FaultyPowers

Yep!
 
At this point you might want to email or call your POI, or maybe even the grad coordinator. Decisions were made loooooong ago. Technically I believe they need to be "approved" by the grad school itself, but unless there were some hardcore shenanigans on your application, or you lied about your criminal background or something like that, I doubt that would make any difference. And UMass POIs get ONE pick of students, so there's no waitlist and no such thing as one person turning it down so it goes to the next. Once they make the final decision that's it. So they should definitely be able to tell you what your status is.
 
Aaaand....not to get your hopes up, but I notice that my UNLV page ALSO doesn't list a decision. And there are several posted rejections on the board who say that they had their decisions on the website. So.......

I think that pretty much sums up what we were all thinking. I mean....hooray for confidence?

I think that pretty much sums up what we were all thinking. I mean....hooray for confidence?

Also, to this poster from the results board:
 
F*&% you Columbia, and your archaic windswept halls of exotica.  
You made me laugh so hard that coffee came out of my nose at work and I'm mad at you.

WHUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUT? I got into UNLV! Yay! Letters are going out today.

Also, to this poster from the results board:
 
F*&% you Columbia, and your archaic windswept halls of exotica.  
You made me laugh so hard that coffee came out of my nose at work and I'm mad at you.

WHUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUT? I got into UNLV! Yay! Letters are going out today.

WHUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUT? I got into UNLV! Yay! Letters are going out today.

Also, to this poster from the results board:
 
F*&% you Columbia, and your archaic windswept halls of exotica.  
You made me laugh so hard that coffee came out of my nose at work and I'm mad at you.

Also, to this poster from the results board:
 
F*&% you Columbia, and your archaic windswept halls of exotica.  
You made me laugh so hard that coffee came out of my nose at work and I'm mad at you.

WHUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUT? I got into UNLV! Yay! Letters are going out today.

Also, to this poster from the results board:
 
F*&% you Columbia, and your archaic windswept halls of exotica.  
You made me laugh so hard that coffee came out of my nose at work and I'm mad at you.

WHUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUT? I got into UNLV! Yay! Letters are going out today.

WHUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUT? I got into UNLV! Yay! Letters are going out today.

It could be worse...its not like your doing 25 to life at Angola. 

THANK YOUUUUUU! I'm so excited I can barely breathe. My lungs have noped.

And The Oatmeal was actually my inspiration to verbify "nope". The Godzilla who sees a bee or something and stomps back into the ocean going "NOPE!" and flipping off Tokyo. It was just so relevant to my thoughts and actions.

I was just thinking about you Meglet! It's weird, isn't it? You can't really help but to take it personally! 

YEAH! I'm so glad we're all having a better year this time!

Throw in some kale flavored kombucha and I am there.

First off, THANKS GUYS!!!!!!! It warms my cold, dead heart to see so many people excited for me.
 
Second, apologies for not replying to you sooner, marxistglue, but I began partying my eyebrows off as soon as I got off the phone yesterday and forgot how to computer.
 
All I know is that decisions HAVE been made; my POI said the process was intense and admissions were extremely competitive this year, and indicated that "the cohort this year is amazing". So if you receive an acceptance know that the admissions committee thinks you're hot shit, first of all. He also told me that this was an "unofficial" acceptance because the college needs to take a final look at the committee's picks, but that this was really an administrative formality and that paperwork was on its way. I think he was calling me because he's my POI and that's what he wanted to do, not because everyone was calling their students yet. Judging by the admissions results from last year I'm guessing I just got an early preview and that everyone else should hear next week (unless your POI also wants to call you).
 
Other than that I got nothing! I am SO excited to be moving to Amherst, though I think (from the OBSESSIVE research I've been doing which was luckily NOT in vain) that I want to live in Northampton. I'll have to learn how weather works, but it's a challenge I'm willing to take on  

AHHHHHHH I GOT IN TO AMHERST AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AHHHHHHH I GOT IN TO AMHERST AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

See...here's the thing about GRE scores.
 
This is my 3rd year applying. THIRD!!! And you wanna know what my GRE scores are? 167 Verbal, 162 Quantitative. So....kinda high. One of the POIs who rejected me last year said I had literally the highest GRE scores of all applicants to the program. Did it make a difference? No. No it did not. I have a feeling that unless your GRE scores are absolutely abysmal (as in, you typed in your social security number, mike-dropped, and then noped up outta there) you probably don't need to worry about the GRE.
 
Do any of the repeat offenders remember that poster from last year, who was a faculty member, who was ranting about how annoying it was when prospective students contacted them? It's buried in the archives somewhere, but they basically said that instead of telling applicants "you weren't good enough" or some other variation thereof, they would indicate that they were rejected because their applications were incomplete. I have a feeling that "your GRE score was too low" is just a different version of that. I don't want to deal with the responsibility of explaining why I rejected you, so I'm just going to say your GRE is too low, because you're gonna think that's some kind of auto-fail and it's easier for me that way.

AHHHHHHH I GOT IN TO AMHERST AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AHHHHHHH I GOT IN TO AMHERST AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!