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Same here. I am expecting rejection on that front, as with UNC.

Yesterday was quieter than I expected, save from a number of rejections. Perhaps today will be a bigger day in terms of acceptances.

Congratulations!

Definitely a poor decision, as it was when deciding what to put on that letter. Those last two sentences basically undo everything the rest of the paragraph was apparently trying to achieve. Brown and UCSD issued their rejections before their acceptances. That's kind of odd, but I think it is more sensible than taking a week or more to send rejections. It is ironic that Brown avoided to take a very long time to reject, but then sent a careless letter.

You couldn't enforce it appropriately. And some side effects would be undesirable: higher costs for applying to more competitive programs, less space for negotiations, a ton of information dumped on yourself simultaneously, etc.

Yeah, it's an easy decision to make, but a hard action to take. Myself, I am spiralling inside my own conundrum. I have five good offers, maybe will get a couple more, and can see good reasons for accepting all of them. My case should be settled by visiting them, but that is not going to happen. My only solace is that: "Is this a hard choice for you?" he demanded. Yes! I cried. "Oh," he said, springing back cheerfully. "In that case, it doesn't matter. If it's a hard decision, then there's always lots to be said on both sides, so either choice is likely to be good on its way. Hard choices are always unimportant."

So UPenn is having interviews?

I do not. And sadly won't be able to visit any schools.

Maybe Maryland. If all these send decisions next week, I'll be done. Last week was surprisingly calm for me.

Congratulations! (your username is in honor of Beckett's play?)

Interesting. UPenn is one of my longer shots, I am really curious to see what will happen. Oh boy, am I doing understatements?

Congratulations!

Man, I'd like a thesis to work on right now.

Except affordability, of course. But far from being the most important metric.

Got my Duke rejection. Still hurts.

It may be more important in some cases, however. My background does not include math and statistics (BA and MA in Literature), and I applied to some heavy-quant programs. They could be worried about my ability to endure a hard quant sequence. Fortunately, my GRE Q score was pretty high, and that might signal that this will not be a problem. GRE scores predict nothing else but average GPA in the first or second year of gradschool. But in cases like mine, they can be useful.

Part of a social experiment, perhaps? The Duncan Principle?

No email, no change on the site. Nothing about waitlist as well. A Schrödinger Application! Let's wait and see.

On the Duke applicants site? Nothing like that on mine yet.

Take your time. Drink some water, wait a little, write a paragraph, then wait a little more. It's not that urgent. Congratulations!

I don't understand. Isn't it better to go to the US already on a J-2 visa? I could be F-1 or J-1, it doesn't matter to me. I'm only planning to ask for J-1 status because of her, since F-2s are not allowed to work.

Now I'm open to this possibility. It should have more results by now, and at least one claim here.

Wow. I wish I could ask for something like that. But in my case there'd be at least a three-month wait for a J2 work permit for her...

Waiting for claims here also, but those results seem to be true.

On the plus side, Michigan sends their rejections around the same time of the acceptances.