2021-2022 Application Thread

[Agape9453]

UMD waitlisted again...,

CP and received the same status last year, good luck to you all!

Edited February 21, 2022 by Agape9453

[SchnozEP]

13 minutes ago, Agape9453 said:

Claimed a UMD waitlist.

CP and received the same status last year, good luck to you all!

Put on waitlist too. Is there anyone know what the chance is a UMD waitlist will be transfered to an admission offer?

[CapTipps]

Claiming a UMD waitlist here as well. 

[PoliCommsGirl]

31 minutes ago, Agape9453 said:

UMD waitlisted again...,

CP and received the same status last year, good luck to you all!

Also claiming a UMD Waitlist for the CP subfield! 

 

17 minutes ago, SchnozEP said:

Put on waitlist too. Is there anyone know what the chance is a UMD waitlist will be transfered to an admission offer?

Equally wondering the same thing! 

[Publicpolicyguy37]

Also waitlisted at UMD! 

[SchnozEP]

2 minutes ago, PoliCommsGirl said:

Also claiming a UMD Waitlist for the CP subfield! 

 

Equally wondering the same thing! 

Do you get any admission offer?

I was a little bit disappointment about the waitlist actually. I prepared a much better SOP and WS but the result is same. Sad.

And it seems they send out so many waitlist and the chance is super rare. Double Sad!

[Fredphd2022]

I'm also waitlisted by UMD, IR field.

It seems like they have a relatively long waitlist without specific ranking as indicated by the department coordinator.

[Fredphd2022]

1 minute ago, SchnozEP said:

Do you get any admission offer?

I was a little bit disappointment about the waitlist actually. I prepared a much better SOP and WS but the result is same. Sad.

And it seems they send out so many waitlist and the chance is super rare. Double Sad!

Indeed, I agree that the chance of the waitlisted being admitted in the end is slim.

[modesteffect]

Sharing application/admit rates of some schools in 2020 (a normal year), so future applicants can feel which are compeltitve ones which are less.

Michigan:  357/6% (2021 - 595/3%)

Chicago: 394/6%

Stanford:  349/7%

MIT:  400/9% (2021 - 752/3.6%)

Cornell:  325/9%

Yale: 400/11% (2021 - 933/2.7%)

UCSD:  349/12%

Duke:  355/13%

Madision:  211/17%

UCLA:  224/21%

WUSTL: 106/25%

Emory:  112/25%

OSU:  160/36%

 

Edited February 21, 2022 by modesteffect

[PoliCommsGirl]

3 minutes ago, SchnozEP said:

Do you get any admission offer?

I was a little bit disappointment about the waitlist actually. I prepared a much better SOP and WS but the result is same. Sad.

And it seems they send out so many waitlist and the chance is super rare. Double Sad!

Sorry  not understanding the first question, you mean any other admission offers? If so, then yes  just one for now. 

 

I'm also pretty bummed. I had a VERY good case for UMD. Seeing so many on the waitlist is discouraging, and depending on where else those who got admitted to UMD also got admitted, I'm unsure of the chances. 

 

I'm also very worfied about the "balancing research/subfield" part of it which I take to mean that I'm not getring in unless someone from CP specifically declines. Idk.

[Publicpolicyguy37]

Lemme just say if you get into UMD and don’t want to go, please let them know soon so those of us who’d like to go there can find out our fate sooner lol

[Quriosity]

For everyone who is claiming a UMD waitlist--are you all IR/Comparative?

I only saw one admit for UMD on Valentine's Day (also IR/Comparative I think). But surely they must admit more than one? /It stands to reason that they would already know who is admitted if they are sending out waitlists (or would have already sent out acceptances).

[Agape9453]

2 minutes ago, Fredphd2022 said:

Indeed, I agree that the chance of the waitlisted being admitted in the end is slim.

I guess so. Last year, I received a WL from UMD in late Feb (27th). A few weeks later, mid-march, I got another letter asking me to consider their MA program, and I didn't reply. A rejection was finally made a couple of days after the previous notification(late-march). 

[Publicpolicyguy37]

2 minutes ago, Quriosity said:

For everyone who is claiming a UMD waitlist--are you all IR/Comparative?

I only saw one admit for UMD on Valentine's Day (also IR/Comparative I think). But surely they must admit more than one? /It stands to reason that they would already know who is admitted if they are sending out waitlists (or would have already sent out acceptances).

