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Hi calladium - I've been considering UBC too, and found really helpful. Some suggestions on neighborhoods, rent, and discussion about the transit system, etc. I hope you enjoy your visit! I've been to Vancouver once and had a great visit.. UBC's campus is huge and has its own forested park, with the ocean and the mountains as backdrop it's easily the prettiest campus I've ever seen.

I don't think it's that shocking some adcomms might turn to a well-known board specializing in grad school applications to see if anything turns up. I've heard about applicants being googled before, too. The example from the Linguistics sub-board just shows that the general rule of Internet-forum-use applies here too: either keep identifying details vague, or put it out there and stand by it, knowing you run the chance of being identified. It could be anyone - other classmates, relatives, professors. This board definitely has a welcoming, safe haven vibe to it, and it's wonderful, but we shouldn't lose sight of the fact that it's still a publicly accessible corner of the Internet.

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My SO is in a similar situation as you, Neko. Good Canadian school, well-funded offer, super early decision deadline. His plan is to wait a few more weeks and see if any other offers come in, and if not to email the Canadian school and explain the situation in much the way luce373 suggested. He's seriously considering their offer, etc, but feels he can't really make a decision until he has all the possible information in hand, and ask for an extension. Good luck!

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Me too!! I was on the bus to school this morning and found myself critiquing every bit of my application, especially my SOP. I pretty much re-wrote the whole thing in my head on the way to school, and then got really down on myself for the version that I turned in, which now in my sea of self-doubt, I think is weak and without sufficient direction. "If-only-itis" is a hard illness to shake. I hope you hear some good news soon, Zouzax! Haha, this is EXACTLY how I felt. Thank you for the good wishes sarandipidy and all the best to you too!

Increasingly moody is right. I live with my boyfriend. We're in the same field and are both applying for MAs. There's a limited number of schools for this type of stuff, and we ended up applying to several of the same schools. I'm sure you can see where this might be going Last week he received a phone call from his #1 choice (my #2 school) offering him admission .... we were both freaking thrilled, giddy, much jumping up and down and a celebratory drink or two. Now that the giddiness has passed a little, I'm getting really antsy. His offer of admission came REALLY early - we weren't expecting to hear anything for weeks. Somehow, despite knowing that his admission was unseasonably early and I shouldn't count myself out of the running yet, his offer of admission is making waiting around for a decision regarding my application worse because I know for sure now they've begun sorting the applicants. I'm beyond thrilled for him, but I'm on edge now worse than I ever was before. The phone rang this afternoon and I instantly broke out in a cold sweat. (It was a telemarketer). I got an email from School #2 that was totally unrelated to grad apps, and my first thought was "that's just cruel."