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Thanks everyone! I HAVE BEEN ACCEPTED! Now, I'm off to do hella day drinking with the SO.
 
Thank you for being the best community for anxious grad applicants!

Thanks everyone! I HAVE BEEN ACCEPTED! Now, I'm off to do hella day drinking with the SO.
 
Thank you for being the best community for anxious grad applicants!

Thanks everyone! I HAVE BEEN ACCEPTED! Now, I'm off to do hella day drinking with the SO.
 
Thank you for being the best community for anxious grad applicants!

Thanks everyone! I HAVE BEEN ACCEPTED! Now, I'm off to do hella day drinking with the SO.
 
Thank you for being the best community for anxious grad applicants!

Thanks everyone! I HAVE BEEN ACCEPTED! Now, I'm off to do hella day drinking with the SO.
 
Thank you for being the best community for anxious grad applicants!

When I did my USPS change of address online, one of the coupon offers was for 20% off Budget truck rentals! You can go ahead and do it but set the address change for a future date.
 
We are using a 22' rental truck and a car hauler trailer plus driving our other car. It will be around $1500 total for truck, trailer, hotel, and gas. Plus I may splurge and spend an extra $130-ish for unloading help at our destination.
 
Ultimately, unless we buy thrift store furniture, we estimated moving most things to be cheaper than replacing if we moved ourselves. This is not neccesarily so with movers. I'm happy with second-hand lamps and end tables and stuff, but not, for example, beds.

Seconded.

I fail to see the problem.

@danmacg--
That you consider my response an exercise in "tough love" adds evidence to my interpretation that your situational awareness is the central cause of your dilemma. As for your perception of my tone as "patronizing," I think you should take the chip off your shoulder and do a better job of engaging with those posts in this thread that do not agree with your positions.

Moreover, I think you should consider the utility of:
STFU and not arguing with, or trying to correct, everyone who doesn't see the situation the way you want. You believe that you're a victim of "unethical" conduct. Others aren't so sure. How about that.
Working to understand the answers that you've received from the department in question. (And these answers include the silences.)
Doing the necessary introspection to accept those answers in the spirit they were given--like it or not. (The bottom line is that the department in question--for what ever reason or reasons--just wasn't that into you.)
Taking another look in the mirror and figure out the mistakes you have made and continue to make.
IMO, the mistakes center around unvetted (if not also unsustainable) assumptions about:
Your understanding of how an academic department works.
Your understanding of the "ethics" of the Ivory Tower. (Have you received formal training and/or informal mentoring on how things get done in an academic department? Do you have work experience that would give you insight as to the ethical issues involved?)

[*]Focusing on how you might handle similar situations in the future. This process includes:

[*]Being better prepared to answer questions like "What kinds of other offers have you received?" (Why weren't you ready to answer this standard question in a way that advanced your interests?)
[*]Understanding better that there's a big difference between interacting in a way that is "friendly, patient, and polite, and so on" and actually being "friendly, patient, and polite." (IMO, "so on," as well as some of your other word choices and turns of phrases--to say nothing of this thread you've started--are tells. There's nothing wrong with not being a "people person." However, difficulties and confusion can follow when a person who isn't a "people person" thinks that he/she is.)
[*]Understand better the differences among a promising conversation, a verbal commitment, and an executable contract.

[*]Not making allegations of "unethical" behavior on an open internet forum.
[*]Confining one's ranting to a password protected document on your personal computer. Or a journal. Or both.
[*]Erasing your posts in this thread, asking an administrator to deactivate your account, coming back with a different username, and then using the advanced search function to study the posts by experienced graduate students in your field as well as the posts of Eigen, ktel, Sparky and fuzzylogician.
[*]Scrubbing the internet so that a cached version of this thread can not be tracked back to you. (A great way to beat the competition is to find ways to hoist them on their own petards. Or so I've heard.)
[*]Accepting the idea that sometimes the best revenge is living well.


Later, I suggest that you consider the feasibility of reaching out to the department in question and the scholar in question and mending fences. As things stand, you have nothing that they need or want. Down the line, you might need their help. In subsequent conversations about the institution in question, I recommend that you phrase your experiences with the kind of understatement that screams "trouble" to those versed in the hidden language of the academic world.

