lonestarflag Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 No Stanford. Oh well. Texans can't live in California anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astreaux Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 A (completely expected) Stanford rejection here. Kudos to them for getting those rejections out so quickly! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astreaux Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 (edited) To the person who was rejected from Stanford and wishes you'd told them you were African-American... When the sting of the rejection wears off, I hope you feel pretty crappy about that comment. You should feel crappy about it. Edited for grammar and anger. Edited February 20, 2014 by mygrotianmoment anxious2151, Orlien, Chamberlain25 and 10 others 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orlien Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 To the person who was rejected from Stanford and wishes you'd told them you were African-American... When the sting of the rejection wears off, I hope you feel pretty crappy about that comment. You should feel crappy about it. Edited for grammar and anger. Agreed. It's a pretty shitty thing to say packrat and wokeem 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
packrat Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 Welp, there is the Stanford bomb. My regrets to folks taking that hit... Sometimes I wish the folks on here were the ones writing the rejection emails... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjalpha Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 To the person who was rejected from Stanford and wishes you'd told them you were African-American... When the sting of the rejection wears off, I hope you feel pretty crappy about that comment. You should feel crappy about it. Edited for grammar and anger. I guess that we know of at least one case in which Stanford made a good call on a rejection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
didoo Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 ...Are we expecting more positive decisions to come out from MIT... or this is it? Anyone admitted in IR? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timeless90 Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 ...Are we expecting more positive decisions to come out from MIT... or this is it? Anyone admitted in IR? seems too early to have ended... I'm also surprised not many on this forum are paying attention to MIT. History tells us that POI can email, phone, or just take no action and let people find out once the snailmail arrives. I think the latter two are more likely for acceptances. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
packrat Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 (edited) I'm also surprised not many on this forum are paying attention to MIT. I think we are (A) hungover from the Stanford/Columbia rejections, and (B ) have given up all hope of trying to predict MIT's html-infused admissions notifications. Edited February 21, 2014 by packrat kal5, washington1985 and arual11186 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rchlm_618 Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 Is anyone else obsessed with reading CVs of successful academics? It's actually all I do with my life anymore... This waiting is killing me. I was really hoping I'd hear from at least one more school this week. (Political)ScienceRules and TheWalrus 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anxious2151 Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 Is anyone else obsessed with reading CVs of successful academics? It's actually all I do with my life anymore... This waiting is killing me. I was really hoping I'd hear from at least one more school this week. Yup. and also of grad students at schools I want to be in. And also young assistant profs that have moved on to great jobs. To the point where i can actually tell you who's been on who's dissertation committees...desperate stalkerish behavior Targy, TheWalrus and rchlm_618 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timeless90 Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 (edited) I think we are (A) hungover from the Stanford/Columbia rejections, and (B ) have given up all hope of trying to predict MIT's html-infused admissions notifications. haha yea nicely put, especially (B ) Edited February 21, 2014 by timeless90 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IRTheoryNerd Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 To the person who was rejected from Stanford and wishes you'd told them you were African-American... When the sting of the rejection wears off, I hope you feel pretty crappy about that comment. You should feel crappy about it. Edited for grammar and anger. Poorly worded on his/her part perhaps, but I don't think it's terribly inappropriate for someone to regret not having highlighted structural obstacles that a person may have had to work especially hard to overcome. That would not have guaranteed admission --- we all know that, including the person who wrote that. But it might have shed light on why that person seeks to study political science. Having omitted that from a personal statement could be a very fair mistake. I spent a lot of time contemplating whether to state in my SOP that I identify as a minority in terms of sexual orientation. In the end I decided to include it because I felt it was relevant to my desire to study invisible power. So in that sense, I can relate to whomever made the post in question. I doubt it did anything except perhaps tie together my SOP in a manner that showed readers that there is a reason that I seek to do what I seek to do. wwmiv, wokeem, silver_lining and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chamberlain25 Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 Poorly worded on his/her part perhaps, but I don't think it's terribly inappropriate for someone to regret not having highlighted structural obstacles that a person may have had to work especially hard to overcome. That would not have guaranteed admission --- we all know that, including the person who wrote that. But it might have shed light on why that person seeks to study political science. Having omitted that from a personal statement could be a very fair mistake. I spent a lot of time contemplating whether to state in my SOP that I identify as a minority in terms of sexual orientation. In the end I decided to