IAmTheEggMan

I'll be visiting UT-Austin as well. I'll be sure to maintain my anonymity and wear a name tag with my actual name on it...

Yeah I'm in the same boat at all these places too. Have people seen rejections from these places at all? I don't recall seeing anything.

Not a rejection, but I'm accepted, and I got an email about the change of status on the website (and it is changed there). Not sure if that helps :/

nope no update on there. still says "An admissions decision has not yet been rendered."

Nope not invasive at all. I should have clarified. I'm just as starved for info The email seemed to be a canned response with my name at the top, but there was a pdf admissions letter that seemed more personalized. I got the standard full package Fellowship that a lot of the universities give out as far as I understand--Full University Fellowship for the first year, three 9-month Teaching Assistantships (2nd, 3rd, 4th yr), a 9-month University Fellowship (5th yr), and funding for research in the summer months. I think that's fairly standard. There also was a note about a hard deadline for making travel arrangements by Feb 5 for the visiting weekend at the end of February. That probably means all the admissions decisions will have had to come out by then.

I have a good source that told me that the final admissions committee met on Monday. So final decisions were possibly made, but there could still be ongoing deliberations. I was told that it could take a week or more after the decision is made to get the emails out.

Northwestern admit: I'm in Comparative. Hopefully that is good news for you and not bad!

PoE, I can claim one of the Northwestern admits. So probably noone trolling.