dreadadiplomat

Thanks, I feel like it's a semi-miracle since they didn't even wait list me to begin with.

I just posted this on the results page, but after calling University of Kentucky two days ago they seemed somewhat confused about my application because my transcripts were in my maiden name and I applied in my married name but she ultimately said I had been rejected. Because I live here in Lexington and my husband has a good job, I really did not want to move. I emailed the director and a professor I had previously met with and asked them why I had been rejected and if I could at least be considered for the MA program. The prof. emailed me back saying they had a huge applicant pool this year bc of the crappy economy and to give him a few days and see what he could do, he then called me (1 hour later) and said the grad school had screwed up my application thinking I was two different people because of the married/maiden name and that the Graduate school listed me as living in CT and Poli Sci listed me as living in KY, therefore they looked at it as two incomplete applications. Two hours later I get an email from the DGS saying I had been accepted into the PhD program...So this goes to show professors have tremendous pull, and that departments screw up. UK may not be Harvard, but if you feel you got unfairly rejected the least you can do is give a call and find out, it def paid off for me.

I'm glad to not feel alone in this admissions cycle..This is my first post, until now my nervousness has been only shared with my husband. Our situation is very difficult and I wonder if other married couples go through this. We were living in Connecticut and my husband was unemployed for 3 months because of green card issues that wouldn't allow him to work anymore. We ended up having to move to my parents home in a tiny town in Kentucky and this past November he finally got back in status and got a good job in Lexington, KY. I had aspirations for the PhD for a while and originally started out planning to apply to around 10 schools, but seeing how unfortunate his job situation has been I feel like it will be impossible to go anywhere for my PhD except the University of Kentucky here in Lexington. I still applied at other mediocre schools like Vandy and low ranked programs like UT-Knoxville and Cincy, however, because he is the main income provider and seeing how hard it was for him to get a job in the past, I don't want to move again and him have a record of not holding a job for longer than a year. I was just wondering what other married couples go through when their spouse already has a job in the area you are living...especially with so many programs (i.e Indiana) having limited job opportunities for your spouse. This would be so much easier if I were single, but his support is the only thing keeping me sane in this horrible waiting game. I contacted UK about admissions decisions last week and they said they would be emailed this week, but screwing me up is the fact that someone posted they got accepted into UK political science last week...no one had ever even posted on the results page anything about UK Political Science so that made me feel crappy and convince myself it's a fake. Undergraduate GPA: 3.85, IPED & Political Science (low ranked program) Graduate GPA: 3.65 (MA International Affairs) (decent ranked program in NYC) Crappy GRE: 1010, A.W 5.5 Research experience in China & India Two Undergrad theses: South Asian terrorism, Middle East Suicide bombers Worked as Anti-Money Laundering Analyst for multinational bank Intern for Human Rights NGO in NYC