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I would say its moderately important me. I'll be married so at least we'll be dealing with two incomes, but i think it really depends on the cost of living of each of the cities. I mean 20,000$ a year is a lot different in boston than it is in say iowa. Thats my thinking so far because the one school ive been accepted to so far has one of the highest costs of living of the whole country (Canadanot US). I still need to ask them funding questions. I need to be able to live comfortably.

I've lived in st paul mn my whole life and think its probably better than a lot of places. Sure we get kind of a lot of snow but hey that means winter sports hockey skiing snowboarding all sorts of stuff. And it does get kind of cold but its tolerable-i mean if youre used to a tropical climate it'll be a bit of a shock but its not horrible. And the city is great we have a large arts community tons of theaters, museums, lots of places with live music, restaurants, etc. I also agree that living in the suburbs (I would stay in eastern suburbs) will be a lot cheaper, but paying for parking at the U of MN can be quite expensive.

So I'm kind of confused how all this funding works and am too impatient towait to ask till my visiting weekend. So the school i just got accepted to says "we provide funding enough to cover tution and living expenses with a funding minium of 22,000" Now does this mean that i would get the 22000 and then have to pay tution out of that leaving me with only 10000 or less for living expenses, or is the money from Ta/RA stuff usually just meant for living and tution is covered in addition???

So update: it is possible to get good news this late in the game via email inquiry. I heard back from one of the schools i emailed today (my top choice) and it was an acceptance- no details but said they had reviewed my app and was recommending admission to the graduate school and more details to come in the mail. YAY my first acceptance, im so glad i emailed!!!

well i emailed 7 of my 10 schools today, so far heard back from 2. One was a very weird unclear and impersonal i think rejecting me. The other was a very nicely worded in depth response basically telling me im on the waitlist and have a good chance of getting in in the second round. My friend had emailed one of his schools and the response told him he was in and they had just sent out the acceptance in the mail. I think a positive response is definitely possible but at least late in the game its less likely. The two most likely things are you've been rejected and they haven't sent out notifications yet or you're waitlisted and they usually don't notify waitlists until they know something for sure. Or it could be something else but i think those are the two most likely. But at this point I say do it, because even if its a rejection I'd rather know sooner rather than later so you can move on and cross it off the list ya know.

ok i think i can wait one more week of agony

So haven't heard from any of the 10 schools and i know like 6 of them have at least started contacting. I really want to write and just politely ask what my status is, but is it too soon? Should I wait longer or is it acceptable to ask now (most schools had a Jan 15th deadline)?

Stupid weekends ugh! Another week went by no replies. I really want to email some schools and ask them whats up, but i dont know how to word the email or which schools to write to. I know i should wait at least another week so as to not appear impatient but man its getting real hard.

Well normally nothing helps but today i went and got an nice hour long massage and that did the trick nicely.

I agree that I enjoy being away from my computer because when i come back its more exciting. I know it sounds silly but I feel like because i haven't been obsessively checking and been away from my computer that I should get an email, like the world or the physics phd gods know that i've stopped thinking about it for a minute so thats the time itll happen. I know its not true but cant help thinking it.

I haven't had any real panic attacks but migraines/stress headaches are killing me and also I'm probably getting an ulcer, at least thats what it feels like, the stress is causing so much stomach acid. And to top it off my emotions are all over the place because of this. Needs to end soon before these medical problems escalate. hey you think we can sue these grad schools for medical bills

I really don't know what I'll do if I don't get in anywhere. I mean i could continue trying to do research study real hard and retake the physics gre again next year and reapply. But I just don't know if I want to go through all of that again. And also even if I say thats what I'm going to do, being out of school, away from my classes, classmates, professors, etc seems like itll make it much harder to stay committed to studying in my free time and trying to improve my application. I'm scared because if I don't get accepted I don't know what I want plan B to be....

Thats true to an extent, on another site I frequent theres a post put up by an admissions prof making a plea for people who've been accepted to somewhere or wheres they know they want to go to withdraw or turn down other apps/offers. I mean obviously they shouldn't rush a decision, they should weigh their pros/cons etc. But if someones accepted to 7 places and they know for sure they're not going to 4 of them then they should let the departments know right away so as to free up a spot for someone else.

I'm past going crazy now im just annoyed, everytime i check my email and see "no unread messages" i'm just annoyed. Like really? How can I not have heard a peep from any 10 of them yet? The admin assist for our dept at my undergrad today said that its a good sign i haven't heard yet but I dont understand how that could be.

I really wish I would have studied more for the physics gre. I also would have changed some of the schools i applied to. My sop at the end, ie for the last schools was good, but for the first few apps it could have been better.

-events going on this week in my school dept -scammers pretending to want to buy my craigslist item -bills -some other stupid worthless crap that are not grad school acceptances

hmmm 10 applications 5 outright rejections 1 straight up acceptance 2 successful waitlists 2 unsuccessful waitlists so 3/10

I really want to email because i'm so sick of not hearing but I'm just too scared; scared of then being told I'm rejected, scared of annoying people, scared of no response/waiting for forever for a response. I feel like it might be too soon. If i don't hear of any of the schools by like first week of march I might email a few

My friend recently emailed Texas A&M saying his online status showed he was still missing some items and he wanted to check the status. In their reply they not only said it was complete but told him he was accepted and that he would be receiving his packet in the mail in the next couple days.

I know people have school today but are the administrative people off? Should I just give up hope of hearing anything today?

another one of my schools started calling people over the weekend. thats 6 outta 10 now. I think i really need to stop checking these sites and other's results its probably making me crazier.

I sure hope so I just found out that yet another one of the program i applied to starting contacting people over the weekend. so thats 6 out of 10 that have starting contact people, people that are not me. It sucks I had my grad party over the weekend too and everyone kept asking about it and i had nothing to tell them.

10 apps out no word from anyone yet, killing me slowly inside, and 5 of these schools have already started contacting people...why not me, everyone else i know in my department, my friends, have all heard from at least one school, its a starting to seem weird that no waitlist no rejection no acceptance. I really hope this week brings some news, preferably good rather than bad, but i'd like to at least know something.

I dont know if id wait till april since thats when the deadline is but if you dont hear anything by mid march maybe contact them. A lot of places will put you on the waitlist but not tell you until its a for sure no or yes. so you could be waitlisted and not know it.

The silence is deafening , still no word from anyone :x