GunningForGrad

Woof. Can't believe it's officially interview season. Good luck everyone! Keep the updates coming!

Fingers crossed, @eternalwait!

@DBear oh I know, TRUST. Overanalyzing and reading into things are my special skills. Much easier advice to give than follow! ?

So something that I remind myself of is that there are certain standards and restrictions on communicating with applicants. It could very well be that they aren't responding because they can't because they don't want to let you know that you're going to get an offer. Things get super formal around this time of year from what I can tell. And they have so much to do and work on that stop and go's in communication should be expected. Don't be disheartened! And those who offer you support will continue to do so no matter what. If they don't, then you never really had their support in the first place.

@DBear I will absolutely go in and change your status! Grad school for everyone!! I'm really nervous about my particular field because most program accept like...two (maybe three) applicants each yeah and that is a teensy tiny number of people to accept out of the giant pool of people who apply. My family is mostly my parents, sister and her fiancée. There are others but that'a the immediate. Not worried beyond that.

Hahahaha oh it definitely is! I've spent the past several weeks staging every possibility in my head- if I'm accepted, if I'm rejected.... My most recent visual plan is to discover that I've been rejected and then go super spy on the universities. Crawling in vents, breaking into admissions offices while humming the mission impossible song to myself, leaving my application open (I'll bring extras of course to replace the ones they destroyed with fire) and stamping ACCEPTED in bright red letters across the top. Of course it's the modern age so I'll have to hack the computer system and change my status in there and send myself an acceptance email BECAUSE NO BACKSIES ON EXTENDONG AN OFFER, RIGHT???? My "big dream" that I hope actually happens is to get accepted and take my family out to dinner and buy them t-shirts to the university I go to as my way of announcing that I A-applied for grad school and B- actually got accepted. I'm really hoping it comes to fruition. I just hope they don't catch on until I know something for sure. I've convinced them that I'm traveling for work and to visit friends for my upcoming interviews! (Which are both technically true statements...)

Ice cold

Or my favorite: a giant tribal like fire where professors dance around tearing up applications and tossing them in and watching them burn as a pulsing drum beat plays.

Lights up on a university office late at night. A weary professor stares at the stack of applications on her desk. She opens her top drawer, pulling out a half empty bottle of scotch and tops of her glass. Sitting down, she fingers the stack. "Let's see whose hopes and dreams I can destroy tonight.....Alan....you call that a personal statement Alan? Thanks for the application fee- now meet Mr. Papershredder. MUAHAHAHAAHAHA. And next victim..." This is what I'm imagining.

That's great! Did your friend also apply or did they call for you under the guise of being an applicant?

If I don't get in, not much changes for me. I'll stay at my current job, work on my current projects, and then gear up to do it again. But god, I am so ready to go. I'm ready to uproot my life and focus on my greatest passions and learn.

Heart attack

I'm now starting to get curious about why I'm not getting spam emails from schools...maybe I've somehow stayed off the radar? No freaking clue. I keep telling myself that nothing is going to be coming in right now. I have three interviews for programs in February so I won't hear anything new from them until after that. I only have one program hanging out in the ether and they had a much later deadline (January 9) so I know they won't be reaching out quite yet. But I just...keep...checking....

Yeah that's a really wide window that runs late. I wonder if that includes their backup pool in case first picks go elsewhere? Not sure. I'm having a few pangs of regret about not doing URTA....there just weren't enough programs signed up for directing this year to meet my fancy. Have you gotten your URTA interviews slated?

Anyone hear anything from UCSD? I figure it'll be another couple of weeks, but a guy can dream! Have any of you told a lot of people that you're applying? When I applied straight out of undergrad (which I now realize was totally stupid of me), I told everyone and the constant questions of if I had heard something and the faces they would make when I got rejected have me playing this super close to the vest. Really only about five people know: my rec writers, my designer and my best friend and I have such a difficult time not talking about it- especially now that we're getting to interview season!

Oh man. Somehow I've managed to miss the onslaught of university spam emails. I'm also realizing how lucky it is that I'm not getting the junk mail from the post man. I haven't told anyone in my house that I've applied and don't want them becoming suspicious! @Gadgette, they also don't send emails at 3:00 in the morning. Not that I know from personal experience...

I'm literally always by a computer. It's so easy to "just check real quick". I'll be lucky if I have a job after this experience for how much time I spend checking.

I should have enough to keep me busy between work and school and my various projects but I still spend way too much time hurrying up and waiting. Some good ideas here though! I think my email inboxes are about to get super organized.

Even when you know something you'll be anxious. I applied to four programs- I know I have interviews coming up for three and so now I'm anxiously refreshing my email to hear something from the last program and frantically preparing for interviews.

@Loose.tap.screws I admire your ability to apply to that many programs and not lose your mind! I was always under the wire on deadlines for my apps.

@JamesBrown I applied to four as well. Right now UCSD is what I'm waiting on since I won't hear anything else until after my interviews with the other three. Someone I've spoken to applied to SEVEN and I just couldn't even imagine. @steffybolt I wish I could meet up with you! I need to go back and do some really close reading of the script for the directing portion of the interview. Definitely looking forward to the experience!

@JamesBrown I haven't seen anything in this forum about Northwestern, so chances are apps are still under review. Not sure though. Northwestern was in my list but I took them out as I started to whittle down where to apply to. Now hearing about all of the programs where people have applied makes me wonder if I should have applied to more places! It's just so expensive and takes so much time.

Dude, I am TRYING not to focus on emails! I'm working on four shows right now and have my day job. You think that would be enough to keep me occupied....but I just keep clicking refresh! ?

Congrats @JamesBrown! Where and when is your interview for Yale? I didn't apply to VT so I'm no help. Are you just waiting on them and UCSD now?

Does anyone else feel like they spend all of their time refreshing their email? Even long after office hours have come and gone and there's no reason to think you'll hear anything that day?