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When I actually have my days off from work I find that I keep refreshing too much! Why don't I just play video games or something? It's the weekend! Especially since I'm expecting one school to be sending rejections soon, and another to be sending acceptances... I just want to fastforward a month. I do have one more application to finish up today, but other than that, I'm bad at waiting. I also keep wanting to plan where to live next year, but I obviously can't.

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Congratulations!

Anyone claiming Boston University? I didn't expect to see anything from them this soon.

Thanks for the info!

According to the results list, last year they sent waitlist notices on February 20 and rejections on March 1. There were no acceptances... but in 2012 people were accepted Feb 17 and Feb 20, so maybe they send waitlists and acceptances around the same time.

Not sure. I don't think I know them that well. I saw an acquaintance give my letter writer (since she was her letter writer too) a book and it just looked awkward (gift giving even with FRIENDS has been awkward for me). It just always seems like an odd forced thing where one person has to pretend they like the gift even if they don't. Like, it might be fun, but just... I'm too concerned with just giving them junk that'll just take up space. And gift cards seem weird too. Gift cards are the things that relatives send me when they barely know me, often for places I would never even go to. I think I'll do my best to write a nice thank-you note?

I got my first rejection a couple weeks ago. It was sad because it was my #1 choice and the first result I got back. But then last week I got an acceptance. The two combined, rejection from #1 and acceptance from a perfectly good school, means that the rest of the decisions don't seem as bad (although I do want to know them). Like I know I probably got rejected from one that sent out acceptances yesterday, and it's fine. Nothing personal. Still kind of sad about the #1 though. If I'm still feeling bitter about it in a couple years though, I suppose I can reapply as someone about to get an MA? Or more likely, I'm just trying to think about how to do the research I really wanted to do there, just at a school I actually get accepted too. Create my own possibilities and all that.

I was good up until Jan 15 when I finished my applications. Now I just really want my results. I think I have my Dec 1 results pretty much (rej, acp, implied rej) but now... the Jan 15 won't be around until beginning of Mar maybe and I'm tired of waiting. I browse this forum. Check the results page. Go on tumblr too much. Sleep. Go out to eat to ease my sorrow. Kind of stuff I already did, but it's been a bit worse lately. Maybe just because now I feel really in an in-between state. I work 8 hours a day too, but that's not really coping, just stuff I have to do.

Oh whoops, I checked less than five when I was thinking of it in terms of sociology, but I'm still volunteering in a psych lab where I'm doing a lit review so I go through maybe 20-50 a month. But I can get away with skimming a lot of them. I have a lot of gender studies booked checked out that I'm trying to make my way through right now though. I haven't really looked for general sociology articles though (which is the field I'm switching to for grad school). I guess I find it more important to keep up with stuff more specific to my interests even if they're not technically in the field or a proper journal article.

I was about to start work. It's annoying because I check my e-mail when I get out of my first job, then I have two and a half hours break, but I remember this and my rejection from a program came after that around a half-hour before my next job (so it comes basically while I'm riding my bike there). So it's like a few minutes before work starts again and I'm checking my personal e-mail AND I FIND OUT so I'm going on gradcafe and trying to get my stuff posted before I'm supposed to start work. Then I have to contain my excitement (or in the case a week earlier, major disappointment) throughout work. And then a little while later I ducked out for a few minutes to call a parent. And it was the day before my birthday and I was so sad about my rejection the week before, so this was great. After work I treated myself to a crepe. Except I might have treated myself when I was rejected too. Who knows.

Congrats! That's my only acceptance so far too, so maybe I'll be seeing you around.

Anyone have details on University of South Florida acceptances? I wanted to apply to their PhD program, but it said they required a master's, so I applied to their MA instead (which I turned in early around Jan 15, but isn't due until Feb 15, so I feel like I'll be waiting awhile). Do you have a master's? Did their e-mail sound nice? Decent funding?

