Fall 2014 applications

[whatever_]

Hi everyone,

 

I guess somehow it would be stupid for me to ask that now. Yet I'll give it a try:

1) has anyone received any letters (including rejection) from UPenn yet?

2) has anyone received explicit rejection letters from UChicago?

 

And a biiiiiiiiiig silly question: how to check your application status for UPenn, UChicago, and Rutgers?

 

Apologies for the questions seeming naive (with "i trema")!

Edited February 16, 2014 by whatever_

[LinguisticMystic]

Hi whatever_, You can check your application status for UChicago by logging back into the application, opening it up, and if there's anything new you'll see it under "status update." I have a link to an official acceptance letter + funding offer there which I was notified of via email about a week after the unofficial acceptance from the department. That's all I know--don't know anything about other decisions they've made.

[whatever_]

Thanks LinguisticMystic! I think the likelihood of my application being rejected is high, as there are no updates in it whatsoever. On a more neutral note, however, they might not have read/discussed it yet. Still, I looked up the 2013 data -- they could send out rejection letters even in March. Don't know what to do, maybe try to learn to knit!

Edited February 16, 2014 by whatever_

[linguotherobot]

I guess many universities don't send rejections until they actually know that the students they had made an offer to accepeted... It seems they prefer to wait until then before sending out rejections, but I would probably guess that everybody that has not received an invitation to interview/open house/acceptance from a university by now, is probably rejected, or wait-listed in the most optimistic case...

[LinguisticMystic]

Yeah, my two pending applications have sent out at least one or more acceptances according to GC results, but I've heard nothing. It's tense! Good luck!

[antecedent]

Yeah, one of my applications that is pending sent out a acceptance on the board last week but I haven't heard anything yet. Fingers crossed!

[umniah2013]

Could you let me know as well??? I also emailed to the office. I will also let you know when I get reply.

Sure, I will

[umniah2013]

I just checked my Application Summary on CUNY and the whole " Congratulations on  being admitted to.....etc" is gone! 

 

I might be a bit paranoid ,but seriously is this normal? 

[SLAhopeful]

Hi everyone,

 

I guess somehow it would be stupid for me to ask that now. Yet I'll give it a try:

1) has anyone received any letters (including rejection) from UPenn yet?

2) has anyone received explicit rejection letters from UChicago?

 

 

I don't think UPenn has sent any letters yet because the GSE open house was just last weekend (or maybe this coming weekend, I'm not 100% sure). They say that if you weren't invited, then your chances of acceptance are low. Oh well.

[yeonju123]

I just checked my Application Summary on CUNY and the whole " Congratulations on  being admitted to.....etc" is gone! 

 

I might be a bit paranoid ,but seriously is this normal? 

 

The remark still stays on my application status page... didn't get any email yet?

[umniah2013]

The remark still stays on my application status page... didn't get any email yet?

Thank you for notifying me. Now I know something must have happened. 

 

I saw the " admission message" late on Friday, and today is the President's day so I'm guessing that's why didn't get an email, unless adcomm sends emails on weekends..Do they?? 

[KWIKKI]

Anyone heard anything from University of South Carolina?

[km2304]

Hey everyone, 

 

so, apparently, there is an Open House event at UMD this week. I did not get an invitation (I haven't heard anything from them yet). Does that automatically mean that I am rejected? 

[onzeheures30]

Hey everyone, 

 

so, apparently, there is an Open House event at UMD this week. I did not get an invitation (I haven't heard anything from them yet). Does that automatically mean that I am rejected? 

Yes, they have an Open House on Feb 20-21. This is an event for short-listed candidates, so, if you didn't get an invitation, this most likely means that you aren't in the short-list, sorry.

[km2304]

Yes, they have an Open House on Feb 20-21. This is an event for short-listed candidates, so, if you didn't get an invitation, this most likely means that you aren't in the short-list, sorry.

