Hello, gradcafe world! I've been lurking, but I thought I'd join the conversation. I have to say: Coming here and passively commiserating with you all has been quite helpful for my general (in)sanity. I'm a medievalist. Whee.
Here's what I know:
I've been accepted to both UNC-CH and UMinnesota. Funding offers are pending.
I've been rejected by Brown and Columbia. Columbia's rejection was strange. The professor emailed me with some very kind words (for a rejection) telling me that they accepted 6% of their applicants, and they only took 1.5 medievalists (the .5 apparently straddles two periods). I get to relive Columbia's rejection again when the letter comes in the mail in a few weeks.
One of the other students in my cohort has received an offer of admission from UWisconsin. He is in the history program here, so I will assume that he applied to history there. Another close friend of mine has been accepted to Ohio State and rejected from UIllinois. He applied to the history departments in both cases.
If any of you have applied to Hawaii, the admissions committee has not met yet, and they don't usually meet until March. Be patient, they run on island time.
Keep hanging in there, everyone.