What is the best way to find out the deadline for acceptances? They said they would let me know the status if it were to change, and invited me to an open house as well as emphasized if it were any other year I would of easily been accepted but due to funding cuts I had been placed on a waitlist. I will attend the open house and reach out to faculty I have yet to meet, though I have taken courses through the program in previous years, which is why I am a at such a loss as to what to do/how best to approach optimizing my chances of acceptance. My work was recently published in another journal, I was thinking of informing them, given that I used their institution as my affiliation for I was taking a course at the time of submission, but that seems unnecessary and indirect. Any thoughts?