2020-2021 Application Thread

[NeedaMormon]

Claiming an Indiana University admission! I turned away from my email for 5 min and this happened.

Literally a jump-scare for me.

[ExileOnMainSt]

Just now, NeedaMormon said:

Claiming an Indiana University admission! I turned away from my email for 5 min and this happened.

Literally a jump-scare for me.

Congratulations!!

[Mad Scientist Malfrost]

Just now, NeedaMormon said:

Claiming an Indiana University admission! I turned away from my email for 5 min and this happened.

Literally a jump-scare for me.

Congrats! IU is a great school!

[StarkDark1]

Just now, NeedaMormon said:

Claiming an Indiana University admission! I turned away from my email for 5 min and this happened.

Literally a jump-scare for me.

Congrats!

[icemanyeo]

1 minute ago, NeedaMormon said:

Claiming an Indiana University admission! I turned away from my email for 5 min and this happened.

Literally a jump-scare for me.

Hey! Congrats!

[plus]

Congratulations on the acceptance, Indiana seems great! 

[cbsag123]

so nobody here heard back from berkeley?

[im_sleep_deprived]

Hi all, 

I am applying to University of Michigan and I just had an interesting chat with my professor. Apparently, there are times where Michigan does not admit any students in a particular field. In other words, different fields get to select different numbers of students in different years and sometimes it works out so that no students are admitted to a particular specification. I am unsure if this is the case this year. He believes that theory applications will probably not be admitted this year (which sucks for me). 

[animal_whisperer]

2 minutes ago, im_sleep_deprived said:

Hi all, 

I am applying to University of Michigan and I just had an interesting chat with my professor. Apparently, there are times where Michigan does not admit any students in a particular field. In other words, different fields get to select different numbers of students in different years and sometimes it works out so that no students are admitted to a particular specification. I am unsure if this is the case this year. He believes that theory applications will probably not be admitted this year (which sucks for me). 

Heard the same as well (the bit about Theory) from someone in the department. Very disappointing indeed if true. 

[ExileOnMainSt]

10 minutes ago, cbsag123 said:

so nobody here heard back from berkeley?

Not yet, but it’s  barely 12 in California time! 
 

 

[im_sleep_deprived]

8 minutes ago, animal_whisperer said:

Heard the same as well (the bit about Theory) from someone in the department. Very disappointing indeed if true. 

Did you hear directly from someone in the department? Sorry, I don't mean to pry. Its just if thats the case I can work on getting my ego ready for the rejection that is coming my way  

[PoliTheory2021]

Hi all,

Longtime lurker joining in, mostly because my predictable February anxiety is already in full swing. I also applied to Princeton but have not received any news. In that vein, I was wondering if the general consensus in this group is that all of the Princeton results were trolls or only the rejections? Like, are we all just waiting to be rejected/waitlisted at this point, or do we think there is a chance that acceptances are coming down the line? (I'm aware it's all conjecture, but still curious for people's thoughts)

 

[Heterogeneous_Effects]

I don't think anyone has claimed the Princeton acceptances on this thread, so the general consensus is that they were probably fake. I am also eagerly awaiting results from Princeton and Berkeley. Nothing so far ?

[Habermas]

7 minutes ago, PoliTheory2021 said:

Hi all,

Longtime lurker joining in, mostly because my predictable February anxiety is already in full swing. I also applied to Princeton but have not received any news. In that vein, I was wondering if the general consensus in this group is that all of the Princeton results were trolls or only the rejections? Like, are we all just waiting to be rejected/waitlisted at this point, or do we think there is a chance that acceptances are coming down the line? (I'm aware it's all conjecture, but still curious for people's thoughts)

 

Hi there! There is a strong consensus in the group that those were all trolls, at least by my reading.

[TheLifeofBrian]

34 minutes ago, im_sleep_deprived said:

Hi all, 

I am applying to University of Michigan and I just had an interesting chat with my professor. Apparently, there are times where Michigan does not admit any students in a particular field. In other words, different fields get to select different numbers of students in different years and sometimes it works out so that no students are admitted to a particular specification. I am unsure if this is the case this year. He believes that theory applications will probably not be admitted this year (which sucks for me). 

If this is true, it's not okay in my book. People spend their hard earned money paying for these applications. If they know they're not accepting anyone for a particular field, they should state that. 

Edited February 1, 2021 by TheLifeofBrian

[funfetti]

Agreed - seems that last week's Berkeley and Princeton results were fake. I'd venture to say Duke's 2 admits over the weekend were also fake. 

I'm really intrigued by today's Berkeley admits. I'll be super interested to see if those turn out to be authentic and to speculate about why/how there may be that many gradcafe users who post results but don't engage on the forum... would be an interesting puzzle to figure out what drives different ways of using gradcafe.

[Indeed]

We are so unlucky this year or admissions are getting more and more competitive or both

 

 

Edited February 1, 2021 by Indeed

[guest789]

The fact that there are rejections posted today as well means that they're fake. Rejections would just be a mass email sent via Campaign Monitor or something, no need to do that one by one -- hence we would have received one already!

 

@Indeed It is definitely both. I know someone last year who had a solo top subfield journal article. He is at a top department, but still... That's the competition. 

Edited February 1, 2021 by timeseries

[Aydemiru]

2 minutes ago, Indeed said:

We are so unlucky this year or admissions are getting more and more competitive or both

 

 

one of my BA professors once said exactly these words "when my parents were student, going to college was distinctive, when I was a student, doing master's was distinctive, but you, even phd will be not enough for you"

so, sad story for our generation

[guest789]

Just now, Aydemiru said:

one of my BA professors once said exactly these words "when my parents were student, going to college was distinctive, when I was a student, doing master's was distinctive, but you, even phd will be not enough for you"

so, sad story for our generation

A PhD is only necessary if you want to be an academic! Otherwise it has no bearing on distinctiveness or whatever.

[Aydemiru]

Just now, timeseries said:

A PhD is only necessary if you want to be an academic! Otherwise it has no bearing on distinctiveness or whatever.

yes but I know people who do not want to be an academic but still do a phd just to have a dr title, just for prestige

[til1996]

1 hour ago, NeedaMormon said:

Claiming an Indiana University admission! I turned away from my email for 5 min and this happened.

Literally a jump-scare for me.

Wow! Congrats on a third acceptance!

[guest789]

1 minute ago, Aydemiru said:

yes but I know people who do not want to be an academic but still do a phd just to have a dr title, just for prestige

I know that is a thing, but it's entirely the wrong mentality to have. Only do a PhD if you have a burning desire to be a professor.

[China_IR]

It seems that Georgetown's results would be coming out soon then.....
 

[Aydemiru]

Just now, China_IR said:

It seems that Georgetown's results would be coming out soon then.....
 

why did you think that?