SlumberingTrout

Were you dropped from the wait list? Have you written them to find out why, or do you intend to?

Someone on the results page is upset they weren't admitted to Hogwarts. (I do admit that whomever recycled the "Standford"/"Sitford" joke missed that one -- the original gag just happened a week ago!) To take a less flippant turn, I notice in the results page that there have been reports of Bloomington and SLU admitting, to average it out, ~1 student from the wait list every year. I take it that acceptance from wait lists in general would be akin to winning a small lottery?

Oh! I probably should have inferred that from what you said about USF -- congratulations by the way!

Snap. Here's to hoping they send out wait lists and rejections at the same time.

It is; however, that doesn't protect you from being rejected by a program to which you never applied.

Congrats to whomever received the FSU offer! That same offer is the one I'll likely be accepting. And thank you to everyone for your feedback re: when to accept! I wasn't sure if departments might not take kindly to an applicant waiting until the last few days to accept their offer. Incidentally, what on earth is going on with UC Riverside and UVA? I thought for sure I would have heard back from them from now.

I'm trying to determine when I should respond regarding the offer I've received. It's a long shot that I'd be admitted from either of the wait lists I'm on, but I don't want to discount the possibility; it would be unfortunate to accept the offer only to receive another with better funding. (I feel like the proverbial dog with two bones.) Is the first week of April a reasonable time to go ahead and assume the wait lists won't pan out, or might there be other things I'm not considering? Anyone else in this situation?

I didn't receive a wait list notification either, so I must be in the same boat. Ah, well. At least it's good to know.

Bless you, mynameismyname.

Accepted with funding & teaching assistant position at FSU's MA program.

Just the sort of bizarre shenanigan I've come to expect from this process. What were you told? That you hadn't been rejected or something along those lines?

RE: The MA program at SLU: I was told that "we don't generally admit applicants to the MA program alone, apart from Jesuit Scholastics."

Same situation. At this point, all the schools I've applied to have sent out acceptances, and I haven't received any; barring a miracle with a wait list, I'm looking at a total shutout this season.

Congratulations to the both of you!

How do we feel about schools which have sent out acceptances but no rejections or waitlists? E.g., UC Riverside, Florida State University, and University of Virginia have all sent out only acceptances. Is this a pretty good sign that only rejections and waitlists will be forthcoming?

I was not. "There's a real possibility I will be offering you admission before the season concludes in mid-April" was about the extent of it. If you were invited to visit, I imagine that means you're very near the top of the waiting list!

I just received a nice email from Indiana Bloomington's graduate director placing me on their waiting list.

I think on March 10th I'm going to solicit any department I haven't heard from. And then, I don't know, go to China or something.

Each block has usually contained only its own kind of notice, with all notices delivered within a 2 week span. So, for example, Feb 26-27 might have been all acceptances, and then Mar 1-2 would be waitlists, and then Mar 6-7 would be rejections. I have been completely thrown off by Notre Dame sending out rejections first, instead of last, this year -- that's why I didn't include them in my original notes. This is highly unusual; I'm not sure what it portends. That said, there have pretty reliably, from what I can tell, been a few poor unfortunate souls who were rejected and not notified. Which just does wonders for my confidence, you know. (o:

Their notices come out in 1-2 day blocks, where acceptances all come out at once, rejections all come out at once, etc. In '17, the first notice of any kind came out 2/27 and the last was 3/4; in '16, the first notice came out 2/18 and the last was 3/5; and in '15, the first notice was 2/18, and the last was 3/6. So there's about a 2 week span from late February to early March in which the vast majority of their notices come out. The outliers were 2-3 acceptances/rejections per year that came in April or very late March. From what I could tell, the acceptances were from the waitlists. Some of the rejections were solicited (they had been overlooked I suppose); I'm not sure what to make of the others. Generalizing in a very informal way, of course. But it helps reduce my anxiety slightly.

Some notes I've gleaned from reports from the last 3 - 5 years for the programs I've yet to hear from: Florida State: Very few rejections ever received or reported. Those that have been reported came in late March / early - mid April. Very few waitlists reported. No non-waitlist acceptances reported past February. --Seems like FSU may be non-communicative for the most part unless you've actually been accepted. Bloomington: All rejections sent via postal service. Vast majority have been reported in the first 7 days of March. --Snail mail, in this day and age?! Riverside: Rejections sent from late March through (very, very) late in April. Waitlists typically reported in first 7 days of March. Non-waitlist acceptances reliably reported before end of February. Many rejections solicited in early April. --If they don't want you, they're not going to put themselves out to let you in on that fact. University of Virginia: Rejections and waitlists typically appear at the same time, which is generally end of February / first 7 days of March. --Forthcoming, I guess. --For all, an alternative explanation is that late rejections are just left unreported by jaded and exhausted grad students.

We're really down to the wire here, everyone. Glad for those who received UC Riverside acceptances already -- one of my top choices as well! Hopefully this terrible waiting game will conclude sooner than later. I'm hoping for lots of news this week.

I also applied to Notre Dame and didn't hear back. I keep telling myself that, realistically, all this means is that I haven't been rejected yet. Fingers crossed that we're all on a hidden waiting list, though. :)

Maybe so, and thank you for your kind hopes on my behalf! Have you been accepted by your top pick as of yet?

I was also waitlisted at SLU. Concurred re: ready for the process to be over! I see that you were accepted at FSU as well -- congratulations! I applied to their program but never heard back.