nandelle

So it's said that since you submitted your application? If that's so, I think it likely is some sort of bizarre code - but you might want to check with them about it just to make sure your application is classified correctly - IE, your application isn't classified as a non-degree student or a visiting grad student. If you just noticed it said that, then yes, it probably means that you are not admitted. However, it seems weird it would be up there when they specifically said that decisions would not be posted online...however with these programs, often the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing...

*raises hand* I am holding two non-funded admits right now...Minnesota sounded like they were leaving the door open to possibly offering funding later ("we will immediately let you know if funding becomes available, sometimes we do offer additional support but don't count on it when you make your decision, etc etc etc"), but Irvine was a blanket "no finaid this year for master's students" (at least not in my department - ICS). I know master's programs are vastly different from phd programs, and it wouldn't be the end of the world if I had to come up with money for 2 years while for phd...i can't imagine doing that without funding. But still, coming up with money for 2 more years of school is going to be tricky, if I don't get in anywhere with funding.

I swore I wasn't going to e-mail until the end of next week... But then I was sitting here and thought I can't TAKE it anymore! So I sent nice e-mails to the people who helped me get LORs there, and just said #1 - thank you for your help and #2 - do you know when I can expect a decision? heard back within 5 minutes from Oregon, saying that all decisions should go out in the first two weeks of march. I strongly suspect that theirs will come by post...so it's down to check the mail for me!

Haha yeah, I had a dream the other night that I was rejected from one of my schools...and I wrote to them and asked why, and they told me one of my letter of recommendation writers had written that although I was smart, I was a very nasty person who mocked him and his class, and he felt I would be trouble for their program (note - I have nothing but respect for this prof and never said bad things about him/his class...i liked it quite a bit). I woke up in a cold sweat and it took a few minutes to realize that this was a dream and not reality. Then I had to go back and read all previous correspondence with said prof to reassure myself that he had, in fact, written me a positive LOR.

I find work a good distraction...I don't work at a computer so that temptation isn't there, and work is usually very busy. However, it sometimes is tricky to put in my "all" knowing that I'm not going to stay out the year...I'm enough of an overachiever that I do try and do my best regardless, but when my boss wants me to put in crazy unpaid overtime in the name of saving time in the (distant) future, I find myself thinking "no thanks".

Totally! I've been working a couple of part time jobs - didn't think I could get a corporate job as I only planned to stay less than a year. I haven't really been dating, haven't been making summer plans, etc - I will take some time off this summer to travel if I get a funded acceptance, but otherwise i'm going to need to work right up until leaving for school...it's just really tough also not knowing where i'm going to be or really what i'm going to be doing next year. sigh... hopefully only a little while longer of uncertainty (though I'd rather wait a month and get an acceptance, than hear of rejection today! )

So a couple days ago i had a dream that I was rejected and I asked why, and they told me that one of my letter writers had written some really bad things about me in his LoR...then i woke up and didn't realize right away that it was a dream and i started really panicking in the not able to move sort of way...and then i realized i was being very, very silly.

Antonitsin, have you heard from UBC yet, if you applied there?

Congratulations! I applied for UBC as well - masters in Stats. Perhaps, since I did my undergrad in Canada, my perspective is skewed, but UBC has an good reputation in Canada, and is known in the US (especially on the west coast, unlike McGill and UofT which are more well known on the east coast). Can't comment too much on their program, but my friends who have gone there have all liked it. Plus Vancouver's a good place to be! Though I'm from Seattle so I might be biased in favor of the pacific northwest

YAY contra dance!! To cope with grad school stress I've been contra dancing twice a week instead of once...can't have too much fun. I also have been keeping busy with church stuff, skiing and running, watching TV/goofing off on the internet, and hanging out with friends...anything to pass the time and take my mind off grad school stuff.

Minnesota - Acceptance e-mail followed by snail mail (departmental acceptance), e-mail followed by website (graduate school acceptance) UC Irvine - acceptance e-mail UWashington - rejection e-mail I'm so glad that grad schools submit decisions electronically, waiting for the post is killer.

