Quigley Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 Is anyone who has heard from UCLA (whether rejection or acceptance) a comparativist? I'm wondering if its just one or two of the fields reporting back, since I haven't heard anything via email or the websites. I haven't heard anything either, and im an Americanist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
upam Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 also can we take a moment to appreciate how silly and old the Massachusetts Institute of TECHNOLOGY's application site is? Agreed! Isn't it the school that required you to send out your own recommender links? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CGMJ Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 Agreed! Isn't it the school that required you to send out your own recommender links? Yes, that was awkward especially when I needed to sent a reminder! packrat 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xcrunner Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 Any news from USC? Unfortunately I have yet to hear anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhDhopeful2013 Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 any claims for the UMich waitlists? My hopes for Michigan are plummeting as I type.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pseudonym Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 Yes, that was awkward especially when I needed to sent a reminder! I had to do that too, but luckily the person I needed to remind was an MIT PhD. He was actually defensive about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pseudonym Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 Is anyone who has heard from UCLA (whether rejection or acceptance) a comparativist? I'm wondering if its just one or two of the fields reporting back, since I haven't heard anything via email or the websites. Yes, I am one of those accepted, and I am (hoping to be) a comparativist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
news2yous Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 also can we take a moment to appreciate how silly and old the Massachusetts Institute of TECHNOLOGY's application site is? I don't want to out myself but I'm familiar with computer science, engineering, and hacker culture. This is EXACTLY what I expected from MIT's website. Especially the part where they made you copy and paste your recommendations. I actually laughed when I saw that. Really "techy" people are usually opposed to a lot of data-heavy fluff, and hell, the most extreme ones use stapled scratch paper as their planner, use 20 year old vintage computers patched together with random "computer graveyard" parts, etc. etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
news2yous Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 Agreed! Isn't it the school that required you to send out your own recommender links? As someone who used to be part of the same culture, that made me laugh hard. It makes perfect sense from that point of view: 1. Zero possibility of screwups, glitches, failures, etc. unless the applicants themselves screwed up, leaving no possibility of them blaming the school. 2. No blaming the school if an automated email from them ends up in the spam box. And if the student's emails end up in the spam box? lol 3. The whole email-tag game isn't necessarily safer or more guaranteed in terms of preventing fraud. It's so easy to register a fake email, and believe it or not it's pretty easy to fake .edu addresses. 4. The link system is surprisingly solid. 5. I had complaints about how awkward it was to pass that on, but no teacher had any complaints about problems registering or uploading, whereas Harvard's system for example was universally complained about. It took a professor a full month of complaining to get his letter in, and one professor actually gave up and asked for a paper form because he was out of the country and didn't have anyone to help him with it. Simple and straightforward. 6. Flashy design and feel are data-heavy and aren't actually any more "advanced" in the view of this culture, and some people in this culture really emphasize efficiency (pretty much what engineering is actually about.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucid1984 Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 (edited) Just finished a Skype interview with POI at Vanderbilt. The POI said that their goal admit number is around 10 and final decisions would be made in Mid-February. BTW, Michigan makes me shudder Edit: Grammar error Edited February 8, 2013 by lucid1984 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
news2yous Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 (edited) This is totally true. I have seen programmers argue about how legit they are for using more and more bare-bones systems. I've written reports for humanities classes with terminal programs (which actually have much more powerful editing capabilities in terms of pure content, though superscript/footnote citations obviously become a problem.) Edited February 8, 2013 by news2yous overlyresearched and PoliSciLaw 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zzzzzz Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 As someone who used to be part of the same culture, that made me laugh hard. It makes perfect sense from that point of view: 1. Zero possibility of screwups, glitches, failures, etc. unless the applicants themselves screwed up, leaving no possibility of them blaming the school. 2. No blaming the school if an automated email from them ends up in the spam box. And if the student's emails end up in the spam box? lol 3. The whole email-tag game isn't necessarily safer or more guaranteed in terms of preventing fraud. It's so easy to register a fake email, and believe it or not it's pretty easy to fake .edu addresses. 4. The link system is surprisingly solid. 5. I had complaints about how awkward it was to pass that on, but no teacher had any complaints about problems registering or uploading, whereas Harvard's system for example was universally complained about. It took a professor a full month of complaining to get his letter in, and one professor actually gave up and asked for a paper form because he was out of the country and didn't have anyone to help him with it. Simple and straightforward. 6. Flashy design and feel are data-heavy and aren't actually any more "advanced" in the view of this culture, and some people in this culture really emphasize efficiency (pretty much what engineering is actually about.)Hilarious, revealing, and pretty logical. thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
