goldfinch1880

It's way more fun to waste time with conspiracy theories. (= my life motto.) (Also last year she caused a ton of upheaval with her whole "thing" and I think people were attempting to head it off this year before others unwittingly get too invested.)

Yeah but she said her MA was in "Humanities and Social Sciences" and NYU's program is the only one of the two with those foci.

and there it is! [also NYU has an MA in Interdisciplinary Studies through the Draper Program in Humanities and Social Thought, but CUNY doesn't so...]

If you look at the original YoungCharlie masterpost, there's the same phrase about begging: " I had to beg two of my professors for solid recommendation letters, and they didn't even submit them on time. "

also I think it's really funny that anyone would come to a forum full of people who literally want to make/are making their livelihood analyzing words, and so generally have unusually good eyes for details, and expect no one to notice. You maybe could get away with this in some other field of PhDs, but probably not here.

If it is it'll be obvious soon enough....

I had the exact same thought...

glad we could resurrect this oozing flesh wound one last time before everyone goes home

Thanks, Caroline! I have two offers in-hand from great programs, but I'm waitlisted at UT. At this point I'm not planning to take it even if I get it, but do you feel like sharing more about why you and others are wavering? at any rate I think UT had the last visiting days of most programs so maybe everyone can begin to finalize choices by this weekend and they can trickle down to other waitlists.

I'm starting to think we need pictures of this hotel

have fun!!

random question---but what days does the visiting weekend run? I'm waitlisted and waiting on acceptees deciding between U Texas and other programs so I was hoping to get a potential time frame for their final decisions after this weekend:)

Maybe it's late in the admissions season but I find this whole thing very funny hahahahaha

I caught the joke hahahaha---oh and I think the Atlantic article is an April Fool's thing

when one of my mentors was going through this process about 12 years ago he said he received a call the morning of April 15th and they told him they could hold the spot for 3 hours----so sometimes it really can come down to that. Essentially---operate now as if all of your waitlists are acceptances and pick between all of your acceptances, because you may not have time once the trigger is pulled.

I've read through several years' worth of forums and I have to say this year's GC group has been one of the most supportive I've ever seen. Really helps this process for me at least!

at least we can know it'll all be over in 18 short days! this is the worst.

I think it would make more sense if acceptances for people with no waitlists had a deadline of April 1, which would give 2 weeks for everything to filter down before the waitlisters had to commit by the 15th. Once everyone has all of the information (and supposedly people have had almost all of the information about programs for the better part of a year at least, otherwise they wouldn't have applied to the program and been able to target their SOP), there's really very little reason to wait 'til the last minute to commit.

I honestly don't understand why people who aren't on waitlists haven't made final decisions yet. (I'm not saying that to complain---I genuinely don't know what the hold-up is.) The only reason I can't make a decision is because I'm on 2 waitlists---I feel so bad keeping my acceptances hanging. If I had all of my acceptances and rejections in hand, I would decide immediately for everyone's sake. I know some schools had their visiting weekends last weekend---maybe that's why? do we know of any others yet to happen? At that point maybe people can make up their minds.... My husband is trying to look for a teaching job in 3 different areas of the country at once because we don't know where we're going to be. :/

kurayamino and greenmt....would you mind if I PMd you each individually?

So let it be written

this dialogue confirms my theory that any online conversation can always plausibly turn into a discussion about James Franco.

this says everything I'm feeling.