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Bumping this. Did anyone hear anything back? I've still not heard a word! I'm assuming I've been waitlisted?

I emailed admissions to inquire and just got a response that my application is currently under review. Safe to say they're still making decisions. Still hope! Good luck to you papernpengal!

Has anyone heard anything in the last few days? This is the last school I'm waiting to hear back from. Website says my application is still under review.

I was curious about this as well. I've checked the application website and see nothing new, just that my app was submitted and received. For those who have been accepted, were you given a link to a decision letter via the website?

I sincerely cannot believe it's March 10th and I'm still waiting on 3 schools. I barely have any fingernails left.

Hi Marie77! Congrats on your acceptance! I went to NCSU for undergrad in lit. The department has changed a bit since I've graduated in 2009 and faculty has shifted some, but it's a pretty campus, and I love Raleigh. Tons of amazing food, great music venues, plus you're close to Chapel Hill, which is one of my favorite cities. There are some great places to live near campus that are totally affordable (I rented a 1BR within walking distance for $600/mo). What area are you studying?

nothing but rejections for me so far... still waiting on 3. they hold my future in their hands! every day is perpetual suspense. let's get this oveeeer with already.

getting rejected is starting to feel as natural as blinking. sigh. got my email last night.

Thanks so much for the update enggrad!

I'd like the revisit this post by saying what the fuuuuuck is going onnn. Decisions were steadily trickling out for a little while and now I'm just floating in wonderspace. Anybody heard anything this week?

Thanks very much! I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

Got my rejection in the mail today. My morale has been successfully crushed. I'm giving up. BUT- can I just say that this lovely form letter they mail you is improperly spaced. MLA says two spaces after the period. Well sometimes they've gone with two, well done. Sometimes there's four, maybe five. And this is from the grad chair. That makes me feel better. Psh. Who wants to work with people who can't follow MLA? NOT ME.

I had a nightmare last night that I was prepping my app for UVA and for some reason decided to open one of my recommender's letters. Then the panic set in and I was running around thinking, "Oh god, what did I do?" and trying to figure out how to reseal it. Then suddenly I was like wait a minute... they were submitted electronically. This is a dream. Fuck this. And woke up, so grateful. It's an omen, I'm sure of it. There's still hope.

I'm going this afternoon. Have to quell this sick feeling in my stomach. Oh god. This is so nerve wracking.

thanks so much! you too! i got rejected from BU. now i'm really nervous...

I see in the forum someone posted a wait listed decision for the MA, but that's the first decision I've heard/seen. Suspense!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE!! i'm in hell! this is hell. reject me, accept me, i just want to move on! i feel like a crazy person.

This gave me a huge smile. Great nurturing words. You're right, and life really does move on despite that overwhelming sense of doom/despair/apocalypse that comes with a rejection. I give myself this talk sometimes but I never feel like believing it from myself, so it's nice to see someone reiterating my "self-help" speech.

Yes.

I can't believe they'd release a "few" decisions and then stop. I'm in perpetual suspense right now. Ahhhhhhh!

I just checked my info under "New & Prospective Students" and it says my transcript wasn't received either. It sounds like perhaps they haven't been entered yet. Oh god. Looks like more decisions posting. Think I'm gonna be sick!

This was one of my top choices too. That early deadline snuck up on me and I rushed to clean up my writing samples, inevitably making a bunch of errors in my second sample. And I've been lamenting that fact for two and a half months. I want in to UT so baaaaaaad. 19th century American lit. It's not a perfect fit but I would DIE if I got in. As I write this I have to wonder if these demi-gods who decide the rest of our lives ever check out this website for a cruel chuckle....

we can do this... ........ is it too early to start drinking?

way too late. crazy is in full force. I JUST WANT AN ACCEPTANCE. @#$^!@^#$