andrewcycs Posted February 21, 2014 Posted February 21, 2014 With an acceptance to Duke you can wait with peace of mind.
Horb Posted February 21, 2014 Posted February 21, 2014 (edited) Also, "10,600" applicants to Yale? Seriously? Yeah, right? I highly doubt that. I have to say though, since I got rejected from my top choice (Duke), I haven't really cared other than praying I got in somewhere, which I did. Rejection still sucks though. Edited February 21, 2014 by Horb
MsWuff12 Posted February 21, 2014 Posted February 21, 2014 I know Yale sent out rejections today, however, has anyone heard anything about their combined degree applicants? I applied to the combined English/African-American Studies degree program and still haven't heard anything.
viviandarkbloom Posted February 21, 2014 Posted February 21, 2014 I think that figure refers to the grad school in general rather than the English program...
Horb Posted February 21, 2014 Posted February 21, 2014 Question: Oxbridge normally means Oxford/Cambridge. I keep seeing people saying M.Phil Oxbridge....Is there an Oxbridge school, does that mean they did one M.Phil at each place? Basically, what does that mean?
poliscar Posted February 21, 2014 Posted February 21, 2014 Question: Oxbridge normally means Oxford/Cambridge. I keep seeing people saying M.Phil Oxbridge....Is there an Oxbridge school, does that mean they did one M.Phil at each place? Basically, what does that mean? It just means they're not identifying the specific school. Think of it as a mark of prestige, similar to people listing "Ivy" instead of an institution.
JSTORPolka Posted February 21, 2014 Posted February 21, 2014 I noticed that there were a couple of acceptances on the board for University of Illinois--Chicago. Can anyone here claim one? Last year, they sent out rejections and the acceptances on the same day, but my status has yet to change.
viviandarkbloom Posted February 21, 2014 Posted February 21, 2014 Question: Oxbridge normally means Oxford/Cambridge. I keep seeing people saying M.Phil Oxbridge....Is there an Oxbridge school, does that mean they did one M.Phil at each place? Basically, what does that mean? No, the two schools are completely separate. 'Oxbridge' is just people being coy about specifying which one they went to, like when they say 'BA Ivy'.
viviandarkbloom Posted February 21, 2014 Posted February 21, 2014 Haha, which is exactly what someone else just said. Whoops
Horb Posted February 21, 2014 Posted February 21, 2014 No, the two schools are completely separate. 'Oxbridge' is just people being coy about specifying which one they went to, like when they say 'BA Ivy'. It just means they're not identifying the specific school. Think of it as a mark of prestige, similar to people listing "Ivy" instead of an institution. Awesome! I went to Oxford on study abroad and thus was curious. I didn't remember anyone ever referring to something as Oxbridge other than the merging of Cambridge and Oxford.
viviandarkbloom Posted February 21, 2014 Posted February 21, 2014 It's mostly just a term invented by the UK media. Not something you'd really hear people there saying (I did my BA at Oxford)
Horb Posted February 21, 2014 Posted February 21, 2014 I would kill to have done my BA there. I found out too late about it in high school (I thought they went off of SATs, but at the time, they would accept APs instead). I can't fund it myself so I didn't bother applying for my ph.d there.
gatsbysghost Posted February 21, 2014 Posted February 21, 2014 Awesome! I went to Oxford on study abroad and thus was curious. I didn't remember anyone ever referring to something as Oxbridge other than the merging of Cambridge and Oxford. Yeah, I'm going to go ahead and identify that poster as myself. I'm at Cambridge, and I wanted people who read the notes to get some sense of my background. That just seemed like the right level of abstraction for the context of the results board.
Horb Posted February 21, 2014 Posted February 21, 2014 Ya I was just curious! Bc I kept seeing it and thought oh maybe it's a school. Did you like the mphil program?
TDazzle Posted February 21, 2014 Posted February 21, 2014 Just came back home to see an email of acceptance for Columbia. Super excited. cbttcher, andrewcycs and jazzyd 3
ComeBackZinc Posted February 21, 2014 Posted February 21, 2014 The Yale 10,000 number must be for the entire university-- in 2011, they had 383 applicants. http://www.yale.edu/graduateschool/academics/profiles/englishlanguagelit.pdf
andrewcycs Posted February 21, 2014 Posted February 21, 2014 Go TDazzle!! That's amazing. Enjoy NYC for me.
viviandarkbloom Posted February 21, 2014 Posted February 21, 2014 The Yale 10,000 number must be for the entire university-- in 2011, they had 383 applicants. http://www.yale.edu/graduateschool/academics/profiles/englishlanguagelit.pdf As one of the many, many rejectees I can confirm that from the context of the email it was clear that they were talking about the entire grad school
mikers86 Posted February 21, 2014 Posted February 21, 2014 Finally got that Pittsburgh rejection letter in the mail. Took long enough!
ke6904 Posted February 21, 2014 Posted February 21, 2014 You mean clicking refresh on my email/grad cafe/application status pages isn't suppose to take up all 24 hours of the day? Hahaha this made me smile. Thanks
ReadingLisa Posted February 21, 2014 Posted February 21, 2014 Working on my BA thesis and finishing off my last semester as an undergrad.
DyslexicBibliophile Posted February 21, 2014 Posted February 21, 2014 Hahaha this made me smile. Thanks I aim to please. : )
andrewcycs Posted February 21, 2014 Posted February 21, 2014 What a fun day! Vanderbilt sent me my official rejection as well!
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