include it because I felt it was relevant to my desire to study invisible power. So in that sense, I can relate to whomever made the post in question. I doubt it did anything except perhaps tie together my SOP in a manner that showed readers that there is a reason that I seek to do what I seek to do. Hmm, I read it as a non-minority making a glib comment that they should have identified as a minority in order to get whatever supposed benefit that would yield w/r/t admissions. Maybe I'm just jumping to the more cynical conclusion at this point. Your reading is certainly giving the poster the benefit of the doubt. IRTheoryNerd 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wokeem Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 Poorly worded on his/her part perhaps, but I don't think it's terribly inappropriate for someone to regret not having highlighted structural obstacles that a person may have had to work especially hard to overcome. That would not have guaranteed admission --- we all know that, including the person who wrote that. But it might have shed light on why that person seeks to study political science. Having omitted that from a personal statement could be a very fair mistake. I spent a lot of time contemplating whether to state in my SOP that I identify as a minority in terms of sexual orientation. In the end I decided to include it because I felt it was relevant to my desire to study invisible power. So in that sense, I can relate to whomever made the post in question. I doubt it did anything except perhaps tie together my SOP in a manner that showed readers that there is a reason that I seek to do what I seek to do. My sense is that most of the people who were frustrated by this comment were so because they assumed the author was white. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjalpha Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 Is anyone else obsessed with reading CVs of successful academics? It's actually all I do with my life anymore... This waiting is killing me. I was really hoping I'd hear from at least one more school this week. I have been doing this compulsively for the last two years. I share your disease. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinkerbell Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 I think we are (A) hungover from the Stanford/Columbia rejections, and (B ) have given up all hope of trying to predict MIT's html-infused admissions notifications. B indeed... or maybe I'm just starting to embrace uncertainty (not really) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
packrat Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 Regardless of the intentions, a basic rule of thum(per) we should all follow: anxious2151, ajaxp91, Poli92 and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IOGS Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 (edited) You do realize that you are just feeding the trolls on PSR, correct? Edit: grammar Edited February 21, 2014 by IOGS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ella Simmons Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 I am confused as to how I got into MIT and rejected from Northwestern on the same day. However, the Stanford rejection makes sense. Poor fit--my impression was that they are quant-heavy and trying to be economists. Having dropped out of an economics PhD, it is crystal clear that that's not what I want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajaxp91 Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 Is anyone else obsessed with reading CVs of successful academics? It's actually all I do with my life anymore... This waiting is killing me. I was really hoping I'd hear from at least one more school this week. Definitely. And trying to purchase a broad array of books to prepare, such as "Getting What You Came For": http://www.amazon.com/Getting-What-You-Came-For/dp/0374524777 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
packrat Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 I am confused as to how I got into MIT and rejected from Northwestern on the same day. There seem to be a lot of these paradoxes this year. I remember reading earlier in this thread about someone who was admitted to Stanford but rejected from Northwestern, and another who was admitted to Princeton, Stanford, Berkeley and rejected from a Big 10 school (not Michigan). Life is like a box of chocolates. Apparently so is PhD admissions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wwmiv Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 (edited) Poorly worded on his/her part perhaps, but I don't think it's terribly inappropriate for someone to regret not having highlighted structural obstacles that a person may have had to work especially hard to overcome. That would not have guaranteed admission --- we all know that, including the person who wrote that. But it might have shed light on why that person seeks to study political science. Having omitted that from a personal statement could be a very fair mistake. I spent a lot of time contemplating whether to state in my SOP that I identify as a minority in terms of sexual orientation. In the end I decided to include it because I felt it was relevant to my desire to study invisible power. So in that sense, I can relate to whomever made the post in question. I doubt it did anything except perhaps tie together my SOP in a manner that showed readers that there is a reason that I seek to do what I seek to do. As a gay man myself, I agree completely right down to the "as long as it is relevant to your research agenda" point. My sense is that most of the people who were frustrated by this comment were so because they assumed the author was white. Yeah... because the default is always white in our society... Edited February 21, 2014 by wwmiv wokeem and tpop 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rchlm_618 Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 Definitely. And trying to purchase a broad array of books to prepare, such as "Getting What You Came For": http://www.amazon.com/Getting-What-You-Came-For/dp/0374524777 Just made the executive decision to buy this with my tax return. astreaux 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
packrat Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 LOL to the person who listed their Stanford rejection with the comment, "I am the 99%" No sh**. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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