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    Rejected from Yale as well. Though found their email link at least explained that it was to speed up making life decisions which I found more acceptable than Berkeley's approach. Commiserations to other rejected candidates :-)
  2. Really agree with this. I feel sad that I was stupid enough to apply to several schools where I was not a great fit and had little chance including COlumbia. I would advise people to careful about the idea called "reach schools" If you have no chance or are a bad fit I would say (on my experience) forget about it. Just apply where you can get in. REally to spend 100$ for them to skim your file and toss it in the garbage can...you should think more about that.
  3. James Franco didn't get funding!
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    Congratulations Washington and Kentucky people!
  5. It's the end of the week. And I expected more news! Is there terrible weather in America? I guess I thought to hear from several schools this week! Based on the result page from looking at 2013/2012 and earlier
  6. No I just really wanted to start a debate about whether it was better to get this type of rejction or no. Seems most people think there is no differnce between a letter and this type of go check the site. Seems to be overwhelming majority view that this behavior is ok. Fine! So I will not reappear here or reignite all the hatreds.
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    If somebody doesn't claim the Indiana acceptance then I'm going to create a new thread entitled Indiana's Insouciance and then get called insane. I'M WARNING YOU. Admit you were admitted.
  8. Lol i have done my MA thesis and now i WATCH MY BOYFRIEND DO HIS! Lol visiting him at his university. I read one page or two of books then I go back to misery
  9. yeah would be great if all came in one week so we don't have so much mental torment for much longer!
  10. Pour yourself a wine Catand scarves! It works for me. i think u will be fine I thnk you already have acceptances and I feel there will be mroe for you!
  11. Oh sorry to hear it Bookishvixen. There is nothing great I can say to you only to say: keep focus on your own work and how your own research goes. That is what keeps me going during rejections! If you want to become historian, that will be your own task.
  12. OK! just dont be afraid to be angry with bad treatment! we are all people still after this treatment. good night!
  13. I'm being serious about this too tho u can press the red button like its some knife you put in me. well done for that.
  14. I'm not laughing I'm really quite sad yea I'm crying a bit too. ive complained to all the housemates and my boyfriend and they are sleeping and i'm complaing to you. i also did to my mom. and berekeley.
  15. I just cried when this happened. I expected the rejection but I just cried about how it came. And then I drank and I have kept doing that since when it came which was evening here. i'll be ok again but still think i'll be sad about what they treated us like.
  16. I apologise already, I was wrong to say it like as just an American thing. But there it is very different and 100$x5 applications is yea 500$ Many poor people on here have applied for more than this by three. The people who are so dismissive remember this is a lot of money for some. Probably not the ones who go to Berkely which mostly will be for the weatlthy class. Some exceptions but mostly merit from wealth. I wanted to go there too, I want to do phd, I have no money, i will be part of that perhaps somehwere tho I feel so insecure about it. Still I think it's suck if you accept it blindly and don't try to sound like them. And yes they are a THEM. they have money and most of us dont and wont. And i really find a lot of people who are probably men are ganging up and wading in behind to say shut up you annoying foreing person just as when i elsewhere criticized anti-woman stereotype. But it's fine I expected you to be here.
  17. And all your voices sound like authority. Like by rationalising the system and you'll be part of it then. By mimicking the "reasonable voices" maybe you too will get to be a 'reasonable voice" some day. Good luck to the world.
  18. Poor foreign people like me don't get fee waivers for either those things. So we apply $100 to look up a form email instead of even an email with my name on that. Still can be form, just send the rejection instead of treating me like this lab rat following a trail. But you don't get it, you want your system to work, you want to believe that is better than all the alternatives etc. But sigh at most of the response here. You're American and this is all you've ever known but and I know you have to live in that system every day, but I think you should have very little faith in these systems and that they will have given more than minimal attention to your file. So I'm glad you're not feeling degraded as I feel by this style of rejection, the actual way in which you get an email saying check another place and what? It's sad when you dont' feel that any more.
  19. Berkeley was a bad fit and I may discover that my application for other institutions wasn't so great. But I'm completely astonished that people will accept their treatment at the hands of Berkeley. As a foreign student, I had to pay $100 to apply to Berkeley. In my home country, it is free to apply for graduate school. Where is my money? Berkeley mismatched my GRE scores and didn't even bother to tell me. Then they said out a totally dehumanizing email telling me to check my account and then just read some form rubbish. I'm going to write a letter to Ethan Shagan, who is responsible for this degrading treatment. YES RESPONSIBLE. He is department chair and under his watch this has happened. Please can others join me. His email address is: shagan@berkeley.edu Here is the website of this gentleman: http://history.berkeley.edu/people/ethan-h-shagan And really, please don't post nonsense about this being the process and me being p'd off. Obviously I'm upset not to be admitted but I'm ANGRY that this is the way people are treated. And please understand, if this is how they treat you now at this august institution, this is how they will treat you when you finally get your PhD from wherever. Just don't take this from them. Please
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    Good luck with interview Catsandscarves :-)
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    Could I ask the latest Berkeley admit which field? Feel free to PM! And CONGRATULATIONS :-)
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