Hmm, I just noticed that my UWI-Madison portal has very recently slightly changed to have "under program review" listed underneath the recent activities sections, not just the fee waiver part that's already been there. However, it's listed as occurring on 12/16 and I still have no acceptance or rejection😅.
Waitlisted at UMN, rejected for Brown, and still waiting fro Yale. However, I also applied to the combo version with WGSS, so I imagine that may affect when I hear my decision.
That's how I feel about my own situation, however, some people here posted that they got a formal rejection from UW-Madison some time ago, (though they did not post it to the main part of GradCafe,) and therefore I'm concluding we're on some sort of unofficial waitlist.
Congrats everyone!! I haven't received anything/had any portal changes, but their website specifies that decisions come in waves, so fingers crossed it's not meant in only a "rejections come later" way, lol.
Thank you for the kind words. Actually, I wanted a non-AS program also at Brown a little bit more, and in a way all the programs I applied to are sorta dream schools/top choices for differing reasons... Anywho, it's not fun being rejected, but having gotten an acceptance elsewhere I'm sure helped me tremendously
Today I'm hoping for Northwestern acceptances to start coming in, or to see if anyone posts about AP for Brown. Maybe I'll finally get my Wisconsin rejection, haha.
I have a Harvard and a (non-poli sci) Yale decision I'll be waiting for too, but that's a ways away yet...