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Congrats heythereman, I can imagine that choosing is difficult and time consuming. I only got into one school:-( But the funding offer is excellent (no TAing) and my potential advisors are brilliant, so I can't complain! My advice would be to contact 2 of your potential advisors' past students, one of whom who is in a tenure track job and the other who isn't. Ask them if they can recall any specific instances when advisor X provided support/encouragement...or didn't.... Re Columbia, I have heard that it is one of those places (like Chicago) where you have to be careful that the people on your committee get along. Otherwise, your work can became the staging grounds for a battle of personalities. Of course they both have outstanding faculty. Best of luck to you in deciding! Any to anybody else still waiting!

I would think that a school would email everybody accepted in one go, but it seems that this is not always the case....all i can say is that the process is extremely frustrating!!! It would be much better if all PhD prgrams agreed to a common notification date and stuck to the policy. That way, everybody would receive results from all schools within a couple of days.

i haven't heard anything either! how do you all feel about emailing potential advisors/program directors? they are probably swamped with requests for status updates, but it would be soooo nice to have an answer....