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Good luck to us both, then!!!

Just got an email from Cornell, telling me thanks for applying and they'd let me know if they needed any more materials from me. MINI HEART ATTACK! Gmail shows the first few words of an email next the subject before you open it, so all I saw was "Dear [name]: Thank you for applying..." and could only think "REJECTED ALREADY!!"

me: musicology them: "what instrument do you play?" every time. NO REALLY, EVERY SINGLE TIME. Since I play an instrument, sometimes I'll say that, thinking they might be satisfied. me: "clarinet, piano..." them: "so will you join an orchestra?" Now we're totally off track, so I try to rein it in. me: "no, I want to study music, and become a college professor" them: "of what?" .... In undergrad I got a neuroscience minor, which I actually thought everyone knew about (since neuroscience is hot these days), but I was wrong.

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I only discovered thegradcafe 30 minutes ago. I've been missing out! I'm applying for a Ph.D. in musicology (sometimes ethno, sometimes theory, depending on the school) at Harvard, Cornell, Brown, and NYU (GSAS). And the MM at NYU Steinhardt in Music Technology. I'm bracing myself for 5 rejection letters/emails/phone-calls, but I had a dream I was accepted at NYU, and it got my hopes up . I was just accepted to present some of my work at a conference and I wonder how annoying it would be to send an updated CV? I'm still trying to find out if everyone's received my writing sample (I had to mail it because it has a CD supplement). I'm pulling my hair out over here...