Eileen987

I got a last-minute admit from Chapel Hill with 5 years of funding last weekend! Woohoo!

So this post is 3 years old, but I am sure most of it is still true. Thank you for providing SO MUCH valuable information! I feel like I really have a good idea of where I am going.

Dang man, I still haven't gotten anything from Northwestern. I wasn't invited last weekend, so I'm sure I am rejected, but I wish they would just put me out of their misery!! In hopes someone new will read this: Is anyone here planning to turn down funding from Wake Forest?

Good luck and congrats! I guess that gives me a BIG indication of my chances!! Has anyone here been offered an assistantship to Wake Forest and is not planning to take it? WFU is my last best hope and I am waitlisted for an assistantship :-(

Does that mean a group of applicants was invited to visit, and the rest of us weren't? Or is this just an open invitation thing? I emailed them to ask about the timeline, and they said to expect an answer by late next week or early the following week.

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Has anyone heard from Maryland, Northwestern, or Arizona State PhD programs? I am pretty sure UMD is rejecting me, but I am totally in the dark about Northwestern. ASU accepted me without funding so far. If anyone was accepted to ASU with funding, but is planning to decline, please let me know so that I have something to hope for!

I am not necessarily accusing her of lying. I know that when she tried to upload all of my letters late in the first place, she had an issue with the online form, so she asked for alternative contact info to snail mail or fax them in. All of my schools do have the status pages, but I just figured that since my recommender didn't actually upload them to the site, the status page was not going to update once they got the letter. The extreme delay of getting the letters in is definitely partially my fault, since I should have confirmed with the schools shortly after my recommender said she sent them the first time. At that point back in December though, I didn't want to ruffle her feathers while I was trying to graduate. She was really pissy about it even back then-- she sent me some email about how busy she is and this is just really not good timing for her to have to be doing this. She is the one who offered to write me a letter, or I wouldn't have even asked! I guess I am not so pissed about the letters being late as I am about her attitude. I mean, even since early December she has been giving me a hard time about what a pain this is for her. Isn't this kind of part of her job description? And not to just repeat myself, but SHE offered to write me a letter. Thank you for your reply though. That was what I needed- someone to seriously just set me straight. And you're right- I wouldn't just be burning one bridge, she would probably be telling my story for years to come and I don't need that kind of reputation following me into my very first years of graduate study. I will feel much better about it once I actually have confirmation from Northwestern that they got her letter last night. Thanks for letting me vent. I hope no one else is having this problem!

Okay, somebody stop me before I burn a bridge that I might need one day. One of my three recommenders was the director of my department, who offered to write me a letter last year. I finished all of my applications a month early in order to open the online form for them to upload their letters. I sent all of my recommenders several reminder emails before each deadline, and wouldn't you know-- the director of my department missed all of the deadlines but one. I had to harass her and send over snail mail addresses, email addresses, and fax numbers to give her plenty of options to get my letters sent. She said she would send them, so I dropped it. This was in December. Well 2 weeks ago, I was offered admission to Wake Forest, but they could not extend an official offer because they were missing this person's letter!! I had to email and call her and her assistant to get that letter sent out over one month late. I thought that was the end of it, but no. Now, I have one notification left, from Northwestern, so I emailed them just to make sure they had everything in my file. Sure enough, they didn't have her letter!! I had to email her yet again and give her the graduate assistant's email to send in the letter, which was due on DECEMBER 1!!!!!. As we went back and forth about this via email, I tried to apologize for the trouble as much as possible, and this woman just kept complaining about what a difficult ordeal this is for her! And as of her last email, she insisted that she had already sent my letter several times, and would send it one more time only. After that, she will not send it again!! I cannot BELIEVE the nerve of this woman! SHE offered to write a letter for me, and I gave her more than enough advanced notice of all of my deadlines. I cannot believe how unprofessional she has been about this, and now my admissions hang in the balance. I am VERY tempted to email her back with something to the tune of "With all due respect, this letter was due in December. If you had sent it in on time, we would not have had a problem at all." How out of line would that be??