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Good to know, thanks! Hopefully I get something in the mail tomorrow, then. At this point, accepted or rejected, I'm just ready to be done.

Was that for a PhD?

Oh, look, it's a double whammy today. And my day had been going so well...hopes resting on George Mason? I think I can count this year a wash.

My latest favorite came from my mother the other day. "Well, then, that's not God's plan for you." My emotions went from to (No offense meant to anyone that would consider this comforting. It just doesn't work for me.)

Got mine, too. This was a ridiculous wait for a 'no'. Also, totally expected, but man, that's twice the school I've wanted to attend since I was 10 has turned me down.

I still haven't heard a peep from 3 schools. Not even on the application systems.

The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi. Love this series (it comes after Old Man's War).

Well, it's finally April, when I should hear from my schools. Almost two full months without information is killing me. I'm not even excited anymore. Seriously, if I get in it'll be met with a resounding "meh". I guess that's how they let you down easy, make you wait so long! I just hope I hear Monday.

Yes, you're the one with the interest in security and defense policy! I was seriously beginning to think I was alone in this world with that combination (IR/policy schools) and emphasis. So we could either be very competitive...or both accepted if they like that focus. Have you done (or are you currently) a masters or anything past undergrad in the field? Sigh. I figured it'd be April, it's just very frustrating because everyone wants an answer from me now. Boo.

Are you who posted acceptance to the MPP program on the results board? Or are you a PhD candidate (acceptee)? Oh, lie. I just saw your program as MPP. Does anyone know about when PhD may be announced?

Heh, I'm an addict, too. I don't check the websites, but I'm here every day. Despite my remaining schools informing me I wouldn't know until April. No news for over a month already and I've still got half a month to go before finding out the inevitable soul-crushing news. I've got to keep sane somehow! Cruising GradCafe does that.

My number one Plan B is to move to DC and get a government job...but then again, the environment for obtaining said government job seems as competitive as getting into a PhD program. So I'm having issues deciding what's best (and feasible) for me.

Depressed, stressed, freaking out...seriously, the first time around wasn't this bad, I swear! (No seriously, time must heal the pain because I was 1/4 last time around, but I feel like it was much less stressful. Or perhaps it's the huge difference between pleasing my undergrad profs versus my grad school profs and cohort.) I have little hope, too, Benzene. Georgetown is a 99% chance of a no, and Johns Hopkins, while the best fit, is by far my reach school. I have very little hope of getting in this round.

SAIS told me April.

Hmm, a comparativist doing conflict? You're rare. One of my IR profs is always talking about how comparativists have kind of given up civil conflict to us IR people (and one of the CP profs also articulated this). We do a lot of civil conflict at my school.