kinokochan

I threw up a little (literally) when I got an email from the admissions office saying all decisions would be mailed out by March 20th. They wrote saying there was a record number of applicants. They wrote saying the level of competition was high. And I read somewhere on this forum that the school may be cutting acceptances by half due to the economy...all in the same hour! I have convinced myself (and friends and family) of the worst, and I'm already making plans for Plan B, but every day at work I get bursts of freaking out with stomach lurches and nausea, because I think the decision is in my mailbox at the very moment. The letter needs to come really soon or I'm probably going to develop an ulcer! Why can't they just email us our results instead of snail mailing it? The physical manifestation of a rejection is so much harsher than an electronic one.

My life is definitely on pause. I can't apply for new jobs or look for new schools to apply to until I get the results. It stinks!

Hurray for RUPA. I already told my friends and family I had been rejected due to the following things: GPA, only 3.26 officially. Essays, re-reading it made me cringe and want to throw up. Completed application was turned in day before it was due, which isn't my fault (my recommenders forgot about me until the last minute, d'oh), but still. Stupid economy which cut acceptance by probably half with a "record number of applications making it more competitive". I know friends and family only mean well, but whenever they said, oh don't worry, you'll get it for sure! it made me want to scream and tear out my hair! I had to tell them I was rejected because they kept asking me every single day. Now they're off my back and leaving me alone, which is great.

How many of you have one horrific semester that's become an eyesore on your transcript? I sure do. The spring semester before I went on study abroad, I had a terrible time at home. (The semester before I had straight As...sigh.) My parents were threatening divorce and told me if they did divorce I would have to quit school. I had a nervous breakdown, dropped two classes and failed two more, and it brought my GPA down to 3.1 from a 3.6. Thankfully, my parents worked things out and I managed to go abroad, but the grades I got (straight As, no less!) didn't transfer, just the credits, so my sordid GPA didn't go up. D'oh!! I've heard so much conflicting advice on how to deal with that one terrible semester, from explain it before they ask, to ignore it completely....I went with the latter route and didn't address it at all in any of my essays. I figured, well, if they look at it, the semester before I had straight As, and the year after I had straight As...maybe they'll realize what happened?

I have a feeling I didn't get into grad school. My official GPA is only 3.2, looking over my essays all I could do was cringe. The only thing that's good are my recommendation letters...they were written by people who really want me to get in. I just wish they'd hurry up and let everyone know the results already. Some of need to get on with our lives! ;_; Sigh. Sorry for the pessimism but it's been a rather depressing sort of day.

My plan is to start the hellish job application process all over again. Once I applied to 50 different jobs in a row and heard back from none. It was very, very sad. But I can't start the process until I find out the results from the grad school. If the gods of fortune decides to have the grad school accept me, then I can apply to various grad assistant jobs on campus. If not...then...yeah. Craigslist, anyone?

When I emailed a friend about it she said the hiring committee must be sadistic. But do they seriously think someone they just rejected from a job they were perfectly qualified for was going to sit down and fill out 20 different surveys for THEIR benefit? Ha. No.

Thanks. Waiting is hard but it's something everyone has to go through but that doesn't make it any easier on any of us! But yeah, just wanted to make sure my heart doesn't stop just because a letter is barely a page though.

Stale, I know, but I wanted to say I'm very, very nervous about my application and results. I applied to the University of Maryland's Master of Library Science program, for admission in the fall. I submitted my portion of the application back in October but my recommendation writers didn't get around to submitting letters until the day before the deadline, Feb 1. I only applied to this one school, which I'm KICKING MYSELF FOR but at the time I had no other options. It's only Feb 18, only 17 days since the deadline, and I'm getting really antsy. My parents are talking as if I've already been accepted, which drives me absolutely ballistic. I've been checking my mailbox like a crazed lunatic with shaky, clammy hands every day. (Apparently we can only receive results by snail mail; it specifically says in the application status page that results cannot be given over the phone or email.) Anyway...what do rejection/acceptance letters look like? Are they always in a business-sized envelope? Is it usually just one sheet? Are rejection letters smaller than acceptance letters? I once got a rejection letter (from a job) that was like an inch thick...at first I was really excited because I thought I had gotten the job. But once I opened it up, out came all these surveys and things I was supposed to fill out (anonymously) but I just ended up throwing them in the trash in anger. (Immature, yes...) I don't know how long it's supposed to take for them to look things over, but I truly hope to goodness gracious it doesn't take another month and some.