specialagentoso Posted January 6 Posted January 6 On 12/4/2024 at 1:32 PM, strawberrypasta said: Nice! We seem to be applying to a lot of the same ones haha! I applied to Brown, Columbia, Michigan State, Northwestern, Princeton, Berkeley, Santa Barbara, Chicago, UIC, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Wisconsin. What does your research center on? Mine broadly explores gender, family, and the life course. Omg we overlap a lot too, I'm interested in gender, family, and life course as well. I applied to UW Madison, Indiana, U of Michigan, UNC, UCSB, Stanford, Cornell, and Northwestern strawberrypasta 1
afraidtoletgo Posted January 9 Posted January 9 On 12/16/2024 at 7:53 AM, axolotlgrl said: does anyone have any info on which schools do/don't interview for sociology in the top ~25? I spoke with current PhD students from UCLA, Stanford, NYU, and Princeton, and they told me that they did not interview for their programs.
strawberrypasta Posted January 9 Author Posted January 9 On 1/6/2025 at 9:54 AM, specialagentoso said: Omg we overlap a lot too, I'm interested in gender, family, and life course as well. I applied to UW Madison, Indiana, U of Michigan, UNC, UCSB, Stanford, Cornell, and Northwestern Ooo awesome! I am ready to start hearing back. Kind of going crazy from the wait already haha!
specialagentoso Posted January 9 Posted January 9 28 minutes ago, strawberrypasta said: Ooo awesome! I am ready to start hearing back. Kind of going crazy from the wait already haha! Same, I submitted mine in November so I feel like I’ve already been waiting ages when in reality it’s only been 6 weeks. I just wanna know if/where I will be moving so I can plan
afraidtoletgo Posted January 9 Posted January 9 On 12/4/2024 at 12:02 PM, nervousyethopeful said: Ooohhh yes def lots of overlap!! My interests are at the intersection of soc of family, education, & immigration, looking at the relationships btw schools & latino families. It feels so good to connect w other people in this process!!! My research is Asian American culture/immigration and education! Definitely agree on connecting with other like-minded people strawberrypasta 1
strawberrypasta Posted January 11 Author Posted January 11 (edited) On 1/9/2025 at 2:45 PM, specialagentoso said: Same, I submitted mine in November so I feel like I’ve already been waiting ages when in reality it’s only been 6 weeks. I just wanna know if/where I will be moving so I can plan Yes! Not knowing where I will be moving is killing me lol. I am a chronic overplanner so this is horrid haha. When is everyone planning on moving? I think I will be at the end of May or the beginning of June. It's a bit early, but my partner and I have an apartment through our university and we have to move out the day after they graduate. I would also love to hear more about your research! Not sure if you are on Reddit, but my username is the same if you want to chat about it through DMs. Edited January 11 by strawberrypasta
specialagentoso Posted January 11 Posted January 11 48 minutes ago, strawberrypasta said: Yes! Not knowing where I will be moving is killing me lol. I am a chronic overplanner so this is horrid haha. When is everyone planning on moving? I think I will be at the end of May or the beginning of June. It's a bit early, but my partner and I have an apartment through our university and we have to move out the day after they graduate. I would also love to hear more about your research! Not sure if you are on Reddit, but my username is the same if you want to chat about it through DMs. My current lease goes until the start of august so I probably won’t move until the end of summer, which is stressful in its own way. It’s nice to have the extra time here but will be a mad dash to get everything sorted if I’ll be in a new location. Unfortunately I’m not on Reddit a girl can only handle so many social media platforms at once lol
strawberrypasta Posted January 12 Author Posted January 12 20 hours ago, specialagentoso said: My current lease goes until the start of august so I probably won’t move until the end of summer, which is stressful in its own way. It’s nice to have the extra time here but will be a mad dash to get everything sorted if I’ll be in a new location. Unfortunately I’m not on Reddit a girl can only handle so many social media platforms at once lol No worries! I just DMed you on here. I didn't realize GradCafe offered messaging.
strawberrypasta Posted January 16 Author Posted January 16 Just saw that on the spreadsheet that someone marked they got an acceptance from Minnesota… can anyone else confirm if they have?
