ahlacruz

I turned down an offer from University of Illinois at Chicago and am praying to get in off the waitlist at UVa. Is there a specified hour for the April 15th deadline? Midnight on EST?

Anyone turning down UVA?

Sorry to hear that Leto. They should be obligated to offer you admission just on the basis of that mistake.

I highly suspect that admission via the website as false. I´ve only seen UVA contact admits through phone and email. I´m another waitlister at UVA. I suspect there is probably 10 of us or so? Who knows what will happen this year, but I´ve heard in recent years there has been a lot of movement on the list. I´ll be headed there if I end up getting the offer. Good luck to the other waitlisters!

Cicada123--Who was the person you contacted at CUNY to get application feedback?

Good point.

So when is this mass email coming? Let´s get this over with already.

I just received an email saying that I was put on the waitlist. Someone said the top waitlisters were invited to the visiting weekend so maybe I´m farther down on the list? The email said there are 12 funded spots this year. This is my top choice so hopefully some of the lucky admitted ones choose elsewhere!

I received one of the acceptances. There is no information in the letter on the number of those accepted. The funding is 16k for the first year while teaching one class a semester. Then for subsequent years its 19k for teaching two classes a semester with guaranteed seven years of funding. It doesn´t look like there is an official admit weekend but they encourage visitors to come before April 8th. I was completely resigned to all rejections so this was an amazing surprise.

Man sending out rejections on a Friday night is not cool

I'm seeing some rejection emails on the results board. Is CUNY done sending out acceptances? Do you admits have any info on number admitted?

I'm definitely beginning to feel like maybe my interests weren't clear enough or my fit paragraph in my SOP was too general. Or perhaps they are just reading my writing sample and thinking "Huh?" Even though there are many stories of people doing multiple rounds of applications and feel like if I end up getting all rejections that I would rather take it as a sign to pursue a different field.

I'm curious to see if many of the admits have their M.A. or not.

That was a rough day with several schools sending out emails. I'm glad that one is over.

Seems like a nice way to get away from the craziness... I could use a long walk: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/08/a-pilgrimage-walk-to-sant_n_820079.html