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I was rejected. Feeling pretty crushed.

How's everyone holding up today? I feel like I can't do anything at all.

Well damn, dude. I think your chances are good if you got into UCLA and Duke. Kinda makes me wish I'd applied as a barometer. I have a 3.8 and ten years of work experience, and good GRE scores (high 90th percentile across the board). But still worried because my life has been... very interesting. In a way that makes it tough to apply for jobs unless I can tell them my whole life story. My personal history statement was six pages long, and my aunt, who's a dean at Loyola, told me not to take out a single word. Le shrug. I'm rooting for you. So are Miranda, Charlotte, and Samantha.

Wait. Is checking the forum every other breath not a healthy distraction? Damn. Maybe I should take advantage of Oregon's decrim status...

Lol. Exactly the same, tbh. The area I want to focus on is very specific (data collection in the carceral system and its policy implications), and one of the only academics who's produced any work on it is an adjunct at Goldman. I actually didn't apply to any other programs because I couldn't find professors that would have been a good fit. I'm just above average academically for the program, so I waffle between being super confident and totally hopeless. What are you hoping to study?

I'm actually dying. How am I supposed to get any work done? Does it matter? The anxiety is real. The website does say to check back with them in mid-March if we haven't heard anything (or at least it did before the website update, I haven't checked since). Admissions is gonna be getting a lot of curious emails on the 15th if they don't let us know by then. EDIT: Just checked the website. They've changed their language to "Admissions decisions are typically sent in the month of March." Definitely giving them the side-eye. SECOND EDIT: I lied. "Please check your Spam/Junk/Events folders if you do not receive your decision by mid-March."

Based on my totally unsubstantiated review of Grad Cafe's results pages, we should hear within the next couple of days. Letters have gone out between March 8-12 for the last four years. But, like, COVID. So who knows.

Here's the info page for graduate student academic appointments: https://grad.berkeley.edu/financial/appointments/ The tuition remission schedule is linked to on that page. No idea how hard it is to land a jerb, though.

Hey Harvey, none of us know whether or not we've gotten in yet, nor what our aid packages might look like, so we won't have much info to share with you. But based on the FAQs, age shouldn't hurt your application.

Thanks for sharing! I hope we hear back this week. It looks like letters have gone out between March 8th and 12th the last few years.

Woah. It looks like Goldman's website got a facelift in the last day or so. It looks great.

It's my dream school, too. It's weird, I remember visiting the campus when I was in high school and thinking "this is the place." I didn't even apply for undergrad. But it turns out I really want to work with one of the adjuncts at Goldman. So here we are. Why's it your dream school?

I'm definitely considering it. But mostly I'm just chewing my fingernails off wondering when we're all going to hear back.

That’s what it looks like. It feels like it’s still so far away.

Did anyone make contact with professors at their dream program before applying? I had a lovely chat with someone at GSPP ( an adjunct), and I have no idea if that might help my chances. I can't believe how slowly time is crawling by.