Wait! We're expected to marry our profs? Good to know. At least mine is relatively young and nerdhandsome. I'll start packing my trousseau.

After attending visiting days last week and speaking to many people I know who attend UChicago (some undergrads, some grads, some former MAPSS), I decided to accept another offer.
 
Some people I spoke to said that just being at UChicago-- no matter the program-- is a boon, that it's worth the money. But, more people than not said that the MAPSS program isn't the best option if you have any other offers (especially if they're PhD or even a marginally funded MA). One PhD friend of mine said that she has personally seen, on at least two occasions, professors (in history, I think) boot the MAPSS students from a classroom just because he/she thought the class too large. She also said that MAPSS students have to fight for professors to advise them.
 
That said, I wish the best of luck to everyone who plans on going. No matter what, it is still a good university.

I had a few friends who lived in University West and never heard any real complaints and their places seemed pretty nice (much better than my place at the time in the Marylander...stay away from the marylander) but that's about all I can really say about it.
 
I lived without a car for a long time (I used public transportation and zipcar) and I always thought it was easy to get around.  There are a lot of free shuttles and the bus system is decent.  Then I got a car and my I would definitely recommend bringing one if you can.  There is a lot to do in the area surrounding baltimore and in areas of Baltimore that are a bit harder to get to by public transportation.  Plus it makes it really easy to head over to DC for the day (there's a 7 dollar commuter train to DC but it doesn't run on weekends).  Depending on where you live, there is a lot of available street parking if you pay a 20 dollar yearly fee for a residential parking permit.  Some apartments have also have spots for rent but it isn't that expensive from what I've heard.

Being able to change your signature on Gradcafe from "Waitlisted at XXXXX" to "Attending XXXXX" is the best feeling ever.
I wish luck to everyone still waiting on your offers. THERE IS HOPE!

Just got a call from the DGS!

ACCEPTED!

Fully funded! Hopkins!

So many exclamation points!!!!!!!!

Being able to change your signature on Gradcafe from "Waitlisted at XXXXX" to "Attending XXXXX" is the best feeling ever.
I wish luck to everyone still waiting on your offers. THERE IS HOPE!

I got into, and accepted, an offer from Johns Hopkins with full funding. Waited till the last day, but it's still the outcome I wanted.

Just got a call from the DGS!

ACCEPTED!

Fully funded! Hopkins!

So many exclamation points!!!!!!!!

After attending visiting days last week and speaking to many people I know who attend UChicago (some undergrads, some grads, some former MAPSS), I decided to accept another offer.
 
Some people I spoke to said that just being at UChicago-- no matter the program-- is a boon, that it's worth the money. But, more people than not said that the MAPSS program isn't the best option if you have any other offers (especially if they're PhD or even a marginally funded MA). One PhD friend of mine said that she has personally seen, on at least two occasions, professors (in history, I think) boot the MAPSS students from a classroom just because he/she thought the class too large. She also said that MAPSS students have to fight for professors to advise them.
 
That said, I wish the best of luck to everyone who plans on going. No matter what, it is still a good university.

Just got a call from the DGS!

ACCEPTED!

Fully funded! Hopkins!

So many exclamation points!!!!!!!!

I got into, and accepted, an offer from Johns Hopkins with full funding. Waited till the last day, but it's still the outcome I wanted.

Just got a call from the DGS!

ACCEPTED!

Fully funded! Hopkins!

So many exclamation points!!!!!!!!

accepted off my waitlist today! feels like a total weight off my shoulders. time to look into houses... 
 
i hope everyone else gets good news soon!

Being able to change your signature on Gradcafe from "Waitlisted at XXXXX" to "Attending XXXXX" is the best feeling ever.
I wish luck to everyone still waiting on your offers. THERE IS HOPE!

Just got a call from the DGS!

ACCEPTED!

Fully funded! Hopkins!

So many exclamation points!!!!!!!!

Being able to change your signature on Gradcafe from "Waitlisted at XXXXX" to "Attending XXXXX" is the best feeling ever.
I wish luck to everyone still waiting on your offers. THERE IS HOPE!