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Do NOT do that!

I/O Hopeful 2016, I'm sorry, but I shouldn't/can't tell you that information. I know that's not helpful at all, but I'm not supposed to discuss that.

As a current student at BGSU I wanted to check in and see if I could help anyone out. To everyone who applied to BGSU and hasn't heard back yet: email Dr. Matthews! He'll tell you what your status is

Being rejected twice...wow. That's brutal! Also, I really feel like I should get my money for the application fee refunded from a few of the schools, like none of them ever even contacted me it was super annoying

I just got a rejection from Clemson...I withdrew my application weeks ago. I wished they had just taken me out so that they didn't consider me along with other applicants

I think they meant "ADmission COMmittee"

I feel for all of you who haven't heard back from schools yet, in any way. That IS unprofessional. Like I said earlier, I withdrew my application from U Houston, UConn, Colo State, and Clemson, and the only time I heard back from any of them was when I emailed them to withdraw! And at that, only two of the schools gave me a response (Clemson and CSU, I think), and UH just gave me an automatic "we received your email" response. UConn didn't say anything. Totally unprofessional, and makes me even happier that I accepted where I did. Don't settle!

This is old info, but when I accepted the offer from BGSU I emailed Houston, Clemson, UConn, and Colorado State and told them to withdraw my application. I'm happy where I'm going to school next year (ecstatic, really), but it does annoy me that none of these schools got back to me until I emailed them this.

Me too!

Congrats!!

Nope, haven't heard anything yet, good or bad

I just declined Central Michigan's offer for the PhD program. I hope this helps someone out!

I was skiing with my family and we were taking a lunch break. I checked my email and saw that I had received a message from my top choice grad school only 16 days after applying. The subject line was "Admission Decision". I opened it and the first words I read were "It is with great pleasure that I write this email..." after that my jaw dropped and my vision went blurry. I'm normally very talkative (emphasis on the word very), and my parents looked at me when they realized that I had stopped talking for a minute. With choked breath I said "I just got into grad school..." and my mom freaked out, my dad gave me a fist bump, and my brother slapped me on the shoulder. I was excited beyond words. And relieved, because I had gone through months of absolute stress to reach that point (which all of you have endured as well). Needless to say, it was hard to focus on skiing after that!

Wow, that's a great idea! One thing I can mention right now is that eventually got tired of hearing all the same names over and over again (Michigan State, Bowling Green (even though it's my top choice!), Minnesota, UCF, etc.), so I just wanted to see what programs even existed in the first place. At first I looked at SIOP's list of accredited schools. Then I looked at all of their ranking indices - student quality of life, program costs, culture, etc. I'm sure you've already looked at those, but that's how I came up with a basic list. Then, I started looking up individual schools on their websites. Those that had bad websites with little to no information, or hard to get information (I'm looking at you, George Mason), I kinda put on the back burner, unless they were ranked really well (which is why I applied to GMU). So I looked at each school's website, and bookmarked them on my browser. I used to have like 40 bookmarks! Now it's only 9. I'd read up on what info they gave me, and I'd download brochures and stuff. I just tried to get all the info I could. Then, I started looking at the hard stuff: assistantship $$$, research interests, etc. Then, my final list was a combination of schools that were reach schools, target schools, and some "safety" schools (although there's really no such thing in the grad school world). Hope this helps!

Yeah I think I arrogantly assumed that they had accepted me to be quite honest haha. But when I had the skype talk with a POI I told her that I was probably going to accept another offer, so they should give someone else a spot. I'm guessing they placed me on the short list in case I changed my mind. And they emailed me this morning about it