rafnow Posted January 15, 2008 Posted January 15, 2008 peppermint- I was a PhD student at Emory seven years ago; now I'm going through the process again (and applying to Emory again - sigh). Obviously each division handles things differently, but my division (religion) sends out invitations in late January for their top candidates to visit campus in late February. In some of the "sub-areas" in religion, this means you are accepted -- i.e., they only invite people for whom they have a slot. For other "sub-areas", they invite more people than they have openings and let them fight it out. Long answer to your question; maybe it helps.
farty14 Posted January 15, 2008 Author Posted January 15, 2008 Peppermint: I noticed that, too. I think I saw some dates as early as January 22, but I'm not sure. I think most were late-January--so, unfortunately, it looks like we'll have to wait another few weeks!
peppermint Posted January 16, 2008 Posted January 16, 2008 Thanks for the replies! I just received an e-mail today from the department confirming that my application is complete. So there go any fantasies of hearing this week (or probably next). At least they're reviewing applications this early. One of my other programs isn't starting the process until late February.
farty14 Posted January 16, 2008 Author Posted January 16, 2008 Likewise, Peppermint. Good luck and hopefully we'll hear sooner rather than later.
crazypoligirl Posted January 23, 2008 Posted January 23, 2008 Hi All, So I was on yuster and I saw that someone was informed of their acceptance into UC-Davis's political science program. Ummm... well... now I am jumping out of my skin! Has anybody else heard anything? It is freaking driving me nuts ALREADY!
flyingwalrus Posted January 23, 2008 Posted January 23, 2008 Hi All, So I was on yuster and I saw that someone was informed of their acceptance into UC-Davis's political science program. Ummm... well... now I am jumping out of my skin! Has anybody else heard anything? It is freaking driving me nuts ALREADY! I've not heard anything yet and don't really expect to until early February. I know someone on one of the Livejournal forums got in at American, but that was for a masters program. Where have you applied besides Texas?
crazypoligirl Posted January 23, 2008 Posted January 23, 2008 I applied to Columbia, Yale, UPenn, Brown, UChicago, Boston University, Stony Brook, American, WUSTL, New School, and MIT. My top choice would either be Columbia or Brown, but hey, I am probably on the same page with a couple hundred other people! Sorry if you have posted elsewhere, but what about you?
flyingwalrus Posted January 23, 2008 Posted January 23, 2008 crazypoligirl said: I applied to Columbia, Yale, UPenn, Brown, UChicago, Boston University, Stony Brook, American, WUSTL, New School, and MIT. My top choice would either be Columbia or Brown, but hey, I am probably on the same page with a couple hundred other people! Sorry if you have posted elsewhere, but what about you? Stanford, Berkeley, San Diego, Texas, TAMU, Wisconsin, Ohio State, Illinois, Duke, and WUSTL. I thought about applying to MIT but decided against it because I'm no fan of cold weather (despite my application to Wisconsin). Now that Ansolabehere has taken a job at Harvard, I suppose I saved myself the cost of the application because he was the primary reason I'd thought about applying there.
crazypoligirl Posted January 23, 2008 Posted January 23, 2008 Are you serious?!? He, along with Nobles, was one of the reasons I applied! Man! I mean, what's done is done, but 70 bucks...... oh well.......
JordanJames Posted January 24, 2008 Posted January 24, 2008 Brandeis Illinois Indiana Harvard Georgetown Northwestern UC - Riverside WashU Field: Comparative Politics (Middle East) Interests: Islamic law, panarbist socialism and democratization (also comparative corporate governance and comparative constitutional law)
UndraftedFreeAgent Posted January 27, 2008 Posted January 27, 2008 It's interesting how many of us overlap and not only with "reach/ideal" schools. If all goes well, many of us should be meeting at one place or another. I'm interested in matching faces to some of these comments hahaha.
polisciapp Posted January 27, 2008 Posted January 27, 2008 Yes. I bet some of us will end up at the same place. The waiting sucks!
flyingwalrus Posted January 27, 2008 Posted January 27, 2008 Yes. I bet some of us will end up at the same place. The waiting sucks! Where have you applied and what are your fields?
rising_star Posted January 28, 2008 Posted January 28, 2008 I am actually posting under a different moniker b/c thegradecafe wouldn't let me log on. I am farty14. I had some trouble logging in yesterday too. I deleted the cookies, restarted my browser, and all was well. Try it maybe?
polisciapp Posted January 28, 2008 Posted January 28, 2008 Someone posted a rejection from Ohio State (not me, I didn't apply there) on the results page. Looks like decisions are starting to role out!
UndraftedFreeAgent Posted January 29, 2008 Posted January 29, 2008 Someone posted a rejection to Ohio State (not me, I didn't apply there) on the results page. Looks like decisions are starting to role out! They just dumped me too. Oh well. Even though they're a top program, they weren't one of my favorites.
flyingwalrus Posted January 29, 2008 Posted January 29, 2008 They just dumped me too. Oh well. Even though they're a top program, they weren't one of my favorites. I'm sorry to hear that, dude. Out of curiosity, did they send you an e-mail or did you just see it on the website after randomly checking?
polisciapp Posted January 29, 2008 Posted January 29, 2008 Yet another result has been posted: Boulder (and I didn't apply there either). Every day seems longer and longer. . .
UndraftedFreeAgent Posted January 29, 2008 Posted January 29, 2008 I saw that someone else (the earliest poster on the results page) posted a rejection, so I checked the website. The page I checked said something ominous like "application not approved". I'm not particularly surprised, as they're a really hot program and it wasn't really the best fit. With some rankings placing them in the top 5, it really epitomized the term "reach school", I just wasn't expecting to get dinged by anyone this early. At least I can rest assured that the students who get accepted will really want to be there. I'm sorry to hear that, dude. Out of curiosity, did they send you an e-mail or did you just see it on the website after randomly checking?
kokubanut Posted January 30, 2008 Posted January 30, 2008 did anyone get in ohio state....i was rejected online this week. somehow didnt really want to go there and got an acceptance from FSU the same day but it is still annoying
flyingwalrus Posted January 30, 2008 Posted January 30, 2008 did anyone get in ohio state....i was rejected online this week. somehow didnt really want to go there and got an acceptance from FSU the same day but it is still annoying Congrats on the acceptance to FSU! I've not yet received notice from tOSU. Judging by the entries here and on Yuster, Ohio State usually seems to start notifying people of decisions in early February, so perhaps I'll know more next week.
rising_star Posted January 30, 2008 Posted January 30, 2008 somehow didnt really want to go there and got an acceptance from FSU the same day but it is still annoying But who wants to be a Seminole?
UndraftedFreeAgent Posted January 30, 2008 Posted January 30, 2008 But who wants to be a Seminole? I do. Kokubanut-- How did you hear? FSU is one of my favorites.
kokubanut Posted January 31, 2008 Posted January 31, 2008 I WANT TO BE A SEMINOLE....no really my reservations about ohio were purely based on weather and lack of fit to thier program. FSU emailed me...
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