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flower303

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  1. Declined my offer from Ole Miss today. I hope that that means good news for someone else!
  2. Has anyone on the waitlist at Emory been rejected or accepted yet? Anyone taken themselves off the waitlist? Still a little ways to go before the 15th, but I'm curious if there has been any movement at all.
  3. I'm curious what people think about holding on to an offer while awaiting waitlist decisions. I'm on two waitlists, and one of those schools has admitted off the waitlist right up to April 15 in the past. I won't be able to visit one of the schools I've been accepted to until the first week in April due to work, other school visits, and a conference, and there is a good chance I will accept the offer...but I definitely have those waitlists in the back of my mind as well. I don't have many options, so I'm not squatting on an offer I know I won't take, but I can't help but feel a little like a jerk for not being able to make a decision quicker when I know there is a waitlist, especially when I'm on pins and needles myself about other waitlists. I certainly have an idea of which way I would go if I received another offer and will to keep in touch with the waitlist schools in (the likely) case it become apparent at some point that an offer is defintely not forthcoming. I suppose the waitlist/April 15 thing is just part of the "game"...but still...
  4. I also got a call from Dr. Trefzer last night and was thrilled to hear the good news! I'm also on two waitlists, so I'll likely have several more weeks of waiting on those decisions, but I'm very happy to have at least one "yes"!
  5. I've been struggling with this same thing. I'm waitlisted at my top choice school, and it has been a few weeks since my only post-interview communication, which was my response to the offer of a place on the waitlist. I've been debating whether to email "just to check in" and/or "reiterate my interest," but I know, and they probably would too, that I'd really just be fishing for info. I got the impression that if they have any news to share, they'll get in touch. But then those neurotic little fears start creeping into my mind...are they expecting me to keep in touch as a show of interest? Are other waitlisters keeping in touch? Could anything I say or do at this point make any positive difference? I'm pretty sure the answers are no, probably not unless they have pressing questions, and no. I think the waiting game is just starting to get to me... :\
  6. Thanks, rainy! So glad to hear your perspective on this. I also got waitlisted at my top choice, but from communicating with the DGS and my POI, it sounds like the "ranking" of the list is fairly set in stone and now it's just a numbers game, and I wonder if telling them that it is my first choice at this point might sound a little desperate or something...? I'm pretty sure I've overthought every last step of this process, probably to my detriment, which I why I didn't mention during the on-campus interviews that it was my first choice. D'oh.
  7. Wow did I need to hear this right about now! Thank you so much.
  8. I'm also wondering if everyone has been called....if that is the case, it does seem odd that only one result has been posted. (But then again, not everyone has been sucked in by Grad Cafe!). Though I also think it would be strange to call over several days....who knows. I can't stand the waiting!
  9. I was there last week, too, and no word yet. Holding my breath...!
  10. Rejections are going out. I got an email telling me to check the website. PDF form letter. No dice.
  11. Has anyone tracked down coyabean's report? I've searched but can't seem to find it. Would love to read it!
  12. I applied to 19 schools out of my initial list of 31 (!!!). I'm far from the perfect applicant and consequently thought I should cast a wide net. However, in arriving at the final 19, I decided to go for broke and apply to top schools, which will likely bite me in the ass in the end. At present I'm working in a field that I really like (non-profit fine arts, working with kids), so I figured I would apply to only the places that I would be really, truly excited about, enough to up and leave this job. Don't get me wrong, grad school is what I really want to do (I completed my MA in English last semester; initially took this job just to pay the bills during the writing of my thesis). So, I guess my answer is 19. Honestly, I don't have my hopes up, given the climate this season. If schools that would normally have an incoming cohort of, say, 12-15 are downsizing.....However well qualified I and my professors think I am, it's really hard to fathom my app poking its head above the 10 or so superstars who may be applying to the same schools. That said, I'm not giving up til the bitter end. And if it doesn't work out this go round, there's always next year!
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