santudius fusansus Posted January 13, 2020 Posted January 13, 2020 Anyone has applied to this program? Any news to share!
sirens + warnings Posted January 28, 2020 Posted January 28, 2020 On 1/13/2020 at 1:29 AM, santudius fusansus said: Anyone has applied to this program? Any news to share! Hello! I have applied to this program, but sadly have no news to share. If it's anything like the Humanities Division, I imagine we won't hear anything until at least February...
diodotus Posted January 30, 2020 Posted January 30, 2020 Division of Social Sciences has limits on how many students that they may admit. I don't know how that is determined. I do know that CST will admit six students in the hope that five will matriculate. I don't know anything else.
sirens + warnings Posted January 30, 2020 Posted January 30, 2020 @diodotus, thanks for the insight! Out of curiosity, and if you wouldn't mind sharing, where are you getting this information?
Ivy0327 Posted January 31, 2020 Posted January 31, 2020 I also applied for CST, my dream program. They normally send admission in early to mid Feb. Also, I applied for Cinema and Media Studies at the Humanities Division. Anyone know if they send out all admissions at once or in different waves? sirens + warnings 1
sirens + warnings Posted January 31, 2020 Posted January 31, 2020 8 hours ago, Ivy0327 said: I also applied for CST, my dream program. They normally send admission in early to mid Feb. Also, I applied for Cinema and Media Studies at the Humanities Division. Anyone know if they send out all admissions at once or in different waves? @Ivy0327 I'm not sure about Cinema and Media Studies, but I've applied to two other Humanities Division programs, as well. My understanding is that they'll have results out around the same time -- early to mid February.
Ivy0327 Posted January 31, 2020 Posted January 31, 2020 16 minutes ago, sirens + warnings said: @Ivy0327 I'm not sure about Cinema and Media Studies, but I've applied to two other Humanities Division programs, as well. My understanding is that they'll have results out around the same time -- early to mid February. Yeah, I guess so based on the posted results in the past years. However, I emailed the CMS department yesterday and got the reply: "While some applicants to Humanities Division programs have been contacted and received decisions, not all decisions have been finalized." Don't know how to decipher this message. Maybe good news. Maybe they are sorting out waitlist and rejections?
sirens + warnings Posted January 31, 2020 Posted January 31, 2020 @Ivy0327 I would think it depends on the department...I doubt all the committees in the Division start and end their reviews at the exact same time. Hang in there! January will be over in a matter of hours (long though they may feel) and February is sure to bring us closure.
alkiviades Posted February 10, 2020 Posted February 10, 2020 Emailed the department and the reply was, "Decision letters will be going out at the end of this month." It seems like in years past acceptances were notified a couple weeks before rejections? sirens + warnings 1
sirens + warnings Posted February 10, 2020 Posted February 10, 2020 54 minutes ago, alkiviades said: Emailed the department and the reply was, "Decision letters will be going out at the end of this month." It seems like in years past acceptances were notified a couple weeks before rejections? That could be! Although, my bet is that the admissions committee probably hasn't even met yet ?
diodotus Posted February 11, 2020 Posted February 11, 2020 All of the permanent, current, and local faculty make admissions decisions. Last year, there was a meeting with all of the permanent, current, and local faculty during the last week of February. But I don't know whether this meeting had anything to do with admissions. Ivy0327 1
sirens + warnings Posted February 11, 2020 Posted February 11, 2020 Thanks again, @diodotus, for your insights!
Ivy0327 Posted February 16, 2020 Posted February 16, 2020 Anyone get any news? Contacted POI for results? I guess that judging from previous timeline, they may have already notified acceptances?
santudius fusansus Posted February 17, 2020 Author Posted February 17, 2020 20 hours ago, Ivy0327 said: Anyone get any news? Contacted POI for results? I guess that judging from previous timeline, they may have already notified acceptances? Agreed, it should be Feb 14..Anyone has news?
sirens + warnings Posted February 18, 2020 Posted February 18, 2020 On 2/17/2020 at 6:06 AM, santudius fusansus said: Agreed, it should be Feb 14..Anyone has news? No. Except for a “glitch” in the Social Sciences application portal whereby their usual request for transcripts from those admitted appeared for everyone, regardless of admission... They have fixed the error, now.
sirens + warnings Posted February 25, 2020 Posted February 25, 2020 2 hours ago, santudius fusansus said: still no news Sigh...nope.
Popeyyyessz Posted February 25, 2020 Posted February 25, 2020 Emailed yesterday and “applications are in final review”... sirens + warnings 1
santudius fusansus Posted February 26, 2020 Author Posted February 26, 2020 14 hours ago, Popeyyyessz said: Emailed yesterday and “applications are in final review”... it seems that not many people applied and judging from the past records even less people post the acceptances....if they have sent out the acceptances already, it is hard to know, except someone’s POI had some info though.
diodotus Posted February 26, 2020 Posted February 26, 2020 5 hours ago, santudius fusansus said: it seems that not many people applied and judging from the past records even less people post the acceptances....if they have sent out the acceptances already, it is hard to know, except someone’s POI had some info though. https://provost.uchicago.edu/sites/default/files/ProgramStatisticsSSDSocialThought.pdf
santudius fusansus Posted February 26, 2020 Author Posted February 26, 2020 1 hour ago, diodotus said: https://provost.uchicago.edu/sites/default/files/ProgramStatisticsSSDSocialThought.pdf Hmm... I was not talking about the number of applicants, but then number of those who both applied to this program and being active on this forum. So it seems that we can have less info from here.
alkiviades Posted February 26, 2020 Posted February 26, 2020 5 hours ago, diodotus said: https://provost.uchicago.edu/sites/default/files/ProgramStatisticsSSDSocialThought.pdf Wow, what fascinating and in some cases, disturbing, statistics. In particular, the gender gap as well as the real lack of diversity among domestic students. I'm having trouble understanding how that gender ratio (basically consistently 1/3 female, 2/3 male) is in any way justifiable. Also, the mean time to completion!
Popeyyyessz Posted February 26, 2020 Posted February 26, 2020 11 hours ago, santudius fusansus said: it seems that not many people applied and judging from the past records even less people post the acceptances....if they have sent out the acceptances already, it is hard to know, except someone’s POI had some info though. I got the impression from the email that they have not sent the decision on Tuesday but are going to this week, and the whole process will be done by mid March.
santudius fusansus Posted February 28, 2020 Author Posted February 28, 2020 (edited) . Edited February 28, 2020 by santudius fusansus
diodotus Posted February 28, 2020 Posted February 28, 2020 Although I applied for a joint degree—which was reflected in my portal—now my portal only reads "PhD, Social Thought," instead of "PhD, Social Thought and ___________." The same is true of my applications in prior years—none of my applications to Division of Social Sciences are listed as joint degrees. This changed within the last hour. I don't know whether this means anything.
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