jenjenjen Posted February 6, 2012 Posted February 6, 2012 Princeton one also just showed up on results survey! Congrats and please share some details
MashaMashaMasha Posted February 6, 2012 Posted February 6, 2012 Jen and Masha - Congratulations! Would you mind sharing your credentials with us, and perhaps who your POIs were? 3.4 GPA in my last two years of study at a top university. 3.7 overall GPA. GRE V 159 Q 162 Five years professional experience as a researcher in the labor movement. Research interests: Social Movements, Demography, Political Sociology, and Russia and Eastern Europe. My POIs were Professors Pfaff, Tolnay, and Rosenfeld. I had pretty good contact with them throughout the process, and met with two beforehand. I mentioned all three in my SoP. Allegedly great LORs, one from a high-profile scholar in my subfield, and an SoP that I never want to look at again after the 20+ revisions! I'm a 2nd-round applicant - I applied and was wait-listed in 2009. I now live in Seattle, which made contact with POIs much easier this time around, obviously. jenjenjen - Are you planning on going to the Recruitment Weekend?
chibuku Posted February 6, 2012 Posted February 6, 2012 (edited) Princeton one also just showed up on results survey! Congrats and please share some details Another Princeton accept on results - how am I supposed to get any work done while compulsively refreshing email and gradcafe? Edited February 6, 2012 by chibuku
ohhello Posted February 6, 2012 Posted February 6, 2012 Waitlisted for Wisconsin as well.... Arrrrghhhh I just want this to be over with. I need ice cream.
wmnshlthsoc Posted February 6, 2012 Posted February 6, 2012 Another Princeton accept on results - how am I supposed to get any work done while compulsively refreshing email and gradcafe? Ditto.. this is all I do.. It's awful... Now it's 4pm which means it's time to run outside to the mail box. Can't leave the phone behind in case someone important calls. This is crazy. I just need to hear from ONE program to calm me a bit.
SocHope Posted February 6, 2012 Posted February 6, 2012 Princeton one also just showed up on results survey! Cue dramatic gasp and faint.
chibuku Posted February 6, 2012 Posted February 6, 2012 Ditto.. this is all I do.. It's awful... Now it's 4pm which means it's time to run outside to the mail box. Can't leave the phone behind in case someone important calls. This is crazy. I just need to hear from ONE program to calm me a bit. Mailbox- great idea. Have you checked your `spam`folder recently surefire 1
ThisSlumgullionIsSoVapid Posted February 6, 2012 Posted February 6, 2012 Ditto.. this is all I do.. It's awful... Now it's 4pm which means it's time to run outside to the mail box. Can't leave the phone behind in case someone important calls. This is crazy. I just need to hear from ONE program to calm me a bit. Mailbox- great idea. Have you checked your `spam`folder recently You should also make a second e-mail account and send some test e-mails to your primary account. Ya know, just in case....
wmnshlthsoc Posted February 6, 2012 Posted February 6, 2012 I check my spam 3 times a day too.. I've been getting lots of other e-mails. It's just not my time yet. Patience.... deep breaths...
ANLstyle Posted February 6, 2012 Posted February 6, 2012 I check my spam 3 times a day too.. I've been getting lots of other e-mails. It's just not my time yet. Patience.... deep breaths... This video might help you calm down a little bit! It's a really good cover of California Girls by Bruno Mars.
bubbaface Posted February 6, 2012 Posted February 6, 2012 What do we think the chances are of getting in off the Wisconsin waitlist? Just got the good/bad news
bubawizwam Posted February 6, 2012 Posted February 6, 2012 I got my first notification. Rejected by OSU.
wmnshlthsoc Posted February 6, 2012 Posted February 6, 2012 ...and this is just Monday! right!!! I'm working on a zillion things to do this week to keep me away from my laptop...
jenjenjen Posted February 6, 2012 Posted February 6, 2012 Anyone know what it might mean for those of us who haven't heard anything? I know some people have been accepted Stanford/Princeton/Michigan/Duke - all of which I applied to (all of to which I applied?), but responses have not been forthcoming. I'm tempted to write these off as rejections, but don't know if a lack of reply is more likely to mean I've been placed on some sort of unofficial waitlist. And I'm sure I'm not the only person wondering this... Any feedback from other years or people with "ins" at dept would be appreciated!
