smarty06

Heard officially from my 2nd top school that I got accepted, and heard sort of unofficially that I'd be recommend for admission from my top school. 2nd top school wants an answer by March 18th!! Don't know when I'll finally hear from my top school. Definitely losing my mind.....

I got an email the other day from UBC saying I was being accepted as a candidate, pending review by the faculty of graduate studies. I was really shocked because based on what it said on the websites I wasn't expecting to hear from schools officially until at least the end of March. In the email they also said I needed to make a decision by March 18th. Is that early? I see above someone has a deadline of March 8th!! This seems like a big and unnecessary handicap to put on an already hard decision It seems like they are putting a lot of pressure on me to say yes, without even informing me about potential funding. I'm a little confused, and a little conflicted because I've been contacted by another university, but not officially. I talked to the director of the program I applied to at SFU who told me that they liked my application at that they were recommending me for admission. I know that this is not official, and it might even take a few weeks for everything to get processed if I am officially accepted. These are the top two school I wanted to get into and deciding on one is going to be very difficult. Now adding the fact that they appear to be operating on significantly different deadlines for accepting students I am even more stressed. I'm afraid to reject one before hearing the offer from the other and being able to come to a clear decision. Any thoughts or opinions would be appreciated, I think I need to hear someone else's thoughts about this. This is all I've thought about for several days, and I just needed to get this out.