news2yous Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 To the UCLA application who found out about their rejection via the website - first of all sorry, and I hope you get into your other schools. Did you receive an email to check the website? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rnoble1983 Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 Well, at least Minnesota finally updated their website with the rejections. I already knew, but at least that little glimmer of hope isn't bothering me anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
balledematch Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 To the UCLA application who found out about their rejection via the website - first of all sorry, and I hope you get into your other schools. Did you receive an email to check the website? Yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
news2yous Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 We've had a change in program coordinators, and the new one might be handling how letters are sent out differently. Decisions have been made since Monday. Once again (since it might have gotten lost amidst the fray), if you were admitted to Michigan and have questions about the program, feel free to PM me. Does this suggest that all admits have been sent already? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
news2yous Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 Yes Thanks! You just saved me from logging in to their system every 5 seconds... niw I'm just checking my email every 5 seconds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
balledematch Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 Thanks! You just saved me from logging in to their system every 5 seconds... niw I'm just checking my email every 5 seconds lol no worries. always happy to help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GopherGrad Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 Well, at least Minnesota finally updated their website with the rejections. I already knew, but at least that little glimmer of hope isn't bothering me anymore. Did you find this by logging in to your application? Mine still shows that the application is awaiting a decision. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quigley Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 Did you find this by logging in to your application? Mine still shows that the application is awaiting a decision. Mine does too. I'm still in purgatory at Michigan and UCLA too and refreshing roughly every 19 seconds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CGMJ Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 Sorry if this has been covered but I've been in and out of meetings all morning: were the Michigan rejections and waitlists blast emails? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clangeroo Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 Mine does too. I'm still in purgatory at Michigan and UCLA too and refreshing roughly every 19 seconds. Me too - and purgatory at Mich, but rejected at UCLA. ): I got the email telling me to check the website. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wemayet Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 Hello. My handle is wemayet, and I am a GradCafe "search results" junkie. It all started in the fall, when I was looking for application advice. I figured a little wouldn't hurt, you know? It didn't take long before I was spending most, then all, of my spare time reading forums. It didn't seem like a bad trade off for all the good feelings I was getting from what I was taking in. I grew to rely upon it. I needed it to get through applications. But even when applications were over, I still needed. I tried to quit cold turkey, but found myself going back for more. I think on purpose at some level, I had even lost my login for a while, hoping I'd forget. Then one day, I saw it. The first indication that someone from one of my schools had gotten an interview. That taste brought me back. Worse than before. A great hunger inside of me, I needed the information. On my tower, on my ipad, on my laptop... all browsers had a GradCafe tab. I'd hit that refresh button... dozens of times... sometime dozens of dozens of times in one hour. When I wake up, I reach for the nearest computerized device and hit refresh again and again. Someday, I hope to stop... My handle is wemayet, and I am a GradCafe "search results" junkie. pseudonym, RiffRam, PoliSciLaw and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadi Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 Unfortunately I have yet to hear anything. As I learned from the phone interview I took last week from USC, the DGS said they will make a meeting this week and will send final offers next week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mogadishu Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 Just saw someone posted acceptance for Northwestern University, did anyone else received offer from Northwestern? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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