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I don't doubt this, but my sense is that these fora could use some levity (and maybe even compassion!) along with the wonderful and serious advice that I've only been able to find here. Most of us keep a very anonymous profile here. My sig info alone would probably identify me with some digging, but I'm not posting anything on here I wouldn't say in real life, including all of the "spark and inexperience" (snark?) that comes from being a burnt-out, neurotic pre-academic.

Well, yeah, it's our responsibility, but a lot of schools make it clear that they don't like applicants checking in, and if they need anything, THEY'LL contact US. I also thought that "MOO" just was an emphatic cow moo and it made me laugh pretty bad. And what is this site but the perfect place for venting about these things? Nobody IRL cares about my contacting-schools-too-much anxieties, and I'm pretty sure any personal journal would also be like "the eff is this? Where's the boyfriend angst?" Or is that just my mother?

If it helps any, last year I was accepted in late March (Music Tech, MM). Good luck!

Yes, Yale was accepting people (that didn't post here) back in mid-Feb. Implicit waitlists exist, though. But it seems Yale has notified some waitlists already, too.

"WHAT IF YOU WANT TO START A FAMILY? YOU'LL BE AT LEAST 30 WHEN YOU COME OUT!" I'm currently on a quest to change the perception that grad school is another 5+ years of undergrad both academically AND sociodevelopmentally (made up that word)...people seem to think that more school is such a DELAY of REAL LIFE that in fact I would be incapable of commencing toward milestones that one might achieve in their 20s.

Congratulations, Cece! No word from UCLA or NYU for me, but it's been so long that I'm more jaded than sad or anxious. (oh, now I get why schools wait so long to reject!!)

Congratulations spparkle!

Somebody posted an admit in musicology (and/or maybe a waitlist?) like a month ago on these boards, and I heard from a person IRL who had interviewed there in late January. The website also shows that no decision has been made for me, but I've pretty much written them off. :-/

simon says

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Ask if they can reimburse you. If not, I'm sure they would understand and hopefully schedule a phone or skype interview. Lots of people can't visit, especially internationals. Some programs even accept people they haven't interviewed at all over people they invited to interview! Okay, I'm clearly bitter here. Columbia...

At MY school, music theory 101 ended with a basic lesson on the 5 standard wave frequencies for selectively targeting malignant tumors. And if you play them langsam, the cancer can only spread langsam. Joking aside, I WISH. F**k cancer.

yay, drama on the music thread. We've arrived! So I'm assuming it was you purpledino that got an acceptance call from columbia? Congratulations! No word from Columbia for me, despite having been interviewed, so hopefully it's a waitlist and not a complete rejection (that would be sort of a blow).

Problem?

I perhaps just misunderstood what they meant by "we're meeting on Tuesday [yesterday], and then you should know by mid-march." Maybe those who interviewed prior to tuesday were just COMPLETE DISAPPOINTMENTS, lol. In past years, they have interviewed some people and just downright accepted others (in the same season).

I did, because I'm the kind of person who needs to work on my blunt honesty in interviews. I just let it all hang out sometimes, and I think that has backfired in some of my unsuccessful job interviews. HOWEVER, I was ultimately accepted, so it won't necessarily kill your chances. I talked about how I didn't yet know what I wanted besides knowing I wanted to do research, but I took it as a learning experience to do more research, go to more conferences, do more writing, and figure out a more focused path. Sometimes, I think the fact that you're willing to try this terrible, terrible process again shows that you're really dedicated to graduate work.

I never mentioned it unless they asked me directly, and in fact, I think every school I interviewed with asked me directly to let them know about my other offers. Be honest when answering, but also display your honest enthusiasm for the program you're visiting. Like fuzzylogician said, I think they realize that many applicants have offers elsewhere, especially by as late as March.

Columbia purportedly already met to finalize admissions decisions, and they are still interviewing people AND asking for interviews? UCLA is finally rejecting people via the website, but mine says nothing? Duke = ???????????????????????????? Yale = ????????????????? Me = just got this message when I tried to post: "You have posted a message with more emoticons than this community allows. Please reduce the number of emoticons you've added to the message." Well sorry for emoting.

I was at a competitive interview weekend where the school paid for (and organized) everything, and even had us in a pretty nice hotel a block from campus. For a humanities, not a science! Still, they accepted fewer than half that were invited. moral of the story: it's ultimately pointless to speculate about this, as much as we all love to.

I think Columbia comp is meeting tomorrow. I overheard something. I have no more information. This message will [not] self destruct.

Hey, who's the Columbia musicology interview and who is the other Northwestern theory/cog admit? Because in the case of NWU, I probably met you last weekend, right?

HAHAHAHA. In any case I ALWAYS forget my Benutzername.

That's it, we're all done here. This must be the end of the internet.