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I also found out today that I'm officially wait-listed. Does anyone know how many people are typically on the U of T wait list, and how much movement there was in previous years? I'm not sure if I should call this one a lost cause for this year and move on, or maintain hope. If you've been on the wait list previous years and had input, I'd appreciate any advice!

Hi, Shrek, and welcome! You get a U of T student number assigned to you when you apply to any program, regardless of acceptance. To see what yours is, sign-in to your account on the School of Graduate Studies website (where you completed your application), click on "view details" under actions (on the right), then "application summary" (third link down). Your student number should be right under your applicant number, and is noted as "reported student number." Hope that helps, and good luck!

Haha, ME TOO. You wouldn't believe the volume of Google searches I've done this afternoon :-) And whatever happens for us, it will be okay. There _are_ options!

Congratulations, DreamingMSW! And for all my talk of just "wanting to know," right now I'm wishing I didn't know that I could check ROSI. No status change for me either. I'm hopeful that this means wait listed with hope as opposed to an outright rejection. In my head I'm trying to rationalize things like "what if they started at a different end of the alphabet?" so the letter next week will at least give me a clear, unambiguous answer that my brain can't twist irrationally.

Great post, DreamingMSW! You have a realistic, positive perspective on this process, and that's something I've found hard to maintain - especially at this point! As I keep telling myself: "everything will be okay in the end. And if it's not okay, it's not the end." (Not sure who said that because the internet is in disagreement, but it helps me to repeat it.) Good luck, everyone!

Me too, b39 - my hope is that it's too soon for ROSI to show changes, and that's just a placeholder. Either way, I'm looking forward to knowing in the next week so that I can move ahead with my plans. Whether it's planning for school or planning to reapply, getting rid of the uncertainty that's causing so much anxiety will be a big help.

Totally agreed with all the thanks above, supu! So helpful to have a date. I keep checking ROSI because I'm crazy anxious - I hope that if anyone sees a change on their acocunt, they post it here!

KatRousi, thank you so much for posting that, and welcome! It's so helpful to hear about other people's experience. Beyond that, it's great to hear your encouraging words about continuing to put yourself out there and not give up when you know it's something you want. Congratulations on your Lakehead admission, and best of luck with the program!

The funding packages from York are awesome - I'm wishing I'd applied there as well! And PregnantSeahorse, I'm crossing my fingers for you that there's movement on the wait list. I can understand having mixed emotions, and I hope that you get to the place where you're proud, because this is an accomplishment :-)

I'm also freaking out - so you have company! If I have to do this again next year, I'm going to have to come up with a better coping strategy than staring at the calendar or willing that decisions get made faster :-) (Edited to fix silly grammar mistakes - oh, Monday.)

I love that you said this, and I wholeheartedly agree. So much of being admitted to a grad program is about a school's funding that particular year, or their current breakdown of students, or something else completely beyond the scope of what an applicant can possibly control. I've known people to apply two years in a row with virtually the same application, and they've been rejected one year and accepted the next. Congratulations on your acceptances, good luck next year!

Hey Erin123, this can be set by scrolling up to the top right of the page, clicking on your account name, then "My Settings." From there, click "Signature" at the left. You can then add whatever information you want in your signature and format the text however you like. Good luck! I'm also a 2 year U of T MSW candidate, and have been checking ROSI - mine still says "no registration history." I don't expect there to be any change until at least the first week of April, as our decisions aren't expected until mid-April, and the ROSI trick seems to only work a few days in advance of the actual decisions being mailed out. (Despite knowing that it's pointless for several days yet, I can't stop compulsively checking. Futile, I know.) Congratulations on your Thunder Bay acceptance, and good luck with U of T!

I can imagine that the uncertainty inherent with the wait lists sucks, but I believe that it's also an achievement. Just putting your application in is a big deal, and a lot of work - and that's not considering all of the volunteering behind what you've written. Getting wait listed for a very competitive program that takes so few students is something to be proud of too! I'm crossing my fingers for everyone, and hoping that there's movement on the wait lists :-) (I'm also crossing my fingers for early decision on the U of T two year stream MSW - I'm dying over here.)

Thanks for the info! Also, that's kind of the worst, and I can understand that last summer would have been rough waiting. I was hoping U of T took an approach similar to Laurier, which someone mentioned above. A nice, civilized date at the end of July, so we're not all biting our nails right down to it and can move on/make plans! Good luck with your application this year! I'm thinking positive thoughts for you and all of us :-)

Does anyone happen to know what date the U of T 2 year MSW waiting list closes, or when it's typically closed in previous years? I know that the decisions aren't expected for a few weeks, but this would be helpful info for me as I decide what my next steps will be. I'm not losing all hope, but I'm realistically looking at this year as a likely rejection or wait list situation, and trying to plan my moves from that. (Also, it's giving me something to do while I'm waiting, other than obsessively reloading ROSI despite the fact that it won't have anything on it for another two weeks.) And congratulations to everyone receiving their acceptances!