Fall 2016 - Phd Thread

[hunter66]

13 minutes ago, liesandfish said:

USC decisions have been made but not notified. That all I know about that. Penn State is notorious for being late Feb. (family member attends there) so I wouldn't be shocked to hear later. 

 

Interesting about Louisville. Yesterday a well known faculty there (male, eccentric) said next week.  

Are you talking about Dr. Tewskburry? lol. I know for sure that they will not accept PhD students this year. 

[liesandfish]

7 minutes ago, cagataykoc said:

Are you talking about Dr. Tewskburry? lol. I know for sure that they will not accept PhD students this year. 

Lol. That obvious. Yup. Well good to know, sorry for the misinformation then yesterday to those who applied. I did not apply to Louisville, just know multiple people there/ who did apply. But I do not the chair, so I'm sure your info is more accurate!

[KnowVac]

@cagataykoc somewhere on this board I recall someone mentioning that American decisions should be out this coming week.

@liesandfish I'm sending you a message! 

 

[zephiwho]

12 hours ago, cagataykoc said:

Hello everybody!

I did not post anything here. But I am a constant lurker here although I did not join the conversation. I am still waiting and still anxious. Because I have not heard from any school yet except for USF where I got rejected, which sucked because it was the first rejection. But, they did not have the faculty working in my field of interest, comparative criminology and comp criminal justice. I kept my fingers crossed for American though. Wish me good luck!! Has anybody heard back from American or do you guys know when we should expect to hear from there?

I have bad news for everybody who applied to Louisville. Well, I go to Louisville. I heard last week from the department chair personally that they will not accept any PhD students until fall 2017. I applied to Louisville myself too. It was awful to hear that, because I really wanted to stay here. The faculty, the city, stipend and everything about here was decent. But I will have to go somewhere else  @knm86 @liesandfish

I am still waiting to hear from PennState, South Carolina, UTD, Sam Houston, American, Florida international. Has anybody heard anything from USC or Sam Houston or Pennstate?

Penn state has already sent out offers I believe

[liesandfish]

@cagataykoc oh and UTDs committed met on the 17th, no info yet (I applied and emailed to ask after it was much longer than they said I would hear). I assume we will hear this next week. 

[Partinrn]

17 hours ago, cagataykoc said:

Hello everybody!

I did not post anything here. But I am a constant lurker here although I did not join the conversation. I am still waiting and still anxious. Because I have not heard from any school yet except for USF where I got rejected, which sucked because it was the first rejection. But, they did not have the faculty working in my field of interest, comparative criminology and comp criminal justice. I kept my fingers crossed for American though. Wish me good luck!! Has anybody heard back from American or do you guys know when we should expect to hear from there?

I have bad news for everybody who applied to Louisville. Well, I go to Louisville. I heard last week from the department chair personally that they will not accept any PhD students until fall 2017. I applied to Louisville myself too. It was awful to hear that, because I really wanted to stay here. The faculty, the city, stipend and everything about here was decent. But I will have to go somewhere else  @knm86 @liesandfish

I am still waiting to hear from PennState, South Carolina, UTD, Sam Houston, American, Florida international. Has anybody heard anything from USC or Sam Houston or Pennstate?

I've heard from Sam Houston. They've invited 10 students down for the grad preview for this coming Thursday-Saturday. (Which I am extremely nervous about...but that's a different story). 

Edited February 20, 2016 by Partinrn

[phdincrim2016]

7 hours ago, zephiwho said:

Penn state has already sent out offers I believe

I'm pretty sure they did, too.

[ThesisTerror724]

On 2/19/2016 at 3:40 PM, gingin6789 said:

Hey all! Sorry to crash the thread, but I was wondering: Those of you going to the Delaware trip on Feb 22-23, I wonder, since Soc and Crim are one department at Delaware, if we'll have the same itinerary, etc. 

If so ... I'll see you guys there! I'm very excited! looking forward to meeting those of you who will be there!

I'll be there, feel free to PM regarding the itinerary!

[Cedodge]

Well, I heard from UMSL. I was waitlisted, which I honestly expected. I responded back, requesting the removal of my application from consideration since I already have 2 offers. It doesn't seem fair or polite to have my name on a list for a position I do not need. Just waiting on ASU and Leeds now

[liesandfish]

24 minutes ago, Cedodge said:

Well, I heard from UMSL. I was waitlisted, which I honestly expected. I responded back, requesting the removal of my application from consideration since I already have 2 offers. It doesn't seem fair or polite to have my name on a list for a position I do not need. Just waiting on ASU and Leeds now

Good to know at least!  I agree, I will be turning down my acceptances and funding at the schools I did not choose to attend by the end of the week. Hopefully this helps someone else! 

