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Congrats, Radcafe, UCLA is amazing!
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Congrats on getting into Stanford!
Thank you! I am buoyant with joy. Can't wait for work to finish so I can have friends over for 3€ sparkling wine!
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How much time to people typically get to decide if they will accept an offer if they get off the waitlist?
I was told that the original deadline (5pm on April 15th) still held. I'm not sure what happens if you get off the waitlist after that.
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Crikey! That's amazing news!!! Congratulations!!!!
Damn. Way to go!
YAY!!!
Holy heck -- congrats!
Congratulations Enfant!! You have to change that fact on your signature now
I really wanted to go to Stanford, but didn't even get waitlisted. I'm counting on my Harvard waitlist now, I'll know for sure in the next day or two!
Thanks, everyone! I'm on a cloud of happy disbelief!
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I declined an offer from Toronto this morning - maybe it will help someone here! Details in my signature.
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Yeah, I just declined an offer so I expect that will have set off a little cascade of acceptances and withdrawals. Places aren't all settled yet!
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I've just declined an offer from Toronto (PhD Medieval Studies). Hope it helps someone on here!
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Wonderful, breaking news: Stanford just made me an offer. Yipppeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee doesn't even cover it!
Good luck to everyone waiting. IT CAN HAPPEN!
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I agree with the above posters - take some time out to work, especially if you are eligible for teaching jobs that you might enjoy doing. I have taken two years out from education to work (not in a row) and both times it has really helped me work out what my next step should be. It has also broadened my experiences and my interests and allowed me to meet a lot of people I would never have met in an academic setting.
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Thanks, everyone! This little corner of the internet has been so helpful over the past few weeks! I'm working in a small town in Austria, feeling very cut off from the academy, and I think without your help I would have driven my friends crazy with questions they couldn't answer.
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Thanks for the advice. Emailing now.
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Do you think it's worth sending an email to check in? I emailed last week and was told that I "certainly still have a shot" and would hear something by the end of the week, but I've been waiting on tenterhooks and nothing has arrived!
Should I just try and distract myself or is politely asking for an update reasonable?
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Are you checking in with them? I'm tempted to email the Student Affairs Manager, who has been dealing with the admissions communications.
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I was told last week that I "certainly still have a shot" and would be receiving an email by the end of the week (i.e. last week). I haven't heard anything - can I email back to check in or is that pestering?
Good luck to everyone still waiting.
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Being numerate is important in your field of study (whatever the precise focus of the programme), so the question I would ask is whether you feel you could improve your score by prepping more and retaking the test. Is maths something you find particularly difficult (something you consider to be a natural weakness) or were you just rusty when you took the test? I would advise retaking it if you think it doesn't reflect your potential, as you are aiming for very competitive programmes.
When I took my GRE, I hadn't done any quant for nine years (!), so I really had to re-teach myself all the things I'd once known how to do when I was in high school. However, maths was never something that I found difficult so although the test prep was time consuming, it meant I was able to get a good score. There were lots of things I did wrong when applying for grad school, but studying for (and achieving) high GRE scores was not one that I regret. There are so many other things to worry about when applying, why add another one by submitting an application that you know includes a weak point that you could probably have done something about?
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@HelloThisIsDog I'm waiting for Comp Lit at Stanford and I'm full of angst and excitement! Going out of my overexcited, overanxious, overactive mind! I was told a couple of days ago that the waitlist is only two people long and that two people hadn't yet responded to their offers. I just saw (via social media) that one of those people turned her Stanford offer down! Eek. I think the other waitlisted person is ranked ahead of me but I know he has other interesting offers so it's quite possible he'd turn Stanford down. Unless he already has and the other person on the waitlist is someone else! Gahhh, so many thoughts.
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Congratulations, HayleyG!
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I'd also consider how you'll feel when your boyfriend mentions his research while you're trudging through a legal textbook (the kind of conversation that you'll presumably have most days). If that doesn't seem likely to bother you, I think you could enjoy doing law. If you reckon you'll feel wounded every time he mentions what he's working on, studying different courses is unlikely to be the relationship medicine he hopes it'll be.
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I have a couple of sizable tattoos in places that aren't on show very often (thigh and below ribs) but, like the OP, I am considering getting one done on my forearm.
The advice so far has been good, so I'll just add the following:
- When I worked as a high school teacher, there was a policy against visible tattoos. A colleague had a small one on her wrist which no one cared about and she didn't cover, but a colleague with a full sleeve tattoo was made to always wear long sleeves to work, which as a phys. ed. teacher was a source of some annoyance. If you think you might go into school teaching in the future (perhaps not likely with your subject field, but often a popular option for the academically minded), it might be worth considering whether covering your forearm every day would be a nuisance.
- While I don't often get negative responses to my tattoos, people do often ask me about them, so if you choose to get one which is very visible, I'd be prepared for a lot of "but what does it mean?"-type questions. It amazes me how much people feel they have a right to interrogate you on your modes of self-expression, even if they're well-meaning!
- I usually draw a sketch of my tattoo idea in waterproof liquid eyeliner on the place I'm considering getting it done, in order to see how it looks from various angles/how clothing falls across it. If you don't scrub it, it'll last a couple of days and you can see whether you like the placement. By doing this, I realised how often I roll up my sleeves to my elbow, and am now considering getting the tattoo just above the elbow, which I apparently reveal a lot less!
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I feel you, BeatrizBear! I received an email yesterday to say I'm one of two people on the waitlist, and two people have not yet responded to offers of admission.
I wish the numbers were more indicative of my chances!
Eight days until certainty...
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Congratulations on making your decision, fancypants09! Wish I had the resolve to do the same!
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It may very well not be worth it to lie, I was just expressing my own desire to obstruct such lines of questioning.
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The DGS always has imperfect information about the candidates that he/she sees (no one is fully summed up by their grad school application) and I think that questions about other offers a candidate holds risk prejudicing the DGS's understanding of the candidate in a way that may not be favourable to the candidate. Asking which other offers someone has while they're sitting on your waitlist does not seem like a casual question.
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That's a difficult question as I don't think it's really right for the DGS to ask that, especially not when there's an implication it will affect their offer. I'd be tempted to tell the DGS that their programme is the only one you applied to, but the likelihood that the truth will come out might mean it's not worth the risk.
Waiting to Exhale (the wait list thread)
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This is so brilliant - loving the good news! Congratulations, guys!