Ofterdingen

Every year, previous applicants inform new applicants about the importance of fit. Every year, they're met with disbelief and incredulity. But it matters, and it can matter a lot. For (yet more) proof and some solid advice, see [url=http://dailynous.com/2016/03/24/getting-in-next-time-ought-experiment/]this post[/url] at Daily Nous.

UVA, I'm coming!  Any others to join me?

Stanford!!!! Off the WL

Good luck to both of us!  Hopefully, they will release some offers today..

Reading Darwin (especially The Origin and Notebook B) is just pure joy for me:
"As buds give rise by growth to fresh buds, and these, if vigorous, branch out and overtop on all sides many a feebler branch, so by generation I believe it has been with the great Tree of Life, which fills with its dead and broken branches the crust of the earth, and covers the surface with its ever-branching and beautiful ramifications."
I've spent weeks at a time just thinking about that one sentence...

Will be declining Boston College within today. Good luck everyone!

Just withdrew my application from ND. No direct benefit, I know, but it will hopefully prove helpful down the road.

I'm going to say that everyone comes out tomorrow and everyone will get into amazing places and it'll be a happy day and we will all know where we are going and it'll be done. 

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

Here to claim the BC posting. I got the letter through old-fashioned snail mail this afternoon (it was signed on the Feb 4), went online afterwards, and noticed that nothing was updated there yet.
Best of luck to everyone out there!