Finally after lurking since September, I've made an account to ask: OH MY GOD IS THERE ANYONE WHO HASN'T HEARD YET?!?!??!!?!?!? [i would like to put blinking stars and hot pink and puce asterisks around this, but caps lock may be enough.]
I hadn't gotten an email yet this afternoon when I got home from work, so checked this forum to see if folks had started to hear back yet and discovered that nearly everyone had gotten their emails yesterday! Yesterday! Nothing in my spam folder, nothing anywhere else. It took me a few minutes to track down the IIE number in San Francisco (where I live, and also the only place with an IIE office where business hours hadn't already ended!), and by the time I spoke with the receptionist she said the person I was trying to reach (whose name I've conveniently forgotten) was out of the office for the day. So of course I'm having a million terrible fantasies: my application didn't go through (it did), or was disqualified (surely they would've notified me, even automately, if it was), etc, etc. Anyone else still waiting to hear back?
For what it's worth, I'm an at-large research applicant to Hong Kong. It seems like the spreadsheet is only sparsely updated, and the other HK person either hasn't heard or (more likely?) is celebrating in some way that doesn't involve updating spreadsheets..