CoolZero

I don't know what is wrong with them this year, my application was completed before the deadline but just yesterday they changed the status of my application to completed. I think if you are not in a hurry and just are dealing with the waiting anxiety, wait a little bit more before sending an email. As much as I know there is an admission committee which is responsible for taking care of everything there so if your POI is not in adcom he wont have any info about your situation either.

I haven't heard back from them yet too. although, Last year I was rejected on March 5th (( also accept decisions went on the same day too )) and I finished my application on 10th Jan last year. This year I have an application to 2 of their programs ( Computer Science and Information Assurance ) and neither has sent out the decision wave yet.

I had been following this thread last year and even though I didn't have a funded offer that I can attend, I really enjoyed reading people's stories, so I thought I would bump this thread for this year too. Also my story, I am from the middle east, so the usual working hours in U.S is around midnight in my country. anyway, I usually stay awake till 2 a.m but never check applications status before sleep ( last year I saw my top program reject right before going to sleep, it was such a disaster for me). I was speaking to one my friends in U.S around midnight on Skype and he told me he had an interview which is about the field I am very familiar with with a company in 4-5 hours. So we talked and we decided I would wake up in 2-3 hours to prepare him for the interview. I went to bed around 1 a.m and woke up around 3 a.m, I was all sleepy and tried to get back to laptop to begin the Skype talk with my friend, I called him on Skype but he didn't answer, so I checked my email and there it was, my first funded admission in 2 years and it was from Indiana University. I couldn't scream because it was midnight but I forwarded the offer to my best friend. and then called my friend again on Skype and told him too. We were very happy about the offer that we didn't talk about interview at all and he did awful on his interview later that day It was a wonderful surprise...

That makes lots of sense, thank you very much

Lots of good stuff here Although, I have a question which I didn't quite got the answer from the posts here. I have never lived alone and I kinda think that I am kind of a person who would enjoy living alone more than living with other people but being an international student I think having someone as a roommate wont hurt at all. The most important question regarding this matter is that, if I end up deciding to live alone, is there anything I would miss on? because I think in a few years, I would totally want to be alone and these years are my last chances to experience having a roommate.

I have more applications to do and the anxiety of submitting them keeps me away from refreshing the results page on gradcafe. Although this is another kind of anxiety I definitely prefer it to obsessive email checking. But every time any one of my friends tells me about the update on his/her application I get anxious because I have not heard anything from any one of my applied universities yet.

I feel you too don't know about you but for me its a bit annoying that my universities have sent out the first wave of admissions but not the first wave of rejections

My biggest problem now is, not only haven't I got any updates on my application, but also I have seen all of these schools have sent their first wave of their admissions and even my friends have got admissions to them. So the torture of waiting is getting worse and worse I also work, but the time difference between my country and there makes this useless, because my work time starts from USA's midnight time until the morning. Also I am watching "Friends" for the 4th time video games also doesn't help. I am kinda getting the feeling, I am getting so irritating that my friends can't stand me