letstalkshop Posted January 23, 2015 Posted January 23, 2015 Um I had a so-so GPA in undergrad (3.59) and a 165/162/5.5 GRE (V/Q/AW). No pubs, one article under review (which has since been rejected), no presentations. Good research experience and LORs, and an MA in soc. I also exchanged several emails with my POI before applying. Good luck to everyone. Strange for a discipline such as ours to make such significant decisions based on such poor metrics of talent and/or merit. ritsukot74 and asngh 2
IncomingPhD2017 Posted January 23, 2015 Posted January 23, 2015 Saw in the acceptance thread that all interviews have already been sent out for Rutgers. Â They may have sent out all the interviews, but the interview is optional for admission to Rutgers. At least, that's what it seems like from looking at their website, though of course I may have missed something! :/
Starbuck2015 Posted January 23, 2015 Posted January 23, 2015 They may have sent out all the interviews, but the interview is optional for admission to Rutgers. At least, that's what it seems like from looking at their website, though of course I may have missed something! :/ Â I contacted the graduate director today and she told me that all of the candidates who were still in the running were contacted for interviews. Unfortunately, I was not one of those people.
pizza666 Posted January 23, 2015 Posted January 23, 2015 hi yall so ive been lurking pretty hard on this forum as well as the results list.. are there any other davis ppl on here?? thx and good luck!
hillary511 Posted January 23, 2015 Posted January 23, 2015 Did anyone apply to the new PhD program at UMass Boston? I'm applying to the masters. It's my only masters I'm applying to and largely my back up.
ritsukot74 Posted January 23, 2015 Posted January 23, 2015 Anyone claiming that UCSB admit??? Did you call them or did they call you?
Count Chocula Posted January 23, 2015 Posted January 23, 2015 UCLA admits - did anyone receive a funding package with their decision? Also, was anyone else contacted by a member of the department to talk further after being admitted?Â
breaks0 Posted January 23, 2015 Posted January 23, 2015 Congrads UCLA admits especially, great school. I have no news, but ancitipate 1st rejections soon. My list so far of places applied, sociology: ucsb, ucb, ucsc, cuny, uw-m, suny-b, jhu, oregon, e asian studies: toronto, polisci:new school, polisci/anthro (secondary): lse, history: nyu and york in geography still to go. I didn't apply to enough big schools, but it's hella hard to find marxist departments in us and most foreign schools don't fund. I would've applied to minnesota and washington at least among big schools if I could do it over again. Just hoping I get a funded offer somewhere, or I'm really really screwed financially. Good luck everyone.
letstalkshop Posted January 23, 2015 Posted January 23, 2015 UCLA admits - did anyone receive a funding package with their decision? Also, was anyone else contacted by a member of the department to talk further after being admitted?  No funding package, the email I got said funding info would come early February. I got a phone call from my POI and an email from another faculty member.Â
DevinLiu Posted January 24, 2015 Posted January 24, 2015 I contacted the graduate director today and she told me that all of the candidates who were still in the running were contacted for interviews. Unfortunately, I was not one of those people. so sad, I was not one of those too.
Starbuck2015 Posted January 24, 2015 Posted January 24, 2015 so sad, I was not one of those too. Â Sorry to hear that. What other programs did you apply to?
sluggerotoole Posted January 24, 2015 Posted January 24, 2015 Do we know if all of the UCLA acceptances have gone out? Also, haven't seen too many acceptances for international students so far on the results search... Should I be worried?
460178985 Posted January 24, 2015 Posted January 24, 2015 Do we know if all of the UCLA acceptances have gone out? Also, haven't seen too many acceptances for international students so far on the results search... Should I be worried? i'm an international student and I haven't heard a word... I don't think any international student has got offer yet
anonymous_soc Posted January 25, 2015 Posted January 25, 2015 (edited) does anyone know what the motivation/reasoning behind not sending rejections out immediately after sending acceptances out would be? i remember reading on here that UT-Austin sent all admits out, but i haven't heard any official news about rejection/waitlist/etc. my online account says "under review" still. I don't believe the UT-Austin app status page isn't being updated. I received an offer of admission from them 9 days ago and it still says "under review" on mine as well. Edit: As far as the reasoning for not notifying rejections at the same time as acceptances, your guess is as good as mine. Edited January 25, 2015 by anonymous_soc
DevinLiu Posted January 25, 2015 Posted January 25, 2015 Sorry to hear that. What other programs did you apply to? Northwestern, UCLA, UCSD, and Vanderbilt. It seems harder to be admitted by these schools than Rutgers. sad.
letstalkshop Posted January 25, 2015 Posted January 25, 2015 does anyone know what the motivation/reasoning behind not sending rejections out immediately after sending acceptances out would be? i remember reading on here that UT-Austin sent all admits out, but i haven't heard any official news about rejection/waitlist/etc. my online account says "under review" still. Â I mean, if you think of schools that send out acceptances in batches, meaning that they don't know who all the accepted students are when they send out their first or second or third batch, it makes perfect sense that rejected students would find out last. I know it tends to feel like a kind of unnecessary torture, but assuming it takes extra work to notify more students, of course they are going to notify the accepted students first, and of course they are going to wait until they are absolutely sure who they are rejecting to notify students that they've been rejected. No program is intentionally trying to torture you! They take extra care to consider who they are going to admit, and send those out first for competitive purposes (and otherwise) and also take extra care to consider who they are going to reject. But in the end, it's much more important from the school's perspective to make sure the accepted students have notification first.
letstalkshop Posted January 25, 2015 Posted January 25, 2015 I mean, if you think of schools that send out acceptances in batches, meaning that they don't know who all the accepted students are when they send out their first or second or third batch, it makes perfect sense that rejected students would find out last. I know it tends to feel like a kind of unnecessary torture, but assuming it takes extra work to notify more students, of course they are going to notify the accepted students first, and of course they are going to wait until they are absolutely sure who they are rejecting to notify students that they've been rejected. No program is intentionally trying to torture you! They take extra care to consider who they are going to admit, and send those out first for competitive purposes (and otherwise) and also take extra care to consider who they are going to reject. But in the end, it's much more important from the school's perspective to make sure the accepted students have notification first. Â Also, very often the department sends notification of acceptance to the student before the official graduate school is notified (e.g. the graduate school of arts and sciences). Often the department leaves it to the GSAS to notify of rejection, because it's more work for them to individually notify of every rejection (which is often hundreds of applicants and would take hours and hours). For example, I heard from the UCLA sociology department long before I'll hear from the grad school of arts and sciences about my formal acceptance.
deltaqsquared Posted January 26, 2015 Posted January 26, 2015 I am assuming that, if they follow last year's track, University of Washington announcing admits this week?
ritsukot74 Posted January 26, 2015 Posted January 26, 2015 Has anyone heard from Umich? Â Not giving results until February!
ritsukot74 Posted January 26, 2015 Posted January 26, 2015 In at Princeton  u got in?? they already sent in their acceptances???Â
Mike45 Posted January 26, 2015 Posted January 26, 2015 I applied to Columbia and NYU Sociology. Waiting to hear back patiently. Do they do interviews anyone heard anything?
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