I received an email from the GPD a few hours ago informing me that I will be admitted to the program, but they just need to sort out my funding (as I have an external grant that covers part of my expenses). They appear to still be working on how to allocate the remaining funds among the admitted students, so I really hope that other Rutgers applicants will receive some positive news in the coming days. (∩`-´)⊃━☆゚.*・。゚
This is the first time I'm getting any good news during this application cycle so I'm just over the moon. Yeiiiii!