Graduate School Admission Results

Just received an email of my acceptance to UNC-Chapel Hill's Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (DAMES). I have not received a financial package yet.

I had an informal Zoom chat with a POI in late December and an interview with the entire faculty via Zoom on January 11. I received an informal notification of acceptance from the Graduate Chair on January 18.

Ignore the interview. Does any received interview from EALC Stanford? It seems that some interview invitations had already been sent out at this time in the previous years.

conditional offer, no funding yet

Low undergrad GPA in unrelated subject. 3.9 GPA in both MA and MPhil from international universities. Deferred to 2022

Just as a note for future applicants: I was originally accepted with no funding, but ultimately received the 20k fellowship (notification day is the day I received the upgraded offer). All students accepted to the program are put on a waiting list for funding, and if someone turns down their offer, they give it to the next person on the list.

TTPB: Uhm, they conducted interviews? And just to clarify, what did you mean with "just apply it"? You mean, to just accept they misled applicants by making it appear that there is an application process, but in reality, there is no funding for new PhDs at all?

ATTENTION to the future applicants! The earliest deadline while the latest notification. After interviews and emails, it surprisingly ended up with NOT accepting any applicants in Mid MARCH(Wow!). If you are rich enough, JUST apply it as they will keep your Application Fee without apologies. A good lesson of low efficiency and bureaucracy of institutions, though.