TheWalrus

Duke, WashU, Rochester, Berkeley, UCLA, UCSD, Princeton, Michigan, Columbia, UNC-Chapel Hill
 
I cast a very broad net when applying
 
...Please don't hate me xD

That was me.
 
I've applied for 4 rounds.
 
Finally.

thanks guys :) I put all my love into columbia last year and was ridiculously devastated when I got a no. So so so so thankful for a yes this year. 

All things considered, I really don't know how I would be making it through this cycle without this little support group of ours.

So apparently UVA has sent out 4 admits staggered throughout the last two weeks? What on god's green earth are they doing over there??

Not liking this whole three-day-weekend-in-the-middle-of-the-graduate-admissions-cycle thing. Not liking it at all.

Yeah, similar situation here as well. I finished my undergrad last spring and spent this year doing "international NGO stuff" while I worked on my applications. My SO is going to graduate college in May and already had a job offer in Minneapolis, so I was hoping to get into Minnesota – it would have made things so much easier! The dream was crushed yesterday...
 
But no, we ruled out long-distance since we have already done it twice for extended periods of time. I am from Europe and applied to programs only in the US to move closer to my SO, so pretty much whichever school I'll choose to attend, that's where the SO will look for a job. 
 
Hope it'll work out for all of us, one way or another! 

Same, I'm interested in IR and human rights too. Plus, my SO got accepted into Minnesota's philosophy phd program, so I REALLY hope I at least get wait-listed. But I've still heard nothing. 

I should also say congratulations on your other offers!

Anybody on the Minnesota WL willing to share what their website status says? I am being delusional and not acknowledging my imminent rejection yet...

That is just such a meaningless response.  It's like saying "Everyone's entitled to their own opinion!"  A completely empty statement that totally ignores the substance of what I was arguing.  If you had thought about what I wrote, you might conclude that this thread does a disservice to everyone; I am sorry that you don't care about the collective good of the rest of the users on this forum.

Sorry, I fail to see the usefulness of this thread.  Whereas posts about admissions communicate information about when schools have started announcing, posts about offer declination say nothing more than that people are declining offers, which is a foregone conclusion.  On one side, it's an opportunity to show off (hey, I'm declining all these great schools, I'm so awesome!) and on the other side, it's a desperate and misplaced attempt to mollify people who have been wait-listed.  While I am sure you had good intentions, the implicit point of this thread seems to be to pressure people to hurry up and dump their offers.  I think that everyone who has earned multiple offers should take all the time they need to make an informed choice, as I plan on doing.