slightlyconfused1

As one of the recipients, I can confirm that Harvard did indeed make admissions calls this Wednesday. As it happens, however, I think that at the time this thread was created, no calls had yet been made. The prof calling me (co-chair of the admissions committee) said on Wednesday afternoon that "this morning we finally received permission to start notifying admitted students," which -- if I heard it correctly -- seems to imply that all the Harvard "acceptances" on gradcafe before Wednesday were bunk. Yet another reason why we need to have TM up and running quickly...

I got an admissions email from Northwestern on Friday and there is still no decision posted on the app website for me... so at the very least, this isn't happening for everyone.

New: Institution: Duke Program: Econ PhD Decision: Accepted Funding: details in the mail Notification date: 02/22 Notified through: email from graduate school saying to check site Posted on Gradcafe: (yes or no) no Comments: This is random, but they included my applyyourself password in the notification email, which both (1) is incredibly stupid and (2) means that the ApplyYourself system does not hash passwords, which is an almost unfathomable level of incompetence. They clearly have no idea how to deal with sensitive data... Copied from TM (god that site being down freaked me out!) Institution: Northwestern Program: Econ PhD Decision: Accepted Funding: 20.9k fellowship x 4 years, 15.7k for year 5 Notification date: 02/19 Notified through: email from grad coordinator containing admissions letter as pdf attachment Posted on Gradcafe: (yes or no) no Comments: Institution: Yale Program: Econ PhD Decision: Accepted Funding: In the mail Notification date: 02/18 Notified through: email from graduate school to check site Posted on Gradcafe: (yes or no) no Comments: