Fall 2013 Applicants?

[heulwen]

I'm thinking Stanford decisions should come out this week.. No?

[reed155]

I'm thinking Stanford decisions should come out this week.. No?

I contacted their grad program coordinator on Thursday. He said they would notify the applicants within next two weeks.

[annieca]

Congrats everyone!!! The happy dance is in full swing!

[annieca]

Just file FAFSA anyway and consider yourself independent if your parents aren't claiming you as dependent.  You'll get approved for loans and such even if you don't have much of income or/and assets.  Consider it as a formality.

 

This is wrong, in my experience. My parents still claim me as a dependent and will until I turn 24 or stop going to school full-time. However, the moment I applied to graduate school programs for FAFSA I'm an independent student. You have the option of filling out parental income but you don't have to. Personally, I'm not because I am eligible for more loans without my parents' income on the FAFSA. 

 

Hope that helps!

[JJJJ22]

This is wrong, in my experience. My parents still claim me as a dependent and will until I turn 24 or stop going to school full-time. However, the moment I applied to graduate school programs for FAFSA I'm an independent student. You have the option of filling out parental income but you don't have to. Personally, I'm not because I am eligible for more loans without my parents' income on the FAFSA.    Hope that helps!

I work in financial aid. As a grad student you are always independent on the FAFSA. If you're an undergrad, there are a number of things that will make you independent (age 24+, veteran, married, etc), but if you are a grad student you are automatically independent.

[CarrieLe5]

Congratulations to you too! Were you one of the lucky 10 that got accepted to the PhD program?

Thanks! Yes, the DGS indicated it would be for the Ph.D program.

[viggosloof28]

Congrats! I also received good news from IU this weekend!

CrazyCatLady80 UCLA has accepted some people including me.

Congratulations to both of you!  Such excellent programs!

 

I contacted their grad program coordinator on Thursday. He said they would notify the applicants within next two weeks.

 Thanks for the update!  I've been wondering when Stanford would be notifying this year...fingers crossed for all of us!

[AKACaz]

Hi all,

 

Looks like Princeton rejections may be going out today - I just got mine via a very kind email from the POI I interviewed with. Very odd reason given, though - she said that I was ranked highly, but that they were convinced I would get into Yale/choose to go there, and work with a specific POI there! Well, considering I'm not on the admit list at Yale, somehow I don't think so.... oh well! Guess they were focused on a small, no-waitlist-acceptances cohort, as usual.

Edited February 11, 2013 by akacentimetre

[czesc]

Interesting. I thought it might be trouble to fill in that "other schools you're applying" box in the applications and probably shouldn't have (I can't remember whether or not I avoided it in every case when it was optional). I presume they asked you in the interview anyway, though?

 

I haven't gotten anything from Princeton, but I assume my rejection will be the form letter since I wasn't interviewed.

Edited February 11, 2013 by czesc

[AKACaz]

I can't remember if I mentioned schools/other POIs by name in the interview, but I did put it on the application, and it wouldn't have required a great leap for them to guess who at Yale I could have worked with/had been in contact with for sure.

[stillalivetui]

What does a graduate assistantship exactly entail? And is it typical for Masters students to receive these?

[New England Nat]

For the curious, Princeton took 37 admits, +1 deferall from last year.  They would have to have +20 people turn them down for them to pull from the wait list.  That is a couple people more than their last few admitted cohorts.

[czesc]

At this point, I'd be happy with a Princeton waitlisting just to give me hope that I'm seriously in the running in other places.

[vtstevie]

What does a graduate assistantship exactly entail? And is it typical for Masters students to receive these?

 

I don't know how common they are, but I had two in my MA program (my first year, with TAships the second year) and what they entailed depended on the person I was working with. They were both great, but one was much more low key/less responsibility than the other. I'd expect to be doing any of reading over rough drafts of articles/chapters, helping with actual research/confirming sources and wording, conducting archival research on your own, helping plan classes (I did this but got the feeling it was sort of a special case), and generally spending a lot of time at your particular professor's side. It was a lot of fun, but seems like an extremely variable job.

[Katzenmusik]

What does a graduate assistantship exactly entail? And is it typical for Masters students to receive these?

 

A graduate assistantship (as opposed to a teaching assistantship) often involves some sort of administrative work or helping with whatever random tasks the professor you're assigned to needs help with.

 

It's rare for most programs to offer assistantships to masters students, but I had one coupled with free tuition at my MA institution, and so did a few others in the department.  In my experience, the GA-ship was pretty low-key and flexible; for instance, if I had a paper due, I could take a few days off and make up the hours at some later point with no questions asked.  In general, it was a huge relief to be paid by the university instead of having to take out loans to attend.  

[erikmoorelaw]

Any info out there on Georgetown and where they are in the process? Someone mentioned on the Results Search board that decisions might be coming out this week.

[benedicite]

Any info out there on Georgetown and where they are in the process? Someone mentioned on the Results Search board that decisions might be coming out this week.

I had some contact with my POI at Georgetown. He indicated that their decisions would be coming out by the middle of the month. So I'm hoping to hear from them before this week is over.

[Katzenmusik]

This is strange but amusing -- a program at a university where I applied just started following me on Twitter!  I did not apply to this particular program, which is completely unrelated to my field.  My Twitter account is quasi-anonymous and (I thought) not easily connected to my full name.  So this is most likely an odd coincidence, but it was somewhat surprising, and of course I immediately started wondering what I should read into it.  Luckily I keep my account pretty professional, just in case...  

 

Ohhhhhh, social media.

[vtstevie]

i haven't heard anything since northwestern released rejections over a week ago, this is getting to be too much!

[hdunlop]

Yep.

 

Anyone know when UChicago might release? Last year it was 2/8 but that's of course come and gone . . .

[benedicite]

And Harvard should be any day now, judging by previous years.

 

I'm ready for news, too.

[hanlin]

Georgetown decisions will be out after the departmental meeting on the 15th. So expect maybe news to come out on the weekend or next week.

[viggosloof28]

Congrats to today's UNC admit! Maybe I'll see you there this fall?

[Zephyr99]

Quiet Monday. I predict a not so quiet Tuesday

[lafayette]

Chicago's doing their thing today. Just got an e-mail from the department.