 

That's too bad. But thanks for letting me know. Would it make sense to e-mail them then? If I know for sure that I have been rejected by UMD, I will accept the offer that I already got.. 

[hoviariel]

Michigan rejections are out.

[KWIKKI]

I just got mine! Expected)

[Robertpt]

Flying to America tomorrow for the open houses! Will be a crazy trip! Wish me luck!

 

And good luck to everyone!

[c2205l]

Hello all,

 

Quick question: Does UChicago have an open house for accepted students? Are all their rejections/acceptances out, does anyone know?

 

Skimming through this thread it seems as if schools are staggering their acceptances/rejections. Does anyone know why this is? Are they waiting for admitted students to accept or reject their offers?

Edited February 18, 2014 by c2205l

[LinguisticMystic]

There's an open house for UChicago the first week of April for admitted students.

[hoviariel]

Question, if I'm applying to university X to be in the Ling PhD program, hoping to get into a subfield Y, am I competing against everyone applying to the X Ling program OR just against the people who are applying for the Y field in the X ling program?

[umniah2013]

I just called and I'm admitted...They said that sometimes it happens with the website not showing "being admitted message" after accepting the offer. They also invited me to Open House so.. Yay! 

 

They also said that sometimes they send EITHER email or letter. Apparently I'll be receiving a letter that's why it's gonna take a while for me to get it. 

 

I'm so relieved! 

[umniah2013]

Question, if I'm applying to university X to be in the Ling PhD program, hoping to get into a subfield Y, am I competing against everyone applying to the X Ling program OR just against the people who are applying for the Y field in the X ling program?

 

I think the sub-field is what matters the most. If a professor specializes in historical linguistics , he will decide to choose among those with the same interest. 

[linguotherobot]

Question, if I'm applying to university X to be in the Ling PhD program, hoping to get into a subfield Y, am I competing against everyone applying to the X Ling program OR just against the people who are applying for the Y field in the X ling program?

 

As far as I know, first you compete into your subfield. Each professor goes through the applications that are relevant to him (if you mentioned him/her in your SOP, if you contact him/her beforehand, etc.). Then, the professor comes up with probably 3/4 potential students for his lab... Then, when the adcom meets, you compete against everyone. Firstly, they chose which students are being admitted on the basis of which professor can advise new students. For instance, if they have only 5 PhD funded positions, and there are 10 subfields/labs, and last year, Dr. X from subfield Y got a new student, he's probably not getting one this year... 

Of course that all of this depends on another factors (for instance, if Dr.X won the NSF grant Z last year, and Dr.Y has only funds from the university to fund his research, probably Dr. X gets a student every year, while Dr. Y probably has to wait more than 1 year). And then, comes diversity, citizenship and so on...

[fuzzylogician]

Question, if I'm applying to university X to be in the Ling PhD program, hoping to get into a subfield Y, am I competing against everyone applying to the X Ling program OR just against the people who are applying for the Y field in the X ling program?

 

It really depends on the department. At MIT, for example (and some other schools where I know something about the admissions process) the admissions process is holistic and they try to admit the students who they think are the most promising in each cycle, so some cohorts can end up with no people from a certain sub-field at all (my year has no phonologists or phoneticians, for example). In other schools, you need to have a designated advisor, or at least someone who expresses interest to work with you, so there is a better chance of diversity and you are at some level competing with other students who each particular POI might want to sponsor. Then, as others have mentioned, some professors might have specific grants that they can fund students on, but at least at the schools that I have any knowledge about (which is some, but certainly not all of them) the funding structure is not such that students are directly funded by PIs but instead by the department, and that means that the money that faculty bring in through grants goes into some general departmental funding pool--so while the person who brought in the money might have some power to make choices about who they would like to fund, it's not completely up to them. Considerations such as diversity, citizenship, etc. might also come up, more so in public schools and much less so in private schools, since private schools aren't obligated to any designated guidelines and the funding of domestic vs. international students is just not an issue.