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Well I think that's just it; a lot of us would like to move on, but it's hard not to hold onto a glimmer of hope until you get that rejection letter in your hand. Which is why I for one would like the rejection to come along speedily.

Haha. Next year we'll just have 45 "0% Confidence" threads going on.

I think it will actually show up as a link on the main page (under your list of recommenders) that says "decision available" or something like that. That's what it looked like for Northwestern, and they also use Apply Yourself.

I already have an MA, so that can't be the only reason responses seem to be taking so long. I would like to hope that they are mulling over more acceptances or waitlists, but based on this board there are lot of people still waiting to hear. I'm just afraid to get my hopes up.

Someone, very helpfully, just posted on the results board that Cornell will be contacting people at the end of next week. I suppose that means we're spared the guillotine this weekend, aka free to behead a million daisies, announcing "they love me! they love me not!" all weekend.

I'm still operating with radio silence from 9 programs! This is my life right now: Check Email. Check Grad Cafe Results. Check Grad Cafe Forums. Gnash Teeth. Immediately Repeat.

That's what I thought! The bonus to reading Chapter 1 many times is that I know it fairly well.

I didn't find anything in my spam folder, either, so I bit the bullet and sent them an email. All this radio silence is doing a number on my sanity!

Haha, StatelyPlump, I love it!! I couldn't agree more. Also, is your handle a Ulysses reference? I've read the first chapter about 6 times, and then I always get distracted. This summer my goal is to finish the three novels I'm most frequently saying I'd like to read: Ulysses, The Invisible Man, and Middlesex.

Ah, to be such a lucky soul.

The problem with such a wait list....who turns down Harvard or Yale??

Hmm, mine still says "Awaiting Program Decision"

I want Cornell very badly, and I'm pretty confident it's not going to happen. Most of all, I just want everyone to get back to me already, damn it. So I can make a bed out of my mountain of rejections and start licking my wounds.

Boston is a really expensive city; I love it here, but it's pricey. Think long & hard about the $$ and what you would hope to get out of the MA. I did it (not at BU) and I'm really happy about the decision, but I don't know that it was the wisest economically speaking.

Is anyone else partially hoping for across the board rejections at this point, so you can start over and fix all the things that were (now you can see clearly and glaringly) wrong with your application? Or am I just a masochist?

Thanks, Germaine! Congrats to you too! Can you arrange a visit at your wait-list school? I have a friend who was wait-listed, visited with some of the faculty, and was accepted a week later! I think it can really help your chances, when they see how interested you are and how awesome you are. What's your field?

@Germaine, I haven't heard a peep, either. I'm assuming rejection.

Here's my theory: with 700+ students to reject, they must be updating people/the website in batches. After a flurry of excitement over the potential for wait listing, I will now return to assuming rejection.

Also, I really wish they wouldn't taunt me with "Congratulations, Rainy_day! Your application has been successfully submitted." Didn't your mother teach you any manners? Don't say congratulations unless you mean it, Columbia!

This, please. (I'm slowly spiraling into madness.)

Okay, between Columbia and now a Rutgers wait list tonight, I might need to stay away from grad cafe for a few weeks for my mental health. This resolution will last an hour, tops.

Best news I heard all year. Let's print this up on some billboards to get us through the next month!

Trip, congrats on that $$ from CUNY. I hear they aren't always too generous with the funding, so I'm happy to hear that! Of course, I would like you to go to UMass, where we could be colleagues together, and I also want you to go anywhere else.

Hahaha! What a lovely moment! Congrats, Earl Grey--and everyone else. You certainly deserve it!

Trip, it's like you read my mind! I've been on the look-out for some teaching resources of just this sort. Thanks!