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Not Brown, I've set my sights on something a little more modest. I would never want to go to the prom with most popular girl (or boy) in school. What do they need me for? I would much rather go to the prom with Molly Ringwald...just kidding. Likewise, not to judge Brown (I know nothing it about except for having worked with a rather insecure woman who went there as an undergrad) I would much rather go to a grad school that is a little more down-to-earth.

In all of my experiences applying for stuff, it always happens that 1 out of the required 3 letters of recommendation never arrives. Oddly enough, this is usually the letter I was counting on most. :x Am I the only person this happens to?

To me, sent means "mail" and mail means "rejection,' but I'm glad this is not always the case. I guess sent can also mean e-mail, and that is something of a wild card. That makes my afternoon.

Is this as damning as it sounds? :?:

I forgot to say that I'm actually a graduate of UC Santa Cruz, and it's a really crunchy place... If you go, you'll understand...

Called my schools today, just 'cause I couldn't stand it any longer... :shock: I can tell you, they haven't exactly broken any speed records getting back to me... Must have been the heavy breathing! I am, however, brushing up my Chinese, just in case! No matter what, somebody's gonna be supporting my ass next year- take it to the bank!

Yay, good luck to you guys. It's all I can do to keep from making the "suicidal" move of writing or calling to ask for results, but I will forbear. No news is better than bad news, or so they say....

So many passionate, intelligent people, so few spots in grad school. You would think it would be in country's interest to see that we got some training somewhere in our fields of choice, rather than get discouraged and become bitter toward the system. None of us would be doing this to ourselves if we weren't capable enough to get this far. Seems the university system is a dot.com rather than a dot.edu, but I digress.... My suspicion is that those of us who haven't heard a peep yet have been waitlisted. Maybe there will be a second round "Admit Weekend" for us where we can all pop some valium together, eat some day-old bread and embrace the institutions we are all beginning to loathe. :cry: Barring that, China plans to open 135 new universities in the next ten years and they are hungry for highly-qualified foreign :twisted: s.

Thanks for your response. I'm starting to think that it may very well be "later" at the schools I applied to because I just learned that "Admit Weekend" is in mid March. If I were in, you'd think they would have informed me by now, especially since I would need to travel from out of state. It's like hearing about a cool party and not getting an invitation and I am struggling to stave off impulsive decisions motivated out of a growing sense of self-pity -- like moving to China!

It seems the trend is that acceptances come early and rejections take their own sweet time. Today is March 2nd. Is it sooner or later yet? Waiting to hear from two UCs.