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Received a rejection email an hour ago. Had applied to Poetic Justice.

In the past answers were given more towards February 26th than January 26. Regarding the Poetic Justice interview, it was insinuated that they're not looking to add grad students, not confirmed. This is one person's interpretation of what was said. Should it be the case that they aren't accepting students, then shame on them for not letting that be known prior to the application deadline and taking our application fees. In any case, we'll likely never know whether or not this decision was made, so it makes no difference. Regardless, I'm remaining optimistic until they send their acceptance/rejection confirmations in the coming week.

This is an assumption, but it's likely that they've been keeping tabs on all applicant portfolio sites over the months, and are now going through their decision processes. Since applying, my server logs have been showing hits from IP addresses that resolve to MIT. Not full on visits though, as most of the time only the landing resources are fetched and sometimes there is no fetch just, what seems to be, pings to see if the site is up. On few occasions, a headless Chrome driver was used to scrape the sources/dependencies for my site. This started with ~25-30 hits a day after applying and providing then the url to my site, then ~40 for most of January, and finally a dead stop around January 29-30. Haven't seen any since then. Analytics services that don't have access to server logs will not show this. If you have access to your hosting server space, check the 'logs' folder for your log files. Then search for IPs within the files that begin with '18.' and look them up here https://ip-address.us/lookup/<ip_address_here> Don't be embarrassed. I'm in the same boat. If they can't see past our GPAs to see our work and concepts for what they are, then it's on them really. We can't lose confidence as a result of another's opinion

Hi there, yes that's what was meant

The program assistant did mention they would be reaching out soon, but as soon January or early February? That's wonderful to hear! Thank you for sharing. Wishing you and everyone here the best of luck in our pursuits of happiness

If it's no trouble to ask, what's the range on the visiting IP addresses? I've been receiving quite a few visits each day from IPs starting with 18 and on some whois sites they resolve to MIT. The thing is, I read that a couple years ago MIT sold of their IPs above (IIRC) 18.145 to Amazon and almost all of the IPs in my logs are above 18.145. I applied to Poetic Justice, and last week received an open application for the group. Otherwise, the only contact I've had was after inquiring about one of the questions in the open application. In the meantime, I'm remaining patient and not getting my hopes up. It's difficult at times, but the situation is out of our hands at this point