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If you've applied to New York, that will be a problem. I have been ignoring the numbers from states I didn't apply to.

Took in a stray husky mut that wandered into my job six months ago. I'm looking for near the ghetto with hardwoods please, but not so near that I dodge bullets...oh I'd say...weekly?

Considering that UCR has never posted an acceptance before March 20th (historically,) that seems rather odd. UCR is my reach school, so I may as well post my rejection now. That school is a snowball’s chance for the academic elite, and my conferences are a joke—I’ve never been published. But that’s why people buy lottery tickets. UCR is the dream. KU accepted nobody, which you see happen in yearly cycles on this board. One year everybody on the board gets in, next year nobody. Last year everybody got in… And I’m becoming addicted to the results board. You think after eight rejections last year I’d be used to it. I don’t think I like the word NO anymore this year than I did last year. I have to wait another five weeks for my UCR rejection, and then all the other decisions come rolling in. And YES Grunty, I completely agree. FYI-ME-Romantics (Specifically female authors from birth of novel to mid Victorian)

Kansas has ruined my day. A black-black day it is. Nine bullets left in the gun. PSHEW miss...

Had my first panic attack of the year yesterday, one week before my first school reports. Time for the ole’ application valium I pull out of the back of the medicine cabinet. Do not mix with alcohol? Easy for you to say pill bottle, your life isn’t on the line here. We are all amazing and we will all get in!

marlowe23, timshel, lolopixie, and I. NC is dominating this thread...

I know lolo is talking about Coral Gables, no need to worry. Is it Keys or Quays? I hate odd words I don't understand. UCR or Kansas for me. Resources at both are just what I need for my research, but in round two I'll take any university that wants me for a thousand Alex. (Do do do do do do do do do do do- DAILY DOUBLE)

I heart Queequeg! That mofo knows how to have a good time. Could leave the pika though...

HAHA we went in oposite directions, I sent them my fourteen pager.

Yeah, and I tried to transport it into a word document to make it look more cohesive, and found that it produced the opposite effect. I altered the printing parameters in order to make the damn thing legible.

Everyone needs their two minutes of hate. Especially during the application process.

Has anyone else contacted their faculty members yet? I'm trying to go on a visit.

I’m pretty sure I misunderstood and did it wrong. It’s on my list of things to call about. I calculated my junior and senior GPA for another application, so I just input the number. They’ve got a huge packet from me with everything they could ever dream of knowing. Short of putting myself in a fedex box, I can’t think they really need anything else.

B rate schools are B rate schools anywhere rawera—north or south. I attended UNCC, a lower tiered state school at best, and I haven’t been taught by a single PhD that didn’t get their degrees at Cornell, Harvard, or Berkley. If you’ve heard of stupid southerners in a program, well I know a stupid northerner or two (one with a Fulbright). Why do you consider yourself some sort of authority on the tempo and academic current of southern education? Anecdotal evidence, indeed. We also got that thar Chap’l Hill place with them churches and the jewelry stores. My mama Ann thinks that stuff fancie, I tell you.

I just sent UF a fourteen page seminar paper. They were vague, what can you do? But I sent them in a separate SOP that was properly formatted. When I went to the “check application” tab before submitting, the SOP that they let me view had all the indentions removed—obnoxious. I’m just going to call the GD in a week and make sure everything is up to par.

I have folders on my desktop for every school. Left column is the done pile, right is to do. I have two huge spreadsheets with every bit of information on them, and I tack little notecards next to the front door with reminders. Bought my first flash drive just to backup stuff. 2012 here I come!

Half-way through Robert Jordan's WOT for the second time. About to read the Brother's complete fairy tales.

I am playing PS3, Netflix, and constantly looking for February schools to add to my list. Staying up till one in the morning with me ole’ buddy lo, commiserating.

I check it once every week or so, on the regular. By February I expect to be checking it five or six times a day.

Thank you timshel, you just saved me twenty minutes of yelling at my computer.

I put the four most spread out schools on my app list so that they would be able to see my willingness to go anywhere for a program. I have no idea if this is the right mentality though.

Well scratch UIC, because the letters had to be in the packet. Thanks profs 1 and 3, I didn't really want to go to a great Romantics program anyway. I had forgotten that the LOCs are the worst part of the application process.

Lolo, enjoy your nap. You deserve it.

Four done, five to go!

And thanks rainy, that's good advice. I'll practice my wrath.