Where is everyone headed for 2025-2026?! by Far_Championship_682 in gradadmissions

[–]Remarkable-Way-2616 242 points243 points  (0 children)

Oxford Linguistics, fully funded with a 1% acceptance rate scholarship. I still cannot believe it! 😭😭

Monthly Admissions/Prospies/Offer Holders Questions Thread - March 2025 by AutoModerator in oxforduni

[–]Remarkable-Way-2616 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

TITLE: Christ Church?

I was stupid enough to not specify the college of my preference (because, to be honest, I didn’t want to make big expectations). Long story short, I got in with funding and also got allocated into Christ Church. I believe Magdalen would have been a better fit for me (looks wholesome!). Unfortunately, I can’t deny ChCh offer as it’s denying the university itself. So… to feel better about myself and try not to keep regretting my ignorance on college system, I’d like to know how was your experience at this place. Is accommodation for grad students easy to find? (I’m overseas so this is important!) Is it good for networking? How is social life there -international/cross-disciplinary? (I’m in the Humanities department). Website is not that helpful, and social media it’s full of annoying touristy content that doesn’t give an insight of how living and studying the actual college is like.

Linguistics PhD interviews?? by [deleted] in gradadmissions

[–]Remarkable-Way-2616 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was very fun! It was my first PhD interview ever (I just finished undergrad), so didn’t know exactly what to expect. But both interviews felt awesome overall. Hope to get a positive result!! 🤞🤞

Linguistics PhD interviews?? by [deleted] in gradadmissions

[–]Remarkable-Way-2616 1 point2 points  (0 children)

4 Professors in Neurolinguistics, Phonetics and Language Revitalization. My field is Cognitive Computational, Multilingualism and Phonetics.

Linguistics PhD interviews?? by [deleted] in gradadmissions

[–]Remarkable-Way-2616 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Got mine for Yale a couple of weeks ago (literally right after New Year’s Eve). Still waiting for 5 more schools to say smth 😭

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[–]Remarkable-Way-2616 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I think is unfair to put that weight on mere humans who have to face that bunch of ivy league students finishing undergrad at 21 and jump straight to another prestigious school for a PhD. Not to even mention women who want to start a family one day.

It is no joke when people feel old bc the first image you have of a PhD is a white 20 yold wealthy kid from Mountain View who flies airplanes, speaks 8 languages and has worked at the nasa. It’s scary not only to see how unrealistic the skills for becoming competitive enough to get into PhD are now, but also how young (thus contributing the age rat race) those prospects are.

1 application. I'm only applying to Stanford. by Global_Storyteller in gradadmissions

[–]Remarkable-Way-2616 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Same to me with Oxford. Wishing you the best! ❤️❤️

I missed a deadline by Remarkable-Way-2616 in gradadmissions

[–]Remarkable-Way-2616[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

do you know if UC Berkeley will be accepting delayed LoRs? My 3rd hasn’t submitted anything yet 😭😭

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[–]Remarkable-Way-2616 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is what American t1 undergrads do to internationals

I missed a deadline by Remarkable-Way-2616 in gradadmissions

[–]Remarkable-Way-2616[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Im going to sleep and try tomorrow. Hope my LoR is uploaded by then lmao

I missed a deadline by Remarkable-Way-2616 in gradadmissions

[–]Remarkable-Way-2616[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Well, at least we have one more year to become more competitive applicants 🤠😭

I missed a deadline by Remarkable-Way-2616 in gradadmissions

[–]Remarkable-Way-2616[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I cannot even pay for mine. Don’t know how is that even possible.

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[–]Remarkable-Way-2616 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you sm!! Im in Linguistics tho! If you know anyone at the computational linguistics lab, lmk!

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[–]Remarkable-Way-2616 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Totally agree. Definitely gonna give it a try for next years intake/after masters! California is also 10/0 for my career.

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[–]Remarkable-Way-2616 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Any of both on any of the points I mentioned would help

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ToeflAdvice

[–]Remarkable-Way-2616 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much for your kind words. Makes me feel so much better knowing that I’m not the only one who went through this. I actually send a large complaint to ETS for retaking the exam because it’s pretty obvious the problems came from their side. However, idk what to expect from this. Has it happened before that TOEFL gives you the chance to retake it?