monkey_business - yes thank you that helps a ton! that means I will be refreshing my email every 10 seconds , but at least your warned me to bring a phone charger
I couldn't disagree more completely with you. Applicants are PAYING MONEY to have their application managed. This means more than just an evaluation by the admissions committee; it should also include communicating to students the status of their application on request. Of course, some anxious students probably email excessively, but this is apparently not the case for the OP or apparently many people on this board.
This attitude of "professors are too busy to deal with graduate students (or prospective students)" really bugs me. If a faculty member is too busy to deal with the responsibilities of admissions, they shouldn't agree to be involved. If all faculty members/administrators are too busy or unwilling to put in the effort, then maybe the department shouldn't be running a graduate program in the first place or at the very least should find some people willing to manage it better.
Penguin123 got a reaction from monkey_business in Has anyone communicated with Stanford?