vicrown Posted January 26, 2019 Posted January 26, 2019 1 hour ago, IR1995 said: I think there's a good chance it's just a troll. Two of them say via email, one says via website - that seems weird to me. Who knows.. I have not yet received an email and my application portal still just says submitted. I just got my rejection letter from the website (northwestern) , no email. Good luck to the others.
peggy.olson Posted January 26, 2019 Posted January 26, 2019 14 minutes ago, vicrown said: I just got my rejection letter from the website (northwestern) , no email. Good luck to the others. Thank you for letting us know. If you don't mind, where did the decision show up on the site? (Best of luck with your other apps!)
peggy.olson Posted January 26, 2019 Posted January 26, 2019 2 minutes ago, vicrown said: Thank you! Wasn't sure if I was on the right page or not.
schuaust Posted January 26, 2019 Posted January 26, 2019 (edited) Haven't gotten accepted or rejected at Northwestern so we will see what that means, likely I'll find out about nine months from now, lol Edited January 26, 2019 by schuaust
IR1995 Posted January 26, 2019 Posted January 26, 2019 4 minutes ago, schuaust said: Haven't gotten accepted or rejected at Northwestern so we will see what that means, likely I'll find out about nine months from now, lol Same boat for me schuaust 1
Onwarrdz Posted January 26, 2019 Posted January 26, 2019 7 minutes ago, schuaust said: Haven't gotten accepted or rejected at Northwestern so we will see what that means, likely I'll find out about nine months from now, lol Me too. Why would they send anything out on a Saturday? Seems weird. schuaust 1
eggsalad14 Posted January 27, 2019 Posted January 27, 2019 Looking towards next week, it seems like it should be a busy week from last year's data. (I really hope so because I am A N X I O U S) Relative to last year, the following schools were expected to have already released decisions: Emory, Penn State, the rest of Northwestern (if there's anything left?) Note: Northwestern has historically sent rejections and some waitlists a lot later than acceptances, so we might not hear more for a while. Relative to last year, the following schools are expected to release decisions by next Friday: Duke, Berkeley, UC Davis, Princeton, NYU, UCSD IcedCovfefe, gradhopeful96, amyvt98 and 1 other 1 3
mliliu Posted January 27, 2019 Posted January 27, 2019 11 hours ago, IR1995 said: Same boat for me Same here. But I sent an email to the admission office. So let's see what they say. But from last year's posts, I feel like later notifications tend to be rejections. peggy.olson and IcedCovfefe 2
peggy.olson Posted January 27, 2019 Posted January 27, 2019 4 hours ago, mliliu said: Same here. But I sent an email to the admission office. So let's see what they say. But from last year's posts, I feel like later notifications tend to be rejections. Thanks for sending them an email! I also haven't heard anything and it's killing me every time I refresh my email.
taraeh Posted January 27, 2019 Posted January 27, 2019 20 hours ago, vicrown said: What subfield did you apply to? Did you get an email or just happened to check the website? I am comparative politics - have heard nothing. 20 hours ago, vicrown said: What
taraeh Posted January 27, 2019 Posted January 27, 2019 (edited) Can the people from northwestern tell me what subfields they were in an if they got accepted or not? It seems like CP field hasn't gone out yet... Their website says they stagger admissions so I am not surprise it isn't all out and still very hopeful. Edited January 27, 2019 by taraeh
eggsalad14 Posted January 27, 2019 Posted January 27, 2019 Guys just also note that historically for northwestern, a denial usually comes along with a month or so of silence after acceptances are made. I don't know which subfield decisions are out by now, but the longer it goes on, the higher the likelihood that their non-response means rejection.
IR1995 Posted January 27, 2019 Posted January 27, 2019 Maybe I’m wrong, but it looks like so far only one batch of acceptances has gone out from Northwestern. This is not, at least from what I’ve seen, how they did it last year. Also, surely there would be more acceptances listed on the results page if all had been sent out. There are almost certainly acceptances left to be released, and I would not worry until after at least one more round of acceptances comes out.
