Ironheel!! Posted February 3, 2012 Posted February 3, 2012 Gah! I still haven't heard anything...I think next week will be my week. I second this. I have heard zipo.
RWBG Posted February 3, 2012 Posted February 3, 2012 Thank you everyone. I feel truly fortunate, and I hope all of you hear good news soon.
balledematch Posted February 3, 2012 Posted February 3, 2012 Congrats to all who have received great news! I also have yet to hear anything, good or bad, and I'm getting pretty close to losing my mind. Hope next week is more fruitful.
Tamboursg'sell Posted February 3, 2012 Posted February 3, 2012 Just got into Duke too. So, apparently decisions are really trickling in over a couple of days. whirlibird, RWBG and saltlakecity2012 3
blaspheming Posted February 3, 2012 Posted February 3, 2012 Congrats to all who have received great news! I also have yet to hear anything, good or bad, and I'm getting pretty close to losing my mind. Hope next week is more fruitful. I'm with you on that one. I am useless at work this week.
blackcoffee64 Posted February 3, 2012 Posted February 3, 2012 anyone else starting to hate their inbox? saltlakecity2012 1
Ironheel!! Posted February 3, 2012 Posted February 3, 2012 you know the season is getting to you when you refreash your spam folder... CooCooCachoo 1
ohsnap Posted February 3, 2012 Posted February 3, 2012 (edited) Someone just googled my name+my alma mater. Sweet baby Jesus, are they making the decision now? *in my head* Prof 1: Her SoP was nice Prof 2: Her scores are right around what they need to be Prof 3: Hmmmm, I googled her and I don't quite like her look...reject Gah. Edited February 3, 2012 by ohsnap WorldMan, non humilis mulier and Anonymouse Bosch 2 1
Ironheel!! Posted February 3, 2012 Posted February 3, 2012 Someone just googled my name+my alma mater. Sweet baby Jesus, are they making the decision now? *in my head* Prof 1: Her SoP was nice Prof 2: Her scores are right around what they need to be Prof 3: Hmmmm, I googled her and I don't quite like her look...reject Gah. How dod you know this?
wuerzburg Posted February 3, 2012 Posted February 3, 2012 Does anybody know if at this stage we can give up waiting until after the weekend?
kolja00 Posted February 3, 2012 Posted February 3, 2012 Does anybody know if at this stage we can give up waiting until after the weekend? Still a few more hours for California schools, but yeah I'm giving up until next week.
balthasar Posted February 3, 2012 Posted February 3, 2012 How dod you know this? academia.edu most probably you know the season is getting to you when you refreash your spam folder... Never thought of that. Let the spambox refreshing commence! Also, you know the season is getting to you when you hate weekends Ironheel!! 1
ilovezvezda Posted February 4, 2012 Posted February 4, 2012 some annoying person just posted a Maryland admission... considering their deadline was the 1st, that would have been the fastest admission result in history.
iwouldpreferanonymity Posted February 4, 2012 Posted February 4, 2012 some annoying person just posted a Maryland admission... considering their deadline was the 1st, that would have been the fastest admission result in history. I actually received my first acceptance before the official deadline, so I suppose that this is possible. Maybe they submitted their application very early, and someone at the school had a particular interest in them?
ilovezvezda Posted February 4, 2012 Posted February 4, 2012 I actually received my first acceptance before the official deadline, so I suppose that this is possible. Maybe they submitted their application very early, and someone at the school had a particular interest in them? OK, I take it back then...I didn't think it'd be possible to get an admission before the deadline. I guess I've become too jumpy given the roller coaster week
iwouldpreferanonymity Posted February 4, 2012 Posted February 4, 2012 OK, I take it back then...I didn't think it'd be possible to get an admission before the deadline. I guess I've become too jumpy given the roller coaster week I did not think it was possible either until it happened to me, so I understand your skepticism. Maybe it is a hoax - though I cannot imagine what anyone would gain from posting a fake result.
twenty-twelve Posted February 4, 2012 Posted February 4, 2012 Anyone want to claim Maryland? I've noticed that they seem to have a quick turnaround, given the results from previous years. twenty-twelve 1
grantman Posted February 4, 2012 Posted February 4, 2012 (edited) Anyone want to claim Maryland? I've noticed that they seem to have a quick turnaround, given the results from previous years. I wish I could, I also noticed a new slew of admittances for UC-Davis, congrats to those who were accepted. I just logged in to check my status and it stated all Maryland decisions would be through the mail, can anyone else confirm this? Edited February 4, 2012 by grantman
saltlakecity2012 Posted February 4, 2012 Posted February 4, 2012 Didn't know if anyone had seen this - it's a recent paper from princeton on poli sci grad program rankings (develops a new ranking methodology based on placement). Briefly, and not surprisingly: 1. Harvard 2. Stanford 3. Michigan 4. Rochester (yeah, coach!) 5. Chicago 6. Berkeley 7. Duke 8. UCLA 9. Northwestern 10. UCSD 11. MIT 12. Yale 13. Princeton 14. Cornell 15. Columbia http://www.princeton.edu/~bschmidt/Papers/Schmidt-Chingos%20Rankings%20Paper.pdf
brent09 Posted February 4, 2012 Posted February 4, 2012 ^ Last year it seems like people heard on the website. My guess is that they say decisions are only by mail but the letter posts online before it lands at your address.
RWBG Posted February 4, 2012 Posted February 4, 2012 Didn't know if anyone had seen this - it's a recent paper from princeton on poli sci grad program rankings (develops a new ranking methodology based on placement). Briefly, and not surprisingly: 1. Harvard 2. Stanford 3. Michigan 4. Rochester (yeah, coach!) 5. Chicago 6. Berkeley 7. Duke 8. UCLA 9. Northwestern 10. UCSD 11. MIT 12. Yale 13. Princeton 14. Cornell 15. Columbia http://www.princeton...ngs%20Paper.pdf It's good to get a rough sense of the placement ranking, but it's hampered a bit by the age of the data. Ultimately, faculty move around a lot, and placement itself is a lagging indicator, so it's hard to get a really good sense of what placement would be like for people entering the program now. For instance, Wisconsin's program I think is underranked (in terms of where students starting now would likely to be placed), and NYU's isn't even on it. That being said, it does appear to capture some broad strokes that are generally true (e.g. Rochester tends to place better than its overall ranking thanks to its status as a boutique with strong formal training), so I think it's a good first cut at the placement data. I'd follow it up by looking at schools websites, contacting departments for detailed info, and maybe using this to the extent you can: https://sites.google.com/site/honestgraduatenumbers/ iwouldpreferanonymity 1
blaspheming Posted February 4, 2012 Posted February 4, 2012 Anyone here planning on going to the UC Davis recruitment event?
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