AnxiousKitty Posted January 24, 2018 Posted January 24, 2018 Hi all, hope everyone's doing great. I come bearing some news. My friend who is currently attending UCSB said they are sending out visitation invites next week. But, note that the invitation to visit is not a concrete offer. My friend did not visit last year but was still offered admission. Just a heads up for anyone who's applied to UCSB. I did an interview with WVU last week; I guess it went well but you never know. They are taking in 5 doctoral candidates out of the 22 "good pile" list. They fund all admitted students. Fingers cross. I want to hear from UT Austin soon. surprise_quiche 1
GreenEyedTrombonist Posted January 24, 2018 Posted January 24, 2018 For anyone who applied to Washington State, I got an email from a PoI that they're reviewing apps now.
mintless Posted January 24, 2018 Posted January 24, 2018 @Pato Wow that sounds amazing! I think I can guess...I may well hit you up in a PM, especially if I end up hearing from them. Glad to hear that its a great place to be. Sorry to hear that you're having to try and head elsewhere
surprise_quiche Posted January 24, 2018 Posted January 24, 2018 OMG so I just talked to my advisor yesterday, and we were talking about my application for Colorado State. So long story short I went to pay my application fee and it gave me an error and kicked me out of my account, and I haven't been able to get back to my landing page. I tried emailing them but got no response back. My advisor is a recommender and the one who said to apply to Colorado, so I felt so bad telling her that I didn't know if my application was submitted. shrug Matt Minich 1
GreenEyedTrombonist Posted January 24, 2018 Posted January 24, 2018 That sucks @surprise_quiche . Maybe you should call them about the issue?
surprise_quiche Posted January 24, 2018 Posted January 24, 2018 @GreenEyedTrombonist I don't know it might be too late I think, but I might.
whitmanifesto Posted January 24, 2018 Posted January 24, 2018 21 minutes ago, surprise_quiche said: @GreenEyedTrombonist I don't know it might be too late I think, but I might. I had the same problem with Wayne State and it fixed the next day, I didn't even have to call in. If you only just missed the due date, it takes them a few days at the graduate school and the department secretaries to certify the info and put them into packets for the committee. I had to call NU about my name change to have all the info in the same package and they were very helpful.
Matt Minich Posted January 24, 2018 Posted January 24, 2018 @surprise_quiche which Comm program did you apply to at CSU? Public Communication or Rhetorical?
whitmanifesto Posted January 24, 2018 Posted January 24, 2018 Also, yesterday I had a long conversation on Twitter with the Graduate Union President at Wayne State (they're also a Comm PhD student) about the process. Lucky for me, the two people I picked for POI, both huge fans of Gramsci (my current advisor is a Gramsci scholar and my writings have plenty of historical materialism/Marxists stuff in it) and are low on advisees right now, so with my activist research I am REALLY likely to get in. Even more! My first pick has ZERO advisees and my research is right up her alley. She also told me, there are faculty and one non-voting graduate union rep on the committee and they met last Friday for the first time and it was very long, so they were def going over the application packets. They are meeting again this week and they are scheduled to send out their first round beginning of Feb. The visit for invites is in March, when funding packets are more complete (fellowships to be decided). This isn't a very "competitive" department, but they have very active faculty with a lot of research published every year.
phdthoughts Posted January 25, 2018 Author Posted January 25, 2018 20 hours ago, Ishouldbewriting said: Thank you! My concentration is in health comm. Specifically, I'm interested in how to create, assess, and organize campaigns. Are you waiting on any other schools? That sounds interesting! I'm waiting on two more actually. The wait is torturous!
sriracha18 Posted January 25, 2018 Posted January 25, 2018 Hey y'all! I had an interview at Madison a week or two ago with an amazing POI who said someone else would likely call me for a second interview. Today I received my first decision: waitlisted at Minnesota - Twin Cities. I guess that's not too bad considering I'm still in undergrad but it's obviously not ideal. In other news, I'm presenting at an international argumentation conference this April so maybe I'll see some of y'all there!
