Ecocentric Posted March 14, 2016 Posted March 14, 2016 Hey everyone, I have applied to the MA and PhD program at Columbia MESAAS and have not heard from them. Since there are a couple of PhD acceptances on the results page, and a PhD waitlist too, wondering if anyone could claim these results, along with respective sub-disciplines? Also, has anyone heard from the department, or have any information regarding the applications this year? More results should be coming out soon, opening this thread to better collate information.
ak91 Posted March 14, 2016 Posted March 14, 2016 Hi! Thank you so much for making this thread! I'm the one who posted as the waitlist. I had called the department office in the last week of February and the told me then that I was waitlisted. I emailed back regarding how many people might be on the waitlist, but the response was that there's not much else they can tell me other than they hope to get back to me with a decision by the end of the month. I work on South Asia by the way. Just wondering if anyone else in on the waitlist?? Hopefully, we'll all get our responses soon!
Ecocentric Posted March 15, 2016 Author Posted March 15, 2016 Hey! Thanks for writing back. I had written to the department about a week ago asking if a decision was made, but didn't hear back from them. Also, outside this forum, I had met a professor teaching in Kolkata who had told me that a student of theirs had gotten in. This was in late Feb. The student is hoping to work with Persian and Sanskrit (seems like a trend, especially with the sort of work that has been coming out, Audrey Truschke's comes to mind). I am hoping to work on Modern South Asia. Feel free to pm.
Hasan2223 Posted March 16, 2016 Posted March 16, 2016 Hey, thanks for starting this post. I got rejected from the PhD program a couple of weeks ago (unsurprising, considering I'm only now getting my bachelor's. In hindsight, I am not sure what I was thinking lol). However, I am still waiting to hear if they admit me for the MA. Hopefully, it will be good news I'm just curious -- does anyone here know if MESAAS is good for grad students with an interest in the modern Middle East?
Ecocentric Posted March 16, 2016 Author Posted March 16, 2016 4 hours ago, Hasan2223 said: Hey, thanks for starting this post. I got rejected from the PhD program a couple of weeks ago (unsurprising, considering I'm only now getting my bachelor's. In hindsight, I am not sure what I was thinking lol). However, I am still waiting to hear if they admit me for the MA. Hopefully, it will be good news I'm just curious -- does anyone here know if MESAAS is good for grad students with an interest in the modern Middle East? We should be hearing MA decisions by April beginning or sooner. Good luck! I really do not know much about modern Middle Eastern studies at MESAAS, but it looks like a formidable department for it from what I read on the forum.
cl323 Posted March 16, 2016 Posted March 16, 2016 18 hours ago, Ecocentric said: Hey! Thanks for writing back. I had written to the department about a week ago asking if a decision was made, but didn't hear back from them. Also, outside this forum, I had met a professor teaching in Kolkata who had told me that a student of theirs had gotten in. This was in late Feb. The student is hoping to work with Persian and Sanskrit (seems like a trend, especially with the sort of work that has been coming out, Audrey Truschke's comes to mind). I am hoping to work on Modern South Asia. Feel free to pm. Hey, I have been wait- listed and I am from kolkata. If it won't be such a bother, can you tell me the name of the university in which the prof is teaching. I am working on modern South Asia too. But, I would understand if you have reservations about sharing the info. Also, did anyone in this forum get acceptances elsewhere?
Ecocentric Posted March 16, 2016 Author Posted March 16, 2016 3 hours ago, cl323 said: Hey, I have been wait- listed and I am from kolkata. If it won't be such a bother, can you tell me the name of the university in which the prof is teaching. I am working on modern South Asia too. But, I would understand if you have reservations about sharing the info. Also, did anyone in this forum get acceptances elsewhere? I'd like to gently decline from naming the institution. As for other schools, zilch here.
Ecocentric Posted March 22, 2016 Author Posted March 22, 2016 10 hours ago, ad91 said: Has anyone heard anything back yet? Nope. Alls quiet. Still....
Mojdeh Posted March 25, 2016 Posted March 25, 2016 Hey guys, I just received an E-mail from Columbia to check their application portal. I am rejected from the PhD, but admitted to the Masters programme. Congratulations to those of you who were accepted. It's a great school and a lovely campus!
Ecocentric Posted March 26, 2016 Author Posted March 26, 2016 8 hours ago, Mojdeh said: Hey guys, I just received an E-mail from Columbia to check their application portal. I am rejected from the PhD, but admitted to the Masters programme. Congratulations to those of you who were accepted. It's a great school and a lovely campus! Same here. Congrats to all those who got in!
Hasan2223 Posted March 26, 2016 Posted March 26, 2016 14 hours ago, Mojdeh said: Hey guys, I just received an E-mail from Columbia to check their application portal. I am rejected from the PhD, but admitted to the Masters programme. Huh... I have not received any such email, and I just checked my online application. No updates whatsoever. I wonder if they are still looking at my application and mulling things over.
Ecocentric Posted March 28, 2016 Author Posted March 28, 2016 On 3/26/2016 at 6:09 PM, Hasan2223 said: Huh... I have not received any such email, and I just checked my online application. No updates whatsoever. I wonder if they are still looking at my application and mulling things over. Not hearing from the department still gives some hope, but I am assuming they sent a round of MA acceptances.
Ecocentric Posted March 28, 2016 Author Posted March 28, 2016 ad91, cl323, did you hear from the department too?
ak91 Posted March 28, 2016 Posted March 28, 2016 Hey everyone! congrats to those here that received MA and PhD offers thus far! I emailed the department early last week and am still on the wait list for PhD. They said they would let me know as soon as anything changed. Still in the waiting game :/ don't really know what my chances are of getting off the list at this point.
cl323 Posted March 29, 2016 Posted March 29, 2016 no word on admission yet. Really freaking me out. @ad91 are you pursuing modern south asia?
cl323 Posted March 29, 2016 Posted March 29, 2016 On 3/28/2016 at 8:48 PM, ad91 said: Hey everyone! congrats to those here that received MA and PhD offers thus far! I emailed the department early last week and am still on the wait list for PhD. They said they would let me know as soon as anything changed. Still in the waiting game :/ don't really know what my chances are of getting off the list at this point. are you working on modern south asia?
ak91 Posted March 29, 2016 Posted March 29, 2016 cl323: Yes I am! It's nice to hear from another person on the waitlist, I have no idea how many others there are.
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