Fall 2016 Applicants

[emmabear]

38 minutes ago, anxietygirl said:

Quick question: I was accepted to a program a few weeks ago and I never heard from my POI. Is that weird? Should I email him? I'm leaning towards accepting this offer, but I'm not really sure what to do. 

Email him, I did it for one of mines, he responded very quickly 

[nom]

Do you guys think University of Chicago sent all of its admits?

[anxietygirl]

Thanks @emmabear! I'm emailing him now! 

[nom]

On 2/11/2016 at 6:11 PM, johnnycomelately said:

Email from DGS with funding and info for History Day, followed by email from POI. 

When is History Day? I think it may be time for me to face reality: rejection.

[nightfarmer]

2 hours ago, victoriana said:

 I am currently working up the courage to email my POI there.  At this point, I just want to know one way or another.

Yeah, and another day goes by without any more updates from Indiana... It's starting to feel a lot like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vwd9mNXu3Uc

[johnnycomelately]

27 minutes ago, nom said:

When is History Day? I think it may be time for me to face reality: rejection.

March 2-3. I am not sure whether they have a waitlist from which they pick students should an admitted student not accept their offer. Good luck!

[nom]

1 minute ago, johnnycomelately said:

March 2-3. I am not sure whether they have a waitlist from which they pick students should an admitted student not accept their offer. Good luck!

Thanks for the info.

[victoriana]

7 minutes ago, nightfarmer said:

Yeah, and another day goes by without any more updates from Indiana... It's starting to feel a lot like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vwd9mNXu3Uc

Yes, could not be more appropriate!  ?

[anthrostudentcyn]

For anyone who is wonder: NYU told me they are "still making admissions decisions". I kind of doubt that, as accepted students day is this weekend....

[Watershed]

9 minutes ago, anthrostudentcyn said:

For anyone who is wonder: NYU told me they are "still making admissions decisions". I kind of doubt that, as accepted students day is this weekend....

It's possible that the "accepted students day" is designed to woo competitive applicants that were applying to top-10 programs and that there are still decisions pending lots of different variables such as yield, funding, etc. 

[PhDudette]

The person waiting for CUNY: What subfield are you? 

Also, I am in the boat of waiting for Indiana! 

[RamyaS]

Hello all!

Congratulations to the admits!

I just got my Columbia reject today. Not that it was a surprise.  

[nevermind]

2 hours ago, RamyaS said:

Hello all!

Congratulations to the admits!

I just got my Columbia reject today. Not that it was a surprise.  

Just because it's not a surprise doesn't mean it's not a bummer. Sorry @RamyaS! :-(

 

[meo03]

4 hours ago, PhDudette said:

The person waiting for CUNY: What subfield are you? 

Also, I am in the boat of waiting for Indiana! 

Early American Republic. What about yourself?

[PhDudette]

If you are interested in that period, you may be in luck with them soon!  I am also that period. I did not go through an interview but received an informal offer, so no need to worry about the not-being-called-for-an-interview part. The other poster is correct, they seem to check in periodically with a candidate to see whether they think they will accept (presumably) to make sure they are maximizing the number of offers that they can make. Since they do this, they end up basically contacting students on a rolling basis through February, it seems. Good luck!!

[Neist]

A U Penn history and soc of science acceptance popped up. 

Congrats to whomever that was!  

[RamyaS]

11 hours ago, nevermind said:

Just because it's not a surprise doesn't mean it's not a bummer. Sorry @RamyaS! :-(

 

Thank you @nevermind! 

I am sure a lot of us feel this way, but I really just want to know all my results. Still waiting to hear from a bunch of schools. I will never get why schools take so long to inform the rejects, in today's email age. Just send out an email blast already  

[HinH]

1 hour ago, RamyaS said:

Thank you @nevermind! 

I am sure a lot of us feel this way, but I really just want to know all my results. Still waiting to hear from a bunch of schools. I will never get why schools take so long to inform the rejects, in today's email age. Just send out an email blast already  

Haha right?!?! Although there are some schools that I'm willing to bet that there are graduate committees haven't even met yet. I can't even imagine the nightmare of scheduling everyone, getting feedback from POI on applicants, etc. 

Edited February 18, 2016 by HinH
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[nightfarmer]

16 hours ago, PhDudette said:

The person waiting for CUNY: What subfield are you? 

Also, I am in the boat of waiting for Indiana! 

This Indiana thing is getting really dragged out...

[stillalivetui]

1 hour ago, nightfarmer said:

This Indiana thing is getting really dragged out...

According to a friend from IU, it seems that they've made their decisions.

Edited February 18, 2016 by stillalivetui

[victoriana]

1 hour ago, nightfarmer said:

This Indiana thing is getting really dragged out...

I just bit the bullet and sent them an email inquiring about the status of my application!  

[nightfarmer]

4 minutes ago, victoriana said:

I just bit the bullet and sent them an email inquiring about the status of my application!  

Please... please let me know their answer. Thx

I'm sending you karma telepathically as we speak.

[victoriana]

2 minutes ago, nightfarmer said:

Please... please let me know their answer. Thx

I'm sending you karma telepathically as we speak.

I definitely will.  Thanks for the telepathic karma!

[victoriana]

Hi nightfarmer and anyone else who is still anxiously waiting to hear back from Indiana University,

I just received an email from the DGS in response to the inquiry I sent earlier.  Apparently the department is very much still working on admissions and funding, and probably will be for "several weeks."  Happily for me, the DGS wrote that he expects IU will be able to offer me admission and multi-year financial aid(!), but to judge from his email, most of their decisions and especially funding details are not yet finalized.  In short, in this case no news may in fact be very good news and, on the other hand, we can anticipate up to a few more weeks of waiting.

[nightfarmer]

16 minutes ago, victoriana said:

Hi nightfarmer and anyone else who is still anxiously waiting to hear back from Indiana University,

I just received an email from the DGS in response to the inquiry I sent earlier.  Apparently the department is very much still working on admissions and funding, and probably will be for "several weeks."  Happily for me, the DGS wrote that he expects IU will be able to offer me admission and multi-year financial aid(!), but to judge from his email, most of their decisions and especially funding details are not yet finalized.  In short, in this case no news may in fact be very good news and, on the other hand, we can anticipate up to a few more weeks of waiting.

I got the same email! High-5 for North Carolinians in Indiana. I'm hoping and assuming they wouldn't tell us this unless they were all but certain about their ability to offer admission.