soundofworm Posted February 25, 2015 Posted February 25, 2015 Anybody heard from Stanford? I heard there was already a shortlist for Stanford. Did they email you?
Gustav Posted February 25, 2015 Posted February 25, 2015 Speaking also as a fellow Chinese applicant to CompLit & East Asian programs, I feel that for English/CompLit PhDs ranking does not make that much difference (so long as they are top 50/70) if you intend to go back to China. The pool is smaller; not a lot of Chinese students are studying those for PhD in top 25 institutions anyway). And finding a job back home perhaps has more to do with your connections etc and then where you got you BA may become relevant. It does make a difference though if you want to find a job in US first. It seems much harder, perhaps impossible, to find a teaching position in a research institution with a PhD from a lower ranked university. It's another story with East Asian focuses I think. The prestige of your degree perhaps matters more if you want to go back to China, because we are supposed to compete with people equally if not better trained in China and abroad. So it really depends.
Katla Posted February 25, 2015 Posted February 25, 2015 Did anyone else apply to UCLA? And if you did, have you heard anything? I think if I haven't heard anything by the end of this week I'll email them, it'll have been a full three month since their deadline and nothing on the gc results board indicates that they've made their offers already. SubmarineReflection, I haven't heard anything but as someone posted about bench in the shortlist a while ago my impression is that people still in the running well here have heard by now.
soundofworm Posted February 25, 2015 Posted February 25, 2015 Speaking also as a fellow Chinese applicant to CompLit & East Asian programs, I feel that for English/CompLit PhDs ranking does not make that much difference (so long as they are top 50/70) if you intend to go back to China. The pool is smaller; not a lot of Chinese students are studying those for PhD in top 25 institutions anyway). And finding a job back home perhaps has more to do with your connections etc and then where you got you BA may become relevant. It does make a difference though if you want to find a job in US first. It seems much harder, perhaps impossible, to find a teaching position in a research institution with a PhD from a lower ranked university. It's another story with East Asian focuses I think. The prestige of your degree perhaps matters more if you want to go back to China, because we are supposed to compete with people equally if not better trained in China and abroad. So it really depends. Yeah, it makes me worry, but I checked the profile of teachers in Chinese key universities, most of them are not overseas trained. So guess studying abroad still has a competitive edge.
SubmarineReflection Posted February 25, 2015 Posted February 25, 2015 Did anyone else apply to UCLA? And if you did, have you heard anything? I think if I haven't heard anything by the end of this week I'll email them, it'll have been a full three month since their deadline and nothing on the gc results board indicates that they've made their offers already. SubmarineReflection, I haven't heard anything but as someone posted about bench in the shortlist a while ago my impression is that people still in the running well here have heard by now. Nah I'm assuming rejection at this point. I just think it's super interesting how much later rejections are sent out than acceptances.
Katla Posted February 25, 2015 Posted February 25, 2015 Nah I'm assuming rejection at this point. I just think it's super interesting how much later rejections are sent out than acceptances. Tell me about it. Considering that rejections tend to be completely generic and that they no doubt know who they're going to reject almost as soon as they know who they'll accept I really don't get why they're leaving us hanging for so long...
kadel Posted February 25, 2015 Posted February 25, 2015 Tell me about it. Considering that rejections tend to be completely generic and that they no doubt know who they're going to reject almost as soon as they know who they'll accept I really don't get why they're leaving us hanging for so long... I was wondering about this too and I had an idea. It could be in part about the whole issue of yields/waitlists. Some schools seem to prefer contacting their first choices before even letting their second choices know they're on the waitlist, apparently. In that scenario, it would make sense to wait to inform all the rejects at once since some of them may be bottom-of-the-waitlist but never make it that far when the acceptances decide to take the offers, so they might be trying to reduce uncertainty about offers. Even tho obviously we feel this is way more uncertainty because this is taking forever and I'm losing my mind lol.
HelloThisIsDog Posted February 25, 2015 Posted February 25, 2015 Just heard from Johns Hopkins... This is getting worse and worse, initially positive news and then a slew of rejections. Still waiting for my first accept.
soundofworm Posted February 25, 2015 Posted February 25, 2015 Just heard from Johns Hopkins... This is getting worse and worse, initially positive news and then a slew of rejections. Still waiting for my first accept. Thisisdog, do you have other schools to hear from?
iwontbelyeveit Posted February 26, 2015 Posted February 26, 2015 Rejected from Oregon. Still waiting to hear back from my interview....Good news soon please, Universe!