giacomo Posted February 6, 2012 Posted February 6, 2012 ...and this is just Monday! gah, tell me about it
Supernovasky Posted February 6, 2012 Posted February 6, 2012 I was hoping for SOMETHING from Seattle today. Not getting any word on Michigan isn't that surprising. This is the week though, I can feel it. Seattle shoudl be done this week, so will Michigan, and Boulder will do invites on the 15th... good luck to all, lol.
wmnshlthsoc Posted February 6, 2012 Posted February 6, 2012 Anyone know what it might mean for those of us who haven't heard anything? I know some people have been accepted Stanford/Princeton/Michigan/Duke - all of which I applied to (all of to which I applied?), but responses have not been forthcoming. I'm tempted to write these off as rejections, but don't know if a lack of reply is more likely to mean I've been placed on some sort of unofficial waitlist. And I'm sure I'm not the only person wondering this... Any feedback from other years or people with "ins" at dept would be appreciated! I was under the impression that this all happens in waves. Like they'll invite the first group and that group will either accept or decline (for various reasons) then based on the number of candidates who declined the offer, the department reaches out to a 2nd wave of applicants until all their spots are filled so we may not hear anything until March if we aren't first wave.
RefurbedScientist Posted February 7, 2012 Posted February 7, 2012 I was under the impression that this all happens in waves. Like they'll invite the first group and that group will either accept or decline (for various reasons) then based on the number of candidates who declined the offer, the department reaches out to a 2nd wave of applicants until all their spots are filled so we may not hear anything until March if we aren't first wave. I am under the same impression. I was accepted in an early wave from one program, rejected along with a pile of others from another, and haven't heard a peer from a program that I know some people have been accepted to. I also heard from a soc. professor at my UG school that programs accept people in tiers, inviting top candidates first and having a de facto wait list. On top of that, I think it makes sense intuitively that departments would have certain slots to fill, so to speak. That is, a department knows it wants a cohort of 10 students, and maybe of that desired cohort, 7 will be quant. methods, 3 will be qual., 2 will work on gender, 2 on race, 1 on theory, so on and so forth. So rather than just taking the 10 applicants with the highest GRE scores and GPAs and best SoPs overall, they say "OK, here is our top choice to fit the profile we're looking for in a sociologist of gender, invite this person." Then maybe they identify a few top candidates for, say, economic soc. and there needs to be deliberation before offers are mailed. I have no idea, but it makes sense that departments would be less organized than we want them to be. Just think of the professors you know...
wmnshlthsoc Posted February 7, 2012 Posted February 7, 2012 I am under the same impression. I was accepted in an early wave from one program, rejected along with a pile of others from another, and haven't heard a peer from a program that I know some people have been accepted to. I also heard from a soc. professor at my UG school that programs accept people in tiers, inviting top candidates first and having a de facto wait list. On top of that, I think it makes sense intuitively that departments would have certain slots to fill, so to speak. That is, a department knows it wants a cohort of 10 students, and maybe of that desired cohort, 7 will be quant. methods, 3 will be qual., 2 will work on gender, 2 on race, 1 on theory, so on and so forth. So rather than just taking the 10 applicants with the highest GRE scores and GPAs and best SoPs overall, they say "OK, here is our top choice to fit the profile we're looking for in a sociologist of gender, invite this person." Then maybe they identify a few top candidates for, say, economic soc. and there needs to be deliberation before offers are mailed. I have no idea, but it makes sense that departments would be less organized than we want them to be. Just think of the professors you know... Makes sense to me... Just makes us crazy in the meantime lol
sleepycat Posted February 7, 2012 Posted February 7, 2012 Makes sense to me... Just makes us crazy in the meantime lol Perhaps this process is a hazing act to let us in the secret order or something kbirch 1
ThisSlumgullionIsSoVapid Posted February 7, 2012 Posted February 7, 2012 Rejected by Princeton. No surprise there
jenjenjen Posted February 7, 2012 Posted February 7, 2012 Rejected by Princeton. No surprise there Yo tambien. ohhh well.
qwerfdsa Posted February 7, 2012 Posted February 7, 2012 Rejected by Princeton. No surprise there Rejected by Princeton, TOO
Supernovasky Posted February 7, 2012 Posted February 7, 2012 Wow, judging from the results page, princeton just dropped a rejection bomb, lol.
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