LinguisticMystic Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 Sad days indeed! Their program is pretty great. Silly question - what's a DGS? Director of graduate studies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beccamayworth Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leesies Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 (edited) Leesies, I am also going to the open house at Michigan. What's your field? Hi Robert! Awesome, see you there! Basically some semantics/pragmatics, SLA and language processing What about you? Edited January 30, 2014 by leesies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robertpt Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 Hi Robert! Nice to see you here! Now we have three lab phonologists, all attended to the summer Institute!.. How amazing! Hi, longforit! I am so sorry I haven't recognized you! Give me some tips through the message! Yeah, we should make a list of future collaborators! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robertpt Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 That's great! My interviewer mentioned that there was a handful of people with similar interests that they were considering. I'd love to see their department continue to grow in that direction (well, mostly if I get accepted and decide to attend, that is!). Go lab phon! ETA: Now I wait for "mysterious Palo Alto phone number" to call me back (hopefully). Eek. My interviewers were concerned about my experience in the theoretical side. They said some phonetics students had problems taking these courses in the past. But I am pretty interested in the works of the two interviewers I talked to. I even got some new ideas after talking to them. Are you going to Stanford in March too? I guess we'll meet there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robertpt Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 (edited) Hi Robert! Awesome, see you there! Basically some semantics/pragmatics, SLA and language processing What about you? Basically phonetics, sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics. I am pretty nervous about the open house, I've never done anything like that. And I will have 12 hours of jet lag... Edited January 30, 2014 by Robertpt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LinguisticMystic Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 My interviewers were concerned about my experience in the theoretical side. They said some phonetics students had problems taking these courses in the past. But I am pretty interested in the works of the two interviewers I talked to. I even got some new ideas after talking to them. Are you going to Stanford in March too? I guess we'll meet there! Yep, that's the same thing I was told! That's great--and I agree about their research being very exciting. Yes, we will definitely meet at Stanford now! I'm pretty excited--now that's it's official I have my invitation (just had to answer my phone this time). I look forward to meeting you and the others attending! goldheartmountaintop and petrouchka 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beccamayworth Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 Congrats to you guys going to Stanford!!! Sadly I didn't get an invitation... but it's alright. Good luck!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antecedent Posted January 30, 2014 Author Share Posted January 30, 2014 Congrats to you guys going to Stanford!!! Sadly I didn't get an invitation... but it's alright. Good luck!!! Me neither, don't worry! We've still got a lot of horses in the race! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robertpt Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 Today is the last day of the Snake year in China. Happy Chinese New Year to all of you! Wish you a successful Horse Year! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
longforit Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 haha Happy Horse Year! Wish all the luck to everyone! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoviariel Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 I hope that means I get a pony <3 goldheartmountaintop, Robertpt and linguotherobot 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KWIKKI Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 Does anyone know why University of Michigan is not sending rejections? I guess all the interview intives have been already sent out... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoviariel Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 (edited) According to the search results, rejections will come around early-mid Feb and acceptances mid-Feb-March. But there's a lot of variation here because some rejections don't come till way in March and the same for acceptance. I guess UMich is gonna send em when it wants to send em You know. I don't get these grad schools. How is a person being compared with 99 other people to get into a top 10? GRE and TOEFL is mostly cut-offs and boosts. LOR, SOP, and Sample are gold. But even then: a LOR will love you otherwise they wouldn't be writing you anyway, whatever goals you truly have will be in your SOP and you wouldn't be writing an SOP for a grad school application unless you got to tweak your SOP to fit into the faculty research interests, and heck a good analytical paper is a good analytical paper Edited January 30, 2014 by hoviariel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onzeheures30 Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 Hi everyone! Two quick questions: (1) Has anyone here been invited to the Open House event at Maryland? I am not attending (traveling from Russia is not an option for me at the moment, and the dept can cover my expenses only in part), but it would be nice to get some first hand information on how it went afterwards. (2) Has anyone been contacted by University of Chicago for an interview? I didn't even know they did interviews. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beccamayworth Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 Hi everyone! Two quick questions: (1) Has anyone here been invited to the Open House event at Maryland? I am not attending (traveling from Russia is not an option for me at the moment, and the dept can cover my expenses only in part), but it would be nice to get some first hand information on how it went afterwards. (2) Has anyone been contacted by University of Chicago for an interview? I didn't even know they did interviews. Hi! I'm going to the open house in Maryland, I'd be glad to send you any info. I wasn't contacted by Chicago, but on the search results shows that last year someone was accepted after an interview, so it's a good sign! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onzeheures30 Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 Hi! I'm going to the open house in Maryland, I'd be glad to send you any info. I wasn't contacted by Chicago, but on the search results shows that last year someone was accepted after an interview, so it's a good sign! Oh great, thanks a lot! P.S. Nice profile pic, btw. I've always loved de Saussure's moustache =) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beccamayworth Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 hahah thanks!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linguotherobot Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 Hi, guys, I was just thinking... Has anybody applied to UPenn? It seems that a lot of you work in phonology, and I'm quite puzzled about nobody wanting to work with Dr. Embick! Just that, a thought that came through my mind... Best for all! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoviariel Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 Well I applied to UPenn but I'm not a fan of phonology. I'm more of a comp ling kid with a thing for morpho-syntax+semantics Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robertpt Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 I am sure many people applied to UPenn, just they happened to be absent here (Or when UPenn begins to send out results, some future PennPhDs will show up!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KWIKKI Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 Georgetown anyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beccamayworth Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 Jan 31 guys... hopefully this forum we'll get busier next week, as we all hear good news linguotherobot 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vickysophie Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 Hi there, does anyone know whether you can defer phd positions for more than 1 year (let's say three)? I just received an email that i was admitted to my top priority program, but i had written that off completely because i thought my proposal was not interesting enough and my gre was too mediocre for the school. so while waiting for the replies from the US I accepted a 3-year phd position in switzerland which I am about to start on Monday. so, I'd be grateful for ANY advice and recommendations! Thank you!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inertia Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 Someone from Harvard just called to change the time of my interview. I somehow ended up asking if she could tell me how many other people will be interviewed, and she said "of course not". Now I feel terrible for asking, but was my question really that bad? I just want to understand if they are interviewing all the candidates that they are considering admitting or if there's something wrong with only my application. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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