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Well, the way I figure it, at least it softens the blow to see "accepted" and "rejected" together at once from Chicago; even if it is the notorious master's program, at least you got into Chicago, right?

I think this stupid snow is burying just about every school I applied to...nothing like prolonging the agony a little more.

I have a similar problem, but the reverse. I am the first person in my family to go to college, and I'm finishing my Master's now at a very good school, so my family is just mystified as to why I am too good to stay at this school for my PhD. They don't understand that getting into a top doctoral program is about as likely as winning the lottery. But, because nobody understands how competitive this is, I feel like I will look like a failure if I don't get into a real "name brand" place because that is all they will recognize.

Being in school AND waiting for application results is just wrong. I don't want to do stuff, I don't want to listen to people, I just want ANSWERS! I'm graduating this May, and that isn't even on my mind. It will only be a stopover, not a real accomplishment.

Well, whoever bet on Illinois was correct. One acceptance up.

Is anyone else getting increasingly terrified to check their inboxes? This is a scary week: emphatic acceptances and equally emphatic NOs.

No Yale for me, either. I was expecting a waitlist perhaps, but outright rejection.

Is anyone here the UPenn admit? What is your field?

I know that last year there were a few people (in agony) on the waitlist for Yale, but maybe they are having a more extensive waitlist this year? Yale waitlist must be like purgatory...

Well, the troubling feeling of doom may have to do with the looming Yale reject-a-thon which is likely to ensue over the next few days.

And this is universally depressing...it seems like most of us have applied to Yale.

That sounds kind of nice right now. I think that was my plan B if I got no acceptances.

I dreamed about Yale last night too, because I was 100% certain that the first acceptance was going to come today. And it did, and no email for me yet. Maybe that first person was just a very early notification; it could be that next week is the big Yale week.

A funny thing happened regarding the Minnesota admit. They said they would send me a funding package in a few days, so yesterday, I got a giant envelope with History written on it. The postmark was in Minnesota. I got myself all excited, then I realized it was from the History Channel. I thought I was going to get input. Oh, and Wisconsin sent me a second small letter to tell me that I was really, really accepted (the grad school approved it). That provided no new information.

So after the Yale history result, and then a Yale person getting rejected via website just now (yes, it was for astronomy, but it still means that the WEBSITE CAN SAY STUFF)... I almost passed out waiting for my rejection, but there's still a whole lot of nothing going on in the website. This is kind of gross. Things need to start happening consistently and quickly before I lose my mind.

University of Wisconsin and University of Minnesota. Minnesota has said that there will be funding, Wisconsin has not said a peep yet.

I got that email too, and I pretty much convinced myself that meant something good, until I realized that NONE of those extra funds even applied to me!

It's weird that nobody seems to get accepted to Chicago on this board considering that they seem to have a slightly higher acceptance rate than the Ivies. I haven't heard anything, but because nobody seems to get accepted, I think I have been thinking that I would not get accepted, either, even though it is probably one of the better fits for my interests.

Yale is a long shot for just about everyone, from what I gather. I'm also modern Europe, but Germany. Is anyone applying to UChicago? I never really hear people talk about it on this board, and I never see anyone get accepted, so I'm beginning to think that their history program is a figment of my imagination.

Are you modern European history?

I honestly have no idea what schools are going to take me. One that I thought for sure would reject me has accepted me, so now what? Anything at all could happen at any time! I don't know, I think a good program admits a few tomorrow....! I am so desperate for information, data, contact, so that I can figure out how the heck I'm going to sell my house and move to wherever.

Yeah, I saw the Stanford too. Last year, several Yale admits came right around this time. I feel like I can't even breathe anymore.

Well, if it makes you feel any better, one of my professors cited Notre Dame as an example of a school that is great but the living conditions are so bad that it just isn't worth it.

That was me, and I'm in modern European history. I got an email from the graduate director saying that I would get funding and travel reimbursement information in a couple of days.

I agree...it seems like the admits to the top programs hear in early or mid-February, and then the rejections come late February to early March. I feel like if I don't hear anything by about the 15th of February, that would be a good reason to worry.