yukichi

I'm beginning to think my schools have forgotten about me...

Worries: that I won’t get in anywhere. Or that I will and I’ll do it fine, but it would be for an awful person, as I’ve been around some truly nasty or unhelpful people in my life thus far. 
I have meh GRE, and while each of my degrees had increasing GPA’s (all above 3.6, the last two above a 3.8) I did have to put notes on each of them because of medical withdrawals and administrative issues. I have some pubs already and two I’m working on right now.  
Just focusing on the two I’ve heard good things from. And putting my energy towards that. And trying to not worry about the ones that I haven’t heard from. 
My own father doesn’t believe in me and is mad I’m not applying to his own school. But I’ve already gone there, and there is nothing for me there. 
Excitement: getting a cut above what I would have had I remained at my previous institution. Moving!!! And the chance for something much better than what I left behind. 
 

That's pretty much how I feel, especially on reaching out to potential advisors. I had no idea you were supposed to do that so I ended up only contacting one professor simply because I was in the area and wanted to stop by the physical offices where the other grads work. I feel like I'm out of the running entirely, and it doesn't help that my quant score was barely passable for my field (160Q)
Let's keep hoping, though! Tons of acceptances go out in February - just because we didn't hear anything positive in January doesn't mean we're out of the race entirely. And congrats on your offer, that's super exciting!! 

Congrats to all who got accepted to Stanford! I still haven't heard anything from them. 
However, I woke up to an email this morning from UC Berkeley! I've been accepted!! I'm beyond ecstatic, considering that Berkeley was my top choice school. 

Anyone trying to will acceptances into existence? Just me?

That's pretty much how I feel, especially on reaching out to potential advisors. I had no idea you were supposed to do that so I ended up only contacting one professor simply because I was in the area and wanted to stop by the physical offices where the other grads work. I feel like I'm out of the running entirely, and it doesn't help that my quant score was barely passable for my field (160Q)
Let's keep hoping, though! Tons of acceptances go out in February - just because we didn't hear anything positive in January doesn't mean we're out of the race entirely. And congrats on your offer, that's super exciting!! 

Yeah, offer letter and everything

EXACTLY! I'm one of those people that is constantly setting the bar higher once I make it to my goal. I didn't think I would get any offers and now that I got one, I want at least one other one so I can at least say I got to choose. I'm terrible. 

Worries: Decisions will probably start coming in over the next two weeks. 
Excitement: Decisions will probably start coming in over the next two weeks. 

Worries: This is my first application cycle, and I only applied to two master's programs, and was already rejected from one. My fear is that I'll get rejected from the UMich program, or I'll be accepted with zero funding and not be able to go. And just the other day, I found out that I messed up a small detail on my SOP.
Excitement: Unfortunately, I don't have anything school-related to be excited about right now.

I'm in my senior spring of undergrad and one of the elective classes I'm taking is starting to get on my nerves a little. The professor is unclear about what she wants on assignments and I'm having a hard time motivating myself to do work for the class because I've been devoting so much time to finishing my thesis and preparing for interviews.

One more full day until the two weeks where a lot of decisions come out...
 

February is an interesting month - I've got a conference at the end of the month I'm looking forward to + tons of school events going on, but I've heard radio silence from my programs (which, as I've learned, is semi-expected, since Statistics programs really start digging into their applications around this time). So I'm imagining that February will be full of a lot of news, hopefully some good! 
@Moods Oof, it sounds like February is going to be pretty rough - I bet you'll get through it just fine, and even stronger as a person! Good reminder about self-care, it's something I forget so much during times of stress. Even radical self care is helpful (make time to take showers and brush teeth even if it feels like the world is falling down!!) 

Worries: I recently reread my personal statement and it was a lot more disjointed than I remember it being. Also, at the start of the process I got conflicting information about reaching out to potential advisors. Now I fear that my inaction on that front has eliminated my chances. I fear my GPA worked against me because I was a stupid freshman who once took premed classes.
Excitement: I have one offer and another interview. I'm super excited about both! It's nice to know that I definitely have a plan for next year no matter what happens going forward. 

I am so anxious about the results that it is becoming frustrating. I cannot concentrate on anything and I know many people can relate to this and get more frustrated by the fact that nothing can be done about it. 
And to all the relatives and friends who have been concerned about me, I DON'T WANT TO F*****G MEDITATE!!!!

I can chill! I got my first acceptance!

I'm kind of regretting my decision to not apply to NC State (even though their major focuses in computational stats + biostats aren't my main research interests) simply because I would have probably heard something from them by now. Silence from 9 programs is disheartening. 

Haven't heard anything from NCSU yet... feeling desperate

I kind of wish graduate school application portals worked the same way as postal service tracking. Like you would know when your file passed through here and there, if it's awaiting delivery to the ad comm, if its on its way to the waitlist pile, etc. etc. 

I'm kind of regretting my decision to not apply to NC State (even though their major focuses in computational stats + biostats aren't my main research interests) simply because I would have probably heard something from them by now. Silence from 9 programs is disheartening. 

I'm kind of regretting my decision to not apply to NC State (even though their major focuses in computational stats + biostats aren't my main research interests) simply because I would have probably heard something from them by now. Silence from 9 programs is disheartening. 

Oh yea, definitely. Waiting has not been kind to my mental state. Looking at how qualified everyone else is that's getting accepted, I'm worried that I'll be denied to all my schools. I really wish that they would come out and tell me that I'm under-qualified right now. Yea, that would suck, but I wouldn't be stuck not knowing. Getting rejected now means that I can look for jobs and get over the negative emotions of being rejected sooner. It's even more frustrating when you bring this up with other people and they tell you not to worry about it and that's it's out of your control. It's like, well yea, that's why it's so frustrating. Or even worse is that they tell you that "surely the programs aren't as competitive as you say they are" without actually having ever applied to graduate school. I get that they're trying to be helpful, but that doesn't ever really help with the anxiety. 

I don't know them personally, but it looks like from what they wrote on the results page that they're an international student with a great pure Statistics background.

Applied to 20 schools, haven’t heard anything from anyone. Next month is going to be W I L D

The anxiety is so real!! One of my schools started sending out acceptances two weeks ago for the other concentrations in the program, so I'm expecting a response in my area next week or the one after :0 Honestly what I think is worse than the anxiety of waiting for a rejection/acceptance is that while I'm waiting, I start to worry that I'm not cut out for grad school or that if I mess up my thesis in my final semester it means that I spent months applying to programs that I'm not good enough for. I put too much pressure on myself ?