crazedandinfused Posted February 16, 2012 Posted February 16, 2012 Yeah, me too...... I read my writing sample last night for the first time in months and that made me feel a little more confident, but I really need a positive and concrete response from just one of my programs. Sigh.
Simple Twist of Fate Posted February 16, 2012 Posted February 16, 2012 Yeah, me too...... I read my writing sample last night for the first time in months and that made me feel a little more confident, but I really need a positive and concrete response from just one of my programs. Sigh. I did that too for an unrelated purpose about a week ago. It also made me feel confident, because I think it's well written, well researched, original and creative. But when I start down that path, I think about the fact that my research interests aren't "trendy" or popular right now. Ugh. I can remember lots of posts saying "I wish it was Feb 15 already". Now that's passed, we're seeing "I wish it was March". Once it's March, it will be "I wish it was April" and then after April 15, it will be "I wish it was August". No judgments - I'm right there with you. But for a bunch of historians, we're certainly fixated on the future.
Aedes Posted February 16, 2012 Posted February 16, 2012 My version of twiddling my thumbs... I hope this helps some of you, but maybe it hurts. The red spikes are pretty intimidating! crazedandinfused, Safferz, wikichic and 2 others 5
crazedandinfused Posted February 16, 2012 Posted February 16, 2012 (edited) Oh my god.... That's amazing!!!!! Is there any coffee left within a 50 mile radius of you? If you adjust for weekdays/weekends, it looks like we are right in the thick of it. I just remembered how abominable/non-existent my Excel skills are. Edited February 16, 2012 by crazedandinfused
Toulouse1 Posted February 16, 2012 Posted February 16, 2012 The silence is certainly difficult. I'm hoping some schools will notify tomorrow, if not today!
WendyDarling Posted February 16, 2012 Posted February 16, 2012 I'm having an uncontrollable urge to hum the Twilight Zone theme song. You know, cause of the eerie silence....or maybe I'm just losing my mind.
cooperstreet Posted February 16, 2012 Posted February 16, 2012 Some activity on the results page... Vanderbilt started notifying people!
maeisenb Posted February 16, 2012 Posted February 16, 2012 That's amazingly well done. Great job! I guess we know where we are now, so no more speculating.
Safferz Posted February 16, 2012 Posted February 16, 2012 Safferz, If you have any questions about Philadelphia, PM me. I lived there for over a decade. Thanks so much, but I actually declined UPenn's offer last week! I think I'd like Philly a lot though
wikichic Posted February 16, 2012 Posted February 16, 2012 (edited) Some activity on the results page... Vanderbilt started notifying people! Oh, great. Now we get to wait on Rutgers and Vandy for the next couple of days. These are my last two programs to hear from, so it is pretty incredible that I could be completely done hearing back from my programs by tomorrow. I've thrown in the towel with Vandy already, but I'm still interested in seeing the outcome. I'm seriously considering calling Rutgers to see if all their decisions are out, but I won't. No movement on this board today like I thought there might be. Looks like we're in the same boat, cooperstreet. Good luck! AND now there's a wait list. Congrats to those Vandy applicants who have gotten news already! Edited February 16, 2012 by wikichic
oseirus Posted February 16, 2012 Posted February 16, 2012 this silence is killing me there's a thread dedicated to that!
Simple Twist of Fate Posted February 16, 2012 Posted February 16, 2012 Oh wow... Welcome to the forums Aedes, though something tells me you've been lurking. What an entrance. Interesting graphs. It seems that in both years, acceptances held steady or outpaced rejections early on. But that changed in the 2011 graph around this time. Yikes. Also confirms what we already knew - that we've got a whole lot of decisions to hear in the next month and a half.
TMP Posted February 16, 2012 Posted February 16, 2012 Aedes, those are amazing diagrams! How do we bookmark these for the future? Seriously, do you have anything else productive to do?
Aedes Posted February 16, 2012 Posted February 16, 2012 Yes, I have finally come to accept that there is no avoiding this board. I tried just to glance at it every once and a while, but after waking up at 2am last night and checking GC on my phone, I figured I might as well join y'all.
Simple Twist of Fate Posted February 16, 2012 Posted February 16, 2012 Well, welcome to the dark side, Aedes. What kind of American history do you do? Also, did you get the sense when putting those graphs together that were are more history phd results this year than last year? I'm just curious (and looking for excuses as to why I might not be accepted anywhere).
Aedes Posted February 16, 2012 Posted February 16, 2012 Haha, thank you! You can right-click on the image, select "open image in new tab", and bookmark it from there (in Chrome at least). And of course, this was procrastination at its best - I am suppose to have an article written and in my adviser's hands tomorrow!
runner09 Posted February 16, 2012 Posted February 16, 2012 Hi ! I have to share my astonishment at my results so far- has ANYONE heard of this!?! I have now been waitlisted at 3 programs- IU, Illinois, and Northwestern, but still no firm acceptances. Tell me honestly, what are my chances of getting in come April- to ANY of these schools! I have been informed by IU at least, that I am in the upper 25% . Not sure what that means... but I am confuddled by this whole thing! What are the odds!?
uhohlemonster Posted February 16, 2012 Posted February 16, 2012 What are the odds that I still have 9 phd programs to hear from and some people are almost done?! I feel like they are all going to contact me on the same day!
Aedes Posted February 16, 2012 Posted February 16, 2012 Thanks, STF. I do Nineteenth Century U.S. history with quantitative/HGIS/interdisciplinary methods (big surprise with the graphs and all, right?!). Last year there were approximately 1010 History results posted. This year there have been about 379 results posted. I say "approximately/about" for these because, while I tried to weed out posts that were messages ("to the poster below"), I have not been through the data with a fine-toothed comb. Hang in there, though; I have only heard back from one program out of seven, so we're all in the same boat (besides the chosen few... tmp, saff).
Toulouse1 Posted February 16, 2012 Posted February 16, 2012 So far, I count two posters (myself included) that applied to Pittsburgh. Anyone else send in an application or have "inside" info?
jlk88 Posted February 16, 2012 Posted February 16, 2012 So far, I count two posters (myself included) that applied to Pittsburgh. Anyone else send in an application or have "inside" info? I'm a Pitt applicant. Still waiting.
TMP Posted February 16, 2012 Posted February 16, 2012 Aedes, are are SO on the same page about treating history more like a social science field... I am quite excited to integrate GIS into my work! FWIW, I'm in middle of setting up a database for my project so I can get the hard numbers.
easybreesy9 Posted February 16, 2012 Posted February 16, 2012 no surprise since i didn't get an interview, but i just got rejected by yale. oh well. at least i can save all that bulletproof vest money.
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