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Apparently there is always hope. Especially when the notification email arrives around 8pm EST. To those applying to Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, did you hear anything? I'm rooting for you!

Going to Kazakhstan!!!!!

I hope everyone had a good day and that you got to do at least one thing that made you truly happy. Patience, friends. We'll survive.

I've officially become "that one person at my school who's still waiting." My professors all ask my other friends about me. My friends know not to ask me. I just want to be able to have a proper conversation wherein I can talk about something other than how many times I checked this forum/my email in a day.

cml471, looks like Central Asia won't have its earliest notification date in the past five years. And hopes were so high...

Suspense is on for the -Stans. Hang in there, friends! We'll survive!

Oh no! Your future will be amazing (and include delicious food) no matter what. Bangladesh and the -stans are the only countries in South/Central Asia waiting to hear back. (I'm Central Asia.) Welcome to the club! Hurrah!

A preliminary skim of the spreadsheet indicates that no Middle East countries have been notified yet...so, in other words, getting a save the date means that we get to continue our waiting party. Wheeeee fun!

No, we haven't been notified yet because Central Asia. Yay.

Same! For those who have received save tgebdates earlier, any knowledge of the timespan from save the date to actual notification?

Given the way the spreadsheet is structured, I think so. Is the other one also Central Asia related, out of curiosity? I hope to god we'll know by then simply because I am so utterly incapable of doing schoolwork lately.

The realization that we haven't even reached the earliest notification date (23/4) for Central Asia is killing me.

100%. Dying to know.

And will it help us (depending on your specific country, of course) that Orthodox Easter is next weekend, not this weekend?

What is this pre - departure email? Now I'm absolutely freaking out. What region/country? Edited: I'm South/Central Asia too...

UGhhh story of my life. Well, best of luck! Hmmm...but we don't apply for visas till the summer, and then we do so through our host institutions I think, so WHY.

Does anyone know about Kazakhstan/Central Asia? I've been infuriated for a week and a half because India (technically in the same South/Central Asia region) found out surprisingly early. Do Central Asia and Eurasia tend to coincide? Anyone applying to Central Asia anyway?