NachoConnoisseur

Makes two of us then - I did the victory dance after mine were done

My friend has a theory about this. He thinks schools secretly, intentionally make the application process difficult and aggravating as a way to weed out the faint of heart. (He also describes taking the GRE as hazing for wannabe grad students *lol*) It's like their devious litmus test: if you can't face the Exam of Dooooom and the conflicting instructions/hidden deadlines/incorrect faculty listings, you can't handle being in our club, NEENER!

Our original plan was each to select a few cities with schools for both of us, and apply to approx. 10 programs with the hopes of getting acceptance letters for the same city. That definitely would have made things easier, but ah well *shrug* Everywhere I applied was based off that list, so at least one of his schools will be nearby any place I'm accepted. That's no help, of course, if he can't get into that particular school though. And if he couldn't, that's when it would be decision-time about him settling for a lesser, nearby program, or being apart for awhile so he can go to one of his top-choice programs I am very, very fortunate because he's super-supportive, flexible and patient. I want to make sure I offer him the same

Best wishes for upcoming nuptials!

Seven, all for masters. I'm done submitting my materials, my LOR folks have finished for all but one school, and so mainly I'm now in the process of following-up for confirmation of receipt by the admissions offices.

Hello folks, newbie here so please let me know if this is the wrong place for this question. Thanks! For those of you in committed relationships, what kinds of short-term and long-term plans have you made with your partner? Will they also be in school? Working? If so, once you graduate, will you switch? Originally my husband and I planned to apply to programs in the same cities, with the best case scenario being that we could both be working on our masters. That plan has now morphed into his holding off a year to prepare better documents and my applying to my top-choice schools, with the idea that he'd follow me and (hopefully) get a job wherever we end up. What's not clear to us is, what happens for the following academic year. Does he putz around for another year at the job, or apply for admission at his top-choice schools... at which point we could end up in different states for a bit :/ And what about if either of us decides to follow-up with a PhD?! Yikes. We just got married in October, so this is new territory for us. I know we'll figure out *something*, so this isn't a request for you to play Dr. Phil or anything I'm just curious how other couples are handling it, and chit-chatting here keeps me from checking my email for the 29384927349237th time today.