This is why I love Grad Cafe. No one else would understand why anyone would do this ^^
I spent the two weeks after finals not sleeping AT ALL -up by 8am and asleep by 4am. Geez....
You should check out the Waiting it out thread. There have been quite a few people who have applied to Stanford's PhD that were rejected and then referred to the POLS program.
Penn's decisions are rolling. Some people got decisions last year. They make a decision on your app about 4 weeks from the day your app is complete. I should get a decision any day now. Friday makes 4 weeks for me from when I got their email.
I just checked my decision on UCLA's website and it almost gave me a heart attack because it went from decisions from 2011 are now available to decisions from 2012 are now available. omg.... but my app still said "no decision has been made on your app." sadness...
I logged in and it only said that my app was complete and that "Applications that are complete by our early application deadlines should receive an admission decision by mid-March via email."