[Living on a stipend]

I expect to have to sacrifice something on my end.

Being overworked and underpaid for the best years of your life just because the department you're a member of has chosen to use you as slave labor instead of hiring more professors/post-docs isn't enough?

[I/O Applicants 2010!]

Just found out i've been wait listed at UCONN

Rejected at LSU (they never got my transcript- how can an undergrad institution screw up so bad?)

Accepted at Roosevelt University in Chicago

Havent heard from:

Ohio University

George Washington

Clemson

Harvard

NC State

UNC Charlotte

Old Dominion

Akron

Looks like i'm a real bubble candidate.

OU said they would have all letters out by the end of February... bad news i haven't heard anything yet? Anyone else hear from any of those schools? Or want to decline an offer at UCONN for that matter

Old Dominion's I/O interview day was the 26th of February.

[Anyone have any news about Ohio State University?]

I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but the social area's first round of acceptances have already gone out. Recruitment is the first weekend in March. No idea about wait list information though. Best of luck to all of you.

Luckily I didn't apply to any of the programs in this thread. I wonder what the switch from 'in eval' to 'acad review' means though, and why the OP's hasn't switched over (and why my has). oh well, got a bunch of interviews lined up anyways

[Anyone have any news about Ohio State University?]

Haven't heard anything either. But my application switched from "in evaluation" to "academic review" about a month ago. Who knows.

[Wait-listed this early..]

It's not a big deal, it means you weren't accepted as a first-choice, and you weren't rejected either. You are on the wait list, which is for when the people who were accepted as a first-choice decide to go to other schools. It means "Have fun not knowing anything until at least April"

[GRE/GPA]

I think people generally appreciate honesty, but in your delivery you come of as a pretentious jackass.

You may not a be a jackass, but you also don't know if this person i) lazy, or ii) just doesn't have what it takes. As for the money argument, for all you know he could be rolling in the dough.

On a personal note, I know a lot of people that were given the "straight talk," as you say, and ended up settling for less than they should have in life.

He's not trying to be a jerk, he's trying to be realistic. It's one thing to shoot for your dreams, it's another thing to chase an unreasonable goal and assume everything will be fine. Nothing pretentious about it.

[GRE/GPA]

I'd be worried about the kind of student applying to grad school who looks down their nose at anyone with a lower GRE/GPA. Probably the kind of student I wouldn't want in my cohort. Just saying.

And coincidentally, the kind of student that's most likely to be in your cohort.