OnceAndFutureGrad

There are four of us now! I strongly suspect that we will not hear about interviews until the last possible minute. Zoltan and I both heard about our semi-finalcy on the last day. I bet that all the snow did a number on the committee/board/whatever's planning meetings and they are struggling to catch up still. Let's pass the time by introducing ourselves! I bet we'll be working together this summer I applied to Medieval Art and Arms and Armor. I'm about to finish an MA in Medieval Studies and I have a BA in Medieval Studies and History. I volunteer at the Higgins Armory in Worcester, MA. My parents live on a NJTransit line to the city, so if when I get the internship I'll move home for the summer and commute in. How about you?

Yes. This. I got rejected from my second CT school today, meaning that I have no choice but to leave CT and come closer to my mother, and she was excited about that. Thaaaaanks.

Eh, I'm of two minds on this issue. Last time around I was half rejected by this point and about to get another rejection and waitlist (which turned into an acceptance). THAT sucked. A lot. While it's frustrating now to have silence apart from one early rejection, in some ways I prefer holding on to possibilities. I do wish that adcoms would streamline this process, though.

I am interested in the clash and fusion of cultures in early northern Europe and the generation of origin legends and identity there.

There's more than enough information in the Art History subforum, particularly this thread: Personally, my art history info is in my signature. No acceptances so far, but hope springs eternal.

It means that the POIs I visited in October told me that I'd be hearing from them at the end of January or beginning of February and wellll... The best case scenario is, of course, that our POI calls us as soon as s/he opens our application and says "By golly, we'll take you and pay for it too!" Those of us who've recently posted to this board are clearly not in this position, so consider the WORST case scenario: our application doesn't even make it to our POI; the DGS or the administrative assistant (!) takes one look at our GPA, GRE, or whatever, laughs, and puts us in the "REJECT!! And Tell 'Em Now So They Stop Bugging Us" pile. I would know, last time around I had three rejections before was even expecting to hear from a school! No, making it to the end of February means that we are not worthless. We're not hot-shot first pick superstars, but who cares? It's happened where people who look best on paper are actually not able to cut it in a graduate academic environment. (And just look at sports to see how many first-round draft picks of yesteryear aren't even remembered now, whereas some of our favorite players only barely made it to the major leagues.) I'm not going to lie and say "Just hold on, you'll get in somewhere!" but I will say that not hearing from a school at this point doesn't mean that you have been rejected and they just haven't told you yet. Grad schools, like employers with too many applicants, WANT to get rid of you as quickly as possible. It's not over 'til it's over, no rejections until rejected!!

Ditto in art history for me. There are so many stories on Waiting It Out and the blogs about people who were just absolutely sunk...and then they got a fully funded acceptance!! Or three!!! I'm hoping that you and I both have that dramatic turnaround, but every day makes it seem more certain that we have been sunk.... Hang in there, ok?

Still waiting for 6 of 7 here. In time, in time...! Planning for plan B is a great way to distract yourself, however.

UFGator, my top choice began sending out notifications (rejections as well as acceptances) SIXTEEN DAYS AGO. I count every day where I don't mangle the F5 on my inbox since then as a good day.

I haven't heard anything, and zoltan and I have made a blood oath agreed to tell each other if we heard something.

LATINA VIVIT! No point being a nudge about it though

Thank you skeedy. I want to bundle up all the well-wishing on GradCafe (and my reputation!) and add it to my applications. "See? SEE?!? You'll be disappointing SO MANY GRADCAFE USERS if you don't let me in!!"

Medieval art historians seemed to be rarer than hen's teeth around here...but there's a post by one on the results board and I occasionally bump into others elsewhere. Come on out and show your medieval art love! Where did you apply and with whom do you want to work? What's your background? I am waiting to hear from: Robert Maxwell at Penn Nino Zchomelidse at Princeton Larry Nees at UDel Marvin Trachtenburg at NYU IFA Holger Klein at Columbia Alicia Walker at WUSTL I have a History and Medieval Studies BA and I am earning an MA in Medieval Studies.

And chocolate! So far I have one rejection in hand and radio silence from five others. My current school has not yet met but the funds are tight (said explicitly by adcom professors). Three of the silent schools have given some results to others (but none in my subfield), and two are just...silent.

I read your blog! Congrats! Send some of that luck along, newms!

In 2009 I applied to six PhD programs. I decided to comb through the results page and my LiveJournal archives to reconstruct what things looked like last time, if only to console myself that schools this time 'round are less trigger-happy to reject me! This time last time (Feb 19) I had an e-mail rejection from Yale and two of those ominous little letters in the mail from Notre Dame and Harvard. So I was 0 for 3, with only 3 schools left! Yikes! Where were you on this date last time?

Hahaha snes! My first rejection (and only reply so far) was from the one school that I also got rejected from last time. So it's like...it doesn't even count!