PhD application thread Fall 2023

[photograd]

On 2/17/2023 at 2:54 PM, 23567898 said:

@ person who got waitlisted at UCLA–congrats! Also curious is you got an email from the DGS or your POI? do you know if acceptances have been sent out? 

Yes, I'm also curious, I haven't gotten anything at all still.  Also, someone reports an acceptance several days ago on the results board.

[waitinglikeits99]

For those who received recent updates regarding their Yale status, would you mind sharing if you only applied to Art History? Do updates for combined degrees come later?  Lastly, does Yale always interview? It is hard to discern a meaningful pattern from the results page. TIA!

[photograd]

For posterity, here's a piece of an email I received from the department, seems to me it says that there are interviews on a selected shortlist of 20 :

(first part is about whether it's necessary to be emailing or contacting someone before applying)

"....Nor does that silence impact your chances in the admissions process. We have had students who are admitted whose only contact with the department was at the interview stage when a short list of 20 or so applicants are interviewed before the final selection."

If you would like it.   

.....Though I wasn't interviewed, I don't know when it happened - if that is what he's saying, it sounds to me as though it is.

[guimauve51]

On 2/21/2023 at 6:52 PM, waitinglikeits99 said:

For those who received recent updates regarding their Yale status, would you mind sharing if you only applied to Art History? Do updates for combined degrees come later?  Lastly, does Yale always interview? It is hard to discern a meaningful pattern from the results page. TIA!

I only applied to art history. I had two interviews - one with POI and one with non-specialists. 

[waitinglikeits99]

1 hour ago, guimauve51 said:

I only applied to art history. I had two interviews - one with POI and one with non-specialists. 

 

Thank you - two interviews sounds quite intense, kudos for making it through!

 

 

 

10 hours ago, photograd said:

For posterity, here's a piece of an email I received from the department, seems to me it says that there are interviews on a selected shortlist of 20 :

(first part is about whether it's necessary to be emailing or contacting someone before applying)

"....Nor does that silence impact your chances in the admissions process. We have had students who are admitted whose only contact with the department was at the interview stage when a short list of 20 or so applicants are interviewed before the final selection."

If you would like it.   

.....Though I wasn't interviewed, I don't know when it happened - if that is what he's saying, it sounds to me as though it is.

 

If this is in response to me, thank you, as well, for sharing this extra information! That is very helpful. I have still had no status update, but I also did not have an interview request, so I suspect it means a rejection.

Edited February 23, 2023 by waitinglikeits99

[PhDApplicant23]

1 hour ago, waitinglikeits99 said:

 

Thank you - two interviews sounds quite intense, kudos for making it through!

 

 

 

 

If this is in response to me, thank you, as well, for sharing this extra information! That is very helpful. I have still had no status update, but I also did not have an interview request, so I suspect it means a rejection.

I suspect it means a waitlist

[anonymous_crazy_cat-lady]

Has anyone heard back from Case Western or Washington University in St Louis?

[mellirae]

36 minutes ago, anonymous_crazy_cat-lady said:

Has anyone heard back from Case Western or Washington University in St Louis?

I am waiting on Case Western after an interview. They didn't give me a timeline 

[anonymous_crazy_cat-lady]

24 minutes ago, mellirae said:

I am waiting on Case Western after an interview. They didn't give me a timeline 

Oh that is frustrating! I hope you get in! I applied to their MA program (I applied to only 2 PhDs) so I presume I'll hear later than you will.

[mellirae]

18 hours ago, anonymous_crazy_cat-lady said:

Oh that is frustrating! I hope you get in! I applied to their MA program (I applied to only 2 PhDs) so I presume I'll hear later than you will.

Best of luck! From what I can tell, they haven't sent out acceptances for either program yet, so crossing my fingers for both of us!!

[anonymous_crazy_cat-lady]

Just now, mellirae said:

Best of luck! From what I can tell, they haven't sent out acceptances for either program yet, so crossing my fingers for both of us!!

Thank you! Good luck to you as well!

 

[photograd]

Has anybody gotten a rejection from UCLA here?  Anyone an acceptance?

 

[giantracoon]

has anyone heard from UCSB? 

[guimauve51]

On 2/26/2023 at 1:41 PM, photograd said:

Has anybody gotten a rejection from UCLA here?  Anyone an acceptance?

 

Received a phone call from POI notifying acceptance on 2/16. Followed up with an email for virtual recruitment events last week. 

[photograd]

15 hours ago, guimauve51 said:

Received a phone call from POI notifying acceptance on 2/16. Followed up with an email for virtual recruitment events last week. 

Thanks!  You mean a supervisor? from a state school for an MA called you on the telephone?  Sure that's right, I'll post my own result when it drops!

[n00moo]

Anyone hear from the IFA about results of their interviews? I haven't seen any acceptances and they said mid-February?

[ZF1763]

4 hours ago, n00moo said:

Anyone hear from the IFA about results of their interviews? I haven't seen any acceptances and they said mid-February?

I was contacted two weeks ago by the Director of Graduate Studies to let me know that I was waitlisted. There has not been any official notification or update to my application portal, though. Not sure if acceptances went out that same week.

[gobardhan]

has anyone heard from the University of Toronto? I saw one acceptance around mid-Feb on the results board but nothing else. 

[Placebo0404]

I had an interview with Toronto this afternoon 

Edited March 1, 2023 by Placebo0404

[photograd]

Noticed on the results board the continuing problem with people posting that they got UCLA who probably didn't get UCLA.  Humor of it continues.😀

[staxdo_21]

Are people reaching out to departments to check on their admissions status? I'm thinking about doing so.

[waitinglikeits99]

1 hour ago, staxdo_21 said:

Are people reaching out to departments to check on their admissions status? I'm thinking about doing so.

Thinking about it, but also secretly hoping braver souls will volunteer first and report back here or the results page, haha. I did directly contact a DGS of a program (not art history) and received a very friendly response within a day that top candidates had been already interviewed and notified.

Speaking of which, has anyone (sorry if I missed it) heard back from UPenn??

Edited March 7, 2023 by waitinglikeits99

[staxdo_21]

Yes, I wonder if a brave soul with reach out to all the remaining programs I haven't heard from 😂

I might reach out if only to see if I'm waitlisted at any of the schools I haven't heard from. I assume not but dreams die hard.

[gobardhan]

2 hours ago, waitinglikeits99 said:

Thinking about it, but also secretly hoping braver souls will volunteer first and report back here or the results page, haha. I did directly contact a DGS of a program (not art history) and received a very friendly response within a day that top candidates had been already interviewed and notified.

Speaking of which, has anyone (sorry if I missed it) heard back from UPenn??

I saw an acceptance on the results board at the end of Feb but haven't heard myself. Do they interview all candidates in consideration? I'm assuming that since I did not get an interview I am probably not in the mix. 

[Dreams]

5 hours ago, waitinglikeits99 said:

Thinking about it, but also secretly hoping braver souls will volunteer first and report back here or the results page, haha. I did directly contact a DGS of a program (not art history) and received a very friendly response within a day that top candidates had been already interviewed and notified.

Speaking of which, has anyone (sorry if I missed it) heard back from UPenn??

 

Penn told me that final decisions were going to be made last week.  They didn’t specify whether that meant that decisions would have been sent to applicants last week, or that announcements were to come beginning this week onward.