WhatIsSleep

Really, it is a personal decision- one to be made with one's own family. It doesn't need judgement. Going to school to make a good future for your children does not seem selfish to me. Also, this is very much a cultural standard, and typical American "mommy-wars." in many, many places around the world mothers and fathers have to make sacrifices for their children, and sometimes that involves moving a way for a time period to make a better life for your family. 
 
I am in no way a privileged person. My kids really don't have a chance to succeed in life with my family history of working-class, blue-collar, and welfare parents. I have no inheritance, no financial support and have had no help getting to where I am. I choose to go to school after having kids. After I took my GED. I am the first in my entire family to even graduate college, let alone go to grad school! My childhood was hard, and I had to figure a lot of stuff out on my own. Do I want the same for my own kids? No. I want them to have a better life, and a better start to making a life for themselves than I had. I don't want to have them be high school drop outs like I was to work a minimum wage job. I don't want them to have to wait until they are 25 and a parent to finally figure out how to make going to college work for them. 
 
Do I need people like you to judge people like me? No thank you. I really have no other way to make a better life, and a better future for my children. Their father is an unemployed, and will remain so as long as he can, living with his mother. He's never going to do anything good with his life, anything to make their future better. It is up to me to do that. Does this mean I might have to live apart from them for a while? I might. Isn't it hard enough without people like you telling me I am a bad mother for making a sacrifice different than what you consider to be acceptable? And, WHY, would I not be judged for this decision had I been a man? 

Got an email that sent me to the acceptance on uApply for the MA at McGill!!! 

Congrats to you too! I’m in Romantic/Victorian lit. ? 
Has anyone received official rejections from UBC? Or have only the acceptances gone out? 
 
 

Me too!! I'm early modern -- what are you researching? I'm SO happy.
Congratulations to you, and to me, and fingers crossed for those still waiting! 

I just got accepted to U of T, PhD program!

Just heard from McGill! Will also be turning them down. Still waiting on UBC, which is weird, but at this point it doesn't really make a difference to me. Hopefully we all get some news soon so we can move on with our lives!

and so begins the start of a very long week! Good luck to everyone... !

Congratulations!!! Awesome news! 

In at UBC for MA!

Strange, but good to know. Thanks!

Nope. 

No love for me from McGill today. It’s okay, though, because it would have been only for the ego boost. I couldn’t find anyone there who would be a great fit for my proposal BUT I love Montreal! Toronto and Western are killing me. Especially Toronto. Good luck to anyone else going for McGill!!! 
 
Oh! I did get accepted to Birmingham. Need money now!

No love for me from McGill today. It’s okay, though, because it would have been only for the ego boost. I couldn’t find anyone there who would be a great fit for my proposal BUT I love Montreal! Toronto and Western are killing me. Especially Toronto. Good luck to anyone else going for McGill!!! 
 
Oh! I did get accepted to Birmingham. Need money now!

Oh, man. That reply would have me at my wits end! I hope you get in -- good luck!

@WhatIsSleep Congratulations! You are killing it on the acceptances!
Like Vancouver, the secret to living in Toronto is a ) being far outside the "city" limits  b ) finding a space the size of a Harry Potter's closet c ) having multiple roommates -- usually all three in conjunction!

Thanks for this! Maybe we can use this info to construct a broad timeline of the other school notifications (i.e. tail-end of the month into early March)?

If anyone here has applied to them, I have received acceptances from the University of Saskatchewan and the University of Calgary. I'm waiting on the University of Victoria and, like many of you, UBC.

Okay, folks. Update from U of T English Dept.:
"The Department of English at the University of Toronto is currently in the process of assessing your PhD application. Once we have made admission decisions we will be sending out first offers in the week of February 26 to March 2 or soon thereafter" 
 

Oh, no. There will be no patience. 

Just heard from U of Manitoba! Accepted!