PhD2020Applicant

You're incredible. Congratulations on all of your success really looking forward to reading your profile+info, I'd love to learn from you for next year.

You guys are really amazing. Thanks so much for helping me cope with these (forthcoming) rejections. So glad I was brave enough to ask for help Thank you so, so, so much for your supportive comment. I really appreciate it. It hurts but definitely would have been worse without your support

Sending good vibes your way! You're incredible.

Thank you so much! I'll google that as well. Once rejections come in, I'll take a couple days to recuperate, do some fun stuff and then start working to get better for next year. Thanks a lot for your encouragement!

Love that! I make macrame bracelets/necklaces so maybe I should try knitting too . I'll try again next year.

Thanks a lot, I hope you're right. Hard to see it that way now but it'll get bet with time. I just wish they'd send out rejections already so I can be done with it for good (until next year haha)

I wasn't rejected yet, but I have a feeling it's coming and that I won't be going anywhere next year. Any tips on how to deal with this rejection? My heart hurts Anyway, congratulations to all those accepted! I wish you all the very best of luck. You worked hard and you deserve every bit of your success! Enjoy your moment ❤️

Generally speaking, there is a big difference between "sympathizing with Palestine" and downright suggesting that Israel an "apartheid state." I mean, there are pro-Israelis who sympathize with Palestinian, just as there are pro-Palestinians who would not classify Israel as an apartheid state. Having said that, you're entitled to your opinion and so long as your arguments are well established and you've got a strong academic paper, you should be fine. To my knowledge, the writing sample is meant to evaluate your analytical writing skills and they couldn't care less about the topic. I could be wrong, but I heard this from a few grad students. Either way, there's nothing you can do about it now. Just wait it out and hope for the best (easier said than done, I know). Also, I'd be interested in reading this paper of yours if you have it published somewhere/have a public summary of it. Genuinely curious about your arguments.

??? Always! Hahaha...

Noticed that as well I just wish they sent decisions out all together. Don’t quite get the rational behind that. I guess we’ll know within a few short days. Either way, I feel ya.

Hahaha they should seriously be more considerate this time a year ?

Randomly checked my email and saw something from UCI. My heart dropped... Turns out that it was just a newsletter hahaha... I almost think they’re doing it on purpose ??

Me too ? I’m disappointed but we’ll be okay no matter what. There’s always next year :)

Nope, not the same guy that asked on reddit haha but I'm happy to see that I'm not the only crazy person. I really appreciate your answer, it made me realize I was freaking out for no reason and I'm definitely not doing that again. I'll just wait and see, no matter what happens, it'll all work out in the end :-) Yesterday I heard that people add fake info to the results page sometimes. Why they do so is beyond me, but maybe these are fake as well?

I'm an international applicant but haven't heard that before.