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Ahh, thank you! Feeling a bit embarrassed about my rant now, lol. But my fingers are crossed! At this point I’m going out for champagne no matter what the answer is, because I’ll be able to move forward/be released from this prison of my own making!

Rejected from Toronto, so I’m shut out unless the Penn State waitlist comes through. I don’t know what to do. I was a teen mom and put myself through undergrad and my MA with three kids on food stamps (do not come for me). Graduated honors track on time in everything from great schools. I have delivered papers in conferences and published during the second semester of my MA. Which is not to say that I’m any better than anyone who did get in, but that I love this more than anything and sacrificed so much for it. I waited three years to apply to PhDs while my friends went on, so that my kids could finish growing up and not be away from their dad at all, and the whole time I was thinking about the day I’d be able to finally do this. To finally get into it during this nightmare of a cycle has been devastating.

Has anything heard from Toronto? I’ve seen a bunch of rejections/waitlists/acceptances come through this month, but haven’t heard anything myself. Someone said that they received their rejection when they emailed the program directly to ask, but when I did that, I was told responses were still going out, thank you for my patience, etc. It’s getting rather late in the game!