mario

Hi, I just received this email (I suppose its a mass email), but my heart almost stopped when I saw its title: Brown University Graduate School Admissions Process Dear Mario, Thank you for applying for admission to Brown University Graduate School. We are reviewing applications and will notify you via email once a decision has been rendered. Responses to offers of admission must be received by 4:00 p.m. EST on April 15, 2010. If you applied to multiple programs, you will receive a decision for each program. Please note that you can only matriculate into one program. If you accept an offer, any and all remaining Brown Graduate School offers are withdrawn. Thank you for your interest in the Brown University Graduate School. With best wishes, Dean Sheila Bonde and the Admissions Staff Graduate School Brown University Someone else got it? Man I hate mass emails

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I do basically the same thing, only I don't turn on my pc when I get up, just check my mail in my phone. Same routine, check every 20 mins for an update, every 30 minutes gradcafe, every time my phone vibrates for mail, again and again and again....

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Actually I have considered posting my acceptance (if I am accepted) but then I realized that some of my friends, who are attending other schools I also want to get in could, by some random chance, make the comment I was accepted to a member of the adcom and totally screw me…so, no. Also there is this thing, I haven’t told my boss I’m applying, only if I’m accepted I will tell her (but not just after it, I will wait until my contract ends, so we can negotiate my staying in work just a little more, to make some savings I’ll need)

Sebas, Hola, Sobre el GRE, qué tal te fue? yo saqué 580V (82% below), 680Q (66% below) y 4.0 en AW, siempre he sido mejor en números que en verbal, pero también está el pequeño detalle que el inglés no es mi lengua materna, así que obviamente no estaba 100% calificado para darlo, a pesar de que me preparé un par de semanas... Yo sé que muchas Us no le dan tanta importancia al GRE (en Vanderbilt, por ejemplo, me dijeron que el GRE no es un requisito para la aplicación, no debía tomarlo), en UMiami aceptaron a un amigo mío que tuvo un promedio de 1200, otros programas más competitivos como Yale o Michingan y Texas sí tienen un tope mínimo. Lo mismo para el GPA, en la mayoría de departamentos con gran cantidad de estudiantes extranjeros consideran que un GPA de 3.2 no es necesariamente un indicador de que el alumno sea malo en sus estudios, sino que proviene de un sistema educativo distinto, con formas de evaluación diferentes. Ahora, sobre el GPA, a mi me parece que la universidades norteamericanas a veces tienen problemas con sobrecalificar los GPA de alumnos undergraduate, la mayoría de los estudiantes tienen GPAs altos y no necesariamente cuando son brillantes. Sinceramente eso es algo criticable, en Perú por ejemplo, el sistema de evaluación de notas es de 0 a 20, yo en mis 5 años de estudio tuve un promedio de 16.3, que es bien alto, fui el tercer puesto de mi promoción (de 40 personas), el primero obtuvo 16.5. Cada 10 años hay un alumno que logra 17 de promedio y un 20 (es decir, GPA 4.0) es algo que en mi departamento jamás se ha visto porque nuestros profesores no están acostumbrados a calificar a un alumno sobre 20. Y la forma de desarrollo de la carrera es distinta, no tenemos majors ni minors, uno estudia 5 años de especialización (en mi caso 5 años de literatura), con un promedio de 6 a 8 cursos por semestre. Eso hace que la forma de calificación sea distinta. ¿Cuánto te sacaste en el GRE? Esperemos que las felicitaciones lleguen pronto!

i think that the january 12th email was the worst because its title was something like: yale graduate school app status, so I was getting ready for something BIG and puf...