surprise_quiche Posted January 25, 2018 Posted January 25, 2018 @sriracha18 Congrats on the conference and the interview with Madison. Update on Northwestern: JR is amazing and a legend! I was so happy to get to talk to them about the program! sriracha18 1
pato Posted January 25, 2018 Posted January 25, 2018 anyone else a complete rambling mess incapable of synthesizing your thoughts in interviews? just me? heck. surprise_quiche and sriracha18 2
sriracha18 Posted January 25, 2018 Posted January 25, 2018 @surprise_quiche thank you! good luck with NU! @pato yes! during my interview i was so excited i almost forgot my research experience. i pulled myself together but it was hard. pato 1
mintless Posted January 25, 2018 Posted January 25, 2018 @pato @sriracha18 interviews are the worst, you have to just make a fool of yourself and then wait weeks to see if they'll take you anyway sriracha18 and pato 2
GreenEyedTrombonist Posted January 25, 2018 Posted January 25, 2018 @sriracha18 congrats on the interview and waitlist (it's not a rejection yet, yay)! I had a very short follow-up email from my Madison interview (I sent them a thank you and some additional info I didn't remember to say when answering a question) and the prof said "we'll be in touch in the near future" so I'm currently overanalyzing that phrase, haha. From what I've seen, no one has been contacted for a second interview yet. x] sriracha18 1
whitmanifesto Posted January 26, 2018 Posted January 26, 2018 @surprise_quiche did you learn anything about the acceptance timeline? And JR's advisee numbers, from the grad students I met during my campus visit there is a lot of interest in gender studies in yhr last few cohorts.
surprise_quiche Posted January 26, 2018 Posted January 26, 2018 @whitmanifesto They typically announce acceptances/rejections second week of February. I know she just had a few advisees finish the program, but I don't know if she's taking on any more.
surprise_quiche Posted January 26, 2018 Posted January 26, 2018 (edited) My mom just asked me if I wanted to live with her and my dad if I get into a closer school and commute in. Am I considering it since I'm broke and love my parents and free food? Yes. Edited January 26, 2018 by surprise_quiche
GreenEyedTrombonist Posted January 26, 2018 Posted January 26, 2018 @surprise_quiche That's how I afforded doing my MA. I live in one of the most expensive rental markets in the USA so it just wouldn't have been possible without the free room and board (and lovely parents willing to lend me a car when needed).
surprise_quiche Posted January 26, 2018 Posted January 26, 2018 @GreenEyedTrombonist yeah I'm seriously considering it
E-P Posted January 27, 2018 Posted January 27, 2018 @pato I guess that the one benefit of having been unemployed since June (!!) is that I've gotten a lot of practice interviewing. Although I'm still unemployed, so I must not be that good at it. I'm just glad that the program I've gotten accepted to (so far) didn't require an interview.
GreenEyedTrombonist Posted January 27, 2018 Posted January 27, 2018 @E-P I'm right there with you. I've been doing so many interviews. x] Was supposed to have a final interview for a job today, but it got rescheduled at the last moment (was literally in the parking lot when it got changed), so now I have two interviews on Tuesday. This week I've had two interviews and two writing exercises for jobs, plus an interview last week. Eventually I'll get hired, haha. E-P and sriracha18 1 1
AnxiousKitty Posted January 27, 2018 Posted January 27, 2018 (edited) I was rejected by UT-Austin last night (while watching re-runs of Dexter on Netflix LOL). I had a sinking (and constantly nagging) feeling about the potential outcome the pass few days while checking the fit of faculty to my profile and interests. Kinda expected it when I saw my application status: "Denied". Disappointed but still waiting on 8 other schools! Good luck and happy for the people who got into UT-Austin! It is a great school with a great program for sure. Edited January 27, 2018 by AnxiousKitty
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