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Does anyone know how crucial it is to go to the interview weekend at Duke?

Sorry, I call Penn State "Penn" and University of Penn "UPenn," so I meant Penn State, yes.

Hey there. Congratulations! Buffalo isn't an expensive city. There are student apartments around/near SUNY Buffalo that are pretty cheap/convenient, especially if you're splitting rent/utilities with roommates. If you're pretty conservative with your spending, that should be fine.

9 more apps is still a lot to go. You'll get into a nice school. Sorry, guys. <3

I'm sure this varies school to school, and has a lot to do with how willing the dept is to accept transfer credits. The only school that I looked at that explicitly said they prefered students without an external MA was Penn. Interestingly, they only want incoming students to apply to the MA, so who is applying to their PhD program? Additionally, they encourage students who did an undergrad and masters at Penn to go to another university for their PhD, but an external student with the same degrees wouldn't be wanted? I don't know; someone is smoking crack over there.

I didn't get it either. :/

I feel like this picture pretty accurately describes what is happening to me right now: http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ligkdjdEB61qip3alo1_500.gif

I think you should as well. My friend sent in updated GRE scores as an addendum, even though she's completed all her apps. It couldn't hurt?

You have a death wish.

ONE MORE POST. My boyfriend is trying to keep me off of Grad Cafe. He says if I don't stop obsessively checking it, he is going to block it and reroute the site to porn.

Forget-me-nows.

That is the most interesting concentration I've heard so far. A medievalist with a focus in Italian and Mediterranean merchants and numeric paleography.

No Reddit has been difficult, very difficult.

New season of Skins comes out on the 23 of this month, Timshel! Have you ever watched Misfits? If you haven't, you have to. It's on E4 like Skins, and it is pretty similar in tone and humor but it is science fictiony.

^ I haven't lost hope yet. I actually don't care either way because I will either be 1.) accepted somewhere or 2.) not accepted and I can stay with my awesome boyfriend. Que sera, sera. My friend just got her first rejection from psych schools. Whomp.

That sounds positive.

I love Dexter. You totally should.

You've got a Boggart and it's taking the form of a terrifying Ivy League school.

I'm surprised how few people I've seen applying to UPenn, especially since they have such generous funding.

Don't stress out over GRE. You'd be wasting your time/energy.

I dunno. I'm never embarrassed that I haven't read something. I feel guilty if it's important. I've never read any novel by the Bronte sisters, which is pretty weird/bad, in my opinion.

I think the student ranking would be most important because nothing matters if you can't 1. fund the program or 2. graduate from it.

According to that conversion graph, my quantitative score would have been slightly higher than my verbal.

I'm sure this is right. I've had a lot of friends interviewed over the phone and Skype for grad programs. Most of them were applying to psych and science programs, though.