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STANFORD!!!!
 
I actually missed the phone call & had to call them back, despite all but showering with my phone for the past week (I was at dinner, & it was loud)

STANFORD!!!!
 
I actually missed the phone call & had to call them back, despite all but showering with my phone for the past week (I was at dinner, & it was loud)

STANFORD!!!!
 
I actually missed the phone call & had to call them back, despite all but showering with my phone for the past week (I was at dinner, & it was loud)

Just got the call from Stanford!

Duke, WashU, Rochester, Berkeley, UCLA, UCSD, Princeton, Michigan, Columbia, UNC-Chapel Hill
 
I cast a very broad net when applying
 
...Please don't hate me xD

Duke, WashU, Rochester, Berkeley, UCLA, UCSD, Princeton, Michigan, Columbia, UNC-Chapel Hill
 
I cast a very broad net when applying
 
...Please don't hate me xD

Just got a yes from Columbia

James, I think it's a little bit ironic that you're complaining about people bragging about declining great schools when you've got all of the schools you have been accepted to detailed in your sig.
 
And in any case, I see this forum as kind of a collective support group for the people who are applying to graduate schools. Face it, most people who we interact with regularly (other than grad students and profs) don't know what this process is like, how nervewracking it is. It's good to have a forum where we can all go through this collectively.

I just spent 20 considering which of the schools I've been admitted to would give me the best chance of winning their state Miss America pageant. Not that I've ever competed in a pageant, ever. But, you've gotta break the tie somehow, right?

It's oh so quiet... it's oh so still...
 
So let's see. We're expecting (fingers crossed) Stanford, Yale, and Columbia this week. And didn't someone say that Chicago promises closure by the 18th?

James, I think it's a little bit ironic that you're complaining about people bragging about declining great schools when you've got all of the schools you have been accepted to detailed in your sig.
 
And in any case, I see this forum as kind of a collective support group for the people who are applying to graduate schools. Face it, most people who we interact with regularly (other than grad students and profs) don't know what this process is like, how nervewracking it is. It's good to have a forum where we can all go through this collectively.

I know. I ordered a new bass from America and it's arriving soon, presumably on the next week. universities came to an arrangement with the postal service in order to send me offers and notification that my bass has come at the same day! They want to make a surprise for me:-)

James, I think it's a little bit ironic that you're complaining about people bragging about declining great schools when you've got all of the schools you have been accepted to detailed in your sig.
 
And in any case, I see this forum as kind of a collective support group for the people who are applying to graduate schools. Face it, most people who we interact with regularly (other than grad students and profs) don't know what this process is like, how nervewracking it is. It's good to have a forum where we can all go through this collectively.

cute distraction: plot this in Google
 
plot sqrt(cos(x))cos(300x)+sqrt(abs(x))-0.7)*(4-x*x)^0.01, sqrt(6-x^2), -sqrt(6-x^2) from -4 to 4

cute distraction: plot this in Google
 
plot sqrt(cos(x))cos(300x)+sqrt(abs(x))-0.7)*(4-x*x)^0.01, sqrt(6-x^2), -sqrt(6-x^2) from -4 to 4

cute distraction: plot this in Google
 
plot sqrt(cos(x))cos(300x)+sqrt(abs(x))-0.7)*(4-x*x)^0.01, sqrt(6-x^2), -sqrt(6-x^2) from -4 to 4

cute distraction: plot this in Google
 
plot sqrt(cos(x))cos(300x)+sqrt(abs(x))-0.7)*(4-x*x)^0.01, sqrt(6-x^2), -sqrt(6-x^2) from -4 to 4

James, I think it's a little bit ironic that you're complaining about people bragging about declining great schools when you've got all of the schools you have been accepted to detailed in your sig.
 
And in any case, I see this forum as kind of a collective support group for the people who are applying to graduate schools. Face it, most people who we interact with regularly (other than grad students and profs) don't know what this process is like, how nervewracking it is. It's good to have a forum where we can all go through this collectively.

Pretty normal.

Relax, I'm sure you're not that awkward

Pretty normal.

Relax, I'm sure you're not that awkward

Good luck everyone!

Soon! I just went outside and threw snowballs at the fence to make myself feel better. And I might make some chocolate pudding for myself. No need to deprive myself of comfort in these trying times, right?

Over the course of my lunch hour, I have:
 
- refreshed my email (just in case Gmail isn't registering fast enough!) at least three times
- spent an ill-advised ten minutes looking over my first choice program's website, which only made me excited and scared about it again
- Hey, I just met you, and this is crazy, but I sent you my application for admission almost a whole month ago and I'm freaking out so call me, maybe?

I've gotten one phone call, and I thought it was a very thoughtful, personal notification. On the other hand, with an email, you can look at it over and over (and over and over) to convince yourself that you didn't imagine it.
 
There's no wrong way for a program to say "yes."

Email. Nobody hears me dancing and fistbumping, I step on campus for visits with a thin veneer of professionalism intact.