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Yay!

I recently got invited to a preview weekend that was very last minute. I looked up airfare and realized there was no way I could cover it. I told the director that while I'd love to visit I didn't think I would be able to make travel arrangements so soon- in those words without saying anything about money. She emailed back that they would arrange and cover the costs of my flight, hotel, and meals. My husband however was invited for a visit and they said they could cover the cost of two nights at a hotel. We looked up flights (all $400-600) and emailed back asking if there was anymore funding considering we live so far away (we're in MI, school is in Florida). They emailed back that they could reimburse $300 for the flight. I would be honest. Say you've already booked travel, but you're concerned about costs and wanted to see if there was anyway to be reimbursed for some or all of the flight. Sometimes asking is all it takes, plus if it saves you money it's totally worth it. Directors know what students make, they also know the process is pricy. They won't think it's weird or awkard.

I know two ppl got calls from Arizona today with acceptances so I would take it as a good sign!

Yay! Congrats. I guess I'll see you at MSU's recruitment weekend soon and then Miami's. Has anyone from Miami reached out yet? I'm trying to decide how long I should wait

I think these next two weeks are going to bring the remaining notifications for a lot of (so far) silent schools. I applied to 6 schools and Ive heard from 3 now, but 2 of those were in the past 2 days. Most othe programs I expect to be in the next two weeks. My husband on the other hand applied to 7 and has only heard from 1 with no acceptances or rejections posted on the forums for those programs. Idk, we'll see, but I hope you hear back soon!

I've been accepted to Virginia Tech. I'm expecting to hear back from the rest of my programs in the next few weeks.

good luck! Also mine updated *exactly* at 48 hrs, no sooner or later

Sorry, probably not the right thread to ask, just curious how you like the campus in general

I told myself that I was going to sleep in today to avoid the anxiety of waiting for Miami's portal to update (at 10:40am), but I woke up at 8:00am. Finally updated and I'm accepted!

Thank you that's great to hear! Any recommendations for VT as a campus? I'm visiting next week

I feel you on this. My mom died my senior year when I was applying to MA programs. I would always talk to her about things and she would relay messages to my dad. After she died I had to basically start learning to communicate with him, because I realized we never really sat down and talked to each other much when I was growing up. My mom was really the glue to our family and when she died I think my dad let go of his identity as a dad and really fixated on his loss of my mom and his identity as a widow (which I understand and realize he couldn't really control). But, much like your dad, I think he saw me leaving as just another aspect of us not being a family unit anymore. It doesn't help that my family has not dealt with the death properly. My younger sister became severely depressed and dropped out of school. My dad became engaged and remarried within a few months. There was a lot of fighting and drama between my family and I was not there. Being far away and very occupied with school made me feel so helpless. Especially since I was being used as a proxy mediator in my mom's place. It's calmed down a lot in the past year, but I've mostly had to learn to navigate a different family than the one I grew up in. Whereas I wouldn't go 2 days without calling my mom, I go weeks with talking to my dad. We don't talk about school much. Mostly small talk like the weather or my dog, sometimes I send him a picture of a meal I cooked or something funny I saw. Mostly though, I keep stuff to myself until it's necessary to share. Like my dad knows I'm applying to programs, but he hasn't asked which ones. I don't update him really on the process although I'll probably tell him when I travel for a visiting weekend. Whoops, realized I just spilled my life in there. But eh, it's already typed. Hope it let's everyone know, your not the only one who is dealing with grad school and family problems

Oh my god. It's not funny, but the layers of irony in this is too too good. And I agree. I'm hyperaware of name spelling, but also it's not difficult to spell someone's name correctly. Email, contacts, attendance roster, directories- there are no excuses.

The name thing is not petty. My name has a ~nontraditional~ spelling and I get so peeved when people spell it wrong when it is clearly visible (I'm looking at you prof I've interacted with a billion times who addressed my email wrong last week). Like sure I don't expect my starbucks to be spelled correctly, but formal documents-those don't get a pass. Also: congrats on the acceptance: I've heard nothing but good things about the program

Yay! Congrats

Rhet/comp friends, who else is getting ready to check their Miami portal tomorrow? I'm considering sleeping in just to avoid anxiety before the portal updates.

I hope you hear back soon!

Originally they said visits were going to be in March. I'm *guessing* that they might have changed it up bc of all the visiting weekend conflicts in March? Idk, but I agree, must be something weird going on, bc according to the boards they usually notify a little earlier

Thank you! @mk-8 @bumbleblu @M(allthevowels)H @FreakyFoucault @unicornsarereal @Warelin @punctilious Now I just have to freak out about the preview weekend, it's next weekend.

I've managed to check twice. I guess I'm taking it at face value, that if they say it'll be up tomorrow it probably won't be up until tomorrow. Good luck! Fingers crossed it's a good sign

I just got my first acceptance! Virginia Tech's Rhetoric & Writing PhD!

see when I got the email I was actually thinking to opposite. I would assume they would email or call accepted applicants and send the rejects to the portal, but maybe I'm just paranoid

Thank you! I've already checked once, so fingers crossed I can not log in again until tomorrow

I know! The email says: Thank you for applying to the Graduate School at Miami University. Your admission decision will be posted on your ApplyWeb application portal in 48 hours. Log in at your convenience to obtain this information. "at your convenience"....... The worst part is that the results have some people getting accepted and rejected via the website, and some people getting emails. So I'm just in limbo for the next 48 hrs.

Just got an email from Miami saying decisions will be posted in 48 hrs to the website.

If someone isn't friends with my advisor are they even worth knowing??