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I don't think I'm getting in, but when is the open house? (Don't worry, I'm not asking so I can crash it )

I never got a chance to show how well I did my homework because they canceled my interview, since I wasn't in the pool of finalists they can offer funding to :-X I guess I could wait to see if I'm admitted without funding. I'd pay in-state tuition, which is at more or less manageable for me...

Ooof, waitlisted for admission without funding. fml

Finally got my rejection link to pop up. Sigh, maybe next time.

Hey, did anyone do their interview yet? Come on, details!

It's very nice of you to do so I hope everyone goes somewhere they want to be

They wrote to say their decision making is definitely later than other schools, and asked to tell them if I am still interested in their program, or took another offer.

I'm back from a land where Gradcafe isn't accessible (Japan), and still have absolutely no word from Northwestern I haven't seen any rejections on the results page so I'm gonna assume I'll be getting that when the "no"s are out. >_<

Here's what I dug up from the admission status page. Once an admission decision has been rendered on your application, a "View Decision" link will appear below. If no "View Decision" link is listed on this page, an admission decision has not yet been rendered on your application. (Students denied admission will not receive a letter from the university. Students who are admitted will receive an admissions packet.) If any of you are waiting for them to email...well now we know they don't email your decision.

This is grim news indeed I heard nothing, and fear for the worst X_x

I DO want to join you in being neurotic! You're such a sweetheart

I'm surprised that several posters are unable to handle someone else's success so far in the admission process, and here I thought we're all grown ups who are ready to plunge a good chunk of our lives into academia. Especially after seeing all the congratulatory posts in the Answers and Celebrations thread, the sour grapes came as a huge surprise. But I do agree with some that this post is kind of early if you want to discuss this with this year's applicants, because yes, a lot of us (like me) have yet to receive an acceptance yet. But I'm sure someone here could give you advise about your decision, so don't apologize for not taking extra care of feelings of people you've never met.

Same here. Plus, I now know that a previous year's admit of students with my near-identical interests, in today's economic landscape, means my chances were very much diminished. And thank you repatriate, for the copy/paste People like you makes living in China a little more bearable on the internet front

Hey, I'm in China and blogspot is blocked...could you please post the letter here so I can read it? Thanks

I'm doing OK for someone who just got rejected by one of her top choices (Princeton). I'm almost anxious to get the rest of my rejections so I can start planning my Plan B for reapplication in the future....

Someone said if a couple can survive the LDR, then they can survive marriage. That's ironic to me because I'm actually afraid that once a couple gets used to the LDR, a regular relationship without distance can actually become problematic once the two are no longer seeing each other through the rosy webcam lenses. A LDR is low on the physicality of a relationship, so I feel like the emotional intimacy would over-take that vacancy to make the relationship feel whole...and that could warp both party's perspective on the the true nature of what they have. I'm kind of a pessimist, I guess. I could be entering a LDR soon and I'm terrified that I could submit the next 2-3 years of my life to something that will only amount to ending in mutual resignation. That is to say, what do you do when you love someone, but have no idea when you could ever live in the same city?

Trying to figure this out mathematically gives the whole admission process a false sense of coherence, haha. After we get past the stats and substantial credentials, the nitty-gritty of it is still madness.

Do the decision waves happen once a week? Now that I haven't heard from two of my schools after seeing people put up results, should I be able to assume that I won't hear anything for a few days?

very few people are posting rejections in conjunction to the number of acceptances popping up on the results page. But the first wave of acceptances/rejections are sent out together, right?

We're in pretty similar situations, it seems. I'm also applying out of Beijing, and nearly died from the process. My internship doesn't have me checking my email a lot, but I am chained to the computer doing research and translations, so it's not a lot better. Are you working here only, or also going to school?

Most useful: That which empowers us to discover the answer to "which area of study is most/least useful to society??" Lease useful: Everything else

I'm like melusine, all my choices are pretty much top choices, perhaps some are choicier than others, but I'd die of happiness if I make it into a program, period.

It probably doesn't make you look too good to turn a perfectly sound application into some sort of charity case for the adcomm. Even if you're appealing to their human side, their job dictates that they use their objective judgment...so I would say that you should keep your situation to yourself and hope for the best. Best of luck!

Oh my. Someone really should compile some data on the "inhabitants" of this forum and conduct a study on onset-neurosis