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It’s my birthday today. I was supposed to go to SF with my bestie but she bailed last minute so I’m going to just stay in bed refreshing this page and my portals, the way birthdays were meant to be spent.

Thank you!

Hey friends, I’m turning 31 tomorrow, and I’m taking the megabus to SF. Anyone want to meet up? I’ll be there all afternoon:

It would make sense, especially if they want to keep their placement percentages attractive. I really wonder what the future of our field looks like ?

Could your application have been deferred from the PhD adcom to consideration for an MA instead? This has happened to me a couple of times. For UIC, for example, my app status changed from under review to pending addition review or something like that.

I like you and your crystal ball! I have a feeling you’re right although I’m trying not to get my hopes up. @Sav thanks for sharing!

Well I guess we’ll see, haha, what’s done is done.

Thank you for the advice. Wasn’t really thinking about matching funding (since I don’t have any atm) but rather just letting my waitlist program know I have acceptances ??‍♀️

Very true, I forgot that line was from UIC, thank you. Also, haha, my UIC SOP was the one I had a typo in that I didn’t catch in time, I was totally expecting a flat out rejection from them ? The really funny thing is I got the UIC email literally one minute after sending emails to OSU and UNL sort of telling them about each other and affirming my interest in both. So now I feel like I should wait a couple of days before I email again?

Hahaha, I have done this so many times! Or just gotten weirdly emotionally invested/reactionary about acceptances from schools to which I did not apply.

Offer from UIC's unfunded MA. This is not a good look for me. Edited to say to notification did come from my POI, which took a little bit of the sting out of it?

My advisor has encouraged me to reach out to POI at UNL and OSU. I was also thinking of emailing the DGS to see if they could put me in contact with a current graduate student so I could ask some questions about the campus, classes, and things to do locally. Do you think it's too much to send both? If so, which should I send? I especially want to alert the DGS at OSU that I have an acceptance at UNL, in a polite and professional way, of course. Help! The idea of reaching out to POI is intimidating but I've read each of their work and would like to make some sort of connection to it and my own research interests, as well as just make connections in general.

This week is the BIG one for me in terms of possible results. I’m glad this site is back up to help get me through it, haha.

Same. People keep congratulating me on that acceptance and I’m like yeah butttttt this very likely won’t happen. There’s no guarantee I’m going to grad school this year. Lol I need everyone to get out of the clouds and onto my slightly bummed level.

Damn, @FiguresIII, you’re a legend ??

I just realized I'm not even officially halfway through all my schools, results wise. Why did I apply to so many programs?

"Yep" says my new tragus piercing

Same. I especially enjoyed that three step process with random password I got to go through just to see my UCLA rejection ??. Is this cycle over yet?

I’m so freaking stoked for you!

This is perfection!!!!!

Thank you!

That feeling when you accidentally copy and paste your email in the results forum... @Warelin can an admin remove? Is today over yet?

Hell yeah congrats @fortschritt22 and @ExileFromAFutureTime!!!

Um this answer just won my life, thank you, and YES

Ugh, the doom and gloom is real today, y’all. ? Why are some days so much harder than others?