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We had a very similar awful day and I just want to say I really empathize with you, if I understand correctly, waiting to hear back from 1-2 schools with no acceptances so far. It's awful and I wish it could just be done with already.

Wow! I am looking into this RIGHT NOW, thank you!

Thank you for doing that!! Did you send that after people started hearing they got in? Well, good luck to both of us...!

UVA is a rejection at this point, right?

I'm pretty sure I'm getting shut out this year and am feeling a bit panicked about the interrelated issues of, when applying again, at that point applying to start 4 years after I finished undergrad (so with my LORs being that old) and also not having been immersed in coursework and however that might influence my own writing, research interests, general familiarity with literature, etc. Are there are any reputable MA programs still accepting applications? Would that be at all a good idea to pursue--to attend a program that is still open for Fall 2018 (at the risk of sounding like a jerk, I wonder if those programs tend to be respected ones?)? Curious to hear general thoughts, rules of thumb on this, etc. Also curious if anyone knows anything about Concordia, in Montreal (I'm an American in New York for whatever it may be worth)--they're a program that has an extended deadline until April 1. If you are eventually aiming for a top 20 PhD program, does that sound like a helpful or detrimental route? Thank you!

I don't mean to hijack this conversation, but I'm pretty sure I am getting shut out this year and am thinking quickly about aiming to go for an MA next year if there are decent programs still taking applications. I saw Concordia is -- do you guys know anything about their English dept, reputation (overall or the English department specifically), and if other Canadian places may be as well?

Has anyone else gotten rejected everywhere? I'm still waiting on Columbia--not super hopeful, if everywhere else was a no, and if I can preemptively vent for a second: I work here at the university and it makes the humiliation even more poignant to be rejected from my own place of work, by so many faculty I know and work with often. Ughhhh. I was so looking forward to being in school next year and have no idea what to do now. It seems like people don't really curse on these boards and I don't want to break any unspoken rules but ksfdjksalfdjksadlfjsadlfjdskl god this sucks

Do we think there's any chance UVA still has people left to notify (positively)?

I am praying with every fiber of my being...I've gotten only rejections so far and I feel like UVA is my last remaining hope. I feel like not a ton of people here are waiting for it as well so I wonder how informative the board will end up being. Ugh in a way I hope they prolong notifying, though, because if it's another rejection I'd let the hope I may still get in last a little longer.

Ugh I just, after getting one official rejection and two implied (CUNY and UPenn) texted my dad being sad and he said "your research interests were too vague." Dad!!! I'm still waiting to hear back from some places...way to kick me when I'm down. The worst part is I think I'm right, and that fact will dictate the rest of this admissions cycle for me with only more rejections to come :/

I wish we could have the timestamp of these emails to know if they all went out together! Unrelatedly, does anyone know how UVA usually does things, and where they might be with notifications?

Ah so it could be anything! This is really the absolute worst moment. I mean, I feel like if it's a 'check your portal' email they could just send them to applications simultaneously, though what do I know :/

Does anyone know if Penn goes out all at once, or if it takes a couple of days? Or is this an implied rejection to not hear today :/ ?

Wow congrats!!! Was it a personalized or automatic email, could you tell?

I think I'm going to take one for the team and do it.

Oh and who's your POI, out of curiousness?

Thanks so much for this! And firstly, congrats!!! That's super kind of you and who knows, but either way, that's awesome for you and thanks for calming my fears a tiny bit.

Yes, I did! Here is the email I received back (perhaps rightfully snarky), below. So I'm not sure what to make of the Caleb Smith phone call but this gives me a tiny tiny bit of hope: The admissions committee for the English graduate program has not made any decisions yet. We will notify applicants as soon as the process is complete. In the meantime, we appreciate your patience.

Ugh, re CUNY. I'm wondering if everyone gets contacted personally (sounds like at least 1 of those people had communicated with a professor; perhaps if you didn't have that experience, they wouldn't send out a personalized unofficial email). I'm hoping not. I'm feeling like I'm about to be shut out this time and just overall am despondent and miserable, like, just in the mode of waiting for more rejections to materialize formally. For some reason the worst part--probably because it's the most immediate, short term experience I have to look forward to--seems not even like, applying all over and waiting at least another year, but having to tell everyone I know I didn't get in anywhere. I know people on this forum get it isn't a mark of shame, but it feels like that and it also seems the rest of the non-PhD applicant world views getting unilaterally rejected across the board would see it as such :/

Do you have any sense if everyone who got accepted also got the same kind of unofficial, personalized acceptance your friend did?

Has CUNY gone out?

Also praying...or an invisible waitlist/rounds of acceptances?

I am an impatient anxious MONSTER but I just emailed the Yale English registrar and she actually responded saying that no decisions at all had been made or released! Not sure what to make of that post! She told me they appreciated my patience as they continue to finalize decisions and will release them as soon as they're ready...

Oh well I think though that the point of it was that they haven't released notifications! One person just reached out themselves to ask. I don't think they've actually gone ahead and sent out their decisions, though. So don't be depressed yet!

Did you see the comment about how the department has finished their decisions and is now just waiting on dean approval before sending out? It was that thread, I want to say, and then there was this other comment about how they saw someone got news so they asked...perhaps I'm butchering this secondhand but pretty sure that was the gist of it.