tiarabun

It is the Texas common application system you are referring to?

I applied to brown and UMD too and I exp the same problems. I think we are alright. My brown application says it received my GRE score on Dec 2x even thought it should have been delivered two weeks before. My UMD application is still "incomplete" according to their ASF, lacking some transcripts, but the department secretary said it is fine. Don't worry

many programs dont post their cut off scores though

i think schools dont send out rejections right away because if admitted students decline and they could just pretend they wanted us all along. it's like treating us as placeholders

sorry to hear about the rejections i wish i knew what to say it's not you, it's them -- I guess?

my UMD status keeps saying my application is "INCOMPLETE" two months after i submitted everything, even though the department secretary said it is fine. i check my UT texas status page 500 times a day, and everytime when i see "Your file has been forwarded to the Graduate Committee for review", my heart still skips a beat.

im in a similar situation. im 27, single, and without any real burden. this is my one and only chance too i guess if i get rejected i will have to start acting like a real adult and go back to the business world that i loath. no more dreams and stuff

what funding offer did they give you last year? if you dont mind sharing. i think it kind of sucks that they accept more than they can actually fund. to most students (like me), if a school doesnt fund you, it basically means they dont really want you there (i know their website says the otherwise) its like inflating their acceptance rate cuz many just cant afford to attend

I hate it that they just can't issue all the acceptances and rejections at once! I just wanna get it over with if my dream is to be crushed anyway

Which stream did you pick? Mine is organizational communication and technology. I'm totally freaking out. UT Austin's acceptance rate was around 27% last year, which is already super high already. If I still don't get in, I will feel really really bad about myself. The other programs that I have applied are like 6%.

Someone got into UT Austin's Communications Studies already yesterday. My status is still under review.... Is this bad???

the diploma mill that i've just started adjuncting in offered me a full time lecture position but it wont start untll Sept. it's my plan B i guess but i dont know how im gonna survive until Sept. and i feel iffy about it. unless they give me a contract, i still feel like it is too good to be true.

i guess that will mean aggressive job hunting? i quit my industry job last sept and spent the next two months preparing for my GRE and applications. I just started with a few adjunct gags to pay the bills, but if i dont get in, i will need to start looking for a real job again, which sucks, because i really dont think the corporate world is for me. i will feel like i have wasted a good half year of my life by then.

i think we need a t-shirt that says, "If I want it, I'd have done it already."

i know! i hate it when peop i know the second one! i did my BA in a in-the-middle-of-nowhere state school where i learned and grew so much as a person. I still love my school and have no regret at all. but for some reason my knows-it-all aunt thought the location of my school was the reason why i couldn't get a rich husband or a high paying job (I actually had a decent PR job that pays well but i hated it so much so i quit and decided to go back to school) when she finds out i was applying to PhD programs, she called and told my mom, "tell her not to go to a small town again!" my mom just went #palmface

Yup I know that term "leftover" unfortunately. No one who has never gone through the application process is going to understand the competitiveness. Every school is like Ivy League undergrad tough, or tougher in terms of acceptance. I keep telling them the minimum requirements alone already eliminate like 90% of the population. Only I have barely made them, despite me being the most book-smart in the clan. im competing with people who have all reached these minimums and my programs are only taking like 27% to 6% of the applications. Usually when they hear that they shut up and wish me good luck.

i got this one from some family fd who is a middle aged man with a lesbian stepdaughter about my age (27) "Why should a girl get so much education? In the end she is destined to be a mother anyway. Just marry rich." if i was not supposed to act mature and polite in front of the "elderly", i swear i would have blown I said firmly, "i never thought marrying rich should be the goal of a woman of my intelligence." my mom who said next to me just said nothing. im glad she always lets me do what i want. The culture where I came from is probably the most westernized in asia, but still, some people think women failing to marry off by age 30 must be flawed somehow. Im glad i did my BA in the States, so i know being an single woman with education is not a sin

im freaking out... im currently lecturing part time at an unranked college and tutoring HS kids in my home country just to pay the bills while waiting for the results to come in. all my relatives are asking me when im gonna get a job. i dont know how to explain my situation to them without sounding like a bum i dont want to take a high paying full time job for now and quit only a few months later but i also know the chance of not getting into any program at all is high cuz i dont have any research exp the college that im teaching at offered me a pretty high paying full time lecturing job in the fall, but i havent told them about my PhD plan. there are so many uncertainties in my life right now that i dont know how to make myself understood if i tell any people i'll give up the job offered to me just to embark on god-knows-how-many-years of PhD studies with a high possibility of unemployment, they will think im crazy but the college that im teaching at is pretty much like a diploma mill... i love teaching (had 2.5 years of HS teaching experience before i switched to PR only to find i hate the corporate world), but i also love to have students who care

im checking the result list every hour. apparently no one has heard from UT Austin yet. according to previous practice, results could be coming in anytime... this is the only communication program that I've applied (two other schools for American Studies). if i dont get in or if im not funded, i will have to start job hunting again. God knows how many rejections one can take... fingers crossed!!!

This Apple's famous Crazy Ones ad written by Steve Jobs. I'm a huge fan of apple and want to study it's success and influence for my PhD

UT Austin's application annoyed the crap out of me. They required scans of OFFICIAL TRANSCRIPTS, not even hardcopies but SCANS. I did a lot of transfers during my undergrad years. I don't even have the transcripts from some schools. From Georgetown, I only have my grade report, but UT makes it so specific that they only accept official transcripts, not even grad reports. I only found out about that a couple days before the Dec 15 deadline, but as an international students living overseas right now, asking my American alma maters to mail the transcripts to me could take more than 10 days. I was so worried I'd miss the deadline, so I emailed the graduate school to see if i could ask my alma maters to mail the hardcopies to them to save time, but they said they wouldnt accept any hardcopies and told me to contact the department. Fortunately the lady at the communication studies department (a nice texan lady who cut me off when I tried to explain to her my situation in panic) said they didnt really care about the Dec 15 deadline. As long as I paid my fee by Dec 15 and uploaded everything by the end of december they would be happy. i was relieved and also figured out i could just ask the schools to mail the transcripts to my American friend who could scan(who decided to just take a photo of them instead) and email the transcripts to me instead of having them mailing them all the way to Hong Kong. I just wish UT could be more lenient like other schools that I've applied to which only ask for official transcripts upon acceptance.