2017 Acceptances

[yanicus]

This thread is so full of good feelings - it makes me happy to read it while I wait. Congratulations to everyone - and best wishes to everyone as well.

It's like undergrad I think, where most people get some or many rejections, but do end up at good places where they can thrive - and clearly everyone here is very capable of thriving if we're applying to PhD programs.

Keep your heads up!

[victoriaaa]

Two for three on acceptances so far with offers from McGill and Carleton in Canada! Still waiting on the University of Alberta, but no one seems to have gotten anything yet according to the results search. Anyone get any word from them?

[Dr. Old Bill]

3 hours ago, therealyoko said:

Does anyone out there have an update from Vanderbilt? I know that one person was wait listed, but I'm afraid that I'll jinx myself if I reach out to the school.

No info for me yet.

But the real reason I'm posting is to say this again: don't reach out to a program just to check on your application status. Seriously. Just don't do it. They won't forget about you, and it's rare for any program to let you hang in uncertainty for too long (unless it's Penn State from two and three years ago), and if they DO it's usually an implied rejection. The last thing DGS's and other admissions folks want right now are more emails from panicky applicants.

This isn't a knock on you personally, @therealyoko -- more of a PSA / gentle reminder to all.

[Sunsy]

Just got accepted into Berkeley!!!!!! I have no words still...

Congratulations to everyone, and thanks being so supportive, positive, and all-around amazing! 

[Warelin]

20 minutes ago, Sunsy said:

Just got accepted into Berkeley!!!!!! I have no words still...

Congratulations to everyone, and thanks being so supportive, positive, and all-around amazing! 

Congrats

 

[loganondorf]

24 minutes ago, Sunsy said:

Just got accepted into Berkeley!!!!!! I have no words still...

Congratulations to everyone, and thanks being so supportive, positive, and all-around amazing! 

Congratulations! That's so awesome!!!

[Dr. Old Bill]

27 minutes ago, Sunsy said:

Just got accepted into Berkeley!!!!!! I have no words still...

Congratulations to everyone, and thanks being so supportive, positive, and all-around amazing! 

Way to go, Sunsy!

[imogenshakes]

36 minutes ago, Sunsy said:

Just got accepted into Berkeley!!!!!! I have no words still...

Congratulations to everyone, and thanks being so supportive, positive, and all-around amazing! 

Amazing news! Congratulations!

[Abyss21]

1 hour ago, victoriaaa said:

Two for three on acceptances so far with offers from McGill and Carleton in Canada! Still waiting on the University of Alberta, but no one seems to have gotten anything yet according to the results search. Anyone get any word from them?

Congrats on the McGill acceptance (as well as the Carleton one). I'm still waiting to hear from McGill and Alberta, so no word on Alberta yet.

Also, congrats @Sunsy on the Berkeley acceptance! Way to go! I'm hoping they'll still be sending out some acceptances tomorrow so that I get one too haha.

Edited February 8, 2017 by ThePomoHipster

[victoriaaa]

21 minutes ago, ThePomoHipster said:

Congrats on the McGill acceptance (as well as the Carleton one). I'm still waiting to hear from McGill and Alberta, so no word on Alberta yet.

Also, congrats @Sunsy on the Berkeley acceptance! Way to go! I'm hoping they'll still be sending out some acceptances tomorrow so that I get one too haha.

Thank you! It seems like McGill acceptances are going out pretty steadily, so I'm sure you'll hear back soon. Alberta is anyone's guess, apparently. Also, I see that you applied to UBC, which was where I did my undergrad. It's a gorgeous school, I highly recommend it. I'd go back if they had the field of study I wanted, but they don't, so.

[Abyss21]

48 minutes ago, victoriaaa said:

Thank you! It seems like McGill acceptances are going out pretty steadily, so I'm sure you'll hear back soon. Alberta is anyone's guess, apparently. Also, I see that you applied to UBC, which was where I did my undergrad. It's a gorgeous school, I highly recommend it. I'd go back if they had the field of study I wanted, but they don't, so.

Yeah, I'm just going to have to be patient with McGill and Alberta. I did contact the graduate program administrator from Alberta at the end of January because my application was showing up as incomplete even though it actually was complete (it turned out to be fine - just a technical error) and she told me that they should have the decision made within a couple of weeks. I'm assuming that means that we'll hear back pretty soon from Alberta (maybe next week?). My friend who goes there now heard back around mid-February last year so that's what'll probably happen this year. And thanks for letting me know about UBC. I've already heard great things from many people who have really gotten me excited about the prospect of going there. Fingers crossed! 

