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Congratulations on your acceptance! I am still waiting to hear back from Cornell myself. Cornell is generally very good about offering excellent funding packages; however, I would wait to hear back from the other programs. You never know how you might feel after talking to the faculty from the other programs that offer admittance. Plus, the offer will still be there a month from now. Best of luck!

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I felt the same way about Berkeley... In regards both to being 'done' and thinking we ought to have heard back by now. I don't know about you, but I applied to the Romance Languages PhD with an emphasis in French. I haven't seen a single result for this particular field, and only one (I thin) for French.

Hi everybody, Turns out my 'interview' with my POI from Indiana was actually an acceptance/meet-and-greet phone call. So excited!

I'm positively anticipating a rejection from Berkeley, so I haven't even given them much thought! I kind of assumed they would wait until around the fee waiver deadline (March 1st) to announce decisions, in case there were any who didn't satisfy the fee requirement and whose pending acceptance could be given to someone else... Perhaps I'm thinking too much

I'm not sociology, but I have a phone interview for French Linguistics tomorrow. Good luck all!

I'll be days away from 24 if/when I start this year. Agree with comments above -- age is just a number! You gotta do what you love, no matter how long it took for you to pull the trigger. Best wishes!

Apparently I should sleep, because for some reason I interpreted this as him literally calling you "psychdork." I was like, "He knows about your GradCafé profile? How did you react to that?! Oh my god, I hope I haven't said anything incriminating!" Errr, anyway, fingers crossed for you!

Thanks, all! I haven't been around much this week. I've been doing training for work and so I have been pretty busy. I hope everybody has good luck on their visits and is able to come to a smart and hopefully pain-free decision! I'm a little nervous about my interview tomorrow for UF because, after reading my SOP that I submitted SOOOO long ago, I realized some of my interests shifted (already?). Luckily it's not really my top choice for programs, so if they decide not to select me, I won't be devastated.

Heard back from Indiana today. POI asked for an interview. Why won't anybody just accept me? Why must I interview everywhere? Anyway, exciting Monday. Hope everybody hears something exciting tomorrow!

Thank you! Good luck on your application!

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I was hoping it was good news. I wasn't sure if everybody who had the minimum requirements made it this far.

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My UT Austin status recently changed from "Your application for admission is in review" to "Your file has been forwarded to the Graduate Committee for review." Is this normal and a hallucination?

There's something about grad school rejections that really shake confidence. You pour your heart and soul into your applications, and then to think, "What's wrong with my application? What's wrong with me?" -- it's torturous. The thing is, grad programs often just aren't able to really give their candidates the time they deserve, and really amazing candidates -- much like yourself! -- get overlooked. What you need to do is shake your fist toward the sky, say "F you, Carnegie Mellon" and just remember how hard you worked on your applications. You sound like a really valuable asset to any team, and I am positive that more than one program would love to take you in. I bet your first rejection is also your last. Best wishes!

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I just realized mine says this too, even though I don't know for how long, because my eyes have always wandered to where it says "in review" on the right-hand side and then to the big red X. I couldn't even tell you if it said that the whole time!

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Reign Ministries

A POI is a 'person of interest'... AKA the person you may potentially be working with in your graduate studies.