HelloThisIsDog Posted February 26, 2015 Posted February 26, 2015 Thisisdog, do you have other schools to hear from? Waiting on Yale and my waitlist at Harvard so far.
SubmarineReflection Posted February 26, 2015 Posted February 26, 2015 Rejected from UChicago. Not surprised because I went there for undergrad and my contact in the department kind of hinted at it.
soundofworm Posted February 26, 2015 Posted February 26, 2015 Waiting on Yale and my waitlist at Harvard so far. I saw a Yale acceptance two weeks ago. Perhaps I am still waiting for UIUC. It's right now the spring festival in China. Thus I don't quite feel the anxiety of waiting at all. Fingers crossed for Harvard waitlist.
Katla Posted February 26, 2015 Posted February 26, 2015 (edited) Waiting on Yale and my waitlist at Harvard so far.What happened to Cornell? Did you eventually heart back from them? Iwontbelyeveit I'll keep my fingers crossed for you. I haven't heard from my interview place either, they said late Feb, so hopefully I'll know by Saturday at least, even if I right now think it's a rejection Edited February 26, 2015 by Katla iwontbelyeveit 1
iwontbelyeveit Posted February 26, 2015 Posted February 26, 2015 Eeek!! I'm in at U of Alberta. My Thursday is made. Also, I found out right before my class...which made for a very frazzled lesson. I'm sure my students think I'm crazy now (as if they didn't already). 1Q84, lyonessrampant, quena and 1 other 4
HelloThisIsDog Posted February 26, 2015 Posted February 26, 2015 Katla, I just heard the final words this morning, including Yale. It turns out I didn't get accepted anywhere except a few unfunded MAs, which I cannot afford. I'm hoping for a miracle that the Harvard waitlist would work out, but otherwise it looks like moving on to different dreams for me. What happened to Cornell? Did you eventually heart back from them?
plznE3 Posted February 26, 2015 Posted February 26, 2015 Oof, sorry to hear, ThisIsDog. Just goes to show how strange this whole process is -- get waitlisted at Harvard but rejected everywhere else. Did they tell you what your chances are?
soundofworm Posted February 26, 2015 Posted February 26, 2015 Katla, I just heard the final words this morning, including Yale. It turns out I didn't get accepted anywhere except a few unfunded MAs, which I cannot afford. I'm hoping for a miracle that the Harvard waitlist would work out, but otherwise it looks like moving on to different dreams for me. ThisisDog, hugs. I didn't even get waitlisted by Harvard. There is still hope. Did you get an email to check website by Yale?
quena Posted February 26, 2015 Posted February 26, 2015 Congratulations iwontbelyeveit! And, Thisisdog, sorry to hear. Hope the waitlist works our for you.
Katla Posted February 26, 2015 Posted February 26, 2015 (edited) Huge congratulations iwontbelyeveit!!! What wonderful news!!! HelloThisIsDog I'm sorry about the bad news, but you never know about that waitlisting, which is very impressive anyway. Also, sorry to pry even further but did you email Cornell or did they email you? Edited February 26, 2015 by Katla
HelloThisIsDog Posted February 27, 2015 Posted February 27, 2015 Thank you everyone for the encouragement. I'm hoping for the best I phoned Cornell to ask, I never got an email. For Yale, I got an email this morning to check the website. Huge congratulations iwontbelyeveit!!! What wonderful news!!! HelloThisIsDog I'm sorry about the bad news, but you never know about that waitlisting, which is very impressive anyway. Also, sorry to pry even further but did you email Cornell or did they email you?
ManyYearsLater Posted February 27, 2015 Posted February 27, 2015 I don't know if this is just paranoid me being paranoid, but I have a feeling the reason my Cornell rejection hasn't arrived yet is because my last name begins with one of the last letters of the alphabet. Oh well, still waiting I guess... Should I give them a call tomorrow? Hey HelloThisIsDog, I also did not receive any news from Cornell and my last name begins with one of the first letters of the alphabet... Did you call them? I just send them an email inquiring about my application but the waiting is killing me!!!
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