[victoriaaa]

45 minutes ago, ThePomoHipster said:

Yeah, I'm just going to have to be patient with McGill and Alberta. I did contact the graduate program administrator from Alberta at the end of January because my application was showing up as incomplete even though it actually was complete (it turned out to be fine - just a technical error) and she told me that they should have the decision made within a couple of weeks. I'm assuming that means that we'll hear back pretty soon from Alberta (maybe next week?). My friend who goes there now heard back around mid-February last year so that's what'll probably happen this year. And thanks for letting me know about UBC. I've already heard great things from many people who have really gotten me excited about the prospect of going there. Fingers crossed! 

It seems like Alberta acceptances for my program went out earlier in past years, like end of January, but nothing has been posted this year at all, so I assume nothing has gone out yet for whatever reason. That's weird about the technical glitch, good thing you got it sorted out! Which school are you leaning towards?

Yeah, I loved UBC, it was an amazing school. Gorgeous surrounding nature (UBC-V is on a penninsula in the ocean, so you've got ocean views on three sides with the mountains behind Vancouver also clearly visible), great weather if you don't mind rainy winters, Vancouver's a fantastic city with lots of stuff to do and friendly people, the professors were excellent for the most part, the academic faculties were well equipped, lots of academic and non-academic clubs to join, etc., I could go on forever. Montreal or Ottawa are going to be rough cities to reacclimatize myself to Canada in.

[thepriorwalter]

I am an F15 applicant, and I heard about my acceptance from Alberta on February 4th, so I imagine that their decisions are coming any day now! 

[ratanegra19]

8 hours ago, Wyatt's Terps said:

If I lived in Bellingham, every waking second would be spent in Henderson Books! One of my favorite places on earth, and that's not hyperbole...

Omg, totally on board with that--I go in all the time for "ten minutes" and come out ten hours later...

(that IS hyperbole, but not as much as you'd think :/ )

[victoriaaa]

10 minutes ago, thepriorwalter said:

I am an F15 applicant, and I heard about my acceptance from Alberta on February 4th, so I imagine that their decisions are coming any day now! 

That's why I'm sitting here kind of confused. All the acceptances to my program in past years were somewhere around January 25, while McGill's, which I've already heard from, weren't previously until March or April. I think I should probably just stop compulsively checking the results page.

[Abyss21]

2 hours ago, victoriaaa said:

It seems like Alberta acceptances for my program went out earlier in past years, like end of January, but nothing has been posted this year at all, so I assume nothing has gone out yet for whatever reason. That's weird about the technical glitch, good thing you got it sorted out! Which school are you leaning towards?

Yeah, I loved UBC, it was an amazing school. Gorgeous surrounding nature (UBC-V is on a penninsula in the ocean, so you've got ocean views on three sides with the mountains behind Vancouver also clearly visible), great weather if you don't mind rainy winters, Vancouver's a fantastic city with lots of stuff to do and friendly people, the professors were excellent for the most part, the academic faculties were well equipped, lots of academic and non-academic clubs to join, etc., I could go on forever. Montreal or Ottawa are going to be rough cities to reacclimatize myself to Canada in.

Yeah maybe Alberta's deadline has been moving later and later each year. I'm not sure yet which school I'm leaning towards. I've heard a lot of praise for both UBC and Alberta so the two of them seem pretty ideal. The weather in Vancouver is really swaying me in the direction of UBC though. How about you?

[victoriaaa]

34 minutes ago, ThePomoHipster said:

Yeah maybe Alberta's deadline has been moving later and later each year. I'm not sure yet which school I'm leaning towards. I've heard a lot of praise for both UBC and Alberta so the two of them seem pretty ideal. The weather in Vancouver is really swaying me in the direction of UBC though. How about you?

I'm pretty much decided on McGill, but I'll see if Alberta offers me some money. I'm from Ottawa, and I've been living abroad for the last 5 years, so I'd prefer Montreal since I'd be able to see my family more often, not have to fly back and forth, etc. Plus, Montreal just looks like a really fun city, and my POI at McGill sounds really great, so I'd like to work with her. Yeah, the Vancouver weather is hard to beat, you really won't find any better in Canada.

[Abyss21]

39 minutes ago, victoriaaa said:

I'm pretty much decided on McGill, but I'll see if Alberta offers me some money. I'm from Ottawa, and I've been living abroad for the last 5 years, so I'd prefer Montreal since I'd be able to see my family more often, not have to fly back and forth, etc. Plus, Montreal just looks like a really fun city, and my POI at McGill sounds really great, so I'd like to work with her. Yeah, the Vancouver weather is hard to beat, you really won't find any better in Canada.

