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Me too!

Hmm, how do I do that? Pretty please?

I am fairly certain that the prospective advisors that I wrote to before applying googled me. I have a unique name, and I am registered on academia.edu, which provides a service that allows you to track who googled your name, and where they are from. For majority of the people whom I contacted, I always ended up with a few searches from those areas just a day or so before the prospective advisors reply to my e-mail.

I am just wondering if Yale will make decisions earlier this year. Previously, their deadline for submission was 1 Jan, but this year, they moved it up to 15 December. Hmm...

Congrats all you admits! Glad good news came early for you guys!

Haha.. Eh, congrats anyway?

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Thanks! Not really losing sleep, but more like conflicted. On the one hand, I do want to know more; but on the other hand, I kinda wish my sources would stop feeding me information and making me sit on the edge on my chair, expecting something to happen. Does anyone else feel the same way?

I had a couple of such similar false alarms from Yale and Toronto the past couple of days as well. Bleah. But I guess it's also good to know that they have all your stuff.

My source says that Yale is done with first round of reviews as of last week -- whatever that means.

Definitely my letter writers - they are such a supportive bunch.

Hmm.. Harvard tends to post out their mass rejections. Just wondering if some prof informed the poster early. *obsess ... obsess ... obsess*

Just saw a first rejection posted on the boards from Harvard. A legitimate post? Or someone messing with our minds? Though, if you are the person who was just rejected - sorry to hear that!

Dear all, Just decided to drop by and say "hello". I am a second-time applicant, and I thought I could keep off these boards for this application season, but the temptation was just too strong. So, hello all, and good luck with all your applications!

I just said bye bye to a non-funded spot at UW. Hopefully it'll make someone happy? (maybe not)

Any news from/about Hawaii? There aren't any results in the results search.

YAY! Congrats, GirlattheHelm! And this is wisdom.

Congrats RecycledViking! Really glad for you!

I told all my recommenders. They were generally very nice about it, expressing regret of varying degrees. Some also tried to find reasons as to why I was rejected. In fact, one of them was a stronger subscriber of the bad economy theory than myself. I am glad I chose to inform them via e-mail, because some of their extremely kind responses made me cry.

Just explain nicely that you have decided to accept the offer from UPenn, and thank them for their time?

I think I am on the wait list for funding at Washington. Not very optimistic, according to the DGS. I am not sure about other schools, but in Washington, apparently getting funding after the first year is possible. Bleargh. :shock:

I had two dreams. Sometime in mid-Feb, I dreamt that my friend got into my top choice, while I was rejected. On the same day that I had the dream, my friend did get into my top choice, which meant that I was rejected, since there was only one spot for our specialization. A couple of days ago, I dream that I got into my other top choice. I woke up, checked my e-mail. Nothing. But then, a letter from the other top choice came via postal, and I opened it up, and I was indeed admitted. Think I should seriously consider a career switch and start telling fortunes through dreams.

Yup. Double yup. The only people I can talk to are those who are in the exact same situation that I am in, i.e. no admissions, or no funded admissions. I'd much rather other people take their jubilance and/or their effusive sympathy elsewhere. The only people who are not in the "no admissions" group whom I am still speaking to, are those who were smart enough to start off by saying, "I know nothing I say will make you feel any better" or "I won't say I understand your situation, and I know saying that I am sorry is just cliched". At least those felt more genuine.

Last month was particularly horrid for me. I got a rejection on Friday the 13th, and an unofficial rejection on Friday the 14th, February. I never really subscribed to conspiracy theories prior to this, but I am not so sure about that now.

Does your mommy want another kid? Being in your shoes doesn't seem exactly bad.