[Fall 2011]

Is there anyone who still did not get any information on acceptance/rejection from a graduate school?

Still nothing from UBC, Rutgers since being waitlisted. Nothing from UToronto or MIT at all. I have gotten too busy to really worry too much about their replies though and knowing might just slow me down now anyway.

[Fall 2011]

I got an email a while ago that was sent to the MIT prospectives as a group (apparently there are 10 of us)…so yeah, it seems they have.

I don't know why they wait so long to tell you – another school I applied to has a web page where you can check your application status, and mine still says "No decision" even though I know (from these very boards) that their admissions and open house already happened.

It seems like most people were notified by an update on the collegenet site, but my application doesn't have any status which is probably a bad thing. I'll email admissions tonight I guess.

[Fall 2011]

I'm still sort of confused about MIT acceptances. Have they all been sent out? If so, why have I been neither rejected or accepted. Should I shoot them a mail? Any others still waiting for word from them?

[Fall 2011]

It took me a long time to realize that having notes ready for a meeting is a necessity for me. I don't meet with my adviser without having hand written talking points just because I am also super easy to distract. It makes everything run a lot smoother and keeps out meetings from running long.

Thanks guys for all your positivity!!

Ive learned so much from this forum. I really wish I joined before I had sent out my applications because there is a plethora of great advice here. Good luck to everyone, can't wait to hear what your final decisions will be!! And how your first years go!

The Skype chat with the professor in Europe has been set up for tomorrow night. I'm so nervous! I don't know what to expect at all -- maybe he'll just want to give me information, but maybe he'll want to know more about my research background and interests, so I'm preparing for everything. I want to be ready because I have a tendency to go off on tangents while talking, then completely forget what the original question of my conversation partner was in the first place. So I want to have some bullet points ready

[Fall 2011]

Seems that MIT has sent out acceptances/rejections, finally. I didn't fare well here but it was a long shot anyway...

I am sort of curious if there have been a full set of acceptances sent out. I was not rejected on the 24th, but I also did not get an acceptance. It would be pretty bad luck to have had my application get lost or whatever. On the other hand I don't want to get my hopes up for a second round of rejections.

I'm fairing better than last cycle (two waitlists for PhD vs nothing at all last year). For anyone else who was rejected from their PhD schools, I strongly recommend a MA.