psychdork

I interviewed at one of my schools a couple weeks ago.  At the end of the day I was saying goodbye to a couple of the professors and one of them said to me something along the lines of*, "keep believing psychdork".  He seemed completely sincere as he said this.  That has to be a good sign, right?

 

*Slightly changed so I don't out myself.

Apparently it was a good sign, I got an acceptance letter from this school yesterday!

One Fish

Lite Blue

I contacted the majority of my schools (departments) last year.  Most of them didn't reply, but a few did.  Of the ones that did, I believe one gave me a run of the mill response (your application was competitive but we had an overwhelming number of competitive applications, better luck next year), and the others gave me detailed information.  One went as far as to mention other schools that I might want to consider when I reapply, in addition to that school, based on my research interests.  Another basically broke down my application to all the different factors (GPA, GRE, etc.) and gave me very detailed information about where I stood with the other applicants and where she thought I could possibly improve.  I was really grateful for this information because there really wasn't anything substantially wrong with my application and she saw that and really tried to help give me ideas for improvement.

It really just depends on the school and the person in charge of answering these emails.  In my opinion, it doesn't hurt to ask.

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