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  1. jnah

    Gainesville, FL

    If anyone's looking for a housing recommendation, I can recommend Towne Parc. I lived there for three years. It's serviced by three bus routes, all of which will get you to a major hub on campus in about 10-15 minutes. The property owners are brothers, exceedingly kind and responsive, and with great memories to boot: after living there for a year, and having only spoken to them once that whole time, they remembered my name and which apartment I lived in. There's a pool, a small gym, W/D in many of the units (and laundry facilities at the complex for those who don't have a W/D)—and there's a medium-sized pond in the middle of the complex, complete with hilarious, territorial goose. The buildings themselves look a bit dated, but the apartments are nice and well-sized for the price (although I'm sure those have gone up since I lived there). I heard a few parties in the three years I lived there, but nothing excessive. There were a good mix of undergraduates, graduate students, and families. Also, they're pet friendly (no weight limit for dogs; not one that was enforced anyway)—I had to pay a pet deposit, but there was no monthly pet fee.
  2. Very helpful, Sarochan—thanks! I too will (very likely) be attending WWU in the fall, so if anyone else has experience with life in Bellingham and can offer their perspective, that would be great!
  3. Thanks, folks. I had no idea it was so common. I didn't have to put down a deposit for my first grad program, so this caught me completely offguard. I probably could've had less of an immediately emotional reaction, but then we would have missed out on the delightful theatrics above. Right now, it's ambiguous whether the fee is a deposit toward the normal fees or a separate fee entirely. I'll have to ask about that.
  4. Thanks for the kind words. I'm happy I was able to offer you the opportunity to be unpleasant.
  5. It's hard to believe this a real thing, but one of the programs that accepted me has a decision form online, and at the end of that decision form, it says that if I accept admission, I need to "confirm [my] intent to enroll by submitting the admission confirmation fee"—which, as it turns out, is just as excessively expensive as the application fee was. Is this common? Has anyone else ever encountered it before? It seems utterly ridiculous to me, and I'm tempted to complain to the graduate school... but I don't want to be too hasty.
  6. I don't have an answer for you, but I can lend you my solidarity-in-sorrow. Our situations actually share many details: high GPA (4.0 here), two years of research, no pubs, but a couple conference presentations, great verbal and analytical GRE scores... but lower than the 50th percentile on the quantitative section (I don't have any doubt that this has been a serious detriment to my chances). Oh, and I applied to a similar number of Social psychology programs: 5 for me. Where our situations differ is that I'm not really in an area where "getting in with a lab" of any kind of notability or productivity is possible. I have a huge amount of anxiety of what I'm going to do if I get rejected everywhere. I haven't been officially rejected from anywhere yet, but I know that one is a bust (Oregon) because I didn't receive an interview, and I'm pretty sure another is about to be a bust (British Columbia) because I haven't received an interview, and I'm told that most of the invites have gone out. I don't know if my other three programs interview, but I haven't heard a peep from any of them or my POIs. And, like you, I don't have any idea what to do. I've flirted with the idea of a Master's in experimental psych—in fact, I just submitted an application for one program because I've started to really fear a total shut-out—but I just don't know how wise that decision would be. I've heard conflicting advice. So I'll be watching this thread with interest.
  7. I applied to UBC Social. Haven't received an invite, so it sounds like I can cross another one off the list. ::sigh:: If so, that's now my top two choices gone.
  8. And yet, somebody evidently did touch your application in the end! Are you able to say a little bit more about that? Do you think you just got lucky, or did you somehow successfully lobby for it? I'm particularly interested in your perspective because I'm an American who applied to a Canadian university—given your location, probably the very university you're at—without any external funding (except for the potential of federal student loans, which is not a route I'd like to go down). I knew going into the application that this set of circumstances would work against me, but it's just such a great research fit... I had to apply.
  9. It looks like you're my Californian counterpart then, because I also applied to the MA in Social Psych and am not a Canadian. Who's your POI? (Feel free to PM me.) It would be a pretty astonishing coincidence if we shared that too!
  10. I'm with you there. If they already know they're rejecting us, why make us agonize for months before sending the official rejection? We shouldn't be forced to send awkward emails to grad coordinators or POIs asking if there's any hope.
  11. You're the only other person I've seen mention British Columbia. I applied there too but haven't heard anything yet. Their website says—"Files will be reviewed starting in early December with early decisions made by mid-January. All offers of admission will be made by April 1, 2015."—which is about as vague as you can get unless you're an "early decision."
  12. I emailed my POI at Oregon earlier, and he said that the lack of interview invite meant I was "out of the running for admission"—which seemed to be a pretty definitive statement to me, i.e., no waitlist. This may vary by POI though.
  13. Anyone here apply to UBC and have heard from them (or their respective POIs)?
  14. Wow, that is really disappointing. I had high hopes for Oregon. My immediate thought was—perhaps they don't interview everyone they accept. But that just seems like a delusional attempt to not be incredibly devastated right now.
  15. I'm glad you posted this. I applied to five Social programs, and I haven't heard anything—officially from the programs or even unofficially from POIs. The anxiety this silence is producing is almost too much.
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