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Just got an e-mail back....rejected. Of course I am not surprised, but that will teach me to hold out hope again!! Haha. Have you heard back from anyone else yet antecedent?

Sorry everyone It seems like at this point they only have rejections left to hand out. My status is STILL "In Review"--how long do you think I should wait before I e-mail Dr. Lesser to see what's going on? I was going to wait until Friday if I still hadn't heard anything.

Words, I have discovered, are like embers. They smolder. They drop to the bottom of our souls, where for years they give off only a modest heat, and then out of nowhere a life-wind suddenly whips up and the words burst into red-hot, spirit scorching flame. Does language contain history the way plywood contains flight? Are we bruised each day by syllabic collisions, our spirits slashed by combinations of vowel and consonant? At a cocktail party, say, or at a ball game, or at our daughter's wedding, would you feel Death slide between your ribs if someone were to utter the name of your ex-husband? Can a color cause bad dreams? Can a cornfield make you cry? Do we irradiate language by the lives we lead? Both Tim O'Brien. Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night. Rilke.

No, I haven't heard anything!! I'm going mad over here considering all the possible meanings for the silence. Of course, I'm sure it's most simply that I've been rejected and haven't heard for some odd reason, but your guys' well wishes mean so much to me!!! I really, REALLY want to be at UT (I'm sorry to sound so bitchy/thoughtless when you guys have gotten rejections, I feel bad for even posting this), but I'm hoping this agony turns into something positive. GRR! I just want to know, because once I hear from UT I can finally stop obsessing over this whole process (it is really the only school I care about in the end).

I feel the same way, but it's still nice to indulge in the minute sense of hope I'm harboring.

If Dr. Lesser is, indeed, the only one inputting recipients for these emails (which I find highly unlikely, but possible), it might just be taking some time. But, as mentioned, that's probably highly implausible. The alphabet theory seems to have fallen to the wayside, so my only other analysis is that perhaps stacks of apps were handed to members in our respective fields, and as they get around to sending out the emails on behalf of Dr. Lesser that's when they show up in our inbox. For example, I believe the past two posters were both Brit Lit concentrations, and both received notification relatively close in time to one another. I don't want to extend my negativity unto you Rupert, but I feel like whoever has my application in his or her stack probably has not gotten around to notifying the people in it...what is your field of interest? Not that it is logical or helpful to continue in this guessing game, but it does pass the time with some sense of productivity.

I am so sorry guys Gosh darn you UT, if only you knew how much we all wanted to bask in your collegiate glory and let you mold us into academic rockstars, you'd have let us in immediately. No word for me, but I'm scared because I've got to be next.

I've been repeating, "Nobody likes me, everybody hates me, guess I'll go eat worms" in my head quite a bit recently.

Really? This makes me feel a little better...but I still think those monkeys ate my dossier or something similarly monstrous. I'm rooting for everyone still left! This is just plain awful, and I hope people are more optimistic about the silence than I am. I'm so used to the rejections, another wouldn't phase me. Are we all Rhetoric hopefuls?

HaruNoKaze I'm so sorry I really hope you make it into the philosophy program...I also considered applying to it, but knew I would just be frivolously throwing money away in paying the app fee. I can't believe I haven't heard anything from UT yet...I swear I think it's because they lost my file, or something goofy like that is going on. I've been flat out rejected from four schools far, FAR less prestigious that Texas, so I'm honestly not holding my breath.

I'm just a few letters ahead of you, so I'll post if/when I find out. I'm also a Rhetoric hopeful and I thought maybe the department was just lagging, but given that impending got a rejection today and was also a rhet person, I've given up on that lambent hope.

As am I. You've not received notice yet, correct? If so, I think they've got to be doing it alphabetically. I literally just received an e-mail from another program rejecting me--a sign if anything as I'm writing this response.

They're really prolonging my agony over here.... still nothing. Sigh. I'm trying to place some faith in the fact that this might mean something out of the ordinary (aka not a flat out rejection), but they're probably just doing things alphabetically. That or they lost my app and decided it wasn't even worth looking for.

NOOOOO!! I'm so sorry antcedent :( I've still got no word, but I assume I'll be receiving the same response.

Yayyy! I was TRYING to tell you this yesterday in my post about our respective departments maybe not being on the same time schedule as the lit part of the PhD, hence the crickets in our inbox. I know we are going to get some positive news this week, we have to! Also, nothing to do with UT, BUTTTT...I logged onto my bank account this morning and saw a check was cashed on Tuesday by my other top choice program (though UT is really my Disneyland) and it makes me think decisions for them are coming out this week too!! AHHHHHH!!! I can't. Now I know how you felt when Madison/Austin were scheduled to notify during the same week.