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yessssss! CONGRATULATIONS!

i emailed the director of graduate admissions!

emailed UVA and heard that i'm also on the waitlist there! fairly encouraging message, and above all else, i'm just really glad to finally hear something from them! anyone who's still waiting, you should definitely reach out. fingers crossed for some movement on the list for all of us! i'm an early modernist fwiw

option A it is! thank you both for the info!

congrats @WildeThing and @Rootbound! when did you hear? trying to decide if it's time to a. desperately beg them for info, b. keep waiting, or c. just snap completely and scream into a pillow for a thousand years, like a rational and patient adult.

thank you for being a saint as always and going to the trouble of getting this information! this is all so interesting... really helpful to have some context to the mysterious limbo. the maybe-unofficial-waitlist-maybe-not wait is not my favorite thing ever. looks like we’ll be holding our breath for a little while longer! ‘til then, here’s to the UVA Mystery Gang.

still nothing here, too, and still going crazy over it! just want to officially be done. @Ubah1 I hope you hear back from your department soon with great news! fingers crossed. sadly we’re on the English side of things here, and they’ve said all acceptances/waitlists are out - just rolling out bad news at a glacial pace for whatever reason

yesss holy shit!!!!!!! the biggest congratulations!

for a phone call sounds like it’s gonna be great news fingers crossed!

I can speak to this! I’ve been thinking about this subject a lot, mostly because I’m in absolute awe of everyone on here who’s managed to apply while currently in school. this will depend on your job, of course, but I found applying while working full-time to be much easier than if I had tried to apply while in undergrad. I decided against applying then for a handful of reasons, but one was time. I was in class, working part-time, staying up late or spending a weekend writing essays... nothing out of the ordinary, but I felt like I was always working. when I started my first 9-5 job, it blew my mind how much time I suddenly had: my evenings and weekends were entirely my own. I’ve had a lot of friends express similar surprise when they started their first full-time jobs. it seems like it will be more intense, but it’s really just more structured. I mostly worked on applications on weekends, because I come home wiped at the end of the work day, but a few hours working on your applications in a coffee shop on a nice saturday with no other work hanging over your head is an amazing thing. depending on your circumstances, there may be other benefits: if you’re commuting via public transit, that’s the best time for GRE prep! if it’s a desk job, you can likely listen to podcasts or audio books – aka subject test prep, if that’s something you’re thinking about. PTO means I’m a lot less worried about pulling off school visits than I would have been if I’d needed to miss class near the end of the year. and, honestly… if you’re sitting at a computer all day, you may be surprised at how much time you have for things other than work. this is terrible but I outlined personal statements, scanned transcripts and other docs, and ultimately hit submit on most of my applications in the office. much of this will be situational, and I don’t want to sound overly optimistic because applying to graduate school will always suck. it’s still going to be exhausting and all-consuming a lot of the time. but in my experience, a full-time job can provide a really valuable structure when working on your applications, as long as you’re committed to making it happen – and it sounds like you definitely are. last note: as a student, I thought I wanted to go to grad school, but working a full-time job brought that desire to a new level. I had a few crummy jobs right after graduation but my current job is great – it’s mission-driven work, everyone is wonderful, there’s loads of research and writing to do, etc. it was exactly the kind of job that I thought might make me change my mind about grad school. and every day, part of me still dreaded coming in. that continued dissatisfaction became the driving force that got me through this process. all the reasons I felt overwhelmed or like I couldn’t do it became secondary to the new knowledge that I had to do it. you’ve got this. it’ll be different, it’ll definitely be hard, but you’ve got this. happy to discuss further any time (if this horrifyingly-long comment wasn’t already Too Much). rooting for you!

yes! clearly this is the only reasonable course of action left to us, I see no flaws in this plan

that last line is 100% my actual theory for this, ha. it makes no sense! it’s like they send off two rejections, get sick of it, and punt the rest of us to the next day. I feel like we’re all on the brink of devolving further into detailed conspiracy theories with every passing day, too. today we’re comparing POIs, tomorrow we’ll be analyzing how many times we used the letter E in our personal statements, wednesday we’ll be filming “please notify me of my status” interpretive dance videos...

yes, some overlap! Clare Kinney was on my list (RIP to all my dreams there ). all very interesting. I mean, mostly frustrating... but interesting! the handful of rejections a day thing is just. argh. why?? all my other rejections have been so timely and this one is killing me!

same and I haaaate itttttt! please just reject me already and let me be done with this ?

Duke: Feb 21-23 University of Alabama: February 28-March 2 Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL): February 28-March 2 CU Boulder: Feb 28-March 1 Indiana University: March 1 Queen's University: March 1 U Wisconsin-Madison: March 3-5 SMU Interview Visit: March 3-5 Illinois (Urbana): March 4-5 Stanford: March 6-8 UC Irvine: March 7-8 Northwestern: March 7-9 Saint Louis University: March 8 UC Santa Barbara: March 8 Florida State University: March 12 UC Santa Cruz: March 14 University of Minnesota: March 14-15 UC Berkeley: March 16-18 Kansas: March 17-19 UVA: March 18-19 UPenn: March 19-21 Vanderbilt: March 21-22 UNC Chapel Hill: March 21-22 Rice University: March 21-23 BU: March 22 USC: March 24-26 Penn State: March 24-26 Rutgers: March 25-26 UT Austin: March 28-30 UC Davis: April 2 SUNY Buffalo: April 2-3 NYU: April 3-4 U Oregon: April 4-6

wrote my undergrad thesis on mary sidney and i remain eternally, deeply, madly in love with her. also a particularly big fan of wroth and cary. what about you? definitely excited about rutgers for the same reason, and I kinda love that they wanted two folks interested in early modern women!

ahh, yay, thank you and big congrats to you too! edit: omg @Rootbound I just clicked through to your profile and saw that your interests include early modern women writers?? that makes two of us and I am DELIGHTED!

I did, yes! a really lovely call. definitely seems like there will be more calls coming out this weekend so stay tuned, all!

accepted at Rutgers!!! just about burst into happy tears when I saw the area code appear on my phone - it’s been a lot of bad news in a row and i’m really glad to (mostly) wrap things up with good news.

it’s like they’re doing rejections one at a time... but only for an hour once a week, and when time runs out we get punted to the next week’s Happy Fun Rejection Hour! totally bizarre to me. would do anything to just receive a generic form letter!

same same same so frustrating

ahh damn can’t imagine why they would roll it out like this! so sorry it’s bad news. edit: @stressbot3000 did your portal update or an email?

you manifested Rutgers news into existence!! everyone buckle in!

haha yesss! that’s perfect. i gotta go with my gal Velma, i think our research interests would align. which is... undoubtedly the weirdest sentence i’ve written in a while.

okay I know there’s more out there, but there’s five of us who have recently posted...and we’re trying to solve a mystery... does this make us the Scooby-Doo gang? extremely important question