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Oh well. FYI: Yale is up (check your email)

Congrats canadiana! Yep, even if you are waitlisted, you can rest assured that someone out there likes you and probably others do too.

Alright. Everyone, please take a breather. If you are like me and have not already had an acceptance, I would guess you feel a bit overwhelmed. I certainly am thinking: "Were my stats good enough?" "What could I have done better?" "Is there anything I can do at this instant to rectify my situation???" (probably not) I would not be suprised if others share these sentiments. Yes, the adcoms' decisions probably will change our live's directions either for a couple years (if we don't get in now) or potentially for the rest of our lives (if wedo get the thick envelope). That's pretty heavy stuff, all things considered, and we have all considered it. While aggravating the insecurities of others won't hurt your chances of getting in, it won't help you either.

FYI: Columbia decisions will be made by February 22. (I know. I was a bad applicant and I called, but someone on the board said that he/she had already heard back...)

Looks like, according to ApplyCorner, that someone with an 800/800/6, BA\JD at a Top 10 took another one of the slots. Umm... I certainly hope that is nowhere near an average profile. One of my former professors said that while GRE's don't tell the committee everything, a score under 600 is usually a very bad sign. I wonder, does anyone think that having a high quantitative score (770) can somewhat offset a so-so verbal score (630)? Hey, Yale considers "statistics" to be a language if you are studying American history!

DON'T READ IF YOU APPLIED TO YALE AND DON'T WANT YOUR WEEKEND RUINED ... YOU WERE WARNED! Yale update: I called the department registrar and she said that they have just made all decisions this morning and will be sending out a mass email VERY soon, Monday at latest, but probably sooner. Sorry if I just ruined all other potential Yalies' weekends.

I remember undergraduate applications being so easy. 1) Nov. 7 - Applied ED and sent out the app 2) Dec. 10 - Email from Dept. of Admissions at 5 pm saying to check out back at the admissions website on Dec 11 at 5 pm 3) Dec. 11(afternoon) - Out of school early, watched a movie to keep my mind off the admissions info 4) Dec. 11 4:55-4:59 - Frantic pressing of reload button 5) Dec. 11 5:00 - Absurd animated gif's of dancing bears and fireworks flash across monitor announcing my acceptance. Present: 1) Mid-December: Sent out apps 2) Feb. 1 9 am: Check email 3) Feb. 1 9:10 am: Check email 4) Feb. 1 9:15:00 am: Recieved phone call from unidentified caller 5) Feb. 1 9:15:01 am: Heart begins beating 10x faster 6) Feb. 1 9:15:15 am: Say something very nasty to a telemarketer 7) Repeat steps 2->6 until ...?

I am fairly annoyed by schools who call or send out early emails to people who get in, because it leaves the rest with the churning uncertainty of rejection looming over their heads while they wait for those thin envelopes. Hence, we now have people in the past few days ramping up the

Well, BU has lost one of my professor's recommendations twice. I just had him re-fax it over the weekend.

I think I'm driving my girlfriend, parents, and co-workers up a wall with me fretting over grad school admissions. I swear I'd lighten up a zillion percent if I just had one acceptance to lean on. (1 rejection so far, waiting on 8 more.)

Learn to love Anna's Taqueria. It is all the food you will ever need on a grad student's budget.

I loved Cornell as an undergrad. Ithaca has bunches of great ethnic restaurants, the scenery is bucolic, and not all the townies are backwards hicks / stoners (though are quite a number of both). Reminded me a bit of Amherst, MA if you've been there: a fantastic mix of worldly culture and small town feel. The biggest drawbacks are: a very long and gray January through March, time consuming to get to New York, and there aren

According to the results board, someone got an email rejection from Colubmia. Does that mean that it is ok yet to call them for results?

Good god your professor at Stanford is up early! An email at 8:30 EST is... 5:30 am in California (right?). Heh. It makes me think of my first history professor who said to our class, "I, of course, have regularly scheduled office hours, but I am free to talk any day at [the school's pool] at 6 am."

Penn's website says that they don't notify until early to mid March.

I, too, am in a long term relationship and it is some consolation for my girlfriend to know that I did not get into Berkeley because she dreaded moving to the West Coast for law school. Silver lining!

Yar. Called Berkeley. They said "most decisions" have been made, not all, so don't give up hope... unless you are me and they said that I was rejected.

Rejected by Berkeley PhD in History. Oh well. There goes my plans for a cross-country road trip.

I have a friend at Brown majoring in Museum Studies. That's the extend of my knowledge of that field.

Well, if I don't get in anywhere, then I intend to apply to work for the State Department. As my intended area of study is the history of US Foreign Policy planning and development, I should like to have some experience working with the people I want to study. Even if I get into grad school, I intend to collaborate with the DoS in my professional and academic career. Similarly, I'll apply to some of the big policy planning think tanks.

Call me a crazy historian, but I actually really like math. I never cared for hard to visualize math like calculus, but I dug statistics. Heck, my quantitative score beat my verbal score by 140 points! What can I say, both of my parents and grandfathers earned undergraduate degrees in engineering.

One of my former profs gives the following advise re: History PhDs after having served on an Ivy League admissions committee a few times: 1) He warns that if you are applying to top 10-ish programs, they come up with the most random reasons to not admit candidates. Don't feel bad or try to overthink why you may not get into few or any top departments. 2) It is imperative at top institutions that you show that you have found a faculty member or members in mind who is working on similar issues as you. 3) The most common culling tool is the candidate's language preparation. (Is anyone here applying to Yale US history? They count statistics as one of your two extra languages, which makes me all the happier that I took statistics instead of calculus) 4) Apply to less popular niches. In history, this means applying to anything other than American and European history. Not only is this plan good for getting into g-school but also future academic positions.

Good question. I applied to Duke and Berkeley which seem to have started to send out acceptances. I am, like everyone else, dieing to know if I actually made it in anywhere.

It better be via snail mail as there is definately nothing in my inbox (re:UCB). According to petersons.com, Berkeley history takes roughly 19% of 384 apps. Seems a bit high.

Most seem believeable - from ~5% through ~20% for the majority of the schools I applied to. I just can't believe that Columbia History is over 40%! Too bad it is probably nothing close to that. ( http://www.petersons.com/GradChannel/co ... &sponsor=1 )