TripWillis

I will pray to lord god Xenu if it gets me into Harvard.

Off the heels of your post, I remembered to go ahead and decline Buffalo. Hope that helps some lucky Am Studies scholar!

I have to say, my biggest is concern at this point is this: what if April 15th rolls around and I have to accept CUNY, but then Rutgers contacts me after and says I'm in? How does one decline after accepting and what are the consequences?

Thanks Cquin! Bdon -- my status has not changed. I wish I had more specific info about where I am on the waitlist...

That is a tough call; go to the one with partial funding and try to get funding for the following year? Or, go to the funded one and try to transfer? Hmm...

This is such an awesome post. April 15th can't come soon enough.

So, um... unless that first acceptance posted was their 1 person cohort, they appear to be late this year. I wonder if President's Day weekend threw a wrench in things. I feel like we should expect to hear today.

This is exactly my train of thought; I feel that if someone can get into Rutgers, with how competitive it is, there is a good chance that at least some of them are also getting offers from Columbia, Princeton, Harvard, Yale, etc. The question seems to be simply numbers; how far up the waitlist am I? Will any af-am people decline? The guy said "close to the top." He also said he'd be calling throughout the month to keep me informed. I mean... that all sounds... promising. At the same time, I really don't want to get my hopes up.

All of this. First of all, that first paragraph is part of my thesis; David's sort of inclusive/exclusive relationship with this ragtag gay "community" (if it can be called that); second, his increased status as masculine gay male. There's more, but I can't really go into it. But yes, I also hated David. And Hella.

I really hope Rutgers happens. I have a very good feeling.

It's amazing how much interpretation I am applying to my acceptances v. declines and other people's. Like, I got rejected from Maryland and Davis, but I'm waitlisted at Rutgers. And then I see people who have the reverse, where they get into Davis and Maryland, but get rejected from CUNY and Rutgers. I mean, in terms of general quality of program, that just doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Why do CUNY and Amherst REALLY want me, Rutgers kinda want me, and Davis and Maryland not want me at all? Where is the logic in that? Different kinds of ad-coms? Different pool of applicants? Then I know I shouldn't think that because it's more about fit and, really, most of the programs in the top 25 are very similar in quality. So strange that these schools can have such a wide array of opinions about me. WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?

I think people who have been accepted on this forum (me included) need to avoid putting it in 0-fer's faces from now on. I know none of us are intending to make people more stressed and angry, but we're doing it. Let's try to only show up in 0% if we want to support our friends. That said, I know a lot of us who have been accepted still have a lot of legitimate concerns up in the air: Will I get into my top-choice/dream school? How do I decide now that I've gotten into a couple of places? Why do we continue to desire acceptances so much after getting accepted? Does getting rejected a bunch after getting accepted mean that the first programs made a mistake and we're really no good at all? And where do I go to celebrate when I get acceptance number 4? That's my vision for this thread. Go to town.

Thanks Marlowe. And joega.

I think you should totally still think about the big rig.

Well, I certainly wouldn't have blanketed the sex in such heavy coding. That said, it's a remarkable novel.

There's the positive thinking (no joke, as soon as I adopted this new "pos thinking" approach, I immediately got waitlisted. Cool.)

Thanks SP!! Gosh, the people on this board are just so awesome and supportive. So glad I found this place.

At least you have Duke to keep you warm. Jealous. Did you ever hear about funding from CUNY?

*bump* Just got my first waitlist at one of my DREAM programs. The e-mail said I'm "close to the top." I wonder if I would be déclassé to ask specifically where...

Thanks arrivé!

You are 100% right.

Pulling for you bdon! BTW, does anyone have any idea what funding is like at Rutgers?

hanover -- when is the day? I do want to go. It's really cool to have another NYC-area (well, sort of... in more ways than one (waitlist/new jersey)) option!

15 minutes later the third implicit became a waitlist at RUTGERS. Wow.

WOW! I just got waitlisted! The week of pain and suffering just got much better! It said my name is "close to the top." I do wonder if a lot of people hear that...