CP here. I hadn’t seen the Valentine’s Day acceptance, and thought the UMD waitlist was a little out of the blue. I suppose that puts it a little bit more into context. Also, super surprised that I haven’t heard to schools I applied to in December, yet have already heard from UMD which was January! The PhD process remains a mystery…

[SchnozEP]

1 minute ago, Publicpolicyguy37 said:

CP here. I hadn’t seen the Valentine’s Day acceptance, and thought the UMD waitlist was a little out of the blue. I suppose that puts it a little bit more into context. Also, super surprised that I haven’t heard to schools I applied to in December, yet have already heard from UMD which was January! The PhD process remains a mystery…

CP too. I didn't see any UMD acceptance on the result page but indeed someone claimed here.

[blueskies58]

Don't know if anyone has gotten an official email or anything, but I just randomly checked the UMass Amherst website and see my status as waitlisted. May be worth checking the portal even if you haven't officially heard!

[CapTipps]

14 minutes ago, modesteffect said:

Sharing application/admit rates of some schools in 2020 (a normal year), so future applicants can feel which are compeltitve ones which are less.

Michigan:  357/6% (2021 - 595/3%)

Chicago: 394/6%

Stanford:  349/7%

MIT:  400/9% (2021 - 752/3.6%)

Cornell:  325/9%

Yale: 400/11% (2021 - 933/2.7%)

UCSD:  349/12%

Duke:  355/13%

Madision:  211/17%

UCLA:  224/21%

WUSTL: 106/25%

Emory:  112/25%

OSU:  160/36%

 

Thank you! Do you know where this list comes from?

[modesteffect]

Just now, CapTipps said:

Thank you! Do you know where this list comes from?

No problem, I collected them since i was boring

[Gryffindor50points]

Hi guys, 

For anyone still waiting on NU, the Graduate Director emailed me that they'll send out 'official responses' soon but we were right to assume that the pending ones would be 'soft rejections'. lol. 

 

[CapTipps]

2 minutes ago, modesteffect said:

No problem, I collected them since i was boring

LOL that's great. Thank you. I will cite that as @modesteffect(2022)

[uncle_socks]

51 minutes ago, modesteffect said:

Sharing application/admit rates of some schools in 2020 (a normal year), so future applicants can feel which are compeltitve ones which are less.

Michigan:  357/6% (2021 - 595/3%)

Chicago: 394/6%

Stanford:  349/7%

MIT:  400/9% (2021 - 752/3.6%)

Cornell:  325/9%

Yale: 400/11% (2021 - 933/2.7%)

UCSD:  349/12%

Duke:  355/13%

Madision:  211/17%

UCLA:  224/21%

WUSTL: 106/25%

Emory:  112/25%

OSU:  160/36%

 

super curious where you found Stanford, MIT, Emory, and OSU rates (esp the first two!). It's been a while since I've searched for them but I don't recall finding those on my own. 

 

I also want to point out that schools that removed the GRE are more likely to get more "junk" applications -- I'm not yet convinced that like, it's now twice as hard to get into Michigan or Yale. GRE isn't the end-all-be-all, but to say that it's uncorrelated with what adcoms like to see would be untrue. I'm guessing that a lot of the schools that have gone GRE optional have gotten more low-quality apps from people thinking that without the GRE they stand a chance. 

[DanTheGrad]

For all those who were waitlisted for UMD - What are your subfields and how were you notified? Based on the results page, it seems like the majority of waitlist post were in the CP/IR subfield.

Rooting for all of us!

[IAMK]

I am on CP. I received the waitlist by email. I think they sent all e-mails for the waitlists. 

[DanTheGrad]

1 minute ago, IAMK said:

I am on CP. I received the waitlist by email. I think they sent all e-mails for the waitlists. 

Thanks for the response. Based on what I've been reading on the forum and results pages, I wonder if ALL waitlist notifications have been sent or if it was just for the specific subfields since I haven't seen anyone from AP claim a waitlist. 

[Quriosity]

12 minutes ago, DanTheGrad said:

Thanks for the response. Based on what I've been reading on the forum and results pages, I wonder if ALL waitlist notifications have been sent or if it was just for the specific subfields since I haven't seen anyone from AP claim a waitlist. 

Same boat here. But I'm also getting the sense that there are also just way more people interested in CP/IR than AP (at least on this forum).