modscealpymare

I was notified yesterday that I'm on the waitlist at MN.

Well gang, you've finally brought me aboard after several weeks of increasingly compulsive lurking. This is indeed a timely thread, at least for me, for after having had a rather wretched run of luck with 8 other schools, I have at last been tossed a bone from U of MN, where I am now waitlisted. Wait listed? Wait-listed. Enlisted to wait. And waiting is what I'm doing, albeit with dwindling patience (I'm still awaiting word from one more school, but we're putting our house on the market this very week, and my longsuffering wife is wondering in what state she should begin applying for work). The question which I submit to your collective wisdom is this: how appropriate/helpful would it be to trouble MN for information regarding just where on the list I am? Is this done? Does it matter? Does anyone else find it difficult to dismiss the faint fear that such queries merely antagonize overworked and potentially-vengeful office staff?