IRSquirrel

Last cycle was unsuccessful for me. I ended up taking a gap year and am currently working on a research paper independently and submitted it to present at conference. Also, I studied and retook the GRE, since I knew it could stand to improve that, and doing some intensive sorting of schools to apply to the next round. Trying to get work failed for me as well, even with a Master's in hand, but luckily my spouse was able to support me focusing on improving me applications. Things worked out this year to be accepted to multiple programs, so I guess something in there worked. My suggestion is to soul search on what you need to do and get creative on ways to do research.

in case anybody is interested: i just called up northwestern and the graduate program coordinator told me that they were still waiting to send out an entire second wave of decisions over the next two weeks so i guess the wait may still be a little while longer 

UCSD comparative. Very excited. For those who don't have an acceptance yet -- don't lose hope. You only need one.

Hoping for Michigan to come out and I didn't even apply

Ok just got off the phone with Northwestern Admissions- they were vague but happy to answer my question. "We hope to have all of our accepts/rejects out in the next 1-2 weeks."  I got no indication or feeling that all of the accepts had gone out.

I am going to call them in a few hours... will update as soon as I speak to them.

For people waiting for OSU: check the website, my rejection just appeared...

The Admission FAQ says that they don't send their acceptances at the same time, so I hope to hear from them in the next few days. (I really do, pretty upset about no news from Ohio State)

The Admission FAQ says that they don't send their acceptances at the same time, so I hope to hear from them in the next few days. (I really do, pretty upset about no news from Ohio State)