Stanford GSE

[greenteagrad]

Greenteagrad, glad I'm not the only one tracking admits and comparing them to previous years' notices, timing, etc! I have pretty much given up hope. Ah well!

Haha I had hope for today, but I guess that's over with. I guess we can wait for official rejection....? On to the next best thing!

 

and just saw someone from ICE getting an email! Congrats!

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I saw that some posted on the results asking if any applicants still haven't heard anything about MA programs. I haven't heard anything from admissions since being deferred from the SHIPS to POLS. No updates on the application page either. Trying to be patient, but assuming I am rejected at this point.

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I called the admissions office. The woman I spoke to said their goal is to have all masters results out by tomorrow. If you don't hear tomorrow then you should call.

[EdNeuroGrl]

Hi all,

 

Congrats to those who have been accepted!

 

I am new to the forum so if there is a better place for me to post this, please let me know.

 

I am looking to apply next year to the Stanford GSE DAPS program and I am needing some sort of way to check my reality-o-meter before getting too emotionally invested. I need real-honest and brutal feedback.

 

I applied to two rounds of PhD programs right out of a Bachelor's degree some research experience acceptable-ish GPA (3.36 - had some early trouble) and good GRE's (Verbal Reasoning: 161 - 87th Percentile, Quantitative Reasoning: 157 - 68th Percentile, Analytical Writing: 5.5 - 89th Percentile) great letters of recommendation, not sure how to objectively assess my personal statement... Got rejected from all with not even a single call or interview or waitlist or anything... Actually one college finally got me the rejection letter in October of the Fall that I applied for (so rude).

 

I took 2 years off and worked to see if that was an acceptable life-choice for me, because man it was pretty awful to have my dreams crushed 2 years in a row. I was out of money and options for academia for the time being... So, I was very good at my job but I just got so bored and seem to desperately need to be engaged in full-time intellectual pursuit for my own good... so I got into a Master's program and I'm rocking it.

 

Anyway, now (applying for Fall 2016 admission) I will be most of the way through a Master's in Educational Psychology with a minor in Statistics. I won't have any pubs at the time of application but I should have at least 3 submitted or in revisions. I will have 1 observational project completed but not sure if the manuscript/results will be publishable without a follow up study to validate the measurement tool, 1 experimental research project run and manuscript being written up (results are promising so far), and another that I will be 2nd author on that I hope will have enough results on to be publishable (the results aren't too promising but may require more data points yet to see a pattern), and I will have 4 to 6 poster presentations by application time too. 

 

I have a professor I very much want to work with, his current and previous research aligns almost exactly with what I want to be doing. I have exchanged 3 or 4 emails with him, but I'm having trouble knowing if he's too busy or not really interested or what. He is new (Fall 2014) to Stanford and the DAPS program and has one post-doc and no grad students thus far. 

 

I need some really honest feedback about my chances, I figure with some of you being accepted you might let me know how I compare and if there's much I can do to up my chances, or if I need to look for other options.

 

Thank you so much for any help or direction!

[AECASH]

What are MA admit thinking in terms of housing? On campus, off campus? Looking for advice on how to cut costs in this area, though it looks like both are comparable.