habu987
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Gee, with today being the 13th, I decided to go and see if my long awaited and delayed rejection letter from UNC had finally come in the mail. It had. Shocker....
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Got my rejection letter today. Friday the 13th...shocker...
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My SO still has a year and a half left of her undergrad, due to taking time off. What we worked out is that, wherever I end up going (provided I get in this year), she will transfer in and finish up there. Her one caveat is that it must be a top 50 school in the nation. If it isn't, then I will be going to my school and she will stay at hers to finish up....
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As far as I know, you don't need to take a full course load each semester. I've overloaded to the max number of courses possible each semester since sophomore year, so I'm not speaking from experience. I can't see why it would be an issue, though. Just my two bits...
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I have a few Ws on my transcript from freshman year, but nothing since then. As far as I know, they are not calculated in your GPA, so you should be just fine
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Oops, I forgot about the SOP and the writing sample/s. I got to work on those as well.
Yeah, I didn't pick my best writing sample this round. Not sure why--at the time, when I picked it out, I thought it was pretty damn good, but looking back on it, it's not *quite* as good as I thought it was. And I really didn't know how to do the SOPs--had my advisor help me out with them, but he can only do so much.
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Good to know that I'm in the majority on this poll...
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I recently got this as an email.
Does this sound like an acceptance to anyone?
"We are in the middle of reviewing your application and plan to send notification letters out on March 23. Included in the acceptance packet will be a financial aid letter informing you of the various types of aid for which you will be eligible. If you haven't done so already, please file your FAFSA form as soon as possible. If you have questions about the financial aid process, feel free to contact me."
Given that, for me, most of the time, hope sprigs eternal, I think it's a good sign. I might be completely off the mark, but it looks to me like they are eyeing your application as a possible admit. Either that or my lack of sleep and growing insanity due to this process is finally getting to me...
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Dear Recycled Viking,
We are thrilled by your thesis work, research experience, and study abroad credentials. Similarly we are greatly impressed by your skills in spearfighting, swordsmanship, brewing, period clothing construction, and your bitchin' Medieval Irish tattoo. Unfortunately at this time we are incapable of accepting someone as truly bad-arse as yourself as turf longhouses are outside of our budget, the local forest does not have old enough trees to construct a full-size replica dragonship, we cannot provide nearly enough barrels of mead to satiate your thirst, and berserker rages are not covered in our student insurance policy. And frankly, with what we've read on TheGradCafe.com, we're concerned that you may have tendencies towards arson.
Please don't raid us.
Cheerfully,
Patrick Columbanus the IV
Medieval Studies Department Draugr
HAHAHAHA! That is perfect!
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-sane
-able to focus on work
-hopeful ("it's gonna happen!")
-less chip-on-shoulder-y, distracted, dark-circled, occasionally grumpy
-wealthier
Rural--right on!
This whole process, combined with a very large dosage of senioritis, really does not make my academic work this semester and summer any easier....
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I'm in basically the same boat as you, Nikki. I will try taking a grad class in the fall. In addition, I will bone up on my Spanish and try to get working on another, as yet undecided, language. Furthermore, I will keep practicing for and retaking the GRE until I get the verbal score I want, rework my writing sample(s), tailor my SOPs better, and really try to get on close terms with the professors of the schools I will apply to in round two next year.
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I'm in the same boat--one school left and crossing my fingers on it....
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Don't worry about it. As earlier noted, just write a short, polite email asking when applicants will be notified. As far as I know, it doesn't hurt anything
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0. habu987
1. This is the first
2. Two (only enough money for two applications)
3. One, and one more probably coming my way
4. Didn't contact faculty at schools, UGPA not stellar (3.57), kinda shitty SOPs, not my best writing sample, verbal score on the GRE wasn't what I hoped it'd be
5. Yup, sure will
6. Retake the GRE til I get the verbal score I want, redo SOPs and pick a better writing sample, kiss ass with the professors at the various schools, APPLY TO MORE SCHOOLS
7. Work (if I can find a job...) and earn money, something I have a bad habit of not doing
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Sigh...I am really at wits end. I am so sick of waiting. First, I find out that school A is having their meet-n-greet this weekend (and I have heard nothing from them).
Then, I find out someone was accepted to school B the day after I contacted them to inquire about my app status.
And there's school C...my first choice. The only perceivable chance left at going straight to PhD after UG.
Grr. Is anyone else just tired of it?
I am sooo freaking tired of the waiting game. I heard from Duke that I got rejected way back about a month ago and have been waiting since then to hear from UNC. I emailed them last week and was informed that they emailed out all the notification letters last Friday. Four mail days later and still nothing in my mail box. And it's only about a 4 hour drive from here to there....
I just want to know so I can go back to living my life
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Anyone here who applied to UNC NOT gotten their notification letter? I can't figure out why it would take 4 days and counting for a letter to go from Chapel Hill, NC to Charleston, SC. Kinda messing with my mind....
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For anyone who has yet to hear from UNC--I got an email back from the graduate assistant, Violet, today. She said that they mailed out the notifications on Friday via snail mail. Guess it's just a matter of time, now....
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So far we've gotten 2 rejections posted today. Is this finally the week when all of us in limbo find out our statuses?
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I haven't heard anything official yet either, but I do work with a professor who is a UNC alumnus and stays in touch with the department. She emailed a contact there who indicated that at least the first round of decisions had been made (not a good decision for me, unfortunately). Looking at previous years, the department seems to be notorious for sending out late decisions. This doesn't seem to be anything new for UNC at all. For instance--even ten years ago or so--my professor didn't know she was accepted (from the waitlist) until late April.
That's pretty depressing. From what I was told, UNC had 440 apps for 17 slots. Given that only 2 people have posted status updates, I would have thought that everyone else would be soon to know. Either they do already know and aren't posting, or Carolina has the smallest group of people on the forum out of any of the schools...
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Have you spoken to Dr.Lee recently?? Maybe some useful information can be found there. Post anything that you find out please.... I'm going nuts too.
Last time I emailed Dr. Lee, he just said that, although he's not the one who writes them, the notification letters would be going out "very soon." This was last Wednesday.
So, today, I took a deep breath and emailed the grad secretary politely asking about when applicants would find out their status. Not sure if I just committed academic suicide....
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Anyone here know what the deal is with UNC? That is, why two people would have been notified (for those of you who haven't followed this, one posted that they were rejected by mail on Monday and one accepted by email last Friday), but we haven't heard anything from the other 430 some odd applicants, of whom I'm sure at least a few are on this forum.
Is this standard practice, or do I have reason to be freaking out right now?
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Majors: History, Political Science, Criminal Justice
GPA: 3.57
GRE: 670 Verbal, 730 Quantitative, 5.0 Writing
Schools: Duke (American History); University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (Military History)
Program: PhD; PhD
Status: Rejected; n/a
Work Experience: nothing academic related
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History major here. Far right fiscally, socially, religiously, etc.
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Man, I hope they aren't doing it too piecemeal. I only have a limited amount of sanity, and being in limbo like this makes me wish that those two people hadn't posted on here that they were notified....
UNC-Chapel Hill
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Nah, I was expecting it. 50 people applied for the 2 open spots in my field, so I wasn't holding my breath that I would get in.
Still, the Friday the 13th connotation is kinda eerie--took my letter a week to arrive, from NC to SC....