EricaMarie Posted January 26, 2011 Posted January 26, 2011 So to the other historians who have applied to Boston University's Ph.D. program, are you as irritated as I am that their application status website keeps saying "the status of applications will be posted later in January"? How much farther into January are they going to get before posting?!?!?!?! Arg!! ....I hate waiting....
history_PhD Posted January 26, 2011 Posted January 26, 2011 So to the other historians who have applied to Boston University's Ph.D. program, are you as irritated as I am that their application status website keeps saying "the status of applications will be posted later in January"? How much farther into January are they going to get before posting?!?!?!?! Arg!! ....I hate waiting.... Where can you check the application status on Boston University's website?
EricaMarie Posted January 26, 2011 Author Posted January 26, 2011 Where can you check the application status on Boston University's website? http://www.bu.edu/history/appstat.html
Emerson Posted January 26, 2011 Posted January 26, 2011 Get used to waiting for BU. The status they will tell you at the end of January will most likely be whether it is complete or not, as you likely already imagine. I didn't hear back from them until March 17 last year. I was accepted, but couldn't go unless they offered funding. By the April 15th deadline, they still hadn't made funding decisions, so I had to defer admission.
EricaMarie Posted January 26, 2011 Author Posted January 26, 2011 Get used to waiting for BU. The status they will tell you at the end of January will most likely be whether it is complete or not, as you likely already imagine. I didn't hear back from them until March 17 last year. I was accepted, but couldn't go unless they offered funding. By the April 15th deadline, they still hadn't made funding decisions, so I had to defer admission. Well that's irritating. I was warned about the funding issue by the professor I'd want to work with there. However, I wasn't aware that they took that long to decide on funding for students or not. As I will not be able to attend BU without funding myself, this is slightly off-putting. Damnit.
natsteel Posted January 26, 2011 Posted January 26, 2011 Well that's irritating. I was warned about the funding issue by the professor I'd want to work with there. However, I wasn't aware that they took that long to decide on funding for students or not. As I will not be able to attend BU without funding myself, this is slightly off-putting. Damnit. I'm assuming we're applying to work with the same professor, EricaMarie. He told me that he could only take one funded student. Like you guys, for me its "no funding=no go."
EricaMarie Posted January 26, 2011 Author Posted January 26, 2011 I'm assuming we're applying to work with the same professor, EricaMarie. He told me that he could only take one funded student. Like you guys, for me its "no funding=no go." Never assume, my dear. I applied to work with McConville. He didn't tell me he could only take one funded student though. He said "due to the current financial climate, we can only fund a limited number of entering graduate students, and usually only one person entering to study early American history is granted funding." That didn't read as "can only take one funded student," so I don't know if we applied to work with the same professor, but it doesn't sound like it. I hate feeling like I'm in competition with you though, nat. I feel like we've become friends (sort of) through this forum, and I don't like competing against my friends. :-(
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