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In at USC! Couldn't be more excited to accept.

I just declined UT Austin and WashU. My AOIs are language and metaphysics!

Of course! Language and metaphysics.

Just declined my offer from OSU.

right now I'm debating between WashU, OSU, and UT, and I'm "high on the waitlist" at USC. I'll almost certainly go to USC if I get in.

I was just accepted at Austin off the "waitlist for the waitlist." My AOI is language, and it sounds like the next admit will also be a language person if I ultimately decline.

Congratulations!! if you don't mind me being self-interested, do you know of anyone else who is planning to decline USC?

just declined UConn.

It's like this ridiculous process has come full circle: after weeks of relative peace, I'm back to neurotically refreshing my email every few minutes.

So... It's really emotionally and mentally draining to spend so much time and energy agonizing over a couple of offers when the possibility of getting off the waitlist into a way better program (where I would definitely go) is looming uncertainly over my head. Bah.

I solicited. It took a few days for them to get back to me, though, so it might be worth it to hang in there a little longer.

just accepted off the UConn waitlist!

Haha yes, that's true. I'd prefer that too, but I know a lot of campus visits are right against the deadline. The 10th might be asking a little too much in those cases.

Yeah, I get the impression that the writing section isn't taken vey seriously by most departments. Especially since you can get a perfect verbal score and a 4 writing (which happened to me). Plus, they have your writing sample. Verbal and quant matter to some extent, however, when it comes to funding from graduate schools at large. For example, I received the highest fellowship available at OSU as a (partial) result of my GRE scores.

So this is kind of a silly request, but it might actually prove helpful. Since it's a very real possibility that those of us on waitlists might not find out that we've been accepted somewhere until after the April 15th deadline (and might therefore have accepted a less desirable offer somewhere else), I was thinking that it might be a good idea for all of us to act as if the deadline were actually the 14th. If more offers are accepted that day rather than the next, it would (hopefully) free up more time on the 15th for departments to make new offers. Thoughts?

I was wondering the same thing!

Just got a call from a California number and I jumped to answer it, thinking it might be USC taking me off the waitlist. Telemarketers kill dreams.

I just declined Tufts.

Just removed myself from the Toronto waitlist. Hope it helps!

Based solely on your username and this reference, I definitely think we should be friends lol

I can claim the USC wait list. I received an email from Gabriel Uzquiano.

lurker, here. Just wanted to share that one of my friends has been accepted to the Harvard PhD program.