Timeline for MA program acceptances

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Hiya, I applied mostly to MA programs and am wondering when decisions for these tend to come out. A few of them have Feb 1 deadlines (but I have already submitted apps for these), but UBC's deadline was Jan 8 and Indiana University's deadline was Jan 15. I know decision timelines vary a lot, but I have been seeing PhD programs with similar deadlines releasing their decisions, so I thought I'd ask

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Your best bet is to go on the results page and see historically when they’ve gotten back to students. Many MA programs will wait until most PhD offers are out so those students can withdraw their application and they won’t waste an offer (or the time to extend an offer) to students unlikely to accept. Some programs also have later application deadlines in hopes that some shutout students will instead apply for an MA in hopes of better preparing themselves for a PhD program in a year or two.