Count de Monet Posted February 7, 2011 Posted February 7, 2011 Anyone heard from Notre Dame? Nope. I would imagine there will be a week or two before the majority of programs start getting back to us.
Lost in transition Posted February 7, 2011 Posted February 7, 2011 Nope. I would imagine there will be a week or two before the majority of programs start getting back to us. I hope so! I have qualifying exam for master's thesis next next saturday...and i don't want to be interrupted by the result..either good or bad!
morningglory Posted February 7, 2011 Posted February 7, 2011 Thanks for the info. Do you mind telling me what your field is? Vandy is a bit of a reach for me but I have some connections there so I thought I would toss an app out and see what happens. I figure if I can at least get on the waitlist I may have a decent chance. Seems like most of the people Vandy accepts are people that apply there as a safety and end up going elsewhere. Crossing my fingers for a miracle! American--in the institutions camp. I sort of agree with you about the safety thing, but I have to tell you--they've really won me over. Their package is very generous and 4 profs emailed me this weekend--really aggressive, but I guess it's a good thing? Dare I say they're at the top of my list right now. In any case, keep your head up. They still haven't finalized offers, so hopefully you'll hear good news in the next few weeks. Best of luck!
firefly28 Posted February 7, 2011 Posted February 7, 2011 I thought about Vandy and WashU as slight reach schools, but money is a bit tight and so I stuck to schools that I felt I'd have a pretty reasonable chance at. Vandy and WashU both have terrific departments, and both--especially WashU--are good at faculty placements.
camcgee97 Posted February 7, 2011 Posted February 7, 2011 Any political theory admits yet? Thus far, my only result is a rejection from Duke. Still waiting on: Georgetown, Brown, WUSTL, Johns Hopkins, Chicago, Texas, Virginia
informationbomb Posted February 7, 2011 Posted February 7, 2011 Also a political theory applicant. No admits, but no rejections either. Here's to hearing something this week!
Wishing and Hoping Posted February 7, 2011 Posted February 7, 2011 NYU hasn't admitted anyone yet, but in the past has done so in the second week of February. So you should likely be hearing soon. Thanks: ) Hopefully we'll both get good news this week.
turambar Posted February 7, 2011 Posted February 7, 2011 Dinged by WUSTL. Expected but any rejection feels bad.
bugbear Posted February 7, 2011 Posted February 7, 2011 Is it safe to say that if I haven't heard from UCLA or Santa Cruz yet, I'm not in, since acceptances have gone out? I haven't heard anything from anywhere yet.
wtncffts Posted February 7, 2011 Posted February 7, 2011 I just discovered Peterson's (from that crazy thread in another subforum) and looked up various schools. Does anyone know how accurate this site is? Specifically, I looked up NYU, and it said this: 633 applicants, 42% accepted, 97 enrolled. Link That can't be right, can it?
RWBG Posted February 7, 2011 Posted February 7, 2011 I just discovered Peterson's (from that crazy thread in another subforum) and looked up various schools. Does anyone know how accurate this site is? Specifically, I looked up NYU, and it said this: 633 applicants, 42% accepted, 97 enrolled. Link That can't be right, can it? This is the first I've come across Peterson's. If it's true, it includes master's students.
RWBG Posted February 7, 2011 Posted February 7, 2011 (edited) For the record, cross-referencing with Duke and UCSD's offical statistics suggests the numbers might be a bit off. UCSD's numbers match for 2004, but Duke's seem off for every year, although their closest seems to be 2003. EDIT: I also found at least one instance where the numbers on the website suggested 45 people were accepted, and 47 people enrolled. Edited February 8, 2011 by RWBG
Viking Posted February 8, 2011 Posted February 8, 2011 (edited) All the schools in Peterson have around a 10% acceptance rate. From Brown and UPenn up to Yale and Harvard, there are no more than a couple points of variation in the acceptance rate. Apparently, self-selection is acting as the first cut. That's really surprising. If you look at the top 50 undergrads, there is a huge spread in acceptance rates. But that doesn't hold true for poli sci departments. Edited February 8, 2011 by Viking
explodingstressball Posted February 8, 2011 Posted February 8, 2011 Is it safe to say that if I haven't heard from UCLA or Santa Cruz yet, I'm not in, since acceptances have gone out? I haven't heard anything from anywhere yet. I was contacted by the department to tell me that I'd been accepted at UCSC ... but they also said that official notification won't be out for a few more weeks yet. Hold on!
explodingstressball Posted February 8, 2011 Posted February 8, 2011 Theory Phew! The candle of hope continues to burn!
informationbomb Posted February 8, 2011 Posted February 8, 2011 In at UC Berkeley Congrats! When / how were you notified? Any idea whether I should just write Berkeley off?
oasis Posted February 8, 2011 Posted February 8, 2011 (edited) In at UC Berkeley Grats. IIRC Berkeley was 6th on the Chingos placement ranking. Edited February 8, 2011 by oasis
Count de Monet Posted February 8, 2011 Posted February 8, 2011 Any political theory admits yet? Thus far, my only result is a rejection from Duke. Still waiting on: Georgetown, Brown, Notre Dame, Johns Hopkins, Chicago, Texas, Virginia I'm still waiting on all but one (Stanford)
GopherGrad Posted February 8, 2011 Posted February 8, 2011 Fuck fuck fuck. The Berkeley rejection is gonna hurt.
RWBG Posted February 8, 2011 Posted February 8, 2011 Fuck fuck fuck. The Berkeley rejection is gonna hurt. No need to get despondent yet. Only a few acceptances have been posted so far, and it looks as though in previous years (two years ago, for example) acceptances went out over two days. Given that the acceptances to Berkeley seemed to be posted at around 5 pm PST (the latest time I would expect anyone to be sending out admissions offers at Berkeley), I think there's some evidence to suggest that they may not be done.
dude Posted February 8, 2011 Posted February 8, 2011 In at UC Berkeley Congratulations!!! I'm in, too! Have you received any information about funding yet?
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