Avalanched

I'm praying really hard for this theory!

I think I may be able to infer three implied rejections in one day based on this site (USCal, UC Boulder, Cornell). I really wish I had friends on this stupid island so I could get a hug and tell me that this website lies to me

Thank you for this! I don't know how it helps but somehow my empty portal looks more hopeful than it did a couple hours ago Many many congratulations to you!!!! That's so fantastic that you got that fellowship!!

In that lovely limbo where my portal says nothing but my phone hasn't rung. Were you the acceptance on the results board? Did the DGS call you or your POI, and did you get the Dornsife?

Ah yeah I should have specified. I went to South Carolina for my lit MA and got used to "USC" in application circles *never* meaning Carolina, so I'd just call it "SC"! I saw the acceptances and chuckled that they're still using the post

Anyone else check their USC portal after one poster said they'd received their rejection letter from a random check? Anything there? Mine is empty, but I can't decide if that's a good sign or if the Graduate Office is simply taking some time to upload them all. *crosses fingers nervously*

Yep, there's the Stanford rejection. See my earlier post.... #soulwrecked

Yeah Stanford has taken on a symbolic as well as practical signifance for me (long story), so the lack of a phone call has me in serious straights. But maybe the weekend will produce a happy phone call. Or not. I keep telling myself I don't care so if a rejection comes, I'll have practiced telling myself that I don't care. It's a lie. I care. And when it comes over to Toronto and Cornell and Yale, less symbolic significance, but I'm worried I'll be back in the same place of trying not to care. Heh, I'm probably driving my uni's counseling center nuts with my anxiety. I wonder when they're gonna cut me off...

Thirded. I've never seen this in previous years but I keep flipping out a little every time I see a new post before realizing it's an erroneous post.

I'd also appreciate any information from the Stanford poster-- that response is crazy significant for me

I sent a part of my MA thesis, which analyzes the neurological mechanisms of physical pain (as they were understood by 18th century physicians both in the Royal Society and on the Continent) with respect to Adam Smith's theory that physical pain is ultimately outside the scope of moral sympathy. Both suggest that physical pain is ultimately inaccessible to anyone expect the poor ass who stubbed his toe or caught gout, ergo the sentimental texts don't rely on physical discomfort (i.e. no more arrows through eyeballs as in Homer but instead broken hearts and bad manners.) I took whatever came of that and flung it against Samuel Richardson's Clarissa--wall, meet spaghetti--in the full thesis, to go on about narrative subjectivity, but I only submitted the part that dealt with the neurological theories and Smith's moral sentiments for my writing sample. And @JessicaLange et al., luckily MA theses are already in the LoC, so I already have dibs At least that's what I tell myself when the paranoia creeps in about idea-thieves!

Yes!! Mine includes: "All the odds are/ in my favor/ someday I'm bound/ to get in!"

-- Make your own version of "Maybe This Time" from Cabaret.

I actually went back through the year to figure out if Berkeley was a "wave" response or an "all-at-once" response, and they seem to notify all of their accepted candidates on the same day each year, wait list a few days or so later, and the rejections after that. I have hope beyond all rational hope that I'll find an acceptance email sitting in my junk folder. (It's not. I checked it twice.) But after the wait list notifications go out, it's probably safe to call Berkeley an implied rejection and go drag my broken heart through a tub of ice cream

One thing to consider is your recommenders if you hope to continue on to a US PhD-- will you have three people who can recommend you strongly from a UK MA, or will you have to fall back onto your BA profs? The latter is dodgy always, and I've heard that the former will definitely not be possible by the December of your entry year (if it's a 1 year program), so you'd have to wait until the following fall to apply (which would work better re recommenders if it's a 2-3 year MA program.) Recommenders are a small part perhaps, but a part that ends up affecting your PhD apps like crazy in the US! (I know from bad experience!)

Yep! This.

I simply cannot resist repeating a sentiment echoed by many here: I think I'm losing my damn mind!! Come on, adcoms! Some of us feel like retching on a consistent basis over here. Let's hear it, whatever it is. /neuroticism (= a complete lie. Who am I kidding )

Doodle poll?

To the people who posted about Chicago-- were you interviewed prior to this acceptance? Just curious so I can cement my implied rejection *eye-roll/sigh*

It's February now. Will all the schools *please* just put me out of my waiting-misery NOW?

Been a lurker here so far, but couldn't help sharing my excitement about my first acceptance-- OSU ??

I'd also be curious about the insider perspective for 18th century Brit.

I wonder what it means if we haven't heard anything at all. Possibly no news is bad news?

Ugh a wait list just went up on the board. And here I was hoping for a relaxing weekend while UT got its act together...

I'm one of the rejections-- I just checked the Apply Yourself website. Mine didn't appear until a day or two after people started posting their rejections, so keep checking. It'll be a link at the bottom of the main page after you log in.