Pertinax

Did you call Nancy Smith-Amer, or the general department number? I tried calling Duke and Hopkins a couple weeks ago, to no avail.

Not at all. I understood it as informative, as was intended. It just irritates me to see avoidable gridlock. ClassApp's direct approach is probably the way to go, but getting someone with a straight answer on the phone or over email is not always the easiest.

Yeah, I can see some people were after the visitor's weekend. Congratulations! But what gets me is that Texas usually rejects in February or, at latest, early March. Did they decide to skip that step this year? Hopkins usually rejects late, but as someone pointed out above, Duke usually rejects in February. NYU can be kind of everywhere, but seems to put out rejections regularly earlier than this. On Agrippina's list, Boston usually rejects early-mid March, and (from admittedly one example) SUNY Buffalo rejects earlier than this. On Jimleko's side, Toronto usually rejects in February. It seems a bit odd that a number of schools are delaying. I know it's likely nothing that can be identified, but postulating a reason (more candidates this year? Less candidates this year? Extended admissions process? Later interview weekends?) is my way of trying to maintain patience, I guess. I know some of us, if not all of us, still waiting on these schools for final word are also holding onto acceptances from other schools. Which unfortunately means we are holding things up for those schools/waitlisters. The road to April 15th is always a knot, what with decision making and waitlisters, but it's only going to be more tangled if programs are holding back/delaying rejections.

Can we talk about programs we haven't heard from for a second? I'll start: NYU, Texas, Duke, and Johns Hopkins. Other than Hopkins, which is notoriously late with their rejections, I'm at a loss as to what's going on.