[KnowVac]

Finally got my rejection from Albany today... Just good to finally know! Haha

Tomorrow will be two weeks since I heard from Delaware. I was told they weren't sure how many funded spots they have yet and that they would contact me with more information soon. I sent and email back expressing my interest in the program, but I am wondering if I should send another email since it has been a few weeks or if that would be annoying? 

If I should send an email what should I say? Just reaffirm my interest in the program and check to see if any new information is available? 

[1428 Elm St]

@KnowVac  I am sorry to hear about Albany...  I definitely think that it is more than OK to send another e-mail to Delaware at this point.  I think I remember reading an older post from @brokenwindow about getting an offer last minute in April... Something about Delaware waiting to see how much someone really wants to go there.  Also based on your earlier posts... It sounds like you are right at the top of their wait-list... so I would definitely reaffirm how much you want to go there.  

[1428 Elm St]

@brokenwindow  I don't know if you would know this or not... but do you know any other information about the JJay in-person interviews/March campus visit?  Advice wise?

[1428 Elm St]

Also.. I just want to put this out there... I know that the whole Ph D application process is very stressful... and I almost though that the hardest part was going to be just getting all of the materials for the applications and the actual applications in.. but (at least for me) this waiting process seems to be even harder.  And I am definitely starting to feel the stress... But maybe that is the whole point... it has to be hard... because if it wasn't then everyone would do it.

So I just want to say.. no matter what.. don't give up..

We obviously all kick ass in our own ways... otherwise we wouldn't have gotten this far.  

[Cedodge]

3 hours ago, 1428 Elm St said:

Also.. I just want to put this out there... I know that the whole Ph D application process is very stressful... and I almost though that the hardest part was going to be just getting all of the materials for the applications and the actual applications in.. but (at least for me) this waiting process seems to be even harder.  And I am definitely starting to feel the stress... But maybe that is the whole point... it has to be hard... because if it wasn't then everyone would do it.

So I just want to say.. no matter what.. don't give up..

We obviously all kick ass in our own ways... otherwise we wouldn't have gotten this far.  

Thanks. My stress level just spiked a minute ago because I saw I had an email from ASU.

It was a generic "Apply to ASU" advertisement email from their graduate admissions office. 

...back to working on my thesis...

[KnowVac]

@Cedodge why do they do that?! I've gotten an email from American about their updated website 3 times now! Lol

[KnowVac]

@1428 Elm St thanks for the advice. At this point I am just analyzing everything I do and say to the grad director and I don't want to come off as impatient 

[liesandfish]

UTDallas portal shows a status change for me. No official acceptance or rejection but says my app had gone to final review with the University's graduate school for admission and enrollment. Thinking this is a good sign. 

Hope that helps anyone who applied there to see that!

 

One app left for me, though my decision has been made, I will be happy to have all the unknowns done and officially make my decision! 

Edited February 24, 2016 by liesandfish

[hunter66]

1 hour ago, liesandfish said:

UTDallas portal shows a status change for me. No official acceptance or rejection but says my app had gone to final review with the University's graduate school for admission and enrollment. Thinking this is a good sign. 

Hope that helps anyone who applied there to see that!

 

One app left for me, though my decision has been made, I will be happy to have all the unknowns done and officially make my decision! 

It saw the same thing when I checked mine. Why do you think that is a good sign? lol I mean hopefully it is 

 

[liesandfish]

2 minutes ago, cagataykoc said:

It saw the same thing when I checked mine. Why do you think that is a good sign? lol I mean hopefully it is 

 

Because typically if it's a rejection they wouldn't send it up to the graduate office for approval on their decision, they would just reject it. I know the committee met on the 17th, so I'm hoping they just choose to wait for approval from the graduate school. Some places send out informal letters of acceptance while they wait for this approval-but the fact that ours say they are going for final review at the graduate school should indicate that they have been approved by the departmental committee.  I hope that made sense, haha. (I could be wrong but this is how all my other ones have worked) 

[KnowVac]

@liesandfish congratulations! That is so awesome, it must be a relief to be done with this step! 

[hunter66]

1 hour ago, liesandfish said:

Because typically if it's a rejection they wouldn't send it up to the graduate office for approval on their decision, they would just reject it. I know the committee met on the 17th, so I'm hoping they just choose to wait for approval from the graduate school. Some places send out informal letters of acceptance while they wait for this approval-but the fact that ours say they are going for final review at the graduate school should indicate that they have been approved by the departmental committee.  I hope that made sense, haha. (I could be wrong but this is how all my other ones have worked) 

I really hope you are right. Because I love Dallas. But I still think that it is for everyone who has applied to the program. I wish they d prove me wrong

 

 

Edited February 24, 2016 by cagataykoc

[liesandfish]

@cagataykoc just got an email from UTDallas, you may want to check your email. 

Accepted, with full funding. 

[ThesisTerror724]

@liesandfish Congrats! 

[liesandfish]

@ThesisTerror724 thank you.