anxiousapplicant

That rejection sounded like it was written by a business major.

Their tortures are becoming creative now, aren't they? Well, I hope things work out for you. It sounds pretty hopeful though.

Thanks for asking those questions. I imagine it's the same deal for my program. Mine was submitted on the deadline day, plus I had a problem where ETS didn't send my scores, so that took an additional 1-2 weeks. So I am going to be reviewed dead last probably. I guess I should quit holding my breath. I hope things work out for you, Babbling Dweeb. Someone in this thread deserves good news amid all this waiting.

Sorry to hear that, Babbling Dweeb. (that sounded so rude). I hope you get something soon. Is there anyone for your program you can contact? No one is answering me from mine.

I've got it to the point where I am seriously considering not even attending this year. I'm beginning to finally realize that all my professors inflated my ego for four years and never told me the truth or dared to criticize me. They didn't help me by not criticizing me or pointing out anything I did wrong. Now if/when I go to grad school, I'm going to fall apart if things don't go well at first, which they probably won't because I'm not smart enough for grad school. I never should have applied in the first place. My professors lied to me and stroked my ego instead of being blunt and discouraging me from wasting my time applying.

Jonjalin, I appreciate your advice and I think I may do just that. I guess it's a sort of superstitious thing that's making me want the hard copy...? But you're right, things could be very busy, and who knows, maybe other letters were messed up too, because if they put someone's letter in my envelope, then my letter is in someone else's envelope, and so on. If I don't hear from NSSR by Friday, I think I will just give up the ghost and go with the first school. I'm stressing out more about this than I did when I had no acceptances, and it's getting ridiculous. LotusEater, I should know better, I know they aren't the best with replies. But now I'm at the point where I'm interpreting everything as a personal rejection of me. The paranoia this school has induced in all of us is unbelievable. And they don't even offer much money, so that some of us may not even attend if we get in anyway! We should file a lawsuit to get them to pay our medical bills when we all die of heart disease later on from all the stress this waiting period caused us.

Great, now a rejection has been posted for my program, via postal service. I can't wait to go home and check the mail now. I emailed the school and they never replied, and if they had good news for me, they would have replied. I hate this. I wish the other school I got into would send me the correct letter so I can end this process. I can't believe they sent me someone else's letter, and now I have to wait to be accepted a second time. Thank God they had sent me a PDF of my own letter, or I'd really be freaking out. I'm so disappointed with NSSR and I can't wait to accept my other school so I can forget about them. I showed a lot of interest in them, I visited there, I was really enthusiastic, and they can't even just reject me and get it over with. I realize I sound insane right now but it's just so stressful.

Kind of fashionable, hip-type stuff. Keep in mind I own a suit, so I'm not very aware of the ongoing trends of this time. As long as you look respectable you should be okay.

I don't know, because I don't think I was accepted, but whatever you wear, don't wear a suit. I visited there and stupidly showed up in a suit jacket and skirt set and I was the single only person at the whole event, in any major, wearing a suit.

Um, well, I'm an hour from NYC so my letter will NOT take time. And they were already mailed out for my program, and I made the deadline, so if I was accepted, I would have received the letter.

Wish I had seen this six months ago! Great advice. All the crap websites I read about SOP's never are clear about what to really write in an SOP and what to express... It's a learning process in itself, I guess.

Well, I guess I was wrong to expect that. I've never exactly seen transcripts from any school, even my own, so that's probably why I was in the dark.

Then you're going to have to really show in your SOP that you know exactly why you want to change fields and that you know what your intended field entails. You don't want them to think that your choice of an MA is random. You want to show them that this program is the next logical step in your education.

We fought over the meaning of the financial aid emails, yes? I said it didn't mean anything, you said it did? But clearly it didn't mean anything, otherwise we would have received our acceptance letters by now. But neither one of us has. Therefore, it is an unpleasant case of my being correct, because it screwed me over as well.

I hate to say it, monkeefugg, but it looks like I won a rather pyrrhic victory in our battle over the meaning of the financial aid emails... I'm still waiting too, although notices were already sent out for my program as well.

As soon as I get my official letter from another MA program, I think I am going to just accept them and forget NSSR as well. I probably would have accepted the other school, except there was a minor fiasco in which they sent me someone else's letter, so I had to mail it back and now I've got to wait for them to get back to me with mine. That school offered me a full ride plus stipend, so I'd be a moron to refuse it considering my unpleasant financial situation. NSSR was originally my top choice and I planned to attend there. I told everyone that I was going there if I got in. But once you get that letter from another school promising funding, it's hard to want to go somewhere you know isn't going to give you what you need in terms of funds. And now they never return my emails or anything. I have to admit, despite my liking for the school's curriculum, I always had a nagging fear that my views on issues wouldn't complement the views of the faculty and students very well, so maybe it's a sign that I was accepted somewhere else with a better package.

adam_cs are you Chocker? Chocker seemed to disappear around the same time you popped up and you both do the creepy depressing shit. Well, as long as you don't threaten to kill all of us like Chocker did, I guess it's okay.

I wish I did that. I thought my transcript would reflect it, but it didn't. In fact, my transcript didn't even list both my majors! I almost cried when I saw a scanned copy of it. (My school doesn't give them to students, they mail it out themselves). It didn't say what professors taught which classes or anything. It looked awful.

Is your undergrad major related in any way to your prospective MA program?

I do appreciate your reassurance, jonjalin. I live close enough to NYC that I wouldn't have to live there. However, when I applied to grad schools, esp. the MA's, I didn't expect funding, so I was prepared to take out loans. So NSSR was my top choice; I visited there and I really liked it. But I got a fully funded + GA offer from another MA program in a respectable school. So unless some miracle occurred, I probably can't attend NSSR b/c it would be stupid to turn down free tuition elsewhere. I guess it's just curiosity that's killing me waiting for their decision, b/c I did really like the school.

So... I didn't make it, I guess. I submitted my app on January 19, just like they said I could. I guess it didn't count as "on time" because they didn't add everything to my file until 10-15 days later. Either I am counted as late, or I wasn't accepted. It doesn't matter, I guess, because I couldn't afford to go there anyway, but I still really liked the school and wanted to hear their decision. oh well!

Geez, 63 sounds pretty modest.

Whoever told me that they already mailed out the letters last week for poli sci lied to me then. More than one person on GC would have gotten one. I wish I knew who to contact, but I don't want to be a pest, either.

I know all this, believe me. I just didn't think I had to play by the same rules as everyone else, I thought my GPA and coursework would carry me. I bought into the whole "Oh, we review applications holistically." Holistic my ass. It's all a game, you know? So I know better next time. No one's telling me anything I don't know. I'm going into an MA program, so I'll take the GRE again when I apply for the Ph.D. This time I'll be a little more humble.

I have made the movement of infinite resignation with NSSR so it doesn't matter now anyway.