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Maybe the people who heard can clarify? Like, if you got a rejection, was it a form letter? What about the folks that got in....did you get a letter from the department in general, or from a specific professor who will be working with you? Please help relieve our anxiety????

Aaaah! Somebody got an email from Florida. Shit. Does this mean I didn't get in? I didn't get no stinking email.

Okay, that's horrible, nailbiter. This whole process is ridiculous. There's no reason why schools couldn't give you a reasonable (and definite) timeline for decisions. And while they're at it, they could use the same damn forms. Or at least require the same number of copies of the same documents. While I'm wishing.

Yeah, according to last year's stats, I'm looking at the middle of February for one, the beginning of March for another, and god only knows for Tulane, since apparently no one on these boards has every gone there. However, I'd like to know right now. Please.

It's interesting to me how little traffic there is on here for anthropology, compared to some of the other disciplines. I wonder if anth majors are more patient? If so, I'm definitely the exception to the rule. I want to know right now, and am obsessively checking to see if anyone else at my schools have heard anything.

Well, I'm a "non-traditional" or "returning" student (insert your own euphemism for older here), and I'm super invested in ending up in a community that feels comfortable for me. So I went and checked places out before I applied.

I'm in at UNC...just got the email. With funding! Hooray!

My first choice shifts and changes all the time, depending on the criteria. Emory: best money (but again, I didn't get in) Florida: person I most want to work with Tulane or Chapel Hill: places I most want to live Austin: the only place I didn't visit, so it's a big mystery to me

I got my first rejection a few days ago, and suddenly I feel like I need a backup plan. Like, what the hell am I going to do, so I can afford to pay back my loans? I'm not sure if obsessively reading this board and livejournal help or make it worse. However, here's where I'm waiting on: UF Gainesville UT Austin UNC Chapel Hill Tulane Already heard from Emory. I didn't make the finalists.