2018-2019 Application Thread

[DuBois]

5 minutes ago, PBandMachiajelly said:

Who else is sitting around wondering what's going on at Yale and Columbia?

If I had a dollar for everytime I thought about Yale I would have funded my own phd ! 

[OmniscienceQuest]

Anyone else anxious about Georgetown? I haven't ENTIRELY abandoned hope, but my sense is that anyone who hasn't heard back by the end of next week (March 1st) has got to be a rejection, waitlist, or unfunded offer. They don't release rejections until VERY late (around March 30th) but looking back over past years it looks like good news comes in February and bad news in March (same as most programs, though not all).

[DuBois]

2 minutes ago, DuBois said:

If I had a dollar for everytime I thought about Yale I would have funded my own phd ! 

May be , just may be, they would send it today! (Friday, end of the working week, late feb ) 

[TheBunny]

I only wait for the Harvard Government Ph.D. currently. When I got my rejection from there, I can accept my other offer which is a great fit. 

[PBandMachiajelly]

Just now, TheBunny said:

I only wait for the Harvard Government Ph.D. currently. When I got my rejection from there, I can accept my other offer which is a great fit. 

I'm sure you've answered this elsewhere, but where do you think you'll be going in September? I'm glad you've been accepted somewhere that is the right place for you!!

[TheBunny]

1 minute ago, PBandMachiajelly said:

I'm sure you've answered this elsewhere, but where do you think you'll be going in September? I'm glad you've been accepted somewhere that is the right place for you!!

I will go to BU. I love their program a lot, and it is the best fit possible. I love the department and professors and feel very connected even though I did not meet most of the professors. They have very good placement rate and also really close to my current home.

[PBandMachiajelly]

Just now, TheBunny said:

I will go to BU. I love their program a lot, and it is the best fit possible. I love the department and professors and feel very connected even though I did not meet most of the professors. They have very good placement rate and also really close to my current home.

That's so exciting!! I'm glad that despite the difficulties you've been expressing with this cycle that you've got a result that you're pleased with.

[TheBunny]

Just now, PBandMachiajelly said:

That's so exciting!! I'm glad that despite the difficulties you've been expressing with this cycle that you've got a result that you're pleased with.

Thank you so much. I am very happy with the results, as well even though I had many rejections, I got into a good school which will improve my career and hopefully land me to a tenure-track position

[xtina617]

1 minute ago, TheBunny said:

Thank you so much. I am very happy with the results, as well even though I had many rejections, I got into a good school which will improve my career and hopefully land me to a tenure-track position

TheBunny, congratulations! Have you posted your stats/research interests elsewhere on this thread? 

[Marius G]

Just called Georgetown and they've told me that decisions will be out by the end of the month.

[OmniscienceQuest]

I have to say, I was completely unprepared for how painful this process would be. When I was applying to Masters programs I just submitted the applications and forgot all about it until I got the decision emails. This has been something I worry about constantly. If I go for a jog and am able to forget about it for an hour, when I get home and remember my worries, my first thought is "oh that was so nice to forget for an hour."

[Ubah1]

6 hours ago, HanZero said:

My first post here. I had been following what people were saying, and attempting to shore up my deflated morale. Applied to Princeton, Harvard, Brown, UPenn, Johns Hopkins SAIS, Michigan Ann Arbor, UVA and McGill in CP. Had written to POIs at these places and they had written back saying they thought the proposal was a good one. GRE was ok V:168,Q:163, AW: 4.5, one joint published paper, but no conference work. I did have 5 years of work experience relevant to the field I was proposing my topic in; some POIs even highlighted this point as a strong part of my application.

Two months of intense tension later, I have rejects from Princeton, Brown, Ann Arbor, UVA and possibly McGill. Any attempt to email said POIs is returned by a ‘sorry we had too many applicants’ rather than how to improve the application. I am expecting rejections from the last three as well, Harvard was a bit of a stretch in any case. 

Thanks a lot to people like Tedmonkey, for putting out how to try and get back at this application process. I’m at a total loss right now, after having put in almost 8 months of concerted effort building every part of the application. I don’t know, at this point, what I can do to make it better...

In any case, if there are people like me here, who got wiped out this application cycle, and who are trying to get back on the application cycle, maybe we could create a separate thread and support each other over the next year, which I have all reason to believe, will be brutal.

 

What program did you apply to and what is your GPA?

 

1 hour ago, HanZero said:

I applied to Political Science, Comparative. Undergrad GPA was 3.4, Grad GPA was 3.5 from MPA in a top policy school. With 5 years of relevant work experience.

