a week ago via email. they put me on their wait list. I think a friend of mine just got a rejection from them yesterday but I am not 100% positive. have you heard anything about when CUNY might be deciding? I am afraid to call. I've heard that they are late, but they are one of my top choices so I'm really anxious!
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I was recently accepted to a PhD program at the CUNY Graduate Center. The program was one of my top choices because the adviser I would be working there is a great fit. Their funding system, however, does seem kind of up in the air. Has anyone else been accepted at the Graduate Center? If so, I'm curious what, if any, financial offers you have been made. I visited the program and spoke with the DGS there - he told me that "most students receive some sort of funding" but it's still very unclear to me what I might actually be offered.