Welcome to the 2016-17 cycle!

[internetofthings]

Has anyone heard from USC? It seems like one student got in but no one else?

[Bibica]

So is anyone going to claim Stanford this time? lol.

[sharklotte]

Anyone claiming the Stanford admit, or is it another troll like yesterday's posts?

[zapatos]

I just got the Stanford phone call! Having difficulty processing this. 

Edited February 16, 2017 by zapatos

[Bibica]

@zapatos congrats!!!

[sharklotte]

3 minutes ago, zapatos said:

I just got the Stanford phone call! Having difficulty processing this. 

Amazing! Congratulations!

[zapatos]

2 minutes ago, Bibica said:

@zapatos congrats!!!

 

Just now, sharklotte said:

Amazing! Congratulations!

Thank you!!!! Hope some phone calls come your way too! I'm processing this the only way know, by blasting Beyonce and calling my mom screaming.

[sharklotte]

5 minutes ago, zapatos said:

 

Thank you!!!! Hope some phone calls come your way too! I'm processing this the only way know, by blasting Beyonce and calling my mom screaming.

Mind sharing some of your stats? Particularly interested in your quant GRE.

[aroundandabout]

I came back to share my interview experience with eveybody else. Maybe it could be of help for those who are interviewing with ND! So the professor asked three questions, why ND, what field I am most interested in (including a possible minor field). The last question was most difficult. My POI asked me where I have been accepted to, here, I kind of panicked because I didnt know whether telling them the whole list was appropriate, but I blurted out the list. My POI asked how much possibiity there is for me to go to ND if I were accepted. As ND was one of my top choices in terms of fit, I said the possibility was high. The follow up question was what the deciding factor of choosing a school would be, so I replied that the visitation weeks would be most crucial since I belive what I feel being at a certain school with particular faculty would be most important. For those who receive a similar question (the last one) how would you reply without seeming rude or undecided where to go (as all the schools I have been admitted to are a great fit)?

[robusterror]

39 minutes ago, aroundandabout said:

I came back to share my interview experience with eveybody else. Maybe it could be of help for those who are interviewing with ND! So the professor asked three questions, why ND, what field I am most interested in (including a possible minor field). The last question was most difficult. My POI asked me where I have been accepted to, here, I kind of panicked because I didnt know whether telling them the whole list was appropriate, but I blurted out the list. My POI asked how much possibiity there is for me to go to ND if I were accepted. As ND was one of my top choices in terms of fit, I said the possibility was high. The follow up question was what the deciding factor of choosing a school would be, so I replied that the visitation weeks would be most crucial since I belive what I feel being at a certain school with particular faculty would be most important. For those who receive a similar question (the last one) how would you reply without seeming rude or undecided where to go (as all the schools I have been admitted to are a great fit)?

Thanks for sharing, super helpful to be prepared for such a question. I think you did the right thing. I would reply that I only applied to places that I believed were a great fit so the possibility remains high. I don't believe that seems rude or undecided, if you have offers from multiple institutions and they are of equal fit to you then naturally a visitation experience and final funding offer would help you make a final decision. You should be proud that you have multiple offers and be willing to find what will be best for you to achieve your objective. I think it would only be rude to hold up an offer if you did not have the intention to go at all. 

[aroundandabout]

7 minutes ago, robusterror said:

Thanks for sharing, super helpful to be prepared for such a question. I think you did the right thing. I would reply that I only applied to places that I believed were a great fit so the possibility remains high. I don't believe that seems rude or undecided, if you have offers from multiple institutions and they are of equal fit to you then naturally a visitation experience and final funding offer would help you make a final decision. You should be proud that you have multiple offers and be willing to find what will be best for you to achieve your objective. I think it would only be rude to hold up an offer if you did not have the intention to go at all. 

Thanks for the reply! Considering the fact that all programs I applied to were based on strong fit, and funding may be similar amongst programs, visitation would be most crucial for me to decide where to go. I wish you the best with your applications!!

[polisci13542]

Are there any more Stanford admits? Hopefully they're not done ;p

[oakeshott]

Claiming a Stanford admit! 

E-mail from POI came about 2 hours ago. I am currently outside the US, so no phone call. 

Edited February 16, 2017 by oakeshott

[Bibica]

@oakeshott Very happy news, congratulations! Comparative, right? Do you have a regional interest? I was going to apply to Stanford but I didn't see many Latin Americanists I'd want to work with.

[oakeshott]

Thanks @Bibica!

I'm a Latin Americanist too. I liked Stanford because my interests are very similar to BM's, and there is also a small but amazing group of non-Latin Americanists at Stanford who share my more general substantive interests. But I would definitely say that the overall fit at Stanford wasn't quite as good as it was at other places—I'm very (happily) surprised by this one!

 

 

Edited February 16, 2017 by oakeshott

[Bibica]

She's pretty great! I'm so pleased for you! You have some tough choices to make now, that's for sure. Are you going to be visiting at any point?

[StrengthandHonor]

Congrats, all of you who recently received acceptances, especially those coveted Stanford and Columbia acceptances!

Also, I would like to formally request that my college stop sending me emails until this cycle is over. I'm tired of getting psyched up every time I get an email notification only to read some pointless communiqué about a campus event.

[gc_user]

Claiming Stanford GSB :). This program isn't talked about much on this forum but just in case this is of interest to someone.

[gc_user]

Also Political Science (Stanford)

[Monody]

29 minutes ago, gc_user said:

Also Political Science (Stanford)

Did you receive a notification just now or already a few hours ago?

[gc_user]

31 minutes ago, Monody said:

Did you receive a notification just now or already a few hours ago?

I received it just then

[Monody]

8 minutes ago, gc_user said:

I received it just then

Do you think that they sent out all offers? After all, 9PM is quite late.

[Bibica]

7 minutes ago, Monody said:

Do you think that they sent out all offers? After all, 9PM is quite late.

I'd say wait until tomorrow to see if any rejections come out. Hopefully there are still some acceptances pending, but last year only one person claimed an acceptance so we don't have a lot of information to go on.

[oakeshott]

19 minutes ago, Monody said:

Do you think that they sent out all offers? After all, 9PM is quite late.

It seems like Stanford's notification process is quite decentralized, in the sense that all communication is coming from POIs. So I agree that there is a good chance that some admits won't hear until tomorrow, or possibly even the weekend. 

@Bibica, I'm going to try to attend all the visits. Maybe I'll see you at Princeton? 

Edited February 16, 2017 by oakeshott

[polscimajor]

Received a call from Stanford POI at around 5 PM (Pacific)!!!!!! I probably sounded really dumb over the phone; I'm still recovering from the shock lol

I was staring into a lot of rejections before this, so everyone keep your hopes up! You never know when good news is going to come...