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Yeah, but it'd be a special kind of cruel if they only remembered her name because they were writing her rejection letter but telling her they set up a whole day's worth of visiting activties...I highly doubt that's the case. I wouldn't say you're in, OP, but I'd say it's a POSITIVE sign. Lucky you!

It's because they were fighting over the eternal debate: Pepsi vs. Coke Waste of time and effort really. Everyone knows Coke is better.

C'mon. All it means is that they know about the department they are currently in...it can't mean that they know about OTHER schools.

So does anyone think that ANY poli sci programs will get back to people this week?

Ha. I was just thinking the same thing. But from someone's post with all the stats it looks like this week is still unlikely for me -- only 2% of responses this week...

Yeah but I just talked to some guy in the grad office - I HOPE my file isn't scrapped completely or looked at differently - ugh

Sorry for this small vent but I JUST got through to a school I applied to (they'd put me on hold for the past two days and forgotten about me) and they don't have one of my transcripts that I mailed in mid december!!!! So now what?? The guy was such a jerk. Anyway, I asked if I could overnight it and they'll get there on Monday - he said yeah but bc of the department mailing and stuff it'll get to us on Tuesday and THEN they have to forward it to the department. So that's ANOTHER 30 bucks I jsut had to spend and I did it through my university's online system (bc I can't get there in person today) and I just have to hope they actually send it today - there's no confirmation or anything even though I'm using fedex. I hate this whole stupid process, and this probably belongs on the feeling negative thread but it's just annoying to waste all this time and money when I don't even know if I have even a SMALL shot of being accepted anywhere. Argh!

Wow. CONGRATS!!!!!!!!!!!!! And just bc I'm crazy - what kind of online system does this school use? (embark, apply yourself, something else?) Yeah, I'm obsessed...just wondering if I should go check some of my applications....

when you log in you can click on the word update. It''ll show you status of materials now. That's all.

any communities that are public and you'd care to share?

bc we're awesome... or asbolutely neurotic and we all have ocd... but you're always welcome to join our threads!!!

I've thought of that but everytime I find myself worrying about that I'm afraid I'm sending vibes out to the universe -- giving it a reason to reject me from all my schools. I really can handle only one problem at a time. It keeps from losing (what's left) of my mind.

You know I've taken up running again. I'm not really sure why, but I really think it's because of this process. It's just like I need to run as fast and as far as I can to try to forget about this crap for a little while, but inevitably, I even worry about it as I run. I really wish I could be one of those people who just submitted their applications and never thought about them after that because this worrying is absolutely pointless --- and I realize that. Worse than that - it's distracting me from other areas of my life I need to be focusing on right now!

I don't get this whole plan B thing. Is it really that easy for people to come up with a change in career motivation?? bc I can't - and I've been trying AND I worked after college for a couple years trying to figure it out then and this is what I found out I wanted to do so the negative thing, yes, I feel it -- I just need to find god maybe? start praying? I just need to ONE freaking acceptance (w funding of course).

I just rechecked it....jeez....one top 20 dept is reducing is class size by 60 percent? holy freaking crap

I think I hate you. Okay. I'm over my irrational response to this post but UCHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

Stay away from Newark. I lived in new york for a few years after college. If you want New Jersey look at Hoboken and Weehawken. They're much better and not as scary. Weehawken I lived the first stop after the lincoln tunnel and was into midtown in 5 minutes - from there just grab an express train to Columbia (if that's where you're going, I didn't read the whole thread) - Also check out Astoria in Queens - Brooklyn would be a long commute so I don't really recommend it but there are also some great areas there. If your'e going to NYU then for sure check out Brooklyn. Not a bad commute..

WOW! I'm impressed! I thought applying to 14 was a lot! haha.

Thanks. I really need to stop searching the archives of this site. I found someone with stats pretty comparable to mine who got rejected across the board. Just gotta keep remembering - I applied to different schools and our research interests could be different. Plisar, have you posted where you're applying somewhere here on the board? (If not, I understand.)

These polls are no longer fun for me Only increasing my anxiety by leading me to thoughts like "what the hell was I thinking applying to grad school? I have NO SHOT!!!!!"

I'm losing my mind. I woke up this morning to my blackberry buzzing with e-mail and jumped right up to check it. Freaking spam. I'm an idiot...it's MLK day and it's JANUARY!

I think a nice dinner and with friends and wine will be in order...a time to reflect with joy before stressing about the next part... Lately, I've been stressing about the parts after getting accepted and I have to STOP and remind myself that striking out is a real possibilty -- Since I've gotten this far in the daydreaming, I can tell I'm going to be crushed when I don't get in somewhere...

ha. agreed.

yeah, I just liked it because it also had the stats matched up with the results and you saw what group of schools they applied to

I don't use it for the forums - I just looked at the results (kind of thinking maybe I shouldn't have...)