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I must be fortunate. The most frustrating thing about this application season was... the money. UT Austin was a tad confusing for me at first (SOP after submission? What?) I kept fearing that I was submitting my final submission without recommenders or essays. Once you got past the payment and panic part, I thought the list of things needing to be done was really handy, and it updated really quickly. Cornell was pretty frustrating, as mentioned above. I wasn't ready to submit my SOP, but that meant I couldn't move forward and see what else there was to the application. Applications where you can click on the section you want to work on are definitely the way to go. Most of my schools were very quick to match my materials to my profile and to notify me. I feel fortunate after reading this thread... Best of luck to all!

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Delayed but my two cents regardless. Welp, above poster covered it all. El Paso is, considering its size, safe. It's statistically one of the safest in the country (relative to its size, I stress). And hell yeah, it's ugly as all get-out. But the food is amazing, and UTEP isn't a terrible campus. Just be smart and stay out of Juarez.

I just moved to Sacramento a few months ago, and the only time I was "in" Davis was on my way to San Francisco. If there hadn't been a sign on the interstate telling me I was passing through Davis, I think I would have missed it! Glad to hear the positive things, though. I'm also applying.

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Don't feel pathetic! I'm doing the same thing. I even checked all of the previous years' acceptances to approximate when I might expect to hear something. Early to late February for all of them... so that helped me with my email-checking problem.

The other night, I dreamed I was a new student at Berkeley, and the teacher was giving me extra attention, as if to suggest I was incapable of doing the work, and she kept insisting I ask for help on the packet I was working on if I needed help. I kept telling her, "I'm fine, thanks. It's easy material." Then, all of a sudden, I was working in a dingy kitchen. I had a handful of wooden spoons in my hand, and I kept asking where I was supposed to put the spoons, and none of my coworkers would help me. Haha. I don't know what that's supposed to mean, but I don't think it's good! Or perhaps it's suggesting that school is breezy for me, and... working in... a kitchen... is... Is my dream playing a sexist joke on me?

PLEASE don't make me tell my recommenders I didn't make it anywhere! Oh please...

Best of luck to everybody. For us applying to the same places, perhaps we'll someday be colleagues =).

Hi Patrick, Are you there through TAPIF? I was accepted to TAPIF this year in the Académie de Montpellier, but I couldn't go because of finances. Best of luck on your applications. I just finished my application to Berkeley as well.

Wondering if there is anybody working on applications for French PhD programs out there. Where are you applying?