mathelicious

Schools get an electronic update every two weeks. So, if you happen to request on the day of the update, then it will be two weeks (10 working days) for the scores to reach the university. The university is then responsible for forwarding the scores to the departments and depending on the efficacy of the university this could take about another month or so.

I've long given up on using my work to distract me. But I am into the whole (half) lying to myself thing. I tell myself that I haven't heard because they are still trying to work out funding issues. This usually buys me a couple of days (until I come here and see that someone else has been accepted with funding). Then I tell myself that there was some reason that they were accepted instead of me (they're applied - while I'm theoretical, they were denied university funding - while I'm still in the running, even...the department knew they weren't comming so they wanted to hold that spot for me - in case the university funding doesn't work out). Surprisingly, this actually buys me another couple of days... When I'm not out of touch with reality, I distract myself by cooking these elaborate - Martha Stewart style - made for at least six people meals (fortunately my department is full of hungry grad students).