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Congratulations WT

I know. The silence is killing me! I'd definitely suggest this. I completely failed to prepare for mine with Rutgers and I bombed it

What amazing news! Congrats and good luck!!! Appppplication I didn't apply to USC so unfortunately I don't know anything about their department

Congratulations on all these wonderful acceptances guys!!!! Love waking up to all this joy on the board

Congratulations Hannalore!

Wonderful news mmmscience! Congratulations!

Congratulations in hac spe vivo, obrial42 and southernscholar! What amazing news! In hac and obrial I hope you get some good news re funding too!

Congratulations!!!! This is such awesome news!

Yeah, you skyld definitely be spreading your acceptance you hypervodka :-) what amazing news! Also congratulations to space_elf and florentinoariza! And yes youngcharlie101, I think it's still too early to worry about not having heard from the majority of your schools we're still in early February and I know many, myself included, are still waiting to hear from quite a few unis

Thanks, it definitely does help... Though just now it felt like it was everything to do with my research that I failed to explain. As you say, whatever the outcome it can probably help me define my research better to myself at least

Argh, yes this is so true.

Congratulations Andalus that's wonderful news. I love it when the heart palpitations have a happy end result!

Argh, I know most of us probably aren't very rational or objective about these things but had anyone else come out of an interview feeling like they made a complete muddle of everything? The circumstances before the interview weren't great because I'd been away without access to my aplication material and other things necessary to prepare will for an important meeting like that so I have this dreadful feeling I came off as unprepared, ignorant and like I didn't care much for the programme in question. Argh!!!!

Count me in on the lovers of Wheedon's Much Ado, it is brilliant!!!! jhefflol, glad to hear that it isn't as bad as you'd feared. Hopefully you'll get good news from your applics as well! Tight hugs to the Tufts rejects ?

Jhefflol that sounds awful! Sending you positive vibes and hugs! And congratulations mehrlicht! It's so wonderful how dreams can come true at any unexpected moment!

Huge congratulations to all the amazing people who have been admitted lately! Makes me happy to come here and see so much joy!

Yes, definitely huge congrats to the silent Yale, nyu and ucsb acceptances!!! I haven't heard anything from nyu, so I'm guessing it's a no go... Here's hoping both they and Cornell will be kind and send rejections soon! T1racyjacks I hope you get better soon!

Congratulations on all the good news everybody!!!! I hope more happiness will be arriving in people's inboxes over the next couple of weeks! Congrats windrainfireandbooks! King's is such a wonderful place! I did my undergrad there and I live in London now, so if you have any questions I'll be happy to try to answer them :-)

Sorry, accidentally double posted

Congrats fancypants09!!! And congrats top all other acceptances I've missed!!!!

Congrats on all the kick ass acceptances!!!!

Congratulations Gustav on your acceptance to Cornell! And I apologise if I missed someone else. Currently using my holiday to force myself to check the board less. Which clearly is not working And yes, big congratulations to you too mollifiedmolloy! t1racyjacks I can only Appppplication's comments about not taking the US rejections personally! When I applied first time in 2011 I got rejected from the PhD programmes In applied for in the US but was accepted to really good UK masters. I think that apart from the smaller amount of acceptances there's the very real fact that many US programmes offer you funding, and when you apply you know there's 75% chance or more that you are it'll be funded. In the UK this is not the case, of course funding is not an impossibility in the UK but it's much less certain and you're frequently much more reliant on external funding or year by year funding. I know several people who had to reassess their phd plans because they didn't secure any. Obviously it may be easier to fund a PhD here because they're relatively cheaper Re unis I'm still waiting for the official rejection from Cornell, more specific news from Rutgers and any news at all from UCLA, nyu, Michigan, Washington, Stanford and Harvard... Not expecting good news from any of them just now... But I'm in Rome so I, perhaps stupidly, think I'll be able to handle the rejections better

Congratulations to all the wonderful acceptances!!!!!

Congratulations Gustav! What amazing news!!!

Actually bgt28 it explicitly says this on the MTL website: Official transcripts are a University requirement, but are not required for the application evaluation process itself. http://web.stanford.edu/dept/MTL/cgi-bin/modthought/apply/phd/admissions/ I think you're going to be alright