Why are a number of schools taking longer this year?

[PeteButtigiegtiktoker]

your best theories?

[saffasrass]

Smaller cohorts, smaller budgets, some current students still taking longer to finish their dissertations because of Covid. There's been a lot of small comments here and there from programs hinting that this cycle is different than previous ones. If you look at the application stats that are available for some schools, you'll see number of applicants are up too.

There's just a lot of uncertainty in general right now, but especially in academia. And especially in public institutions.

[lorenzen]

On 2/21/2023 at 6:16 PM, saffasrass said:

Smaller cohorts, smaller budgets, some current students still taking longer to finish their dissertations because of Covid. There's been a lot of small comments here and there from programs hinting that this cycle is different than previous ones. If you look at the application stats that are available for some schools, you'll see number of applicants are up too.

There's just a lot of uncertainty in general right now, but especially in academia. And especially in public institutions.

Hey! I see rutgers waitlisted you. When did you find out?

[saffasrass]

@lorenzen I was "conditionally accepted" and waitlisted for funding on February 9th

[lorenzen]

25 minutes ago, saffasrass said:

@lorenzen I was "conditionally accepted" and waitlisted for funding on February 9th

I see! Have you heard of any acceptances yet? And thank you.

[saffasrass]

1 hour ago, lorenzen said:

I see! Have you heard of any acceptances yet? And thank you.

If you go back through the results for Rutgers a few acceptances also mentioned being offered funding. The rest are technically waitlisted.