DhuRaydan Posted February 15, 2019 Share Posted February 15, 2019 (edited) I only applied to CUA's Semitics MA/PhD program and I was admitted to the program. The decision was posted through the admissions' portal on Saturday Feb. 9th. I'm waiting to hear back about funding. Good luck to everyone! Edited February 15, 2019 by DhuRaydan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickxk Posted February 17, 2019 Share Posted February 17, 2019 Still radio silence from most places that I applied but apparently only a couple of my schools do interviews. This wait is excruciating though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 17, 2019 Share Posted February 17, 2019 Did anyone apply to UCLA? I saw someone posted an acceptance there! From my side, still silence from UCLA and JHU... @nickxk To my knowledge, not many programs do interviews. Brown certainly does, and, apparently, someone was interviewed for JHU last week... One way or another, the wait is almost over... hang in there everyone! Good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 17, 2019 Share Posted February 17, 2019 On 2/15/2019 at 2:21 PM, DhuRaydan said: I only applied to CUA's Semitics MA/PhD program and I was admitted to the program. The decision was posted through the admissions' portal on Saturday Feb. 9th. I'm waiting to hear back about funding. Good luck to everyone! Congratulations on the acceptance! Is the funding a sure thing for you, or is that still in the air? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DhuRaydan Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 23 hours ago, sseire said: Congratulations on the acceptance! Is the funding a sure thing for you, or is that still in the air? Thanks! Unfortunately funding is not guaranteed for all grad students at CUA. Still waiting to hear back... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brokenrefreshbutton Posted February 19, 2019 Share Posted February 19, 2019 I am waitlisted at Cornell. The wait continues and I must fight the urge to constantly refresh my email! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickxk Posted February 19, 2019 Share Posted February 19, 2019 Still radio silence elsewhere, but I just received news that I am an alternate for FLAS funding at Texas for their MA. Here's hoping I can get off that waitlist. If not, I have my in-state school that will likely accept me and another FLAS shot there, or I may still hear good news from one of the PhD programs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TUKUL.TI.A.É.ŠÁR.RA Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 For those who are interested, I heard from some trusted sources that the UC system is in a weird place right now and is only accepting in-state and international applications for their NELC program. Additionally, JHU is notorious for sending out acceptances and rejections super late; like "mid-March" late. That said, I still have questions about U of Michigan and NYU (Judaic Studies Dept). Does anyone know if they do interviews or when they typically respond with results? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seshat Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 17 hours ago, TUKUL.TI.A.É.ŠÁR.RA said: For those who are interested, I heard from some trusted sources that the UC system is in a weird place right now and is only accepting in-state and international applications for their NELC program. A lot of the funding at the UCs only covers in-state tuition, so I've heard departments have to cover the out-of-state tuition for students for the first year until they can establish residency. It's pretty expensive, I guess. I didn't apply to UCLA because all of their ancient Near Eastern faculty have retired, and they're down to only one Egyptologist, and Berkeley seems like it's still rebooting its Egyptology program. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brokenrefreshbutton Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 Does anyone have any idea about the likelihood of getting off a wait-list and admitted, especially at schools like Harvard, Yale, Cornell etc? (I have not been added to all the wait-lists btw, just asking because I am curious). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TUKUL.TI.A.É.ŠÁR.RA Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 5 hours ago, seshat said: A lot of the funding at the UCs only covers in-state tuition, so I've heard departments have to cover the out-of-state tuition for students for the first year until they can establish residency. It's pretty expensive, I guess. I didn't apply to UCLA because all of their ancient Near Eastern faculty have retired, and they're down to only one Egyptologist, and Berkeley seems like it's still rebooting its Egyptology program. Wait. Really? Burke, Schniedewind, Bakos, and co. retired?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seshat Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 (edited) ^ Sorry, I probably should've said all of the Mesopotamian faculty. I was referring to Robert Englund and Elizabeth Carter retiring. https://dailybruin.com/2018/06/10/retiring-professors-leave-behind-legacy-of-passion-for-near-eastern-archaeology/ Edited February 21, 2019 by seshat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickxk Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 I really had assumed I’d hear a lot more (whether rejections, waitlist, maybe some acceptances) by now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 Same here... I still haven't heard from JHU or UCLA... I've had interviews with Brown this past week, so that has made me a bit hopeful after the Chicago rejection... I just want the waiting to end! