[Post-Acceptance, Pre-Visit]

1 hour ago, signandsignifiers said:

I, also, have spent an inordinate amount of time worrying about this. I was operating off of the assumption that I would call them by whatever they signed off as in their email; now I'm wondering if I committed a post-acceptance academic faux-pas by addressing both of the POIs that I've emailed so far by their first name (especially since I have really no grasp of academic formality as my undergraduate institution is really chill about titles--I called all of my profs by their first names).

Same here, I’ve been using first names in all my communication because that’s what  my profs preferred in undergrad. It wasn’t until I saw the debate on this thread that I realized it’s not the norm ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[2018 Acceptances]

2 hours ago, Metaevalist said:

Congrats! Are you planning on going to the Welcome Weekend?

Hopefully?? I don't even know when it is... I just received a standard "Congratulations, you're admitted!" e-mail from the graduate school and have a positive decision in my student portal, so I'm waiting (patiently, so patiently) for someone in the English program to confirm funding / visiting / that this isn't some sort of joke :-) I'm worried I might have to keep waiting it out for a bit with the long weekend.

[2018 Acceptances]

I'm honestly so scared to even post this because I'm paranoid that they made some kind of clerical error but..... I was just admitted to Michigan off the waitlist?!!!! ?!!!! Talk about a wild Friday night!

[2018 Acceptances]

I was waitlisted at Michigan!! 

[2018 Acceptances]

3 hours ago, la_mod said:

GUYS. Just got a call from USC. My first acceptance. Glad I let it go to voicemail because I would have cried :')

I got the call this morning too from USC!! I managed to wait until I was off the phone and then bawled :,) 

[Quit Playing Games (With My Heart) / Projected Rejections]

9 minutes ago, punctilious said:

Same here! And forwarded onto “Master of Arts Program in the Humanities (MAPH).”

Same here, first official rejection down

[Projected Acceptance Dates for English PHD programs]

I’m going stir crazy watching the results come in for programs I didn’t apply to, and a good half of my schools won’t notify for a few weeks yet  Really starting to think that February is in fact the cruelest month...