Hi guys! I hope you are doing very well. I am recently very upset because my offer was rescinded. I received a Ph.D. offer in linguistics from KU, but I was told last night that due to COVID-related financial constraints, they can only accept two students, so they withdraw the offer and I was moved to the waitlist. It is very disheartening. I have no other funding offers for now and it seems I will be very likely to take a gap year and reapply next academic year. I could not do anything right now. I'm posting this because it seems that unprecedented things are happening which we do not expect at all.