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You could probably ask the U Florida grad coodinator about it (she's really nice). I got accepted last Tuesday, but I know someone who received a rejection the Thursday before that, so... they definitely aren't going out all at once. I feel like you should hopefully get some sort of official decision soon.

I got an e-mail from a school today saying that the professor I was interested in no longer studies what I want to study. He's a big name, but the program isn't top 20 or anything so it was kind of my of my more realistic to actually be accepted applications. They e-mailed to ask if I was still interested in the program, since they know mentors are important. (Well, my fault too for not e-mailing him before applying!) On the plus side, it's still a joint Women's Studies and Sociology program, which none of the others I'm applying to are. And I had named one other professor that at least worked sort of in a similar area. I mean, I already did the application, paid for everything, but it's true I wouldn't want to keep my application active if I'm not going to consider going if I got accepted. It's hard though. I'll have to look more into the program again with this in mind. It's nice the program e-mailed me at least. Ugh, it's just a shame, because out of the other programs I still haven't heard back from, two are very likely that I'll be rejected, one is a master's program, and the last one is this PhD program. So I have to think hard about it.

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I got accepted to University of Florida today, funding for four years. This is my alma mater and the one the program that invited me to visit earlier this month (and which is did go visit). However, someone that also visited those days got a rejection last week, so I guess it's true they hadn't 100% decided yet. (I think that's unfortunate... we got along well, and the program implied that we were all fairly likely to get in. Oh well.) At the time this was due (Dec 1) I also sent in an application to the Women's Studies MA program, but that wasn't due until January 15 and now today they emailed me saying I'm missing some documents. I'm unsure if I should finish the application, or withdraw it? I heard that this program actually does offer some funding, but it would be silly to turn down a PhD program for a terminal MA (there is no Women's Studies doctoral program here), right? ...Actually, I think I answered my own question. I should probably just withdraw it and give other people a chance. Besides, all the professors I'm interested in are affiliated with both sociology AND women's studies, so sociology should be fine. (As much as a love our Women's Studies department... I can get a grad certificate in women's studies and/or take elective classes in women's studies.) Anyway, I'm excited I got in somewhere! It might not be high-ranked program or anything, but I'll still be happy even if this ends up being my only acceptance.

University of Arizona? (Hoping it's not some other "UA" I don't really have any other details to go on.) I thought about applying there but backed out when I saw how in depth of a statement they needed, and didn't think I was quite ready... congrats though! Hope you produce some awesome Women's Studies research.

Today I got rejected from the only non-sociology program I applied to so now I'm even more anxious about hearing back from the soc programs, boo hoo. At least U Chicago seems consistent about when they accept & reject so I can "look forward to" that (not really hopeful about that one, I doubt anyone is). So now I just cross my fingers my alma mater gets back to me soon (since that's my only other Dec 1 app) and that my Jan 15 applications get processed at a decent rate. I've been living off of comfort food for the past couple weeks. (It doesn't help that I've been sick with a cold too.) Glad notifications are starting to go out though.

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An ad for the 2014 Ford Focus, which isn't very relevant to me... I don't even know how to drive. I think it's more relevant when it's an ad based on something I searched more recently, like one sponsored by google. But really I must admit I usually don't pay attention to them and had to look that it was even there after you mentioned it.

I applied to my Alma Mater, but to a different program than what I majored in so I've never taken a class with any of the professors and haven't even met all but one. My POI used to my undergrad advisor a few years back, but that didn't seem like a big deal because we just talked a few times, but I never even took a class with them or anything. So that's probably a little different. I admit that I didn't want to apply to the program where I majored in partly because I didn't want to be around all the same professors... or be rejected by the professors I worked with and then feel really bad about it. But I'd definitely consider going if I were accepted. I also applied to a master's program in one of my major fields, so I know more people there, but especially since it's just a master's I think it might actually help for it to be my alma mater and where I already live, so maybe I could keep my job and my current contacts, yet still work with plenty of new professors.