lifeisbrutal

Thanks, @skippy! Funny thing is that I've had this username for years... Stay healthy and good luck!

Thanks, @45ter! It's a really helpful perspective. I got rejected this year but I didn't even want to apply (it was sort of my '0th attempt'). I'll probably apply 1-2 more times and then do the PhD anywhere I can. I'm not getting my hopes up but I'm glad I have a bit more time to improve my application. I'm sorry to hear that you got rejected even though you'd been on the waitlist the year before. Obviously, admissions depend on luck as well and can be unpredictable. Again, thanks so much for this insight. I'll try to be realistic. And congratulations on your great offer! To everyone else on this forum: I hope you get other interesting offers / try next year. Thanks for getting through this waiting process together. It's always nice to meet kind people on the net :-).

@abhilashgujar At this point, I don't have any hope left either! But I just observed that there were some international rejections, that's all.

@abhilashgujar Yeah, but the 1st March rejections were mostly marked 'international/other' on GradCafe. Just an observation.

To change the topic slightly while we're still lingering in limbo: given that there have already been 2-3 waves of rejections (at least those that were reported on GradCafe), do you think that being in the last rejection wave (but not on the waitlist) could be a good indicator for future applications? It seems to me to be somewhat like heats in track events - if rejected now, I (and other people) would be the equivalent of athletes not quite making it to the final but getting to semi-finals and placing in the middle of the pack etc. Does this theory apply in this case? If there is only one wave of rejections, it obviously falls short. Maybe I'm overthinking things but I'm already mentally preparing for the 21/22 application and I'm trying to see the positive side of things ? .

(Unfortunately..) I totally agree with this reasoning, @45ter. It makes perfect sense (again, I wish it didn't). ?

@hunter123Difficult to say but it's not impossible, I guess. I know it sounds cliche but we just have to wait and see... ?

Congrats @angrydragon! And thanks for letting us know.

@hunter123Thanks for the information! Well, at any rate, I think it'll be over soon ?.

Hi @si7aa, nope, they haven't replied, which isn't surprising. But still, for 75 bucks, I'd expect at least one word on the application portal (!). Given that the graduate days (or whatever they're called) are over (4th March), I find it really hard to believe that I might still get an offer. I wasn't waitlisted (or, if I was, I'm not aware of it) so logically it means rejection (to me, at least). But I still find it weird that they haven't updated my status. Seems pointless and cruel to me to let people hang in limbo for so long (if they're already rejected anyway...). @hunter123 Exactly, even one word would suffice!

@Calzone864 Hi, I'm in the same boat... I'm tired of waiting and I'm 100% sure that I've been rejected but they just didn't bother to notify me / to update my application portal. So I simply e-mailed the admissions office and asked them plainly if I'd been rejected. If I get a reply, I'll share it with you (but maybe your case is different so no guarantee).