Emilee

Sooooo, I was sitting at my computer (probably looking at this forum), when my gmail notifier popup said I have an unread message with the subject "Your admission decision". I get very excited knowing that this is the last school I am waiting for and, whether or not I get in, means my application process hell is over. So I try clicking the message, but the second I do I immediately wake up and realize I was all a dream. Grrrr...it seemed so real. I thought I was going to finally find out. I'm still waiting for a decision in my dreams! I also now realize the last school I am waiting for is on spring break, so I probably won't learn until next week! :x

I'm in the exact same situation.

I used to be ten pounds lighter. .....currently drowning my application heartaches with a bag of chips.

I am not applying to that program, but it smells like you're on a waitlist. I've been waitlisted at three schools and that has been my experience: I hear about people getting accepted or rejected to a program am I still waiting to hear from....and weeks later I am on a waitlist. I feel like I'm an expert on waitlisting. On the upside, you may not be out of the game yet and there is also the possibility that they are trying to secure funding for you. Good Luck and try not to freak out (like I have been)

One of my rejection emails had the wrong name on it. It was another name that kinda of sounded like my name. So I think they were trying to personalize it. The rejection letter attached to the email definitely had the right name though.

I've been waistlisted at a third school now and get the happy pleasure of being in waiting limbo for probably five extra weeks. One school left to hear from, which I am now certain is going to a rejection or a waitlist. Oh, someone take me out of my misery.

Sorry MDLee. I hate the application process more than ETS now! :evil:

Oh. I've been bitter for several weeks now. I just want to end it all and call my remaining two schools and demand my rejection letter that is probably sitting on someone's desk. I feel your pain. This process sucks

I agree. I did not even get an interview for any of my so called safety schools or target schools. Oddly, I only got interviews from my reach schools, which are still reach schools since I have not received one acceptance yet. :? Lower tier schools have less funding and tend to like local students better. I hope we all get into at least one school or ten years from now they might call this the "Decade of the Lost Scholars", since obviously there are so many qualified people who can't get into grad school.

Even if we could absolutely blame it on the economy. I doubt that in the next year schools are going to be recovered enough to take on as many students as they have in the past. We are going to have to adapt to the new circumstances, which means looking even more qualified in a pool of qualified applicants competing for a small number of spots. I guess I better start working on improving my credentials even more. By the way.... Does anyone feel like they are going through the five stages of grief: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance? This the the story of my life right now.

Sooo... I just had some wine and, even though I have zero acceptance so far, I am feeling so optimistic right now. I am even smiling again . I am feeling this weird certainty that I am going to get an acceptance from at least one of the two remaining schools I am waiting for. Who knew half a bottle of wine could do so much. I guess I will need the other half when I get the actual rejections.

I haven't have any acceptance or rejection dreams. But the process is doing some strange things to me. Last week I dreamed that I was opening a restaurant with an aunt who has been DEAD for several years. Then I woke up yesterday and could not remember where I was for five minutes, before I realized I was in my own apartment where I have lived for two years?????? This process is brutal. Maybe I should quit trying to get into a PHD program and open a restaurant like my dead aunt suggested.

That is cruel. I expect to hear a round of "I told you so" from my family. My parents have wanted me to become a medical doctor since before I was born and they was very disappointed when I chose psychology as a major and wanted to become what they term as a pseudo-doctor. Now I am going to hear "I told you should have been pre-med and applied to med school," when I don't get in. After all, my young sister (who I like think is not as smart as me) is now happily finishing med school. I would have graduate this year. I do not know how I would have done on the MCAT though.

MyshkinLit, I'm wondering the same thing you are. I carefully chose the schools I applied to, making sure I matched with at least one (if not two) faculty and I fit in the GRE range. I am currently completing a Masters, have a near perfect GPA, an year and half internship under my belt and will be presenting at a conference this month. Yet, I did not get interviews from half the schools I applied to and have yet to receive any offers of admission from the other half. I felt like I put my best foot foward and received nothing. I sure would like to know who the ideal candidate is. I felt I really connected with one of the professors at a school I am currently waitlisted at. What made the person who is now enjoying the acceptance more special than me? I also regret not contacting the professors more. I am not the suck up type, but I cannot help thinking that if I had sent a couple of emails I might have gotten an acceptance. Good advice lyonessrampant , but I do not know if I can do this again next year. For those who have received an acceptance, please share your secrets.

AAAAAAAAAAAAH! Reality just hit. I have just spent nearly $3000 of money I don't have for application fees and travel to schools that probably knew they were not going to accept me in the first place. I wasted 3+ years of my life trying to prepare the best application I could by doing things like retaking the GRE and getting extra research experience. All to chase a dream that will not likely happen. I wish I had been smart and went to nursing school or something like it , so I could be like the majority of my friends who are actually starting their lives and saving up to buy houses. AAAAAAAAAAAAH! OK, I'm done freaking out.

I feel like I'm in middle school waiting in the middle of the cafeteria and I haven't gotten an invitation to sit at the "popular" table. 2 Rejections...2 Waitlisted....the rest of the schools I am waiting on are either more competitive than the schools I have already heard from or schools I did not receive an interview for.