Sol_Barber

Congratulations to everybody who received an acceptance the last days - and thanks to everybody who shared stats and other information (special thanks to those who reported rejections - brave folks - it is greatly appreciated). Compared to last year the week was quite active, right? Wonder what is going to happen next week Wish you all a nice Sunday

nah that wasn´t what I meant. It was just one post and, so far, no one claimed it (would be quite early) - so it it not real yet

Taken from recent years - if you don´t get an interview you are rejected. And the interviews seem to be send out all at once. Or, anyone got different information?

Anyone claiming the Rutgers Interview? Seems pretty early, or? Ahh, guess we will know soon

Congrats! Must be a relief. And thanks for posting - did you add to the results?

So far we have: No Rejections Interviews at University of Virginia, Rice University and Notre Dame (all claimed) Acceptances at University of California Davis (4, some claimed) and University of California Los Angeles (1, early, not yet claimed) Just to keep this thread updated.

Congratulations! All Davis applicants up early today?

You have quite a positive attitude - I would have added: and Rejections

And University of Virginia comes up at the result search

Hard to tell I think you sound great (on paper ) I have also applied to Binghamton ... what is the ASPECT program? (looked it up - sounds also very interesting)

"And the other day you made me a smoothie!" But nice to hear that your visit went well - again: good luck!

Hey - there are some programs with February deadlines I am looking at and one program (MA) has an April deadline. I applied to some of the programs we discussed (see you there ) but I also scratched programs off my list - NYU for example pretty sure I would not stand a chance to get in there. I also checked the results page for hints off when to expect results and most of my programs answer in late February or March. By the way, someone just posted a notice from NC State that they had 80 applicants - that does not sound a lot, or? I mean I have no way of comparing that number, but ...?

And more: You should have known that ... is about to retire in two years, ... is on a sabbatical and that ... has offers from other universities and is likely to accept - but we refuse to update our website (since 2010). On a a related note: we refuse to answer any email requests. WE ARE FACULTY! WE ARE BUSY!!!

Congrats on being done! I am sure ADD MOST COMMON QUOTE FROM I still have three applications to go - but I will wait another week or so before I get back to them. By the way - this might be the week the first schools send out results!? But none of those I applied to

I agree with the points that were made and some of the twitter posts are pretty funny (My favorite: I have many misconceptions but am willing to waste the rest of my 20s helping keep your Ponzi scheme going). None the less 'the realities' are narrated in a pretty one sided way and only few show hints of self humor or self irony. What is about universities taking students with poor fits, due too high scores or high reputation of a persons undergrad university or due to the high reputation of letter writers (all mentioned diverse times on this board, for example (taken from the adcomm thread (great thread)): we could not accept students who would have been a perfect fit and would have been great in our department, due to too low scores for our amazing department.). Or what about not making the admission process more transparent and so make it easier to conform to the demands. Or what about being in charge of the admission process, the undergrad education (don´t know about that - studied abroad), the preparation for grad school etc. and structuring it in such a poor way that they themselves complain about it (related: why are so few departments doing interviews if it is all about fit). I mean it is just pretty easy to turn the perspective around and make a truthfulgradadmissioncommittee twitter thing. For example: We are happy to welcome you as a student - you are a perfect fit! And of course we know, that we are unable to recruit more qualified candidates. Or: You are too bad for our PhD program, but we would gladly take your money for our Masters program, where we do not care about you and promise to not prepare you for a PhD. (yes, one sided and untrue) But than again - twitter might not be the right place for reflections on one´s own behavior, but just a place for quick laughs. That´s fine with me