2017-2018 Application Cycle

[meteora]

6 minutes ago, audre.bored said:

Just received a letter of admissions to University of Maryland along with funding info.

That is awesome. How were you notified?

[deutsch1997bw]

Waitlisted by Iowa about 15 minutes ago. I received an email from the DGS. 

[audre.bored]

3 minutes ago, meteora said:

That is awesome. How were you notified?

Thanks!  I received a email from the DGS about 20 minutes ago.

[meteora]

3 minutes ago, audre.bored said:

Thanks!  I received a email from the DGS about 20 minutes ago.

Thanks for the info. 

[hs2011]

10 minutes ago, audre.bored said:

Just received a letter of admissions to University of Maryland along with funding info.

Same here!  Congrats!

[audre.bored]

@hs2011 congrats to you, too!

[poliscibi]

In at Maryland!

[Lilliputien]

1 hour ago, diter91 said:

Anyone claiming the Toronto admit? Seems early.

Claim a rejection from Toronto ph.D. program but got referred to their M.A. application. U-Toronto is surprisingly early this year.

[jnewcomb08]

waitlisted at iowa.

[JMCrawfordNJ]

Looks like Pitt acceptances were sent out, I heard nothing. So that's an official rejection from UCLA, and a likely rejection from Northwestern and Pitt. Not holding out much hope for Cornell, given I considered it the long shot of the four. I might return in a month or so, message some of you to see if you might share SOP and things like that, get an idea of how to improve my application for next cycle. I know the impulse is to say not to lose hope yet, but I'm a realist. I can see from the profile of acceptances that my GRE was obvious weaker than I had anticipated, and there may be other parts of my application that needed work as well. I see no reason to pin my hopes on the idea of a long shot application beating out strong applications in a highly competitive process. Needless to say I will be much better informed and prepared come fall for the next cycle.

I congratulate you all who got accepted, you earned it. Best of luck to everybody still trying. 

[diter91]

7 minutes ago, Lilliputien said:

Claim a rejection from Toronto ph.D. program but got referred to their M.A. application. U-Toronto is surprisingly early this year.

Did you get an email from DGS?

[Lilliputien]

5 minutes ago, diter91 said:

Did you get an email from DGS?

Graduate Administrator 

[diter91]

3 minutes ago, Lilliputien said:

Graduate Administrator 

Thanks. Best of luck with the rest of your applications!

[Lilliputien]

6 minutes ago, diter91 said:

Thanks. Best of luck with the rest of your applications!

Thanks! 

[Anthony2016]

is anyone else waiting for NYU

[swampyankee]

21 minutes ago, Nelz said:

is anyone else waiting for NYU

Yessir. A few people have already claimed acceptances, so my expectations are tempered, but I'm eager to hear one way or another.

[DKG18]

1 hour ago, audre.bored said:

Just received a letter of admissions to University of Maryland along with funding info.

Really hoping I hear positive news from them in the next hour or so. They're my presumptive last best hope.

[Anthony2016]

7 minutes ago, swampyankee said:

Yessir. A few people have already claimed acceptances, so my expectations are tempered, but I'm eager to hear one way or another.

Same here. I emailed them and they said decisions are ongoing. Best of luck! If you can, please do post here when you hear back.

[BobBobBob]

5 minutes ago, Nelz said:

Same here. I emailed them and they said decisions are ongoing. Best of luck! If you can, please do post here when you hear back.

I called them last week, the admin staff told me they are wrapping up decisions within two weeks.

Edited February 14, 2018 by BobBobBob

[sbs2018]

I'd say it is reasonable to expect to hear from these schools by the end of next week, perhaps earlier. Others I have forgotten, these are just the schools I still have on my radar.

UPenn 

Cornell (Rejections as well, I think)

Georgetown 

Brown (looks like they'll send rejections as well)

Notre Dame (assuming they aren't done already)

[Anthony2016]

Probably Stanford too.Not that I am expecting a positive outcome but just saying.

[Anthony2016]

4 minutes ago, BobBobBob said:

I called them last week, the admin staff told me they are wrapping up decisions within two weeks.

Oh great, thanks for the update. Not too long then.

[Wiesbaden]

I think USC makes their decision on next Monday... HAHAHA.

[deutsch1997bw]

6 minutes ago, sbs2018 said:

I'd say it is reasonable to expect to hear from these schools by the end of next week, perhaps earlier. Others I have forgotten, these are just the schools I still have on my radar.

UPenn 

Cornell (Rejections as well, I think)

Georgetown 

Brown (looks like they'll send rejections as well)

Notre Dame (assuming they aren't done already)

I would also add Indiana and Minnesota.

[hs2011]

9 minutes ago, deutsch1997bw said:

I would also add Indiana and Minnesota.

Minnesota said they were sending decisions the week of the 19th