The Religious Studies department at Yale emailed current students to let us know that they're reducing applications to the PhD program in RLST for the next two years https://twitter.com/yitzlandes/status/1306211678514827264

They said admissions will be reduced 30-50% the next two years (so probably 4-7 students admitted)

IMO, they should be much more transparent about this, b/c Yale admits by subfield & there are 10ish subfields, so there will be one year that's a wash for each

If you're planning to apply to Yale's programs in Religious Studies (NOT YALE DIVINITY SCHOOL), feel free to reach out. I don't have much info right now, but I'll share what I can

Shout out to @ismipratima for bringing this thread to my attention. Grad students at Yale fought tooth and nail for the extension of funding, and now departments are pretending that it was a difficult, benevolent choice https://twitter.com/RadPedagogy/status/1308486516772081664