Hello there
I am also waiting for a response from Riverside. Because all acceptance entries in the results page seemed to have scholarships, I had assumed they notified scholarship receivers before the others with regular package. That was last week. But I just saw (I think) your partner's entry as "waitlisted" and started to worry that there will be no second batch of notifications. So I wanted to ask with whom your partner contacted, and what details they gave them (like how many people are in the waitlist, where in the waitlist they are?) I feel very nervous about contacting the department, but waiting for a response is also slowly killing me.
My area is Science Fiction by the way I really wish to work with Dr. Vint. So if there is also someone in SF who are considering to drop the offer, please let me know.
Also question: is this normal that they don't let waitlisted people know that they are in the waitlist? Just checked results page, last year, one person called the department to learn their status 24 Feb, the last 3 waitlisted were notified a month later, late March. I cannot wait another month
I am supposed to working on my masters thesis, but I cannot focus. And even though I know there is 11 hour difference between here and California, so the people are probably sleeping as I nervously wait for them to contact me, I still jump at every notification on my phone.