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Michigan is sending out emails edit: And making jokes too! "Metaphysics being what they are, we know you can only attend one school"

Columbia is sending e-mails to check online status. EDIT: also American as well as the above poster. So may be American?

Not sure how helpful / accurate this is but I had an phone interview with an OSU professor a couple weeks back. When I asked about funding at OSU he said that typically get X dollars from the University for PhDs and then depending on the class they'd like to admit, they attempt to scrounge up Y more dollars from the Poli Sci Department. Because of that somewhat haphazard process (this may just be standard procedure for most universities, I have no idea) it takes them a little bit after acceptances to know what the funding situation is going to be. I have no idea if this interpretation is correct, but depending on what Y ends up being, they may be able to fund more (or less I guess) students than they originally expected.

I also have an OSU decision on their portal, just to try to lend some certainty to this process.

Can confirm Rice University is out, I go there and my senior thesis advisor says that they've completed ranking their applicants, which means that decisions should be mostly out.