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Congratulations Monadology and revolutions! Hope they post my decision soon too.

Imagine how i'm going to feel about this comment if i get rejected by the New School

I just see the Student Voices column right underneath the message centre nor have I received any congratulatory note at newschool.edu. This could mean a rejection or possibly that my application hasn't undergone review yet!

So apart from the hub, there's this other portal : https://my.newschool.edu/cp/home/displaylogin. You have to put your NETID and retrieve your username, then set a new password to access your account. This is where people are finding their acceptances posted along with a congratulatory note. I am able to access it too, but it just says "No announcements have been made". Also, at my hub it still only says that my application materials have been received and that it's pending review. Did you complete their application super early?

Has any applicant to The New School around here checked their newschool.edu account? A lot of posters in the result section are finding an accepted student tab upon logging into that account, although their admission hub pages remain unchanged.

Hmm well! http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_md2n6dLqqF1rfgfeyo1_500.gif

This happens to me when I'm really really stressed out! Brilliant coping mechanism or what?

University Of Miami Philosophy, PhD (F14) Accepted via E-mail on 25 Feb 2014 A 25 Feb 2014 report spam First admit. 1a/3w/9r out of 25. Finally. Any claimants ?

A lot of people have already apologised for back tracking and talking about what u have declared to be "trivial issue". I'm sure no one is going to hijack your precious thread anymore. So I guess you can stop with the bashing and forgive us that we expend so much energy on "stupid shit".

c'mon! cut the person some slack! He's obviously having a baffling experience and just ranting. Stop deriving so much meaning out of the rant. By all means warn him if he gets abusive etc on the thread but you can't say : philosophy is not for them and they should just "move on". I'm sorry if this angers you but I really felt compelled by the things you wrote.

I must have missed something for I surely fail to see how such mean comments are warranted.

What a way to kick someone who is already down!

Try not to get affected by everyone around me hitting milestones in life..move to Paris, do a diploma in French and try again next year! :-/

Although both recommendations have been submitted now.

Slept over this and I'm feeling much more collected. Quick question though! NSSR's application instruction sheet says the following about important dates and deadlines : •• Fall Term Full Fellowship Applicants: January 15; applications received or completed after January 15 will be considered for admission and partial tuition scholarships on a rolling basis •• Fall Term Applicants: August 1 •• Fall Term International Applicants: July 1 •• Spring Term Applicants: November 15 This gives me hope that if they screen applications till as late as July, maybe they won't be all that quick to toss out my application with one missing recommendation?

Me ran out of positive votes too but one ups for this.

Yes. Fuck this! Onto plan B.

And she is not even telling me what is it that I did? I would be most prompt to apologise but she's just being so cryptic 'for reasons I don't want to go into'. Do they not realise that saying such a thing can seriously lower the self-esteem of a self-questioning adult about to embark on a career in academics? Apart from getting tensed about my results, my application materials..am I supposed to be stressing out over this as well? I am so so angry..

But both the recommendations have been submitted now and my application allows for only two recommendations.

I would want to delete this thread after the discussions are over? Risk attracting further viciousness if found out.

Thanks a lot for the responses. Y'all are very kind and this forum is kind of my only saving grace now. Thing is, this proff. happens to be someone who mentored me during my three month stint as a visiting student in the UK. She wrote and submitted my recommendation the same night, but as regards the future she said she must 'excuse' herself and that it was for reasons 'she doesn't want to go into'. I do happen to know another fantastic scholar at Cambridge who would most willingly write a recommendation for me, but he taught me Phil. of Science. My area of specialisation being Ethics & Ontology of the self I thought it was better to get a reco from someone who had mentored my latest work i.e. my M.Phil. thesis. But this one clearly took her own sweet time in submitting the recommendation and left me second guessing as to what exactly I did wrong plus I'm not even sure if she submitted a strong reco at all. FML!!

I know. I'm trying to articulate a response that's a mixture of both. And, quite late. About 15-20 days. Hence the desperation!

I feel this serious urge to vent. Both my recommenders were being super super tardy with their submission, and so after several desperate messages/emails hence I wrote a rather intense email to them. I wrote how i was getting really really anxious about my application and that their late-submission could cost me one full academic year. Lo and Behold! my proff writes back saying that she wants to just excuse herself from writing any further references for me and I'd better look elsewhere. Like i wasn't stressed out enough already , more emotional stress greets me. Problem is I can't even articulate a response to her email. I guess at this point I'm just shutting down and very very blank! Any suggestions?

I ask since i am stuck in a more or less similar situation. Can't we just write back to them asking whether at all, all our docs were received and put together in time for the application review process? It's quite possible that we are panicking at this point and just letting our unfounded fears get the better of us. I mean to say don't just depend on your intuition and despair.

How are you so sure?