VMcJ

I think Yale has only the ApplyYourself page. I am waiting to hear from them as well. Thanks for your wishes and my best wishes for you too! But I think that probably means rejection.

Northwestern has one where you check your application status: http://gradstatus.northwestern.edu Mine still shows "Decision Status: An admissions decision has not yet been rendered."

Well, three out of seven Yale admittances on Grad Cafe for 2015 were indeed in the 150-160 range. Median was 161 and mean was 163, but still. Verbal scores appear more important and I find that highly problematic, as I said before, especially if departments want to receive more applications from international students.

This Yale rejection appears highly suspicious.

Three new reports indicating rejections from Northwestern. I did not receive anything yet. Crossing fingers.

That is true, and that is how I am not disappointed at all with my choices. But I am also flexible and several departments that I had to disconsider were potentially good fits. And my age puts a really big question mark on the "there are other cycles" thing... But then again, I could do more applications at a cost. I weighed it and concluded 8 was plenty. My cousin made only 4 and got 2 offers. You never know.

I concur.

I was going to make 12-15 applications. Currency devaluation reduced it to just eight. I do not think this is that much of a gamble (at least one might accept me, I hope), but you can imagine right now how I am feeling. Longest February ever - yes, I know it already is in the 75 percentile for "longest Februaries"!

One professor told me people of his department puts a lot of emphasis on GRE scores (quantitative, especially). He even said it was probably the second most important part of the application, with the first being the LoRs and the third the SoP. He said this was not right for him, as the SoP should have a bigger value. They look into the quantitative section as a proxy for predicting students' ability to perform well in empirical research. If GRE verbal questions were all about interpreting texts, I would be totally fine with them. But to ask students to know ridiculous, never-used vocabulary is simply absurd. I would not change the quantitative part of the test. And I would make the criteria by which they evaluate the writing section more clear. Full disclaimer: I am an international student (I probably made some grammar mistakes that gave it up, LOL) and my scores were 162V-168Q-4.5W. So I may be biased toward thinking GRE has a problem in the verbal section but not in the quantitative.

Congratulations to those accepted by Northwestern! I still wait to hear from them, but I think it will probably be a rejection.

I know. My point was: knowing an answer on admission probably will arrive next week does not make the wait for it any easier.

Someone posted about an unofficial acceptance email from a POI claiming that official notifications from Northwestern will come next week. I never realized how cruel this kind of news could be.