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PhD... and thank you

Hi everybody. To those still waiting from UCLA: I just received my decision - and for the records, it is a rejection (yay...). If you are waiting, this should be a right time for checking your email. Hope you all the best and thanks for writing in this forum, it is so helpful.

Wow. I wonder what is the reason for taking such a long time... Whatever. ... and thanks for this information, btw, you've been very kind by sharing it!

Rejected by Madison. It was in the air, but still it stings. Perfect conclusion for this February. Oh, well... One down, three to go.

Super congratulations!!! Must be such a GOOD feeling!!!

Thank you! you called it! And I hope that you will not receive such any bad news, maybe some good ones instead!

Just received official communication from Tisch of my being in the wait list (I suppose they told me before by phone in a somehow unofficial way). The simple fact of receiving an email has cheered me up - and considering the pack of rejection sent yesterday I assumed that my rejection was on its way too... But it was not (yet). So: more stress to come, but I still have some (little, tiny, fragile) chance. Fingers crossed On a more serious tone: I am impressed how fast the process of decision making with NYU was and how slow is (apparently) for what concern other universities.

Is it insane to expect final answers in this last week of Feb, no matter how much predictable these answer will be? From what I read, it seems to me that official admissions are usually confirmed by mid-March... Anxiety is killing me, I don't get why some Departments keep me "under review" when it looks pretty obvious that they have chosen someone else...

Yes of course, I did not make my point clear. You see, the importance of cultural studies outside the english academia is very different - of course they do exist and are important, but they are just a slice of the cake. Besides all the fundamental issues relative to the personal path of each one of us, I felt that Rochester had a very different approach, possibly broader, than UCLA - I respect UCLA (I applied there) and the only presence of Sobchack as emerita is a great feature. But a great part of its faculty, if I don't go wrong, seems to me very strongly connected to the cultural approach. They won't probably admit me, so whatever, but I know that in case I would have had to work hard to find my way. Because of my personal interest I recognize also UC Irvine as a best fit for me, very intriguing. But being in this forum is very important to me, as I am starting to understand how you see your Universities - you look at them in a way more different manner than we do here in Europe. And this is somehow funny

Hi everybody! Finally found some place where others share my same anxiety... :-) I applied UC Irvine, UW-Madison, UCLA and Tisch. So far I had interview only with Tisch but they put me in the wait list. Since they told me, time is passing even slower than usual. I really hope that there will be some reward for me at the end, even if I am somehow skeptical that someone who has been admitted at Tisch would turn their offer down. I am an international student and all this turmoil and procedures they all sound new to me, but I keep my fingers crossed and hope for the best. (just for the sake of knowing: does anybody know something more than usual promo about Rochester CVS program? I regret somehow deeply that I did not try to get there - I wasn't aware of its existence. It looks to me a program way more interesting than UCLA's for instance...) Thank you everybody, congrats to who got admitted and best of luck to the others