CrockPotKin Posted January 17 Posted January 17 It's that time of the year where decisions are starting to roll in with increasing frequency - good luck to everyone! Jim VK, randomposter and strawberrypasta 2 1
RGA126 Posted January 18 Posted January 18 It seems results start coming in today - can any one confirm the UC Irvine interview I see on the results page? I also applied and I did not get anything today, so I am very anxious at the moment. Apparently most news should be out in these two weeks! wow
traingirl Posted January 18 Posted January 18 56 minutes ago, RGA126 said: It seems results start coming in today - can any one confirm the UC Irvine interview I see on the results page? I also applied and I did not get anything today, so I am very anxious at the moment. Apparently most news should be out in these two weeks! wow that was me- I got an email last night from a professor I listed on my application asking for a 20 min informal Zoom call. good luck!
RGA126 Posted January 18 Posted January 18 22 minutes ago, traingirl said: that was me- I got an email last night from a professor I listed on my application asking for a 20 min informal Zoom call. good luck! 😭Congrats!
inglepringle Posted January 19 Posted January 19 It seems like someone got an interview invite from Yale? Does anyone know if invites are sent in batches?
crrrrrrrr Posted January 20 Posted January 20 I also got an email invite to interview from UC Irvine for PhD Sociology program this past Thursday evening (1/16/25). I applied to 13 schools and so far they are the only one I have heard from.
swagboy Posted January 21 Posted January 21 On 1/19/2025 at 12:35 PM, inglepringle said: It seems like someone got an interview invite from Yale? Does anyone know if invites are sent in batches? idk, from years past it seems like they all kinda come at once. I didn't get one, so I'm callin it a reject by now lol : [
afraidtoletgo Posted January 24 Posted January 24 Gosh decisions are coming out now and every day is nerve-wracking LOL GL EVERYONE
xwinterx Posted January 30 Posted January 30 (edited) Jumping in to ask: Has anyone heard anything from Stanford Sociology? I also got a request for a 20 minute zoom call from another university -- not sure how to prep for it, but if anyone has any experience with a call like this I'd be super grateful to know what kinds of questions were asked! Edited January 30 by xwinterx
saffasrass Posted January 30 Posted January 30 5 hours ago, xwinterx said: I also got a request for a 20 minute zoom call from another university -- not sure how to prep for it, but if anyone has any experience with a call like this I'd be super grateful to know what kinds of questions were asked! I had two interviews my last cycle and they both worked (a little) differently. Both were very casual, and my sense is that tends to be how interviews go. For Rutgers, it was a brief 20ish minute chat with a member of the admissions committee. This was a broader conversation about my background, my research interests, and my fit with the program. I was asked about where else I applied. For Chicago, I had about a 45 minute conversation with a professor I was interested in working with. We chatted a little bit about my background and overlap with my advisors she knew, but we mostly talked about her research and mine and how they fit, and how I envisioned us working together. Still very casual, but I had to do far more prep for this one. Feel free to DM me if you (or anyone else!) have more specific questions, either about interviews or the application process as a whole. xwinterx 1
anon2024 Posted February 3 Posted February 3 (edited) I see someone posted in Results that they were accepted to UC Berkeley, and someone posted they were accepted to UCLA. Can anyone confirm these results? Does this mean if we have not heard back from those schools at this point that we were likely rejected? Edited February 3 by anon2024
saffasrass Posted February 3 Posted February 3 56 minutes ago, anon2024 said: I see someone posted in Results that they were accepted to UC Berkeley, and someone posted they were accepted to UCLA. Can anyone confirm these results? Does this mean if we have not heard back from those schools at this point that we were likely rejected? UCLA has historically used rolling admissions jsyk.
ripriprip Posted February 3 Posted February 3 Soooo for those of us who did not get into Brown today, does that mean we're going to get reject??
LD1719 Posted February 4 Posted February 4 Has anyone heard from USC? Do they do waitlists? I was told by students from there that they do but I have never seen anyone posting here on gradcafe that they were waitlisted.
RGA126 Posted February 5 Posted February 5 As an international student applying to UC programs, I find that UC Irvine and UCLA has admitted only American students in this cycle so far. I am wondering if it the concurrent funding issue is influencing international student admission in public schools this cycle? What do yall think?
dogs47 Posted February 9 Posted February 9 hey, does anyone who applied to UNC this cycle know I they require GRE or not? they site says they do, but when I generically google it says they don't. looking to apply for fall 2025
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