Relief - just when I was about to e-mail another professor asking for an emergency letter, he sent them in. Thank goodness! Hopefully, as the deadlines were mid-february for these schools, it won't hurt *that* much. Now it's back to worrying about whether or not I get in

Nothing today, except I got an e-mail from OSU indicating that they also have not received this letter. I know that schools lose stuff all the time, but when 3 schools all are missing the same letter from the same prof, it begins to look like he didn't send it. And I haven't heard anything further from him, and I don't want to be perceived as pestering but I have to 1. let him know that OSU's deadline has also passed, and they also record having not received the letter 2. Beg on my knees for him to submit the letter to Irvine and UBC as soon as possible. I dug through all my old school stuff looking for his phone number, but I recycled most of my old notes, etc, when I moved back after graduation...boy am I ever regretting that now. mmblue, it's good to hear that I'm not alone!! I really hope everything works out for you. Yes, it's unbelievably frustrating when they not only tell you they did something when they didn't, but then stop responding to e-mails, etc. I mean, this is kind of a big deal for our futures...surely they realize that it's very important that if they agree to write a letter, to actually do it? Otherwise they may totally screw over a student's future. Do you guys know if schools typically auto-reject someone if they don't have all their letters together, or will they at least informally review an applicant if their application is complete except for one letter of recommendation?

I've about driven myself crazy trying to keep as busy as possible so the time will pass quickly... though seeing as both of my two remaining schools are still missing documents (or specifically, the *same* document), I realize it'll be at least another week before I hear back. I'd settle for hearing that my application is complete, at this stage.

In the last sentence of my SoP to Minnesota I repeated the word "and". I didn't realize it until after I'd submitted it, and then I broke into a cold sweat and freaked out and refused to read any more SoPs after I submitted them. Fortunately I was admitted anyway - hopefully, if neither I nor my editors caught it, they didn't notice it either

I would admit you on the spot with an SoP like that. And the haiku are amazing.

I grew up just outside of Seattle and moved back here after graduation...love it here. If you like natural beauty, and if you're an outdoorsy kind of person (hiking,backpacking, skiing, biking etc) then Seattle will be great fun for you. Yes, it does rain a lot usually from Nov to May or June (except for this year which has been kind of weird) but our summers are lovely, and after spending four years in Montreal I can honestly say I'll take the temperate rain climate over the -20 with wind chill ANY DAY! UW is a very pretty campus, too, and there are a lot of nice neighborhoods around that area.

Love it!!! *edit: Fully caffeinated! Coming from Seattle, being decaf was a huge insult *

Yeah, I was rejected from my top choice (unsurprisingly) but the family/friends didn't really get it - because it's not very competitive for undergrads in-state they didn't really understand that it would be much more competitive for grad studies. So I had to hear a lot of "I can't BELIEVE you got rejected from UW!". Fortunately I was not really surprised, and I figure I"ll be happy anywhere I end up going. I really wish I hadn't been so public about which schools were my "top" choices though...because it makes things awwwk when I don't get in.

He never did e-mail me back, and nobody's received a letter, not even online. I'm really at my wits end. I don't have a phone number for him, but i'm debating just calling the department that he teaches in and just asking what I should do. I know he's probably busy and everything, but this is getting ridiculous.

That's a good idea...the school I'm worried about does have online submission...so here's the latest This morning I (FINALLY) get an answer from UBC saying "no, we haven't received it" I also got an e-mail from the prof - a one-liner saying "I'll get back to you this afternoon". So I get UBC to resend the e-mail detailing how to submit a recommendation online to him, and then I follow that up with another e-mail saying "Thanks for looking into this for me - this is the last thing I need for the UBC application, and they are beginning to review them soon. So in the interests of time could you submit it online?" No word yet, so we'll see. I'll worry about Oregon and UC Irvine after I get UBC taken care of...

moderate-right leaning math-person here. Though my undergrad is in business, so that may explain it right there

This in particular feels like admissions http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi1127351065/ *goes to check cellphone voicemail, home phone answering machine, and both e-mail accounts*

Actually, technically you're in the right. When a name ends in an S, you add 's. When a plural noun ends in s, you use s'. So if you wanted to say "the research of Dr. Hastings" that would be Dr. Hastings's research" It's not required to write it this way, but it is preferred. So don't sweat it!

I would do that, but he's in Montreal, and I'm in Seattle...makes it difficult to drop by office hours I think I"m going to make some phone calls to the departments tomorrow, and then perhaps ask if there's a way I can have him e-mail the letter to the departments, so that they at least have a copy while we sort out the paper copy mess...sigh.