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Has anyone still not gotten their Harvard letter? I am afraid they have forgotten me and I will be deprived of my Harvard stationary

Just an automated email from the website with a form rejection. It IS like playing the lottery; it makes no sense.

Got my rejection just now...I guess the waiting was for naught.

I still haven't heard back...It looks like I'll probably get the website rejection today.

Hi Coffee Curls1! I am a Victorianist, and recently got an offer from Indiana--Bloomington that I will definitely be turning down. I am currently waitlisted for a first-year funding package, and was guaranteed a TAship after that for five years. Hopefully my spot goes to you! I haven't officially turned down the offer, but I will soon.

I emailed too! And I've heard nothing.

I just got that email. A little offended.

Crazy! I didn't receive anything and I even emailed Gordan Braden this afternoon to inquire about my status. I am assuming that I will be rejected soon, because it seems that the hold-up was probably for the MA.

Hey all, I just received an email accepting me to the PhD program with the info that I am wait-listed for a first-year fellowship. So it looks like they are still sending out acceptances. Good luck to all!

....wait, has there really only been one reported acceptance for UVA on the results board? Or am I missing something?

While I have written off the rest of the schools I have not heard from as implicit rejections, it occurred to me today that there are still seven schools from which I have not officially heard. Seven! That's a lot. Half of the schools I applied to. All of these schools have sent out acceptances, however, and some have even sent out some rejections (which I very likely could receive soon). I think a lot of us are in this strange boat, it seems. Do we think a lot of schools have "unofficial waitlists" and they wait to reject the rest of applicants until they've heard back from the first batch that they accepted? That seems like the only reasonable/humane explanation for waiting so long to send out rejections. I am more curious than anything else. What does everyone think?

Haha, worry not Trip Willis, I am a 19th century person, so you need not recuse yourself.

Is anyone else feeling totally at a loss for how to decide between programs? At the moment, I am leaning towards Rutgers, because they gave me a superior financial package. Does anyone have any general advice for how much to 'follow the money'? I really like all the programs I've been accepted into and there's not one I like wildly over the others.

I am right there with you, Trip Willis. I'll let myself hope for the rest of the afternoon, but then I am going to put a stop to the nonsense.

WHATT. So I guess it's today then. Congrats Hazel!

and they definitely accepted a bunch of people...

I was just having the same debate with myself. It definitely is weird, especially since a lot of Grad Cafe people were accepted at Columbia and Princeton. And no one has claimed that accept post.....I suppose time will tell.

Just one acceptance?

UGH. I was worried about this. After I submitted my application, I was like, "wait....was I supposed to write separate SOPs?" Misery. I was hoping that you didn't actually also have to be one of the four people accepted into the MFA program and that they would let you do the MFA on the sly. Haha. Yeah, right.

It does seem that way. Ugh. I think Cornell is the only program that has the power to break my heart (at least a little).

At least when you apply to the joint-program you can get into either the PhD or the MFA. I don't know how strong my MFA application was, since it was the only MFA I applied to this year. I feel the same way, bdon19 and rainy_day! I wish they'd just let everyone know at the same time. The worst (obviously) are the implicit rejections. At this point, I just want everyone to notify so that I can assume rejection at the places I haven't heard from, and start thinking about the places I actually got in.

NO ONE FREAK OUT. NOT AN ACCEPTANCE POST. I am just really anxious to hear back from Cornell--it's (sort of) my top choice. It feels like they are taking forever. Does anyone else feel this way? Or perhaps all of the waiting has truly addled my mind. I also applied to the MFA/PhD--did anyone else?

I am totally in this thread. I have no idea how I am going to decide between the programs to which I have been accepted, and it's completely putting me on edge that I still have places to hear back from. Ugh.

It seems like they always wait to the very end of the day...

The Michigan weekend is from the 29th to the 30th of March, I believe.