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Thanks for the info. Would you mind me asking when you received your acceptance letters for the above schools? I'm trying to gauge how long after the acceptance letter you're supposed to accept or decline formally. My school is about two weeks after they send out the acceptance letter.

I... can't... wait.... that .... long. I know where I am on the list, and even if it doesn't sound good the Director says its OK. Should I wait until the 15th, or a week after the 15th! Either way, I can't wait that long! I need someone to sit on my hands until I am sane again.

Hi all. I'm Canadian, so I'm pretty sure the April 15th deadline doesn't apply to my schools. (I've been waitlisted at my top choice, unofficially rejected by my second, and have heard crickets from my other two schools.) Any Canadians out there? What has been your experience with April 15th? Do schools observe because of American applicants, or is it just another day that they DON'T notify us?

Unfortunately, the April 15th deadline doesn't apply in Canada; it's a US 'law'. So I was using the two weeks from my notification idea (assuming that the acceptances went out on the same day) as a defacto April 15th deadline. But you're right -- I should wait a few days after the deadline to start asking, so the adcomm has some time to process all the declinations (let's hope that there are a lot). I'm going to give it a week. I may need that time to craft an email that isn't so desperate. Good luck with your waitlist! Let's hope that everyone else thinks our schools are crap. This is how I always get the ice-cream I want. No one else likes vanilla so there's more for me.

I love this thread! My contributions are as follows: Hate Friday, no emails until Monday. Leave house. Return. Refresh with impact! Can't remember life before Gradcafe Forum.

I was waitlisted at my top choice, and the list is ranked. When I was notified, I replied with the usual letter of continued interest ("I'll go if you offer admission!") and he was pretty nice in his response back. I have an okay chance of admission. Now, I want to email him periodically to ask for updates on movement, but I don't know how often I can do this without being a pest. He had said accepted students have two weeks to respond with a non-refundable deposit, and the two week deadline is generally calculated from the date the offer letter is sent out. It's been two weeks since my notification, so I assume that the offer letters went out on the same day or around it. Should I email again? And can I email again in two weeks, if offer letters go out to people ahead of me on the waitlist? They have to respond, right? I don't want to be a pest, but I want to lie in railroad tracks here. I'm anticipating a summer of waiting, honestly. An polite email every two weeks all summer will get super annoying, don't you think? But I need that info! Advice is always appreciated.

This is so admirable. I wish I could do this for the schools I'm waiting on -- one of them said they would contact by mid-March, and here I am, without a notification, when people have been getting accepted or rejected all over the place. But I am, how you say, CHICKEN-SHIT. Good for you!

I'm so happy for you! That is great news. I think it's awesome that you, the person who started this thread for hope for the waitlisted, got into the program you wanted! Good luck to everyone out there . See, it does happen!

Wow, congratulations! My words in the post above were prophetic. I applied for that program too -- guess that means I should be getting nervous. Congrats, again!

If they accepted a single student, that doesn't exactly mean first rounds have gone out and you have gotten on the waitlist. I call the accepting of a few students very early "extreme first round" -- the students with stellar, incredible, untouchable applications who get a call before anyone else because the schools know they have to hustle get those students first. After calling those students first, they might send out the 'real' first round. YMMV. Keep up hope! Your letter could just be in transit. I would still call or email the department, but keep waiting. It's only April, and Canadian schools can be slow.

I had this dream yesterday that I finally got a huge package in the mail from a school I haven't heard from yet. I excitedly opened the large envelope - and out fluttered a single sheet of big paper that said : NO! I was so freaked out I woke myself up! Ugh. This process is turning me into a crazy person!!

So sorry to hear your news. I agree -- sad news is sad news, but I think you've come to the right place to find a lot of people who know exactly what a rejection feels like, from one of the places you could really see yourself in. You have company, if that makes you feel better. Chin up, there's a place for you somewhere else!

Wow! Great news. Good luck! Hopefully this late date means that the people ahead of you on the waitlist have already made other plans. Let us know what happens so I may live vicariously through you!

Yes -- but this was for an MA program. The person was waitlisted and had no idea, and got a call on May 1st for acceptance. She had pretty much written off the school at that point. Good luck! Maybe you're waitlisted, and they haven't told you?

Hold on -- this is for the acceptance for MA in Communication for Ottawa on the results board? Where does it say that the person is American?

I think it's worse thinking that they did look at my application...

Maybe they're in the process of updating! I'd email to make sure though. Anyway, I agree with your post about Ottawa U and the mysterious acceptance on the board. I applied to the same program, and every communication with me has been that they would notify mid to late April. I don't believe that someone out there is screwing with vulnerable grad school applicants by actually posting fake results, so I assume that person is 'extreme first round' -- otherwise known the stellar, incredible applicants who hear of acceptance almost as soon as their applications are opened. I bet this person also had an incredible funding package too. As for the rest of us, I still believe that not having heard is not a bad sign. They're just late! (They lost my transcripts last month and I had to resend, so annoying. They verified my application was complete months ago.)

Wow! Congratulations. I guess all you need to do to get accepted is mention you haven't heard on here. A watched pot does boil! In that case: Ryerson, Carleton, U of Ottawa.... I'm looking at you.

I hear you. I'm thinking of calling a school that I've been hearing nothing but crickets from, though people have been getting accepted and rejected via email for weeks now. It's not a school I particularly care about, but the lack of response is annoying. I don't know if it's overly optimistic to assume I'm on a waitlist -- if I was rejected, I would know immediately as they seem to notify via email -- but I could just be rejected and they're dilly-dallying on sending me my form rejection email. Oh well. Best of luck to you.

This. Sorry to hear about your rejections, but no reason to get pessismistic on UWO. Is the waitlist ranked? If so, what's your place on it? I find that with all the waitlist success stories around here, waitlists don't always mean rejection -- it could just mean delayed acceptance! Best of luck you both. I'm still waiting on Ryerson, which I haven't heard ANYONE talk about on here. Ryerson seems like a four-letter word with all the talk about UBC, Toronto and McGill on here.