radiation

I was accepted to NYU on March 23rd and they told me they would send me my financial aid info by the end of March. They told me I'm under review for my loans and keep pushing back the date of when they'll send me financial aid package. Is anyone in the same boat? It's not really fair to wait on letting me know this late, considering the deadline to accept or decline my other offers is in 6 days...

Don't worry. If there's anything NYU is good at it is loading up students with debt on schedule.

Well if we ask them, they might go and fix this bug which means we can't know earlier than we should ... the formal decisions are definitely going to be sent out at once.

Not a peep! Seems like they're really taking their time this year. 

Haha sorry, I just can't understand your research. Do you collect data and pass it off to someone else to analyze? Do you expect all your data to be fit with a nice, normal regression? How do you communicate with mathematical biologists/sociologists and computer scientists when you need fancier techniques (like machine learning, perhaps) without having a rudimentary knowledge of those things? 

Look, I don't know what you're trying to prove, or why you're trying to make me look and feel inadequate but it's not working.
If you really must know, I study ancient DNA.  That means I go into a lab and I create a bunch of chemical mixtures (usually comprised of some sort of mix EDTA and Proteinase K) that digest the ancient tissue (be it bone or what have you).  I then take the DNA and put into a DNA library with primers and end repair adapters and a bunch of other things to amplify the fragmented and damaged DNA.  And like magic, after a few hours, I get a read out, via a BioRad PCR machine that creates a regression curve.  Anything between 90% and 110% is perfect efficiency for the PCR, anything less, there is likely some sort of inhibitor in the mix.  If it doesn't work, I go back and try again.  If it does work, I visualize the PCR products on an gel and then take them to be sequenced.  My finished and sequenced DNA I then input into any number of computer programs, including programs I have written myself in Python to help me analyze my data for what I need done.
I never said my math scores were good.  So I actually don't communicate with "real" scientists, they are so far advanced my brain can't comprehend what they say.  I usually end up having an epileptic seizure and wake up with my research all done for me and a sudden publication-worthy paper all typed up for me.  Of course, I don't have any idea what it says because my rudimentary knowledge is so far beneath all of the other people's understanding of things.  Especially those in math and engineering, they are really too smart for me. 

Ouch (not me thankfully)
0a/0w/27r. Bad season. What's the probability of such a rejection rate?

Well. There's this one. Just know that you're not the only one in bummer town. The population is growing this month...
University Of Texas At Austin (New Writers Project) Creative Writing Poetry, MFA (F16) Rejected via E-mail on 2 Mar 2016 A 2 Mar 2016 1a/0w/1r rnLove this program! Bummer town, population=me

Brandeis Sociology, PhD (Fall 2014):
 
"I had never taken a sociology class and had no particular interest in any of the faculty's areas of specialization. I only applied because they waived the admission fee based on my GRE scores, so I commend them on their wise choice of rejecting me lol."
 
This is my favorite because it exactly mirrors my motivation and application result. Good to know I wasn't the only one that did this.

I was given the generic ' decisions go out between mid and end March' reply :/ 

I wrote to the TC admissions about this because I have an external scholarship deadline by mid March and I can only apply if I have a decision by then. The reply I got was we should know by mid-March. My question was regarding the IED Ed.M. I suppose that the wait is closing in then!