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I, too, am among the ranks of the Duke rejects, although, like the others, I was expecting it at this point. All in all, it looks to be a nervewracking week, what with the Duke rejection shattering my overconfident sense of invincibility plus the (now old) news that NW, UNC, and Indiana have all sent out some acceptances and I haven't yet received one.

Congrats! And the worry wart in me must second the previous poster's question: when did you receive your notification from Indiana? I'm still waiting on them, too.

I'm a lurker coming out of the woodwork here, but I have some previous experience that I can offer to our storm of speculation vis-a-vis Duke. I applied to that program last year and was rejected. I received my rejection in the form of an email informing me that a decision had been made on my application and instructing me to check my application status on the grad school's website. Said email arrived on February 20. Sorry to be a pessimist, but if they're on the same timeline this year as last, my guess is that they've made their decisions, the department has contacted those who were accepted, and they've left the dirty work of contacting those they're rejecting to the grad school's form letters and automated system. Of course, this is just conjecture on my part on the basis of last year's experience and the (perhaps faulty?) assumption that they've followed the same timeline as last year. Hopefully I'm wrong, though, and they're just taking some extra time putting together stellar funding packages for those of us who are still waiting!