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickxk Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 I saw that someone got waitlisted at Arizona but I have seen no rejections or acceptances but I'm assuming I'll be rejected (that's the usual order but I've seen the opposite order on occasion). Weird that no one seems to list Arizona in the results compared to other schools when it supposedly has a large program. Perhaps they'll recommend me to the MA program instead as those acceptances go out later? I know that PhD admissions are a crapshoot but I'm probably going to have to go for the MA before the PhD at this point which is really the standard order of things anyhow in Middle Eastern Studies, it would seem. Some fields have a much higher BA-> PhD rate than BA->MA->PhD and I'm noticing A LOT more people who already have an MA. If the MA is the way I'll head, I might prefer to go back to my alma mater as they have a lot of funding opportunities and it's in-state tuition. Unfortunately in America price is a huge consideration if one doesn't get a funded PhD spot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 22, 2019 Share Posted February 22, 2019 Hey! Anyone claiming the UCLA NELC acceptance? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coptophile Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 On 2/15/2019 at 3:21 PM, DhuRaydan said: I only applied to CUA's Semitics MA/PhD program and I was admitted to the program. The decision was posted through the admissions' portal on Saturday Feb. 9th. I'm waiting to hear back about funding. Good luck to everyone! Congrats! I applied and was admitted to CUA's Semitics program as well. What are you hoping to study? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coptophile Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 I recently found this thread, and I'm interested to hear what you guys hope to study in MES/NELC programs? I applied to several places, including Chicago, CUA, and HDS. While I was denied admission into the Ph.D. program at Chicago, my application was forwarded to the MA in CMES; I was also admitted into CUA and am waiting to hear back from HDS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DhuRaydan Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 12 hours ago, Coptophile said: Congrats! I applied and was admitted to CUA's Semitics program as well. What are you hoping to study? Congratulations on your admissions! I applied to the Christian Near East program, Arabic will be my major language, I am hoping to pick up Syriac and Ge'ez as well. I take it you're interested in Coptic? ? Any secondary interests? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coptophile Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 13 minutes ago, DhuRaydan said: Congratulations on your admissions! I applied to the Christian Near East program, Arabic will be my major language, I am hoping to pick up Syriac and Ge'ez as well. I take it you're interested in Coptic? ? Any secondary interests? Same with the Christian Near East, and yes, Coptic is my primary research language I'm interested in picking up Arabic as my minor language if I attend since I want to study Byzantine/Islamic Egypt. Before Near Eastern stuff, I studied Latin and ancient/Byzantine Greek for three years, but I spend more time studying Coptic nowadays. On a side note, good luck with funding! It's a great program, and I presume that you'll be studying with Dr. Aaron Butts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DhuRaydan Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 10 minutes ago, Coptophile said: On a side note, good luck with funding! It's a great program, and I presume that you'll be studying with Dr. Aaron Butts? Yes Dr. Butts is my POI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickxk Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 My area of interest has to do with discourse and the interactions between Islamist and western ideologies such as liberalism, Marxism, etc with an emphasis on 20th century movements in the Levant. How did ‘ulema contend with ideologies from a different tradition of thought from their own? How did Syrian, Lebanese, and Iraqi communists and nationalists co-opt elements of Islamic thought? As such, my school choices deal much more heavily in critical studies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brokenrefreshbutton Posted February 27, 2019 Share Posted February 27, 2019 Looks like is an individual accepted into Harvard NELC....hopefully people can start to make application decisions soon so waitlists open up! Desperately hoping a Cornell or Yale applicant declines an offer soon. In any case, many congratulations to all those who were admitted during this very exhausting cycle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickxk Posted February 28, 2019 Share Posted February 28, 2019 When does one assume a waitlist? I have not heard back from anywhere except for the Texas MA (will know about Michigan MA soon) but have not heard anything definitive at all from any of my PhD apps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notthatbuthis Posted February 28, 2019 Share Posted February 28, 2019 Hi, I checked the results for Harvard and it seems they have already sent a couple. They're both MA's, has anybody heard anything about PhD's? Should I be hopeful that no PhD acceptances have been recorded yet or should I just wait for a rejection letter to come some time next week? displayname343q 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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