ArchaeoGeek

That is good to hear...I was obsessively counting the NYU posts on the board and chewing my nails down to the cuticle...I have hope, since I did email chat with the POI before I applied and she said that our interests were a very good match, so here's hoping!!

Argh. I am sorry, I am a noob on this board so I haven't figured out how to reply to a post other than quoting people! Thanks Daisy123! My friends are good people, but I am an adult student who made a career change so most of my friends are non-academics and, while happy for me, they don't always "get it" when I am babbling about the GRE or whatever! This looks like the perfect place to be able to say "Grr! Argh!" and get sympathy/constructive advice

Hello everyone! I was just sent a link to GradCafe the other day and finally decided to check it out...You all have no idea what it's like waiting when you don't have anyone to commiserate with about grad school apps! I am surprised any of my friends are even speaking to me anymore, considering the amount of whining I've been doing over the past couple-three months! Sounds like Chicago has contacted everyone they want for interviews, so that's a rejection for me now (it was a bit of a pie-in-the-sky school anyway, so I am not terribly disappointed). I am quite worried about NYU though...I'd been chatting to a professor there before I submitted my application, and she mentioned the average intake was 8-10 new students...I see on the board that there have been 5 NYU acceptances so far (possibly 1 fake?) so I am becoming concerned at not having heard anything... But congrats to everyone getting their acceptances so early! It's really encouraging to see so many people getting into the schools and programs they've applied for!