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yeah its been glitching weird since a couple days ago

yeah its been glitching weird since a couple days ago

yeah its been glitching weird since a couple days ago

I think they mean official in the way that they don't just want you attaching a course list (my school provides course lists as an unofficial transcript). What I did was order the official transcript from my schools and sent them to myself. Then uploaded them. Technically, they are the "official" transcripts but since I uploaded them myself that makes them good enough to look at for most admissions, but not for actual admit, which official transcripts sent direct to the program are.

I've already started obsessively checking the websites even though I know they will email me and it is too early.

I'm a current PhD student at an R1 and I'm just going to head this off before someone else does (it's going to come out very soon) but most programs this year are looking at huge increases in the number of applicants. I was in a friend's defense and the faculty at one Ivy were saying they saw double the number of applicants (possibly an exaggeration) as last year. You might hear this too. DO NOT PANIC. I have also chatted with professors in my department and schools saw this same thing happen in the cycle during the Great Recession and to paraphrase them, "the numbers went way up but the competitiveness stayed the same". In other words, a lot of people right now are applying on a whim in their senior years because the job market seems so bleak but this isn't necessarily more competition since most/all of you have been prepping to go to grad school for a few years already. Individuals who are deciding to apply now because of these circumstances can't make up for the years of research they haven't put in (and presumably you have).

I've already started obsessively checking the websites even though I know they will email me and it is too early.

I heard from one of my programs that they will have less spots than normal due to covid funding issues, and this would likely be the case for other programs as well. As far as the applicant pool, I would assume it would be more competitive this year but I really don't know that. This thread is pretty dead for it being December already...

I've already started obsessively checking the websites even though I know they will email me and it is too early.

I heard from one of my programs that they will have less spots than normal due to covid funding issues, and this would likely be the case for other programs as well. As far as the applicant pool, I would assume it would be more competitive this year but I really don't know that. This thread is pretty dead for it being December already...

I've already started obsessively checking the websites even though I know they will email me and it is too early.

Just submitted my final application yesterday. I told all my letter writers back in September that I needed the letters by Nov 1st, the latest letter got submitted Nov 4 (and that was only because we had a hurricane right before Halloween that knocked out power for many people for 3-6 days). Feels good to have them in so I can focus on wrapping up my final semester of undergrad (I graduate in less than 3 weeks-w00t)

Just submitted my final application yesterday. I told all my letter writers back in September that I needed the letters by Nov 1st, the latest letter got submitted Nov 4 (and that was only because we had a hurricane right before Halloween that knocked out power for many people for 3-6 days). Feels good to have them in so I can focus on wrapping up my final semester of undergrad (I graduate in less than 3 weeks-w00t)

How is everyone coming along? Deadlines are nearing and this thread has been pretty quiet.