GnomeChomsky

According to the admissions office, Harvard Cognitive Psych decisions go out early next week.

Just heard this from one of my PsOI at Harvard: "Thank you for your interest in this program. We have a very limited number of slots so we always have to consider how to balance research interests across our group. This year we are primarily considering students with an interest in conceptual development, social cognition, and neuroscience". Not great for me since I'm focusing on language, but might be good news for some of you. I don't think invitations have gone out.

A well-groomed beard should be no problem. Facial hair is making a big comeback and academia has always been a bit more bearded than other fields. No neck or cheek scruff, though.

Thanks for the info. It seems unlikely, but I'll just have to hope that Harvard and NYU are super late this year. I've been in touch with a few people in the departments about other issues, so maybe they can give me the bad news a little sooner. I'll be sure to post if I find out.

Any updates on cognitive or developmental programs (particularly at Harvard and NYU)? I assume that the decisions for different programs, even within a psychology department, are not made by the same people and that notification schedules may vary. Can anyone confirm this?

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Yeah, I was one of the waitlisted applicants, but I know a few other people who have applied there and heard nothing. Also, the wording of the waitlist email implied all the remaining applications were on the waitlist and that they wouldn't be making final offers for several weeks. Has anyone been accepted or just waitlisted? It's sort of irrelevant now, since I plan to accept another offer, but the whole thing strikes me as rude and I was hoping to find some badmouth UW buddies :wink:

I completely confused as to why University of Washington takes so long to make admissions offers. Even MIT, which I'm sure receives far more applications, managed to get their responses out weeks ago. Anyway, I'm mostly just venting since I do not plan to attend even if accepted, but does anyone have ideas as to why UW insists on taking so long to reply?