From what I've heard, Alberta usually offers quite a bit of money, but I do understand the appeal of being closer to your family after living abroad for a while. I'm in the opposite situation where my family is from Toronto but I would really like to get out of there and go somewhere new because the furthest I've gone from them is in other Southern Ontario areas. Montreal's a great city and McGill is fantastic too!

[victoriaaa]

4 minutes ago, ThePomoHipster said:

From what I've heard, Alberta usually offers quite a bit of money, but I do understand the appeal of being closer to your family after living abroad for a while. I'm in the opposite situation where my family is from Toronto but I would really like to get out of there and go somewhere new because the furthest I've gone from them is in other Southern Ontario areas. Montreal's a great city and McGill is fantastic too!

I've heard that too, so I'm currently pros and consing the two. McGill is winning by a landslide, but money may ultimately trump if I get in and get funding (though the cost difference may disappear with the extra I'd have to pay to fly back and forth for holidays and such, and Alberta's a bit more expensive.) I understand the desire to get away, that's why I moved to Vancouver and then to Japan, but thanks to a major illness in my immediate family a few years ago, I feel like I'd like to be a bit closer for a while. I mean, I'd still be two hours away, but it's a lot closer than I've been for close to 10 years now and Montreal really is winning my heart, too.

[Sunsy]

Thanks for the kinds words everyone!! I've been thinking a lot about how this happened, and one thing I'm amazed by is how mysterious this whole process still is to me. For instance, I got rejected from UChicago and northwestern (probably Columbia too), but accepted at Berkeley and Hopkins. I still have quite a few schools to hear back from, obviously, but this cycle has just shown me how important fit is for these things, which is what people have been telling me all along.    

[KTF87]

McGill rejection came in!
long shot indeed, and congrats to everyone who got in!!!!! be proud!!

 

on another paranoid note, it is 13:00 Beirut Time, which means some DGS in New York or Baltimore is waking up...

NYU are awfully quiet!!!!!!!!

[Dr. Old Bill]

5 hours ago, Sunsy said:

Thanks for the kinds words everyone!! I've been thinking a lot about how this happened, and one thing I'm amazed by is how mysterious this whole process still is to me. For instance, I got rejected from UChicago and northwestern (probably Columbia too), but accepted at Berkeley and Hopkins. I still have quite a few schools to hear back from, obviously, but this cycle has just shown me how important fit is for these things, which is what people have been telling me all along.    

Yep! That's my take exactly so far. For my rejections and implied rejections, I took a final close look at the programs (and my SOPs) and realized that they weren't great fits...one of them was possibly a good fit, and another had one POI I'd love to work with, but none of them were institutionally strong in the subfield of my proposed interest. The place I got in, however, very much is... This is also why I have a bit of optimism over some of the decisions that are still to come. Four of what I consider to be my closest fit schools have yet to notify.

Someone asked me the other day what I meant by "fit," and I kind of mumbled and stuttered my way through a long, vague, and amorphous non-answer. It's certainly hard to define, even though you know it when you feel it...

[Caien]

Major congrats @Empyreal, @and,vaster and @Sunsy!!! 

[therealyoko]

Thanks @Wyatt's Terps! That's exactly what I needed to hear. 

[Abyss21]

8 hours ago, victoriaaa said:

I've heard that too, so I'm currently pros and consing the two. McGill is winning by a landslide, but money may ultimately trump if I get in and get funding (though the cost difference may disappear with the extra I'd have to pay to fly back and forth for holidays and such, and Alberta's a bit more expensive.) I understand the desire to get away, that's why I moved to Vancouver and then to Japan, but thanks to a major illness in my immediate family a few years ago, I feel like I'd like to be a bit closer for a while. I mean, I'd still be two hours away, but it's a lot closer than I've been for close to 10 years now and Montreal really is winning my heart, too.

Funding is important, but it is by no means the most important factor when it comes to PhD decisions. If you feel that you need to be closer to your family right now, then go with your heart (as cheesy as that sounds). I would still wait on Alberta though before making a final decision because you never know what'll happen!

5 hours ago, KTF87 said:

McGill rejection came in!
long shot indeed, and congrats to everyone who got in!!!!! be proud!!

 

on another paranoid note, it is 13:00 Beirut Time, which means some DGS in New York or Baltimore is waking up...

NYU are awfully quiet!!!!!!!!

Awww no! I still haven't heard from McGill, but I'm not sure if that's a good or bad thing considering they've been sending out rejections as well now. Maybe they're just doing something like one acceptance and one rejection per day. Anyways, good luck with the rest of them - especially NYU, which you seem to be very excited about! Hopefully you'll heard back from them soon!