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Over the next two days, we'll hear news from Harvard and Rutgers. Duke will also finish their rejections.

Yup, definitely! That doesn't make it any easier for us still waiting, but it's understandable.

No, it's not their job. It's a single component of their job, which includes a bunch of other things that take priority over getting admissions decisions out on the applicants' schedules. It is completely normal to send graduate applicants a response on the application anytime between January and April. Professional courtesy includes courtesy from us.

Believe it or not, the people who serve on adcoms are busy. The admissions committee is not the most important thing in their life. Once they are certain that they will not be admitting any more students and they get the paperwork in order, they will notify applicants.

2 Reasons to love the results board:

And additional congrats to StephanieDelacour and DontHate! It's a good day day so far.

You guys get to share an old-timey myspace gif!

First of all, congratulations! That's awesome! If you applied for the PhD, it's for the PhD. I would also say that "in the spring" definitely means this March or April. If you have other questions, don't be afraid to e-mail the DGS those questions!

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Hopefully by the time I write my dissertation I can just put a youtube video in between each paragraph.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqIF8yGtcW8

I think we're done with this one. The tone of this form is so much more civil than 99% of the internet, so it's all cool.

Oh, now you're just trolling.

Sounds like great work! Keep it up. <3 Good luck wherever you end up attending.

Ugh, you'd think people in academia would know that engaging in a debate about race, class, etc. is not an indictor of "thin skin."

I did. Qualifying it doesn't really negate the implications of a statement like that. I don't think there is anything wrong with having a discussion about AA and the role that diversity does or doesn't play in admissions, but it seems very thoughtless to bring it up in response to another user's acceptances.

"The diversity scholarship reference tips me off to what may have been so desirable in her application..." I don't think I'm stretching this one that much.

You may have said that, but responding to her acceptances with "I know why you really got in" is insulting no matter how you justify it. Getting a diversity fellowship doesn't prove that somebody is an AA admit, either. All it proves is that they got the diversity fellowship; of those admitted, they offered the most in that area. I CANNOT STAY MAD AT YOUR PUPPYNOSE ICON, though.

Affirmative action is, indeed, a thing, at least in some places for for some positions. It is a tiny, tiny band-aid on centuries of racial (and other kinds of) oppression. That doesn't make it cool to assume that any person of color who is successful is a recipient of affirmative action, nor is it any of your business if they are. Where it exists, affirmative action only helps when a candidate is already good enough. Lots of people of color apply and get rejected. Your comment was completely disrespectful to Keely's successes.

You are amazing! Congrats!

Congrats!!!!! Did you get an e-mail or just check the website? Mine is still "in review."

Congratulations!!!! Yay!!! I'll send you a PM. We should chat!

Congrats Lisajay! Hopefully it works out!