tealover

I feel you on this. I am officially tired of waiting... I just want answers so I can get out of admission purgatory.

@Edost, yeah, got the email from University of Pennsylvania. I wouldn't worry about it ... I feel like I could spend the next four to six weeks microanalyzing everything about the admissions process and at the end I would probably only have a nervous breakdown to show for it. At any rate it's not an acceptance which is what we all REALLY want

@Nick, have you been to UW before? What's the campus like?

Certain professors:
"hmm...GPA in UG and Grad school are great. Well written letters are from respectable and known professors. SoP presents a 'sexy' topic in political philosophy. GRE scores are not bad, but could be better. So far I think I like what I see here; now for that writing sample. Ooooo, a paper on a relevant debate in political theory maybe we've got a winner here....
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BURN IT!!!!!! BURN IT!!!! How dare any student dare to attack the conclusions by Leo Strauss on Hobbes! BANISH HIM TO THE REJECTION PILE!!!!!!"

'lets piss on the pile of application files'

Yikes.