 

You have a nice profile but not too competitive. I Hope you get into other schools you applied to. Also do have a mix of schools, not just top schools. 

[pscwpv]

3 minutes ago, OmniscienceQuest said:

I have to say, I was completely unprepared for how painful this process would be. When I was applying to Masters programs I just submitted the applications and forgot all about it until I got the decision emails. This has been something I worry about constantly. If I go for a jog and am able to forget about it for an hour, when I get home and remember my worries, my first thought is "oh that was so nice to forget for an hour."

I just want to be finished so I don't have that weird lingering anxiety to check my email. I've developed a bizarre muscle memory of checking the results page and my email every time I open my computer. It's weirdly more annoying because I'm almost certain I won't get into either of my remaining two, but am still anxious about them.

[IcedCovfefe]

19 minutes ago, pscwpv said:

I just want to be finished so I don't have that weird lingering anxiety to check my email. I've developed a bizarre muscle memory of checking the results page and my email every time I open my computer. It's weirdly more annoying because I'm almost certain I won't get into either of my remaining two, but am still anxious about them.

Agreed—I’m sure my compulsive email refreshment anxiety is not healthy. 

[trinityshot]

To be fair, I don't think Columbia is later than they usually are, really. As for Harvard, we could easily be waiting another week

[HanZero]

1 hour ago, pscwpv said:

I just want to be finished so I don't have that weird lingering anxiety to check my email. I've developed a bizarre muscle memory of checking the results page and my email every time I open my computer. It's weirdly more annoying because I'm almost certain I won't get into either of my remaining two, but am still anxious about them.

Completely agree!... I’m drawn to the results pages. I’m also having a hard time figuring out how to break out of this circle of doom and despair. The next round of applications will take some more intensive reading and contemplating; I don’t want this heaviness to last too long. But at this point I’ve no idea when I will be able to get back on the horse again. 

[dreamschoolcometrue]

What is wrong with USC? They said they would release the result early this week and it is now thursday. 

[amyvt98]

3 hours ago, OmniscienceQuest said:

Anyone else anxious about Georgetown? I haven't ENTIRELY abandoned hope, but my sense is that anyone who hasn't heard back by the end of next week (March 1st) has got to be a rejection, waitlist, or unfunded offer. They don't release rejections until VERY late (around March 30th) but looking back over past years it looks like good news comes in February and bad news in March (same as most programs, though not all).

Has anybody gotten accepted into Georgetown yet? I keep checking the results board, but I haven't seen anything from 2019 yet.  

[IR1995]

Last year Columbia released results on Thursday the 22nd.. I would not be surprised if we hear something tonight or tomorrow 

[OmniscienceQuest]

9 minutes ago, amyvt98 said:

Has anybody gotten accepted into Georgetown yet? I keep checking the results board, but I haven't seen anything from 2019 yet.  

Hmm how are you searching? Two people were accepted on Feb 8, 2019 by phone, one of whom says the official email came on Feb 13. Two more people say they were accepted by email on Feb 19, 2019. A couple of them talk about it in this thread. One is IR and I think another Comparative. You have to search for Georgetown and Government in the results, not Political Science.

[OmniscienceQuest]

Now that I am looking I'm not certain if it was 2 people accepted on Feb 19 or the same one adding details someone had requested. But in any case acceptances have been going out since at least Feb 8th

[yubs89]

7 hours ago, CoffeeMonster0 said:

Still waiting to hear from them as well...they said early this week.

It looks like their understanding of "early this week" is different from our understanding of "early this week." What do you think?

[CoffeeMonster0]

30 minutes ago, yubs89 said:

It looks like their understanding of "early this week" is different from our understanding of "early this week." What do you think?

They did say in the email if we didn't hear by the end of the week to send an email.  I'm guessing they are going to send it out tonight or tomorrow.

[amyvt98]

1 hour ago, OmniscienceQuest said:

Now that I am looking I'm not certain if it was 2 people accepted on Feb 19 or the same one adding details someone had requested. But in any case acceptances have been going out since at least Feb 8th

You're right! I've been searching political science this whole time, and since some 2018 acceptances came up, I didn't think to switch the search terms. Thanks! 

[Marius G]

4 hours ago, amyvt98 said:

Has anybody gotten accepted into Georgetown yet? I keep checking the results board, but I haven't seen anything from 2019 yet.  

There are a few. You need to check 'Government', not Political Science.