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  1. 34 minutes ago, The Interdisciplinarian said:

    Another day of no word. I am going absolutely bonkers. Friends who've applied to things are getting word (different programs). I'm getting nothing.

    I'm seriously getting depressed, folks.

    *pours a brew for you, @BooksCoffeeBeards, and whoever else wants one/is in Februgatory*

    *or tea or coffee or apple juice*

    No really, I have a friend who gets apple juice whenever we all go out. It's just really cute ... 

  2. Just now, nightfarmer said:

    Ha! Every once in a while someone will quote something kind of obscure that you have a huge appreciation for. Sorry about the rejection, but I think you've found the best possible approach for dealing with it. Another great That M&W Look quote related to what I study, "are we the baddies?"

    Meanwhile in the history world, Indiana is dragging out admissions as well as rejections over several days. At this point I've dodged the rejection bullet 2 days running, which gives me a lot of hope. Last year I'm pretty sure I got the generic letter in the first or second wave. Hopefully this means I'm either accepted

    OMG I love the "Are we the baddies?" skit! I love the grammar nazi one, the one where they're naming the countries, and the rocket science/brain surgery skits, too! So many good ones!

    My favorite part of their bit as commentators is when David Mitchell walks in with his hands full of beers, then Webb tells him "You've missed the first part!" and without even looking at what's happening in the game, Mitchell runs over to the mic and goes "Oh, and that's a bad miss!" haha just little details like that crack me up XD

    I hope you get accepted to Indiana!! I'm so happy you've dodged the rejection bullets! Good job!

  3. Just now, ts1493 said:

    sorry to hear it @gingin6789.  Hopefully one of your acceptances will prove to be a good match.  Are you leaning towards one in particular, or waiting to visit and feel it out?  Good luck with Vandy! :)

    Thank you so much for your support! Oh, I feel great about the fit of each of my acceptances! I'm so excited to visit all the programs, too! I might have to Skype in for the one program's visitation day, but I hope to formally visit another day!

    Yes, I'm trying to keep an open mind and wait until I do all my visits to get a feel for which program would be the best fit for me. I've been told that visits can change all the conceptions of a program you had before, so I'm trying to keep that in mind!

    My visits start in six days!! So excited!

    Thank you for asking!

    When is your visit to the program you got accepted to? =) I hope you have fun!

  4. Just now, ConsciousKid said:

    I completely get it @gingin6789. It is nice to have closure though isn't it? The things you pointed out could have made a difference, nonetheless you got into some great programs and you will have some tough decisions to make. Also, have my fingers crossed for you and Vandy :)

    OMG it is SO nice to have closure!!! I'm just so glad they got back to me @___@

    And you're so right. I'm just so thankful and PUMPED about the programs I've been accepted to!! Each one seems like they really want me, and that feels GREAT. 

    Thank you for the Vandy support as well! We'll see what they have to say, hopefully soon enough!

    Also, congratulations to you again on BROWN!!!

  5. Just now, ConsciousKid said:

    @gingin6789 Keep your head up! You got into some amazing schools. I also got rejected from Brandeis, but I knew I was a bad fit. I applied because it was close to home and I had a fee wavier. Brandeis has a great program, but my research interests just didn't fit. Congrats to all those accepted!

    Oh I'm not too sad at all!I posted that pic because I thought it was funny more than anything else. I love Mitchell and Webb and their commentator characters!

    Brandeis is SUPER selective. While I felt it was a great fit, I made the mistake of sending in my very quant mater's thesis proposal as writing sample, and I know they have a very qual department. I also said I'd love to focus in the religion concentration, but my sample had nothing to do with religion! I would have been better off sending in my undergrad writing sample which focused on religion and contraception in the media. 

    And that's just the stuff that MIGHT have helped me that I HAD control over. I know there are various factors I had NO control over. Whether my POIs were working with other students and couldn't take on any more, whether my GRE scores were just a tad below what my competitors had, etc ... so much out of my control.

    So really, I truly "ain't even mad." I totally get how complex the process is!

    Thank you for your kind words of support *hugs*

  6. 2 minutes ago, TakeruK said:

    That's true sometimes. But some schools, like my program, do not do admits in waves. With a few exceptions (e.g. uncommon cases like @rising_star's above), we only send one set of offers and we get who we get. The philosophy is that in the long term, the class sizes average out. This practice is in line with the real world (and academic) job market---when you apply for jobs, if you ever get notified of a negative result, it would likely only happened after the chosen candidate actually starts work.

    But I think another reason there is a lag is because working with accepted students to arrange visits etc. is a lot of work and consumes a lot of everyone's time (faculty, current students and especially administrative staff). It also consumes a lot of on-campus resources across the campus. It sounds a little mean, but unfortunately, it's in everyone's best interests to focus on the accepted students first and coordinate visits etc. with them. Once that is done, then there's time to send rejections and answer the many emails that undoubtedly will come (maybe you would just accept the rejection, but as you see from other posts on this forum, many people will want to email the programs and find out why exactly they were rejected etc.).

    Also, it sounds like my program does form rejection via the grad school. If you were accepted,  you would get a call from a POI first, then a formal acceptance from the Grad School. But rejections are sent directly from the Grad School. I think what happens is that each program will forward names of accepted students, and then once they have finalized decisions, they tell the Grad School that they are finished. Maybe the Grad School waits until every program does this and then batch sends all the rejections at once. And during this time, they are very busy with both processing incoming students and doing admin work for current students. For example, I submitted all required paperwork for candidacy in February last year and my department approved in a few days, but the Grad School didn't get around to formally approving it until July! 

    All of this makes perfect sense, as does @rising_star's post.