yeah, the dec/8 was: Dear XXXXX, We are delighted you have applied to the Yale University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. We would like to take this opportunity to invite you to look at some pages on the Graduate School's website that you may find useful. The main website of the Yale University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences: http:www.yale.edu/graduateschool. Student Life at the Graduate School: http://www.yale.edu/graduateschool/studentLife/index.html Current Newsletter of the Graduate School http://www.yale.edu/graduateschool/home/forms/newsletter.pdf Living in New Haven Website - housing, neighborhoods, services http://www.yale.edu/livingnh/ Graduate School Viewbook: http://www.yale.edu/graduateschool/home/forms/viewbook.pdf" We encourage you to visit the links above, as well as other web sites within Yale University. http://www.yale.edu Sincerely, Office of Graduate Admissions *PLEASE DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS MESSAGE* and the one in january (12) was: Dear XXX, Thank you for applying to the Yale University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. The purpose of this e-mail is to remind you that you have access to a feature of the online application that allows you to monitor the receipt of your standardized test scores and letters of recommendation by the Office of Graduate Admissions. Simply log back into your application (Click Here) and you will have access to the status of the receipt of those items. Please keep in mind that if you mailed anything to us, the posting of those materials can take 5-10 days from the date of receipt of your application or the materials whichever is later. We are not able to provide status information over the phone or via e-mail. If your application is marked "Incomplete" please check to see which documents are missing. If it is a transcript for a second degree at the same institution for which a transcript was uploaded there is no need to contact us and no need to worry. If it is a recommendation you can send a reminder to that recommender. If you are missing GRE/TOEFL scores which you know you have sent to us and there could be a first or last name issue, again, please contact us. In any case your application will still be forwarded to your program of interest during the month of January. If you do need to contact us please refer to our Frequently Asked Questions section (Questions Not answered) for specific instructions on how to address your e-mail. Also, remember that if you need to change your mailing address, phone number or e-mail, you may do so by logging into your online application and returning to the "Contact Information" section. Except for the optional Fall Term Grade Report, Contact Information is the only section of your application you can update information on once you have submitted. If you have revised materials (Statement of Purpose, Resume, etc.,) you wish included in your file, you can send those to us and we will try to accommodate your request. Be certain to visit the Frequesntly Asked Questions section (Questions Not Answered) for specific instructions on how to address your e-mail. Official decision notification is usually by e-mail and decisions, when available, will be posted in your on-line application. Decisions are generally posted during the month of February and March. All admission decisions are communicated by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, not by individual departments or programs. Only decisions from the Graduate School may be considered official notifications of admission and financial aid. Sincerely, The Office of Graduate Admissions Yale University *THIS IS AN AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED MESSAGE. PLEASE DO NOT REPLY*

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don't know.... since I'm not in the US my alternative was to buy a bb so I could be instantly notified if something major happens. Until now only things exciting i've read are related to the notifications on this forum that keep poping up in my email account.... talking about that, if there is an admin here, i've seen the iphone interface for the site, but there is no bb interface (to check the result page specially)

mine has this mind bogglingly red light that has the bad habit of going on just when i'm falling asleep (and vibrates, so I get the vibration) or when I'm driving... the worst moments are the best for emails, facebook notifications or chats...

I also hate facebook for the red light on my bb, gmail, gtalk..... and the spam mails that somehow I hope are actually from yale or brown...

i'd say Barthes

the search box is now over the examples searches box, before is was under it...

you can close the news ticker or the sorting thing?

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i've gone from smoking 1.5 10-packs a day to probably 3 10.packs a day, gained at least 3 kilos (sorry for the different system, i'm in another hemisphere)

same here, would love to blog...sign me up!

someone else with this problem?

at least is not one of those embark schools like brown or cornell. i hate that system.......

mine were should arrived mid-november (i took gre 7-oct and toefl 31-oct), so, yes, maybe there is a glitch with their system. the chair of my dept was very easy to contact and very helpful. i contacted her in early october, when i was still thinking of schools and she had a very possitive approach (VU is one of my top schools, one of the best spanish departments and very well funded) thanks god for that. So maybe, you should contact the chair of your school, talk to him or hem....

is your shool A on Tennesse?