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Interesting question. PhD is do-able with a family, though definitely more difficult with multi things to balance. Funding varies by school, so...

Talk to some current graduate students without faculty around.

Here is some of the advice my advisors have given as I've been going through the process: 1. Think of the relative rankings of schools in terms of...

Me neither. I'm trying not to get my hopes up too high but it's getting quite hard...🤣

Me too. I guess previous rejections/acceptances are real and they are slowly releasing decisions. The admins are probably loading the letters (or...

Not to sound super anxious, but I got an update on my Rochester portal. It says "Decision Released", but no date and the link leads to a page that...

Dude, if you are doing better this round, there's no need to dwell on the result from one school. The process is always random and you never know. I...

I'm doing a pre-doc in DC and heard on several occasions that UMD is especially limited funding wise relative to most schools.

I guess UMD is done? Only a handful of acceptances and waitlists got posted on gradcafe. I'm pretty disappointed not to receive anything since I was...

Agreed. I was waitlisted but not invited to the open day, so congrats on being way in front of me LOL. I also think UVA drastically shrank their...

I'm on the waitlist and received the open house invite. Looks like the schedule involves presentations from fields, interactions with faculty and...

I agree with the above. Both are great options and where you will do best depends on how well interests align with potential dissertation chairs...

I agree with Huzker and would lean either NW or Booth in your position. NW is underrated and strong in several areas of micro, including market...

My sense is that Berkeley is great at labor, NW is great at mechanism design & development, everything at Yale will be structural. Not easy to pick a...

Booth used to have a rep for accepting a larger incoming cohort while having a low completion rate with a lot of students failing quals, but from...

Does anyone have inside info from UT Austin? They sent acceptances and rejections over the past few days, but I've heard nothing so far.

Has anyone received funding info for Berkeley? They told me they will be sending funding offers early this week.

What is the Open House of UVa? I have been placed on the waitlist without receiving anything about the Open House. On GC someone posted that the Open...

Still haven't heard from Northwestern. Based on last year's cycle, I wonder if this is an implicit WL.

I don't really have a guess about that. My impression is most candidates chose to go ahead and take/submit the GRE anyways. I think petheory is...

Everyone zooming also makes it easier to interview too.

Do you think the interviews have anything to do with dropping GRE requirements as well?

I have not actually compared the numbers but it kind of feels like more schools are interviewing this year, probably for this reason and cause of...

Has anyone heard back from the SIPA (PhD) at Columbia? Wanted to confirm if the posts on GC are legitimate.

Hi! Is anyone aware if UNC Chapel Hill has released offers?