When are linguistics departments announcing results for Fall 2013 PhD applicants?

[mq1]

So When am I going to hear back from linguistics programs I have applied to? something like I am accepted or rejected.

Thank y'all

Edited November 19, 2012 by mq1

[fuzzylogician]

Nobody here can tell you that. Your best bet is to check on the results board when notifications went out for your school in previous years. For me it was accurate within a week for all 8 schools I applied to.

[mq1]

Nobody here can tell you that. Your best bet is to check on the results board when notifications went out for your school in previous years. For me it was accurate within a week for all 8 schools I applied to.

One week!

Wow! that's great.

Thanks logician

[moody]

Results for linguistics programs with deadlines in December and January generally come some time between the end of January and the middle of March. It is (very) unlikely that you'll hear any news until at least a couple of weeks after the submission deadline.

[mq1]

Results for linguistics programs with deadlines in December and January generally come some time between the end of January and the middle of March. It is (very) unlikely that you'll hear any news until at least a couple of weeks after the submission deadline.

Thanks a lot. That is so early. I thought programs with deadlines in December and January will announce results by April, May or June.

[fuzzylogician]

Thanks a lot. That is so early. I thought programs with deadlines in December and January will announce results by April, May or June.

Some programs have Open House events, usually during late February to mid-March (including, as far as I know and if things haven't changed, Stanford, MIT, UCLA, NYU, Brown, Maryland?, Johns Hopkins?). Those programs have to make decisions by mid-February to allow people time to make travel arrangements. The other programs also tend to announce around the same time, and successful applicants will then often go on "school visiting rounds." Especially for international applicants who can't go to the US more than once, this kind of arrangement is very helpful. I'm assuming programs will do the same this year, too. Of course you could also be on waiting lists for much longer, but otherwise the first round of acceptances starts trickling in in late January and intensified by mid-February. Most schools will make their decisions by mid-March.