CHP47

Congratulations!

Well, I'm officially out of the running for Rutgers. Fortunately, my other offer is a great fit for totally different reasons, so it will be a different but exciting adventure. Good luck to the other Rutgers waitlisters- I hope you get in!

You're waiting on Rutgers, right? Crickets here, so I hope that's a good sign for you! Good luck!

Thank you so much for doing the recon! I guess between three of us, we can keep getting info from the department without any of us becoming annoying.

I think there are a few of us on the Rutgers waitlist here. Have you heard anything at all from them in the last few days?

I'm planning to email the grad director on Thursday if I don't hear anything before then, but I'm also sitting on another offer (with an additional fellowship) and I'd hate for that to get wasted if I don't use it. My other offer is in a different field (I have an interdisciplinary research topic) so I'm not directly contributing to the English deadlock, but it's rough across fields.

I feel this so hard!!!! It seems like no one wants to say yes or no yet. How did no one get into their top choice programs?

You could not be more correct about this! I just heard from the DGS of my waitlist school and he said that they have still not heard back either way from an unusually large number of students. Hopefully people will start making up their minds this weekend and releasing seats they don't plan to hold so everyone can slot into their spots.

Ok fellow wait-listers, how often is too often to follow up with a program about their waitlist? The DGS has said in every interaction to feel free to reach out any time, but I don't want to abuse that, especially since I do believe I'd hear something quickly if there was a definitive answer one way or another. I've had two interactions in the last six weeks since I was first placed on the list- once to notify them about a competing offer with an additional fellowship and to let them know they remained my first choice, and once two weeks ago just to see if there has been any movement. Would it be inappropriate to reach out one more time just to see how things are trending? I was thinking of emailing tomorrow night (so they'd see the email Friday) when we are a week out from April 15th to see if there are still many outstanding offers or not to gauge my chances.

I think the most stressful part of a waitlist is that there's always a possibility (unless you hear otherwise) up until April 15th. I'm in the same boat about waiting on a waitlist and I'm torn between the hope that I could still get good news in the next 9 days, and the desire to just get a "no" so I can take the other offer I have.

Nothing yet. Emailed the DGS last week though. They had just had their open house and he said that they usually don't get a lot of responses from admitted students either way until after the open house. I'm hoping for good news soon (although I think at this point, I'd be happy with any news at all).

Oh man, the wait is so stressful. I hope you hear good news soon!

I would think so. Was it good news from a school you are excited about?

No idea what time zone you are in so this might come too late, but are the symptoms something you can treat with cold medicine long enough to do the interview? You could also mention right at the beginning that you are fighting something so they understand why you might not be at your best.

Oh no, I'm so sorry!