2024-2025 Application Thread

[pausesodd]

5 minutes ago, aurat278 said:

Congrats! Can I ask what subfield?

I'm in CP.

[polisciad]

Has anyone heard back for the IR subfield from anywhere?? All I am seeing is CP and AP. 

[polsciAttempt]

In the informational interview UCLA held, they seemed to imply flights and hotels would be covered.

Edited Thursday at 09:21 PM by polsciAttempt

[aurat278]

Anyone else receive an invite to UCLA's informational interview but not receive an invitation to visit?

[willienelson]

3 hours ago, pausesodd said:

Same here. Just got an invite to UCLA's "Political Science Preview Day." LMAO. Gotta love the audacity of these schools—expecting applicants to travel unfunded for an event without even an offer in hand.

Also, if they’re out here pulling stunts like this, you know the program is underfunded.

Can I ask what makes you say this? Is it the disorganization? Or lack of funds offered to invitees? This is the first school I've gotten into so I'm trying to make judgements of their program!

[LanaFan]

On 1/27/2025 at 11:17 AM, LanaFan said:

Really hoping to hear back from Brown and UMN within the next few days, though I didn't get an interview offer from Brown... I also wish UWI-Madison would give me my probable rejection already lol but it seems that they take a while after acceptances to send them out. 

Does anyone know when to expect ANY decisions to start going out for these?

UMN's site says "We notify applicants about decisions in early February." However, the GradCafe results have included late January in the last few years, the same for Brown.

Meanwhile, Northwestern's decision dates for the last couple of years were late January and their site seems to say they start BY February... yet here we are we no acceptances posted for UMN/Brown/Northwestern... I feel like I'm about to have a lot of emotions tomorrow lol. 

[brzher]

52 minutes ago, LanaFan said:

Does anyone know when to expect ANY decisions to start going out for these?

UMN's site says "We notify applicants about decisions in early February." However, the GradCafe results have included late January in the last few years, the same for Brown.

Meanwhile, Northwestern's decision dates for the last couple of years were late January and their site seems to say they start BY February... yet here we are we no acceptances posted for UMN/Brown/Northwestern... I feel like I'm about to have a lot of emotions tomorrow lol. 

I think we should expect to hear from UMN by Monday or Tuesday at the latest. That would still be consistent with past years

[edwardsaid]

Claiming a UW rejection here. Kinda surprised since I thought my stats would at least make this an easy admit for me. I guess fit really matters. (0A/1R/9P)

Edited yesterday at 12:10 AM by edwardsaid

[LanaFan]

11 minutes ago, edwardsaid said:

Claiming a UW rejection here. Kinda surprised since I thought my stats would at least make this an easy admit for me. I guess fit really matters. (0A/1R/9R)

Was this a formal rejection or inferred? If it's the latter, I'm also assuming rejection for UW as I haven't received an interview or acceptance. 

[lala11]

6 minutes ago, edwardsaid said:

Claiming a UW rejection here. Kinda surprised since I thought my stats would at least make this an easy admit for me. I guess fit really matters. (0A/1R/9R)

Fit matters for every program.

Also, UW is admitting a much smaller class this year—about half as many as normal because they had a larger cohort last year. I also think they may be doing multiple rounds of cuts and that this is just the first round. I interviewed with UW last week and was told I was in the “long list” and that they would be making a round of cuts this week. My application status hasn’t changed so far.

[edwardsaid]

7 minutes ago, LanaFan said:

Was this a formal rejection or inferred? If it's the latter, I'm also assuming rejection for UW as I haven't received an interview or acceptance. 

It was a formal rejection. Got an email to check my updated status in the portal and it was a rejection letter.

[LanaFan]

Thanks for the info guys! I really appreciate it. Good luck with the remaining applications. 

[PolSciComp]

Hi everyone! Anyone here who received PhD offer from University of Virginia?

[smoothoperator77]

1 hour ago, edwardsaid said:

Claiming a UW rejection here. Kinda surprised since I thought my stats would at least make this an easy admit for me. I guess fit really matters. (0A/1R/9P)

At the end of this cycle, you should feel lucky if you have one admission. The mindset of assuming offers should be ancient history by now......

[polisci119]

Claiming UW rejection too, pretty poor fit, so far two rejections and one waitlist are all from poor fit Unis so I guess fit really matters. 2R/0A/1WL/17P

[edwardsaid]

2 minutes ago, polisci119 said:

Claiming UW rejection too, pretty poor fit, so far two rejections and one waitlist are all from poor fit Unis so I guess fit really matters. 2R/0A/1WL/17P

You applied to 20 schools?! That’s wild

[polisci119]

5 minutes ago, edwardsaid said:

You applied to 20 schools?! That’s wild

Yes, since I applied to 7 and only got one non-funded offer last round, I wanted to compensate it by looking broader, while 6-8 of them are extremely poor fits as well, thus I'm assuming more rejections coming in the way. Honestly kinda waste of application fee.

[smoothoperator77]

6 minutes ago, polisci119 said:

Yes, since I applied to 7 and only got one non-funded offer last round, I wanted to compensate it by looking broader, while 6-8 of them are extremely poor fits as well, thus I'm assuming more rejections coming in the way. Honestly kinda waste of application fee.

I applied for 22 this year, also because of poor results from last year. Totally agree, I am literally broke for paying the fee.

[polisci119]

2 minutes ago, smoothoperator77 said:

I applied for 22 this year, also because of poor results from last year. Totally agree, I am literally broke for paying the fee.

that's so true, plus GRE submission fee, so unaffordable in sum

[Omkar Poojari]

2 hours ago, LanaFan said:

Does anyone know when to expect ANY decisions to start going out for these?

UMN's site says "We notify applicants about decisions in early February." However, the GradCafe results have included late January in the last few years, the same for Brown.

Meanwhile, Northwestern's decision dates for the last couple of years were late January and their site seems to say they start BY February... yet here we are we no acceptances posted for UMN/Brown/Northwestern... I feel like I'm about to have a lot of emotions tomorrow lol. 

WRT Brown, I have a feeling it should be out tomorrow or in the coming week. Historically, their decisions have come out in the last few days of January. I was told after the interview that results are expected by the second week of February- but most probably earlier than that.

[pausesodd]

12 hours ago, willienelson said:

Can I ask what makes you say this? Is it the disorganization? Or lack of funds offered to invitees? This is the first school I've gotten into so I'm trying to make judgements of their program!

UCLA Polisci is known for its lack of funding. And it did not strike me that they only offered to cover the flights after some invitees called out the issue.

[ivyleaguerphd]

On 1/30/2025 at 10:03 PM, ivyleaguerphd said:

Stanford portal changed yesterday,

'Applicaion PDF' received was added to the checklist 

 

Anyone else changed like this? wondering if this implies decision 

Any Stanford applicants update like this or any other updates?

[mwmwmw121212]

2 minutes ago, ivyleaguerphd said:

Any Stanford applicants update like this or any other updates?

wow, quite observant to notice items added to the checklist lol. all checklists are different, so i don't really notice when they change unless they like disappear. but to answer your question - yes, that is now on my checklist

[jaliren]

Anyone else apply to UCSD and still waiting to receive a decision? I'm starting to assume rejection (or at least waitlist) since numerous acceptances already went out. 

[ivyleaguerphd]

26 minutes ago, mwmwmw121212 said:

wow, quite observant to notice items added to the checklist lol. all checklists are different, so i don't really notice when they change unless they like disappear. but to answer your question - yes, that is now on my checklist

Haha, as there were only 4 items for the Stanford list, quite few compared to other schools. Btw it was added 2 days ago, so I thought if it might indicate a decision. Let's see