IRTheoryNerd

Starting the day with some wishful thinking:
 
Today, I am going to get admitted by my top choice.

My fingers are crossed that we'll hear from the University of Michigan before Friday. And a second wave of acceptances from Chicago, Duke, or NYU would make a lot of people happy.

Hello fellow DC-er. I say stay strong and don't overestimate the veracity of thegradcafe responses. For all the information sharing, we have little knowledge where in the process of finalizing decisions most of these schools are. So just wait for a confirmation. That will be the only sure thing. The rest is just conjecture. And not even testable conjecture. ;-)

LOL, indeed.

LOL, indeed.

I remember my year, UCLA did the whole blast admit, and I assumed that I had not been admitted. Then I got an e-mail a few days later from a POI congratulating me on being admitted (note: not notifying me of my admittance, but an e-mail that took it as given that I knew I had been admitted), and asking if I wanted to set up a phone call to talk about it. I said sure, that sounds great, but I haven't heard from anyone and I was under the impression that others had already been admitted, so was he sure that I had actually been accepted to the program? He responded with something like "I doubt they would have contacted anyone else yet, given that you were ranked first on our IR list". I guess they had forgotten to send me an e-mail somehow?

In a less exciting but still related story, Rochester had admitted people all at once historically (to my recollection). So when they admitted a bunch of students on here, I figured I was out, especially when I didn't hear for a few days; I even started discussing my other options with people on the assumption that I hadn't been admitted there. Then I got a phone call from them while I was making lunch.

Suffice to say, sometimes you don't want to jump to conclusions.

An acceptance just got posted for UC Berkeley whoa oh man

I got my first acceptance this morning and I feel like a completely different person. It's actually unbelievable the shift--this admissions season was really wreaking havoc on my sanity. 

Whywhywhywhy do my schools take so long to issue decisions. Whywhywhywhy.
 
 
...why?