Kitkat

I got a rejection last week from University of Texas - Austin last week, only because I emailed them. They said that the official letters were coming out this week though. I wish you better luck then me!

This is what I am trying to think as well. There is always next year. From coming to this site I have lately been reminding myself there are other students who are more qualified students then myself who have had the bad luck to apply the one year that it was a bad time for them to apply, and in following years got into schools that they applied to. I am just hoping that if I don't get in this year, that I have better luck next year.

Got rejected last night from Columbia. Dissapointed, but not horribly suprised at this point. I feel like I would have heard something more if it was going to happen. Oh well, if I don't get in this year anywhere, I will try agian next year. Three more schools to go.

Well, I find myself still having hope. One school just sent at least one rejection, after the first round of acceptances, and I didn't get one yet. As there are still a few weeks before this deadline, I am hoping that means I still have a chance there, maybe. ;-) That is how I am looking at it at this point. If I am not rejected, there is even a bit of hope. But I emailed them this morning to see if they would like any updates, and asking how the process is going. *crosses fingers for a good response* I'll probably start emailing the other 3 schools I haven't heard back from in the next couple of days.

I think at this point I am going to start contacting schools before the deadline. Just to see where they are. At this point I am already looking at jobs to improve my application for the next round. It is looking more and more bleak as time goes on. But at this point if they all reject me, I will disappointed, but I think I have reached the point of acceptance that that is the way that it worked out this year. There is always more time to try again.

Still haven't heard from 4/5 of my schools! Maybe this week? First offers for one of the schools I applied to are supposed to respond by this Thursday.....

Congrats! Are you going to wait for all of your schools to finish getting back to you, or do you now know where you want to go?

I was just reading some articles in the Chronicle of Higher Education and came across this article, and I am wondering if it is a similar situation within the geosciences. I ask, because it seems like in many other respects, the geosciences seem slightly different then other sciences, but gives me the impression that it would still take up a lot of ones time.

What's the sound crickets make agian? It seems like they make the perfect representation of the kind of silence that grates on ones nerves. *insert annoying silence filling sound here*

I think that most people who are still waiting have done this to some degree, but just don't always want to admit to it. I have found myself doing it previously, even though I know that previous emails from the schools have gotten through to me.

Well here's to people getting good news this semester!

But it looks like you have 7 more schools to hear back from .. I wish you the best of luck with them! But it is true that every rejection hurts .... Just know you are not alone. We're rooting for you!

In most cases I would say that you should aim for a score as high as possible, but that you would be ok with ~1100, except for the fact that you are applying to a really competitive field(as I am sure you know). In that case, the GRE can still be seen as an important part of the application. I am assuming based on your post that you are schedule/planning to retake the test before you apply (I am assuming this fall). To get ~1200 on the new test you would want to get around a ~310 total on the new test. Although, like I said before you might want to aim for more of a 320 on the new test. I think some important things are (1) how much time you have given to yourself to study for it, and (2) how you spend your study time for it. It really depends on your needs. Some people are good at standardized tests, while other(who are otherwise very intelligent) have a bad time. I would recommend that you take a practice test or two and find where your biggest problems are and focus on those parts.

I am hoping that is the case. It seems like there are a lot of geo students still waiting for some sort of response from the schools that they applied to. Of course, there is some overlap, and it seems some specific schools are just responding late.

March is such a hopeful month... looking at a near spring. Spring is always a sign of the new, rebirth, of life. As they say, it is always the darkest before the dawn? Let us think that that is the case for us all ....

It looks like there are a bunch of us in this group. I am wondering if there is an increase of applicants because of the recession, and therefore more competition these past few years (including this one)? => totally trying to make myself, and other people, feel better at this point.

It's now the last day of February...... and this is even with an extra day. Still have not heard anything .... anyone else with more luck?

That what happens this time of year. Snow is fun, and it should be nice at least for a little while if you go to Yale. Here in NYC it gets dirty real quick. But then agian, there hasn't been that much snow this year.

ANy of my four remaining schools would be nice to hear from. At least I seem to be still on some of their 'unofficial' waitlists .... I have seen people getting rejected from some of them, and I have not been one of them yet. But others seem to wait to reject everyone at the same time. But there is always room for hope! After all, I still have 4 places that can say yes we want you!

I think that this is the way to think about it. Take what opportunities you are given. UofT would be my equal to your Arizona. The main thing I think I would get out of going there is making connections with other people in what I am interested. The research I want to do is good there, but not as strong as some of the other schools that I applied to. But there are a couple of very good people who could help me get a great start.

The long run is to go to academia, but one can argue that with most academic positions you are going to need a PhD. But I didn't know that there was much to offer job wise for people with an interest in paleo if they just had a MA.

Just found this article looking around at stuff to read. Though that other people here might find it to be interesting. http://www.census.gov/prod/2012pubs/acs-18.pdf