Jump to content

Recommended Posts

Posted

Looks like the person who posted specialized in Computational Linguistics. Thanks for clarifying... Guess that means there is still hope for the sociolinguists ;)

Posted

So are we now assuming that if you haven't been interviewed by NYU you'll likely be rejected?

Have any syntax/semantics-type people been interviewed? 3 weeks ago I seem to remember it was the phonology people and then they said other specialisations might interview later, but I'm starting to feel like all interviews must have taken place.

Posted
34 minutes ago, embeddedV2 said:

So are we now assuming that if you haven't been interviewed by NYU you'll likely be rejected?

Have any syntax/semantics-type people been interviewed? 3 weeks ago I seem to remember it was the phonology people and then they said other specialisations might interview later, but I'm starting to feel like all interviews must have taken place.

I'm in the same boat here, and assuming that I've been rejected.. and the same for many other schools (sigh)

Posted
7 minutes ago, synsem said:

I'm in the same boat here, and assuming that I've been rejected.. and the same for many other schools (sigh)

To be honest I would just like to know at this point, one way or the other, because I would really like to finalise travel arrangements. Though obviously I understand that the main factor driving the admissions process is not my obsession with flight prices :D

Posted
10 minutes ago, embeddedV2 said:

To be honest I would just like to know at this point, one way or the other, because I would really like to finalise travel arrangements. Though obviously I understand that the main factor driving the admissions process is not my obsession with flight prices :D

I'm facing a similar dilemma, too.. the more so because I'm flying from overseas. If I had more choices, I would like to have the chance to visit as many schools as possible while I'm in the US, but so far I've only got one Open House invite, and it seems like most of the other schools I applied to have already sent out their acceptances/open house invites. Oh well..

Posted
11 minutes ago, synsem said:

I'm facing a similar dilemma, too.. the more so because I'm flying from overseas. If I had more choices, I would like to have the chance to visit as many schools as possible while I'm in the US, but so far I've only got one Open House invite, and it seems like most of the other schools I applied to have already sent out their acceptances/open house invites. Oh well..

Same, I'm coming from overseas too... and feel bad about not being able to give a definite answer to a place about when I'm coming just because I'm waiting on others as well. But oh well, the must know how this works.

Whose Open House are you going to?

Posted
59 minutes ago, embeddedV2 said:

Same, I'm coming from overseas too... and feel bad about not being able to give a definite answer to a place about when I'm coming just because I'm waiting on others as well. But oh well, the must know how this works.

Whose Open House are you going to?

I am in the U.K. too. The flight ticket is kind of expensive and I am not sure how much the department can reimburse me.

Posted
29 minutes ago, historicallinguist said:

I am in the U.K. too. The flight ticket is kind of expensive and I am not sure how much the department can reimburse me.

Flying from Israel is also ridiculously expensive. I was lucky enough to get a really good deal on the ticket though! Funny thing is, the domestic ticket ended up costing me just as much! The department said they can partially reimburse me on the domestic ticket, but not the international. Oh well. I need to really cut down on spending for the rest of the semester. Too bad we don't even have good, cheap packaged ramen :P 

Posted
56 minutes ago, historicallinguist said:

I am in the U.K. too. The flight ticket is kind of expensive and I am not sure how much the department can reimburse me.

I'd say just ask them? For me, every school has been very open about how much they can guarantee and how much they might have left on top of that if the initial amount doesn't cover all my flights. :) 

Posted
3 hours ago, embeddedV2 said:

I'd say just ask them? For me, every school has been very open about how much they can guarantee and how much they might have left on top of that if the initial amount doesn't cover all my flights. :) 

I asked, and I am waiting to hear back. 

Posted
6 hours ago, embeddedV2 said:

To be honest I would just like to know at this point, one way or the other, because I would really like to finalise travel arrangements. Though obviously I understand that the main factor driving the admissions process is not my obsession with flight prices :D

Have you emailed the department to ask? I'm sure they'll be happy to give you an answer if that's for making your travel plan (especially from abroad).

Posted
8 hours ago, embeddedV2 said:

So are we now assuming that if you haven't been interviewed by NYU you'll likely be rejected?

Have any syntax/semantics-type people been interviewed? 3 weeks ago I seem to remember it was the phonology people and then they said other specialisations might interview later, but I'm starting to feel like all interviews must have taken place.

I'm in the syntax-semantics group. I asked the same thing some pages ago, and someone told me that NYU doesn't send official rejections right away... so I assumed the worst.

I'm also flying from overseas and I have a long and expensive journey from Argentina to the US (up to now, I'm traveling to visit only UChicago), so I'm waiting for some schools (UMass Amherst, UCSC, MIT, UPenn (they interviewed me)) because I want to visit as many schools as I can.

Posted
1 hour ago, historicallinguist said:

Got my second acceptance! I am excited!

Congrats!

Posted
16 hours ago, embeddedV2 said:

So are we now assuming that if you haven't been interviewed by NYU you'll likely be rejected?

Yes, our department made the final decisions a couple weeks ago and, to my knowledge, all accepted candidates have been contacted. As far as I know, the department itself does not send out the rejections; official rejections come from GSAS. Those who were interviewed but didn't make the final cut were likely unofficially informed about the rejection by their POIs, though.

(And yes, our department interviews all short-listed candidates, regardless of the subfield.) 

Posted
2 minutes ago, onzeheures30 said:

Yes, our department made the final decisions a couple weeks ago and, to my knowledge, all accepted candidates have been contacted. As far as I know, the department itself does not send out the rejections; official rejections come from GSAS. Those who were interviewed but didn't make the final cut were likely unofficially informed about the rejection by their POIs, though.

(And yes, our department interviews all short-listed candidates, regardless of the subfield.) 

I saw that you were interviewed by UMass. I saw from the results pages that UMass general does not conduct interview. May I ask whether the interview you got in the past was a standard interview with bunch of people in adcom or a personal interview with just your POIs?

Posted
5 minutes ago, onzeheures30 said:

Yes, our department made the final decisions a couple weeks ago and, to my knowledge, all accepted candidates have been contacted. As far as I know, the department itself does not send out the rejections; official rejections come from GSAS. Those who were interviewed but didn't make the final cut were likely unofficially informed about the rejection by their POIs, though.

(And yes, our department interviews all short-listed candidates, regardless of the subfield.) 

Exactly! This is what happened to me last year!

Posted
Just now, historicallinguist said:

I saw that you were interviewed by UMass. I saw from the results pages that UMass general does not conduct interview. May I ask whether the interview you got in the past was a standard interview with bunch of people in adcom or a personal interview with just your POIs?

I was interviewed by someone who was about to join the department back then; I didn't identify them as my POI in my SOP because I didn't know they were joining the department, but our interests aligned quite well, so they contacted me for an interview. As far as I know, UMass doesn't always conduct interviews, though, and my case was more of an exception.

Also, I don't know whether the 'standard' interview is 'with a bunch of people in adcom'. All my interviews were with one or two people from my subfield(s) (in most cases, those who I identified as my POIs in my SOPs).

Posted

Second acceptance as well! Pittsburgh! It feels nice to finally have some good news coming in :) 

Now if only the other two programs would show me some signs of life.....

Posted
1 hour ago, vonham said:

Second acceptance as well! Pittsburgh! It feels nice to finally have some good news coming in :) 

Now if only the other two programs would show me some signs of life.....

Congrats! I just got a rej from MIT. It is my second time applying to MIT. It looks like I won't be able to attend MIT for the rest of my life. Too bad. 

When I saw that message, I am kind of having a stroke, and just looking at the screen, not knowing what to say.

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. See our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use