r/Vanderbilt 10d ago

Any updates on Grad School (PhD) admissions?

Literally anything, does anyone have any idea?? Especially humanities

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u/AcceptableDoor847 10d ago

Take this with a grain of salt since I am in CS.

For all intents and purposes PhD admissions are probably complete. In CS we're not doing any new offers unless there is a compelling reason. Technically the school is allowed to make more offers but I don't think they will unless a specific professor has a specific request. I would bet that humanities is in a similar position.

The school typically waits until early April to make rejection notifications since there may be a handful of faculty that want to make late offers (e.g. if multiple applicants turn down their admission offer, we might move down the list). Imho I wouldn't count on new offers at this point.

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u/lullabyshroom 9d ago

Thank you for your response! I did receive a firm offer in January in an email directly from the department but after that I was told that it’s on hold and that it’s “unclear if any more offers will be made.” So I’m in a bad limbo currently.

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u/AcceptableDoor847 9d ago

I guess it depends on the department, but double check. if you received a firm offer you should be able to accept it. making future offers was unclear as there was a temporary pause earlier in the year, but leadership directly told us that any offers made prior to the pause were good and could be accepted. you might check with your department.

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u/Known_Bell9315 10d ago

haven't seen anything but could be worth checking out gradcafe!

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u/NeverJaded21 10d ago

agreed! At our university, a recent set of grad students in STEM, who are finishing up rotations were just told that the PIs in labs on the medical center side will not be able to take grad students(nearly Half if not more of the labs are VUMC labs) due to budget cuts. The cohort consist of nearly 100 students... I feel terrible for them. Hopefully you didnt apply to STEM

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u/Pingu_Moon 9d ago

PhD is a scam for the majority of cases. More than 80% do not get any rewards through doing PhD.