    That's not mean at all. Coordinating travel is SO HARD. I can only imagine how tough it is coordinating travel for a bunch of admits, when it's been so difficult for me to coordinate travel as an individual. 

    And that part about the grad school vs department notifying acceptances and rejections makes total sense as well!

    Thank you both for clarifying! Makes me feel better about the wait.

  7. 10 hours ago, TakeruK said:

    Maybe. As others said, it could mean anything. It could be that no decisions have been made yet. Or, they have made the first set of acceptances and rejections but you are still a "maybe". Or, it could mean you will get a rejection letter in a few weeks.

    For example, my program makes almost all of its admission decisions in mid-January. However, we do not inform the people we decline until late February. So, I think at this point, for my program, if you have not yet heard anything, it's almost certainly a rejection. But on the other hand, another program in my field was just starting to give interview invites when all the other programs I applied to were sending out rejections. So, other than using the "Results Search" to see when results are typically announced for your programs, there's really not much information to be gained from hearing no response at this time.

    So, sometimes programs don't notify rejected applicants right away on the off chance they could turn into accepted applicants if admits turn down their offers/they find more funding and more spots open up? 

    Just clarifying/wondering why there's sometimes that lag between acceptances and rejections.

  8. Just now, raaawr said:

    are you visiting all 6 states consecutively or are you going to one state then home then another state then home and so on? I would suggest to pack light and get one of those small but spacious (but still fits on the accepted carry-on luggage dimensions) luggage bag with the wheels so you don't have to check in your luggage and wait around the baggage claim every time and it's easy to lug around. :)

    It's more like one state, then home, and so on. For one of the trips, I might not even be there overnight, so that's good!

    Thank you for the advice! I actually had a small suitcase, but my gran usurped it haha. So, I'm on the lookout for another one.

  9. Hi All,

    I figure a lot of you are more well-traveled than me. I didn't get on my first plane til I was 21 (5 years ago). I've only been on two trips via airplane, total. My family never traveled much. I've lived in PA all my life, and the farthest west I've been is Nashville, farthest east New Jersey, farthest north was New York, farthest south was North Carolina.

    Sooo ... the fact that I'm visiting six states over the span of just as many weeks is pretty amazing for me. 

    It's also a bit daunting.

    I was wondering: What sort of essential travel tips would you give to the unseasoned traveler?

  10. 3 hours ago, bugabooo said:

    I wake up due to hunger almost every night between 2-4am. I just keep snacks near my bed so I don't wake up my whole apartment messing around in the kitchen. It gets worse with stress... so obvi I've been waking up every single night lately. Trail mix is a go-to item. I stopped fighting my body on this a long time ago, since I'd rather snack than lose sleep because my stomach is growling!

    That's a good idea! I do live alone, so luckily I don't have to worry about waking anyone else. I'm much better at resisting the snack if I'm with my husband! I'd worry too much about waking him lol.

    Trail mix is a good idea! I've been trying to stick to granola bars, but my husband sent me a giant bucket of cookies for V-Day, and they've been hard to resist!

  11. *gets woken up in the middle of the night*

    Body: Oh good, you're up! That means breakfast! 

    Me: no, body, let's just.. Let's just try to get back to sleep now. 

    Body: no... But we're up now... And when we're up, that means breakfast. 

    Me: but it's 3am! You know better! 

    Body: *gives me a wave of hunger* but I'm hungry nowwwwww

    And this is why a middle-of-the-night snack is so hard to resist. 

  12. 2 hours ago, Cat_Robutt said:

    BoJack Horseman is probably the most accurate depiction of Los Angeles out there, and a pretty good depiction of depression as well.

    Diva pups are the cutest! My parents have a spoiled rotten pug who runs the household :P

    Hehehe!! See, Jack knows he's cute, and he even pretends to hate having his photo taken, but then he'll pose for the camera! He's a cute diva though :-) I'd love to meet a diva pug! 

    @sjoh197Oh what a sweet story! I'm so glad this little kitty is getting a forever home with you! I think your name idea is wonderful! 

  13. 6 minutes ago, Cat_Robutt said:

    Now I have to ask if you watch BoJack Horseman because....Bo....Jack... 

    They are such cuties, btw! 

    Omg when I first heard of that show, I freaked out cause it said BoJack!! Haha! I haven't started that show yet though!

    Aw thank you! They're just little babies!! Even though Jack is quite the diva sometimes and Bo can be quite demanding for treats!

  14. 12 hours ago, flop said:

    Not all schools have the day off. I was crazy enough to look up the academic calendar for every school I applied to. Ha.

    I think I mentioned earlier in the thread that I received an acceptance and a recruitment visit invitation two years ago on Presidents Day!

    All hope for Monday is not lost! Stay strong, friends!

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    1 hour ago, Cat_Robutt said:

     

    @hippyscientist, @artsy16, @neuronerd8, sorry to hear about the rejections/waitlist positions, especially around Valentine's Day. Two things: February is halfway over, so decisions should be moving along a bit faster soon; and today and tomorrow sweet treats abound in about any store. Hopefully you all can take some time for self-care today and do something that makes you feel happy, comforted, and a little more at peace. *digital hug or unhug* Take care, and many warm wishes as we try and get through this.

    I agree and second all of this!

    I'm sooo tired, too. I'm gonna go do some reading soon, but staying warm under the blankets in my pajamas cause it's so cold... Makes me really sleepy... 

  16. 1 minute ago, ts1493 said:

    Yes, I think that's it.  I got two separate letters with the awards, and the POI explained it to me just as you said .... hope that's the case for you, too! 

    I think it's the case for me, for the NC State Fellowship! If I get the fellowship from UC Davis, I'll make sure to clarify this as well.

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