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that's a level of preparedness that i'm not sure i'll ever reach, so i applaud you!

A vent / question: how do you deal with people who don't "get it" re: applying to grad school? The past few days I've been quite upset with the anticipation of being rejected and my boyfriend (who is very pragmatic and whose parents both have college degrees and a lot of background information about how to get good-paying jobs, hence his choice to enter a lucrative and stable field) remarked "why are you going into something that you know is rigged against you?" He totally means well and I know he's upset seeing me SO upset over this, but what am I to say to that / all of the other things that people have asked me? I think I said "this is all that I'm good at and all that I care about," but then remembered that I'm obviously *not* good at it if I don't get in.... I'm at a loss here, y'all.

It'll probably be another week before they send rejections tbh. ..... One of the reasons I didn't reapply this year is because of how awful they were about interviews / notifications.

I know Chicago is technically only one day early from last year, but I really hope this is a trend of early admission notifications that will continue! Keeping my fingers crossed for Cal and some of these Canadian schools soon.

Ack, thank you!

Oh, I agree. Does anyone else who applied remember what they said the number was? I could have *sworn* it was that high, because I remember thinking that they must have factored in MA applicants too. I think UCLA is rumored to get around 250-300? Gosh, now I’m wondering if I fever-dreamed these stats

I think it tends to be pretty hearsay / based on email rejections. If I recall correctly, Penn said they had 750 applicants last year? Which seems... wrong.

I was hoping that was you! Congrats!

That's wonderful! Kudos!

with life goals? academic? now that i've put my grad school app sheet to bed forever (hopefully), i'm itching to plot some more.

that's how I'm feeling too! I think I've chosen to believe this out of wishful thinking

I read this as UCSB and my heart stopped. Congrats! That's incredible!

YES

I'm trying to decide whether I should limit how many times I refresh the results page. This whole thing feels like a compulsion that I probably shouldn't give into.... but then again, is there any real harm? Perhaps distracting myself with such a silly question will do me some good.

I was reflecting this on my drive to my (thankfully?) mindless job this morning. I can hardly read a book! I've just been listening to podcasts and going on walks and trying to make it through February, which! has not even begun, my goodness

Same! But I'm at work and luckily have been lurking on these forums / my applications on "incognito mode"

At this point I'm just refreshing the results page because I can't remember my login for like.... half of my portals, ha.

Ooh, what type of spreadsheet are we talking here? I love a good 5-year plan.

Oof, I feel you. I'm in a similar situation where I applied to my dream backup job and made it to the second round. Not sure how to casually bring up that I'm waiting to hear back from 15 schools....

I’m C20 British! Mostly Modernism.

congrats!

@Elle Coronaria! Don't lose hope!

the one thing giving me pause on Penn and OSU is that admission was offered over phone and could be spread out over a few days.

Maybe a little bit of both? I go back and forth. I know this is what I want to do, but I also know that my life will probably be just as fulfilling if I direct my energy towards something else, and caring so much about this feels borderline oppressive. Also, if it is the case that you really don't want a PhD, it's still makes sense that you'd want to know about getting in. We've all spent a looooot of time thinking about / prepping for / investing ourselves in this. How could you *not* care?

oh goooooosh what a rough week. As awful as grad apps are, I think I hate applying for jobs more....