peggy.olson Posted January 27, 2019 Posted January 27, 2019 It seems from the survey page that acceptances have gone out to all subfields (American, theory, IR, and CP)
IR1995 Posted January 27, 2019 Posted January 27, 2019 9 minutes ago, peggy.olson said: It seems from the survey page that acceptances have gone out to all subfields (American, theory, IR, and CP) 11 minutes ago, peggy.olson said: It seems from the survey page that acceptances have gone out to all subfields (American, theory, IR, and CP) Maybe they’re doing it differently this year, who knows
eggsalad14 Posted January 27, 2019 Posted January 27, 2019 (edited) 1 hour ago, IR1995 said: Maybe I’m wrong, but it looks like so far only one batch of acceptances has gone out from Northwestern. This is not, at least from what I’ve seen, how they did it last year. Also, surely there would be more acceptances listed on the results page if all had been sent out. There are almost certainly acceptances left to be released, and I would not worry until after at least one more round of acceptances comes out. I mean, I'm riding off of pretty poor methodology here, but if I had to bet money, it would be that there are very few if any left. Here's my thought process. Ohio State, the other "top" school that has released decisions, has 10 acceptances this year, last year there were 12. It is known that Ohio State's admits are all out. Assuming static amounts of people accepted into the program, we can conclude that gradcafe is probably slightly less popular than it was last year. The results page from last year has a count of 9 acceptances for Northwestern, and this year there are 5. Assuming that nothing has really changed (ie one school this year decided to become a lot more or less selective), the expected amount of acceptances on the results page is 7.5, which means it's very very plausible that there's little if anything left. [edit: I had counted wrong and there are actually five this year and 9 last year, although that doesn't change the conclusions too much when we add more data. On my really rushed count, we have 6 in 2017, 8 in 2016, 6 in 2015, 7 in 2014, 10 in 2013, 5 in 2012. The substantive conclusion still is that it is very very unlikely that we'll see another full wave of acceptances.] Edited January 27, 2019 by eggsalad14 IR1995, peggy.olson and IcedCovfefe 1 2
IcedCovfefe Posted January 27, 2019 Posted January 27, 2019 3 minutes ago, eggsalad14 said: I mean, I'm riding off of pretty poor methodology here, but if I had to bet money, it would be that there are very few if any left. Here's my thought process. Ohio State, the other "top" school that has released decisions, has 10 acceptances this year, last year there were 12. It is known that Ohio State's admits are all out. Assuming static amounts of people accepted into the program, we can conclude that gradcafe is probably slightly less popular than it was last year. The results page from last year has a count of 8 acceptances for Northwestern, and this year there are 6. Assuming that nothing has really changed (ie one school this year decided to become a lot more or less selective), the expected amount of acceptances on the results page is 6.67, which means it's very very plausible that there's little if anything left. Look out we’ve got a social scientist here humanpinata 1
eggsalad14 Posted January 27, 2019 Posted January 27, 2019 3 minutes ago, IcedCovfefe said: Look out we’ve got a social scientist here Don't ask me about standard deviation though, there confidence intervals are probably pretty wide ???
DisplayName44 Posted January 27, 2019 Posted January 27, 2019 50 minutes ago, peggy.olson said: It seems from the survey page that acceptances have gone out to all subfields (American, theory, IR, and CP) Can someone tell me where this survey page is? I've seen it referenced but have no idea.
sandmoon Posted January 27, 2019 Posted January 27, 2019 52 minutes ago, eggsalad14 said: Don't ask me about standard deviation though, there confidence intervals are probably pretty wide ??? haha you are awesome. do we know how many Ohio state accepted last year? curious about the % of acceptances that are reported on gradcafe. IcedCovfefe 1
IR1995 Posted January 27, 2019 Posted January 27, 2019 (edited) You’re all probably right. From what I just looked at Northwestern had 9 acceptances via gradcafe last year and only has 5 this year. Hopefully there are still a few more Edited January 27, 2019 by IR1995
eggsalad14 Posted January 27, 2019 Posted January 27, 2019 I haven't been able to find Ohio State overall acceptance rates, it seems like those aren't published. Northwestern hovers around 10% each year, and it seems that maybe about 20-30% of those are reported on gradcafe.
peggy.olson Posted January 27, 2019 Posted January 27, 2019 1 hour ago, eggsalad14 said: I mean, I'm riding off of pretty poor methodology here, but if I had to bet money, it would be that there are very few if any left. Here's my thought process. Ohio State, the other "top" school that has released decisions, has 10 acceptances this year, last year there were 12. It is known that Ohio State's admits are all out. Assuming static amounts of people accepted into the program, we can conclude that gradcafe is probably slightly less popular than it was last year. The results page from last year has a count of 8 acceptances for Northwestern, and this year there are 6. Assuming that nothing has really changed (ie one school this year decided to become a lot more or less selective), the expected amount of acceptances on the results page is 6.67, which means it's very very plausible that there's little if anything left. This is my thinking as well. Just want to note there's only 5 acceptances for 2019 on the results page though
eggsalad14 Posted January 27, 2019 Posted January 27, 2019 2 minutes ago, peggy.olson said: This is my thinking as well. Just want to note there's only 5 acceptances for 2019 on the results page though You're right, I saw those 6 bunched together and didn't realize that the last one was actually a really late report from 2018. I'll edit accordingly.
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