Concentration

Realist, what program are you at.

Congratulations, someoneouthere. Thinking of taking it?

Anyone claim the UNC admit?

Anyone admitted or waitlisted at UNC care to share what their plans are for the next week?

As I understand matters, you can withdraw an acceptance before April 15th. After the 15th it's iffy, but frankly, if you don't want to be at a school, I'm sure they would release you from any commitment to attend -- a good program probably doesn't want people there who don't want to be there. I'm not so sure about the timing thing -- it might be worthwhile to inquire at your schools whether students have until end of the business day or until the end of the 15th, full-stop (hence my half-serious joke about a nocturnal council). In some cases, I've heard of programs giving their admits extra days/extensions to decide, though at places with active wait-lists I think that practice is less likely to occur.

Me. My plans hinge on the decisions of a couple of people. It's been unpleasant. I fear they have a.) forgotten about their admission and will be reminded on 4/15, and then accept, or b.) are also waiting on wait-lists and will accept once they know their own outcome (which seems to be your scenario, APGradApplicant). I keep thinking every week will bring closure, but I am resolved that my status will not be known until 4/15 deep in the the night following a midnight council of faculty.

"Bump".

Any news on Notre Dame? I am to understand they are still going through a pile of files, but their visiting days are this weekend? Also, has anyone actually been rejected, or are those rejections on the results page fraudulent?

Anyone care to debrief (publicly or privately) on their impressions of UNC - CH?

Re: the latest Notre Dame news on the results page. I have truly never seen anything like this. It seems there is fourth category between "rejected" and "wait-listed", and we are in that ether (which is better than being rejected outright, certainly). It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination...

Good luck; Northwestern is a great program.

Would today's UNC rejectee mind sharing what happened? Was s/he on the wait list, and was booted off?

WashU?

WashU?

Is this worse than the all-nighter prior to UCSD?

Anyone claiming the UNC rejection?

Should be in the next three days. The ad. comm. has been meeting every week and I was told to expect a decision by the end of the month.

Some schools will in fact do it this way (which is what I tried to say in less-than-clear language above). Varies by institution.

Good idea for a thread. Let me also make a plug for UNC admits. As you may or may not know, UNC maintains a rigorous wait-list that has been relied on sometimes extensively. That is, they do not "go back to the pool" like other schools in the unlikely event they fail to yield enough admitted students. Rather, they immediately e-mail admit the next person on the wait-list. Therefore, if you don't plan on attending, please do notify (as an aside, anyone know when is their visiting weekend?).

Point of clarification: TAMU "is terrible, and most of the faculty are either delusional or not active"?

Good thread idea, I especially encourage the user with the handle "SuddenlyParanoid" to draw his/her's up for us, since he/she was admitted to all programs applied to.

APGradApplicant, this is a very moving account. I wonder, though, if there is not some truth to what this man is saying. After perusing the web sites of the top departments (tip top - top 5), most of those students, who I think poppy is primarily referring to, are from excellent undergraduate programs (mostly private schools that I would need to be saving at the ripe old age of 22 to put my child through). Perhaps some of them worked their way up to those schools, but really, I must doubt many people at Williams have been browbeaten by society. It is ironic that many of them are studying American politics as good graduate students, when they have likely never known the experiences of broad swaths of the country. I'm reminded of a discussion I once read on this forum to the effect: Political science has nothing to do with politics! We are interested in telling people what the causes of political problems ought to be!

Say more, friend.

Hear, hear. I have placed on ignore one poster, who despite getting into a top ten program, has become insufferable in his/her melancholy. I can only imagine what it will be like to be in the cohort with some folks when they receive their first article rejection.