sunpenguin

I hear you! What I've found helpful is scheduling family time on my calendar right alongside class time, work, and study time. Certain times are pre-planned and blocked in as off-limits for schoolwork because they belong to my husband and daughter.

Yay! It's such a good feeling to know where you're going and start to make plans. BU has a long list of vaccinations you need to have had, so I just had blood drawn for immunization titers this morning. Everything is being set in motion!

Me, too!

I found it hard, too. I had two programs that were still considering applications where I felt likely to be admitted, and I told them I had accepted an offer of admission elsewhere and would like to withdraw my application, and that it was great to meet them and then some other positive comment relevant to the interactions I'd had with them. For one school where I'd been admitted and where I really loved the program and the people there, I told them I hadn't expected the decision to be so hard and that it was with genuine regret that I had to decline their offer. They all replied with very nice emails saying they were glad I'd found a program I'm happy with and wishing me the best in the future.

So perfect!!! When do you think you'll move?

Did they give you any indication of whether they're likely to admit from the waitlist and how high your name is on the list? I'm waitlisted one place but they said that some years they don't get to admit from the waitlist at all and so far this year is shaping up to be one of those years...so that's when I went ahead and very happily accepted BU's offer.

Attending Boston University! It feels really good to have it decided.

Just emailed my POI at my top choice, which has promised to send out its responses within the next week, to find out if he knows my status yet. I would have just waited, except that the programs where I'm accepted want answers soon. I also want things settled so I can withdraw from anywhere I'm not attending and free up the spot for the next person on the list. We'll see if he emails me back!

Having lived in that area, I would say go for the commute, too! I did a training program in Brampton and commuted from Waterloo because I liked the Brampton program better than the ones available in Waterloo or Guelph, and I never regretted the commute. That was only a couple of days a week, and I drove, and it was very well worth it. Since you'll be able to do school work on the train, this seems like a great choice.

I do too! I have a great offer that I'm tempted to accept, but I would really kick myself if I do get into the other one I'm waiting for afterward. At least the existing top offer doesn't have an early deadline...I have until April 15.

Accompanying an acceptance to Harvard MCO: "Of course I am best student!" I love that one's exuberance.

"Pretty excited! Still have my fingers crossed for Hogwarts, though."

Something I also found helpful was to re-purchase access to the Mastering Biology online companion to the Campbell textbook and take all the online quizzes multiple times until I really knew and understood the answers. It gives you an interactive way to test yourself on what you're reading in the textbook, and there are also animated tutorials you can use to help reinforce most of the major concepts.

If I interviewed somewhere, and they pretty much implied they would be sending out all acceptances, rejections, and waitlist notifications at about the same time rather than accepting in waves, and acceptances went out today and I heard nothing...does that mean I won't be accepted? This is a department that's hoping for an incoming class that's two-thirds the size of the group they interviewed, so the odds initially seemed really good. But now that other people have been accepted and I'm hearing crickets...not so much. My POI definitely wanted me and was hoping for approval from the department. I haven't emailed him to ask what they've decided because I don't want to bug him or sound like I'm trying to influence the decision.

Congrats! :-D