raptureonfire Posted February 7, 2013 Posted February 7, 2013 Whoa - the Michigan candidates look intense.
GopherGrad Posted February 7, 2013 Posted February 7, 2013 When I emailed the DGS's of both schools, I was told that I was on the soft waitlist (official notification of waitlists had already gone out to other people though) and that they were "cycling through offers." I'm obviously hoping that those two schools will let me get farther this year, but I'm still unclear as to what the "soft" part means. Pure speculation: you were at the very end of the waitlist and there was some concern about filling in the class. The "soft part means" that the department was willing to let you twist for a little longer without bothering to get you an official waitlist, and thus deserves a punch to its allegorical wiener. In terms of whether they will let you get farther this year, plenty of people have been accepted to programs that rejected them in the past, so... Also, any location that just happens to be inhabited by a psycho-ex. That basically leaves me the University of Tashkent's Ryrgyzyyvyzzynystan satellite campus. Damn you, felonslooking4love.com!!
CGMJ Posted February 7, 2013 Posted February 7, 2013 Congrats to Michigan admits...who were the emails from?
rkmattson Posted February 7, 2013 Posted February 7, 2013 Go to the drop down menu labeled as your name in the top right. Settings > Signatures (on the left of Settings). Go to my profile (your nick at the top right hand corner), edit my profile, and then signature Go to "change your profile" and alter your "signature" Thanks everyone!
Penelope Higgins Posted February 7, 2013 Posted February 7, 2013 (edited) Actually, back to a question I asked before (if someone could help me get this one): what is meant by a soft wait list? Last year, I applied to two schools and didn't hear anything until late March. When I emailed the DGS's of both schools, I was told that I was on the soft waitlist (official notification of waitlists had already gone out to other people though) and that they were "cycling through offers." I'm obviously hoping that those two schools will let me get farther this year, but I'm still unclear as to what the "soft" part means.I think this may mean that the department doesn't use a ranked waitlist, but will pull from a set of backups to fill out the admitted cohort in a way that balances for subfield or area of interest. A lot of departments don't have ranked waitlists, or even ranked waitlists within each subfield. Instead, if the two applicants admitted to work on Congress, for example, turn them down, they will look at the next few applicants interested in that area and choose from among them. Edited February 7, 2013 by Penelope Higgins
Mnemonics2 Posted February 7, 2013 Posted February 7, 2013 Whoa - the Michigan candidates look intense. Sheesh. Can anyone claim on here?
PhDhopeful2013 Posted February 7, 2013 Posted February 7, 2013 came across this earlier and thought i'd pass along. interesting info for stanford applicants (and others) on the adcomm process: http://jackman.stanford.edu/papers/pa04.pdf (just in case you want to sink more time in trying to read their minds ) thanks for this!
CGMJ Posted February 7, 2013 Posted February 7, 2013 (edited) Ok, I've updated my spreadsheet from yesterday, thanks for feedback & Chicago applicant number. Michigan is now in the green, and it's possible we'll see some movement from Northwestern, Berkeley and Stanford today or tomorrow (or if not probably early next week). http://wikisend.com/download/398312/Polisci%20PhD%20admit%20data.xlsx EDIT: to those who commented yesterday, you're right that this would ideally be on google docs so others can edit; but I don't feel like fussing with creating a throwaway google account right now. If anyone wants to post this elsewhere for collaboration, feel free. Otherwise I'll keep posting updates. Edited February 7, 2013 by CGMJ
PhDhopeful2013 Posted February 7, 2013 Posted February 7, 2013 Whoa - the Michigan candidates look intense. I wish I had an acceptance in hand right now to soften the potential/impending blow! now back to email refreshing........
PhDhopeful2013 Posted February 7, 2013 Posted February 7, 2013 anyone claiming Michigan info out there?
ThisGuyRiteHere Posted February 7, 2013 Posted February 7, 2013 Looks like i was a day off with the Michigan admit notifications...i think most of these from here on out are probably gona come at the end of the week.
Wemayet Posted February 7, 2013 Posted February 7, 2013 Damn you, felonslooking4love.com!! Haven't checked that one out yet...
PoliSwede Posted February 7, 2013 Posted February 7, 2013 Both acceptances and rejections going out from Michigan?
Mnemonics2 Posted February 7, 2013 Posted February 7, 2013 Both acceptances and rejections going out from Michigan? I'm inclined not to complain if that is the case. Gets it completely over with quickly.
Longtime Lurker Posted February 7, 2013 Posted February 7, 2013 I suppose it's still relatively early in the day, but I'm surprised that more people aren't reporting from Michigan, especially since they're apparently sending rejections as well. Wonder if we're being trolled.
PoliSwede Posted February 7, 2013 Posted February 7, 2013 I suppose it's still relatively early in the day, but I'm surprised that more people aren't reporting from Michigan, especially since they're apparently sending rejections as well. Wonder if we're being trolled. Always a possibility
clangeroo Posted February 7, 2013 Posted February 7, 2013 Without claims and without another Mich accept/reject, I don't know if I believe that, although that might be my tiny optimistic soul resisting crushing.
PoliSwede Posted February 7, 2013 Posted February 7, 2013 It's starting to look like the real deal, unless some troll is entering all of them.
Wemayet Posted February 7, 2013 Posted February 7, 2013 (edited) That would be some epic trolling; in which case the perp should obviously be put in prison for life. Note how Michigan is called three different things across four posts; and how the scores attached are ridiculously good? I could believe it more if there wasn't a rejection there. And of course, if someone in here was taking credit for one of them. Edit: and... while I wrote that, 2 more rejections popped up... Edited February 7, 2013 by Wemayet Wemayet and kaykaykay 1 1
clangeroo Posted February 7, 2013 Posted February 7, 2013 Claiming a Michigan Admission! Grats! Sorry for besmirching your good name!
Wemayet Posted February 7, 2013 Posted February 7, 2013 Claiming a Michigan Admission! Congratulations!! It's on...
Mnemonics2 Posted February 7, 2013 Posted February 7, 2013 Claiming a Michigan Admission! Congrats! And while I know that confirmation that it has started is a prelude to panic for some (please don't), I just want to say how methodologically happy this makes me (boo trolls)!
BornAndRaised Posted February 7, 2013 Posted February 7, 2013 Claiming a Michigan Admission! Congrats! =)
CGMJ Posted February 7, 2013 Posted February 7, 2013 (edited) As a note, last year Michigan did admits and rejects on the same day, and then waited a few days before sending out waitlists. Edited February 7, 2013 by CGMJ
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