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On the contrary, I don't care what the criteria are (unless it was killing babies or something). For $30k x 3, I would be happy to accept it regardless, haha.

No NDSEG for me either... and that is my last year I can apply (I think). I swear, if it is my undergrad grades still screwing me, that is quite ridiculous since I had 4 semesters of graduate grades to hand them to outweigh them. The only other thing is if my statement wasn't good enough. Ah well, at least my fiancée will have a job here shortly so I won't be poor. Time to be a kept man for the next 3 years.

Is using power tools while refreshing this page on my phone a safe practice?

I was going by percentages, not total awardees.

Also consider the percentage of acceptances per discipline. If we had 100 aerospace engineers in here you would expect roughly 20 acceptances. With something like biology, you expect less than 10. It is hard to judge.

I am starting to regret even checking this forum again for this thread. I probably should have just waited it out in ignorant bliss because waiting like this, regardless of the outcome, is worse.

Nah. At least today is Monday so we are promised an identically nerve-racking day tomorrow if it ends like Friday did.

They only do that to sharks...

Clearly the trolls are now on to phase 2: inundating the ASEE offices with phone calls so no one can work thus further delaying the release of the rest of the decisions.

Well that was constructive.

Refreshing it with reckless abandon, I might add.

Filling out a purchase order to get an array of plasma actuators, trying to finish this bit of homework, studying for quals... not much of it is actually getting finished.

I won't argue that.

Of course they said that Friday as well. I think we all just need to take a step back and take a deep breath.

The difference being that the running theory here is that not all of that "first round" has been sent out yet. Usually they give a week to decide for the first round people and then when they get all their responses they send out a second round to the people who are next on the list now that spots have opened up. This time it sounds like they only sent out a portion of the original group. That is how I have interpreted this anyway.