I caved and emailed the department and like someone else said, just got a copy and pasted message, (poorly copied I might add, since the first letter was missing from the message lol) and it was just a blatant lie, since it said that those who applied before/on nov 16th would hear back in march, and here we are, March 31st lol
They did said they continue to send things out in April, so we can only hope that they will finish up in the first bit of April and not drag it on. I'm just starting to get disheartened and kind of operating on the assumption that I'm not getting in, but I'd just like to be rejected if they're going to reject me.