Caligula

"The Night Train is all business when it pulls into the station. All aboard to nowhere - woo wooo! The night train runs only one route: sober to stupid with no roundtrip tickets available, and a strong liklihood of a train wreck along the way... Some suspect that Night Train is really just Thunderbird with some Kool-Aid-like substance added to try to mask the Clorox flavor." This sounds like all I could ever hope for and more! I can't wait to buy my ticket.

Mine still hasn't sunk in.

Wow, thanks for all of the suggestions! I will definitley look into those. I'm always looking for a cheap(ish) white wine.

No, I've heard of Domaine St. Michele but I've never tried it. I'm also a fan of Cook's, much to deuterides dismay I'm sure.

OK, where is Dflanagan? This thread is in some serious need of Andre solidarity. I actually really enjoy white wine. If any of you have any suggestions for cheaper white wine, I would love to hear those.

Oh, wow! That is quite a way to start a letter!

My favorite part of a rejection letter is when it says, "after very careful consideration..." I know the adcoms mean well, but the way this is phrased makes it seem like they are saying, "Trust us, we REALLY looked at your application and we REALLY don't want you." If I'm going to get a rejection, I would almsot rather them say, "We kinda looked at your application. Thanks but no thanks!"

"I'm ready to crawl into a bottle of just about anything right now!" Me, too! Andre is onlyl $5 a bottle!

Sorry I don't have $20 to spend on a bottle of wine. Different strokes for different folks. Dflanagan and I know what's up.

"I guess there's pressure somewhere like Wes (or Swarthmore, or Middlebury, of Williams, or...) to impress your peers." AMEN.

"Dude you and I are on the same wavelength! Cheap champagne is joy in a bottle. Ever had Andre Blush? that stuff is my poison of choice." OK this is getting weird. Not only do we have the same exact birthday, but we drink the same variation of the same cheap champagne?! I cannot tell you how many bottles of Blush I go through a week. My friends always try to get Andre Spumante, but I absolutely insist on Blush. The apartment I share with my friend is decorated with empty bottles of Blush. It's divine/depressing.

A friend of mine has been accepted to Yale AS. She said that all accepted people have been notified.

I prefer extraordinarily cheap champagne.

This thread makes me want to cry. Seriously.

Congratulations! You must be thrilled!

There is a Yale AS acceptance posted on the results page.

You're right, there probably is! I have a feeling that I will end up at Columbia, but I am still waiting to hear responses from a few other schools.

Thanks! I'm not sure if I will definitely go there, but I am so thrilled about the idea of living in New York!

Well my first choice was Northwestern, where I was rejected. But I recently found out I have been admitted to Columbia with full funding, so I am quite happy!

That is great news! Congratulations!

"That man is lucky he's still alive. How could he risk his own life to enrage a women already mired in the insanity of waiting for grad school application answers?" Haha I'm a man but you are right, he is lucky to be alive. It's a weird combination of complete devestation and huge relief. Now I don't have to worry about maintaing a long-distance relationship and I'm free to explore new relationships in my new city. I am going to treat this relationship as a closed chapter of my life. And I could not be more excited to begin the next chapter!

Well I just found out that my boyfriend of 2 years has been sleeping with my best friend ("best friend") for the past month, so that's one less thing I have to worry about when I make the move!

NOTE: I speak for History Ph.D. programs only, as that is the basis of my experience. General prestige/ranking of your undergraduate program is given very little consideration, if any at all. What matters to (history) adcoms is what you did wherever you were. Some top programs (e.g. Northwestern) even make a point of stating this on their website - prestige matters not at all. As a previous poster pointed out, the main advantage going to a prestigious undergrad program would allow is acccess to a distinguished faculty, which could come in handy when you need outstanding letters.

I agree. I have had five or six professors tell me that I should under no circumstances accept an offer that is not funded. They didn't say it had to be fully funded, but there should at least be partial funding. They all made a concerted effort to get this point across, some were even unprompted (i.e., we weren't even talking about funding, they just volunteered this piece of advice).