frankdux Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 ...but you haven't been contacted: according to this site, on friday someone was ACCEPTED and invited to a student weekend in february at NC State for mathematics. i suppose i could still be contacted next week. but... :x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
t_ruth Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 It's all over this board, but I can see the benefit of having a clearinghouse in one thread: Duke, Psychology (developmental) - having heir interview weekend this weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solefolia Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 A couple weeks ago on a Thursday, one of my programs had sent out invites for an interview/recruitment weekend (same sub-discipline within the department as well). I assumed an implied rejection --at this point, being completely pessimistic and being either right or happily surprised is better than holding out hope. On Monday, I got an e-mail inviting me. It caught me completely off-guard and I was pretty much convinced, even without the rejection letter, that I was out of the running. Needless to say I was thrilled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
socialpsych Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 Princeton social psych! Someone posted an acceptance (Thurs) on the results, and someone else has been invited to interview. I am pessimistic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gradlife Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 Two people posted interview calls two weeks ago for a program....I am pessimistic about my chances for that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IvyHope Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 Penn GSE apparently sent invites for interview weekend. I did not get one. :-( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
readyforachange Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 Someone posted on results that he/she was accepted to UT Austin for Sociology on Dec. 19...18 days after the applications were due. I haven't seen any other postings for Austin, so I'm wondering if this was just a rogue post... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel418 Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 We finally had a musicology posting (UNC-Chapel Hill) for Master's work, which sets off two panicked thoughts in my head. One is that I didn't get in (which would be disappointing; I really liked the professors and students with whom I have communicated), the other is the panicked hope that they are notifying Master's and PhD candidates separately (I know that they don't fund Master's students and only some of the PhD students). I guess I can only hope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pregasauraus Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 U of Wisconsin - one acceptance posted for Art History. Of course, they noted that they were contacted directly by the prof in their specific area, so maybe there's still hope? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abiogenic Gas Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 UCSD and Stanford Geophysics contacted someone a couple weeks ago. It's the same person so I'll assume that this person is such an exceptional candidate that they were notified of their acceptance before the regular acceptances. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louiselab Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 Does it count if you feel like they're contacting people, they just haven't gotten to you yet? I know one school is apparently accepting people through email/phone, but that was one person so what does that mean? I know it could mean a lot of things... But this all just brings back memories of middle school when you knew a bunch of people have been invited to the uber cool party because someone casually let you know invitations went out so you're just hanging out at your locker waiting for yours thinking "but I'm cool too!!! I want to go to the Spice World birthday party!!!" I mean, um.... yeah. leopolds 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gadhelyn Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 Emory Genetics and Molecular Biology contacted someone a couple weeks ago for an interview. Their website says they interview through March, so fingers are crossed. And I know NC State's Bioinformatics started looking at files two weeks ago Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
citharadraconis Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 Looks like UMich and Berkeley's classics departments have started contacting people... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hadunc Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 I know Northwestern has accepted a couple of people and contacted others for interviews. Haven't heard from them yet... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
socialpsych Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 I know Northwestern has accepted a couple of people and contacted others for interviews. Haven't heard from them yet... Looks like they have been notifying people over a few days already? People seem to have been getting phone calls since Friday, including today. Don't give up yet... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowdoinstudent Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 U of Illinois has already sent out acceptance letters via postal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadyL Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 MIT's BCS program sent out all their interview invites already according to the results page. The departmental email had specified that they would only send out invites, not rejections, at this stage. So presumably everyone who didn't get an invite is either rejected or potentially wait listed. Last time I applied, interview dates came and went for all my programs (with me attending one), but a day after my birthday in March I got a wait list email for a school I'd assumed rejected me. So there's probably still hope for everyone who doesn't get an interview. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
engimo Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 People have been accepted into UChicago, Berkeley, and Cornell, starting last Friday. Where's my letter? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danil Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 Penn GSE apparently sent invites for interview weekend. I did not get one. :-( Really??? There goes another "yet to be announced" rejection. :cry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danil Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 Oh, and while I'm at it, UMich Linguistics have contacted their first choice of interviewees (I was not one of them, unfortunately), and UCLA Applied Linguistics sent off letters this morning saying they would start making their choices this week, and would let people know by early March at latest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tritonetelephone Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 Someone posted on results that he/she was accepted to UT Austin for Sociology on Dec. 19...18 days after the applications were due. I haven't seen any other postings for Austin, so I'm wondering if this was just a rogue post... Assuming it wasn't a lie, I have heard that some schools notify their top-TOP applicants ASAP then spend the next few months debating over the rest of us. Last year, the two people that posted acceptances to UT didn't do so until February. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdilks Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 People have been accepted into UChicago, Berkeley, and Cornell, starting last Friday. Where's my letter? Not getting anything at this point doesn't necessarily mean you're out. I talked with the graduate chair at my school about this a few days ago. He said (at least here) the first round is obvious admits that are going to get in lots of places, and they only expect maybe one out of ten to actually enroll. I'd imagine responding earlier to these types of top applicants makes them more likely to enroll. Once they start to get idea of how many of those people are going to enroll, then they work their way down the list. He also mentioned that occasionally smaller private schools can be more sporadic in their acceptances, because instead of having a graduate chair/committee focusing on admissions, they'll just give your application to professors in your preferred research area. Chicago might be out of the picture (I think they generally get most of their admissions done in one wave), but I'd still hold out hope for Berkeley and Cornell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankdux Posted February 4, 2009 Author Share Posted February 4, 2009 the math program at NC State that i posted about in my first post has apparently accepted another "gradcafe-er" that wasn't me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
studyordie Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 I just deduced my first defacto rejection as Notre Dame has invited its faves for interviews toward the end of this month, but has somehow forgotten to contact me . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
engimo Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 Not getting anything at this point doesn't necessarily mean you're out. I talked with the graduate chair at my school about this a few days ago. He said (at least here) the first round is obvious admits that are going to get in lots of places, and they only expect maybe one out of ten to actually enroll. I'd imagine responding earlier to these types of top applicants makes them more likely to enroll. Once they start to get idea of how many of those people are going to enroll, then they work their way down the list. He also mentioned that occasionally smaller private schools can be more sporadic in their acceptances, because instead of having a graduate chair/committee focusing on admissions, they'll just give your application to professors in your preferred research area. Chicago might be out of the picture (I think they generally get most of their admissions done in one wave), but I'd still hold out hope for Berkeley and Cornell. Ahh. That makes me feel a little better, but it doesn't make waiting around suck any less. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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