ResilientDreams

I've found with my professors, less is more. I remind them about two weeks before, then check in a few days before. It's worked so far.

Haha, I doubt I'm such a great applicant that they're going to call me right away. ?

Ha, no way. They have to go through a department admissions committee first, and then the individual faculty have to look through their pile.

I submitted all four of my applications that have a December 1st deadline!

I mean. I'm an applicant myself so I can't speak from life experience, but my dad was a full time engineering PhD student when I was young and he always had time to play with me and my brother and seemed to have a good work/life balance (from what I remember and as I get ready to go through the process myself he hasn't mentioned it being overwhelmingly stressful). I think it has a lot to do with individual variation honestly as well as your mindset going into the program.

I did one simple assignment today and it exhausted me...grad applications and finals season is really getting to me.

This thread is so much more active now and it's great.

I have one last app to submit that has a December 1st deadline and then I have two other apps outside of psychology that are due later.

His spam folder auto-deletes after 7 days. But it's okay because I got it resent!!!

I already submitted everything on my end though and it's not letting me...

Ack. That moment when your recommender says he can't find the email to submit your letter to your top choice school....

I am also only applying to 6 schools! I felt 6 was enough and I couldn't find that many more in my interest area that were in the geographic location I wanted.

Yeah, I always heard that having overlap with many people is a good thing.

I have three out of my six apps submitted now.

I submitted another app today... hopefully two more tomorrow.

But we can't help you if you don't tell us the sort of thing you're trying to get away from. You have to at least say something general so we can tailor our advice, otherwise we might recommend a program with the same problem.

I'm applying for developmental! I submitted to Duke, I have an application for Temple that's more or less done. I just have to put in some final edits. I have rough drafts of statements for UPenn and Cornell. I'm also applying to a PhD program in Education at Delaware and a PhD in Linguistics at Maryland, but those are due later so I'm going to focus on my four developmental apps first.

I was worried I wasn't applying to enough schools, but I want to stay on the East Coast and these 6 had faculty with good interest matches.

I'm applying to 6.

I've submitted one and am sitting on three more that are "done" but just need some final edits. I have two more with later deadlines to work on and I also need to gently remind my recommenders to submit their recs..

I presented about my honors thesis progress to the department and it went really well.

I vote for the second!

I'm approaching end of the semester burnout but I still have so much to do...

A lot of times programs won't let you resubmit a new SoP unfortunately...

My advisor has been really busy and hasn't had time to go over my statements of purpose. ?