Ironheel!!

Good luck with the final decision!

Thanks Penelope.

Congrats to those who have heard back and received acceptance! I was curious, is anyone still waiting for Oregon, Umass, Uconn, Brandeis, Temple? I know a couple of these schools have yet to finalize but has anyone had any contact with the departments that would care to share some information?

Goodluck, not to be a jerk, but independent research is part of the process of graduate school. Its Georgetown, the simple "eye-test" should suffice to suggest that its competitive.

Shakedown Street-Grateful Dead Song for the Dumped- Ben Folds Five Sooner or Later One of Us Must know- Bob Dylan Please Please Me- the Beatles "You Will. You? Will. You? Will. You? Will." -Bright Eyes Coming Up Roses- Elliott Smith And any, and all Yo La Tengo!

Just continued department to College basketball program connections. I think I'm more excited about the prospect of tickets...

The plea is tell the damn Adcom at Illinois your going to Ohio State because the Illini got wooped in the game lastnight, thus getting Adorno an offer!

Oregon rejection? Anyone want to claim? I just checked my status, no change...which is total f-ing par so far this cycle. Also, if the Oregon applicant is around, care to share field.

You can only go to one school! Hang in there. Didn't you apply to 21 schools (I think I remember seeing that somewhere)?

This is when you know youre crazy! I had a dream that Robert Art called me about being accepted to Brandeis...

Congrats Balderdash!

You pay the application fee and put time into the application you deserve to receive a decision! I'm waiting on the types of schools you describe but I'll be more than happy to come off a waitlist in March if it comes down to that. Whats next, pleas for people whohave secured admissions at at 50ish school to withdraw from a 70ish school. Also, remember, people may be limited by location (sucks, but it can play a factor-it does for me in a small way) also, as we have seen, not every great school has great funding. Some of the mid-tier actually fund quite well and may be helpful for some to negotiate better packages. But I still stand by the thought that you put the time and effort into each application, get a result and then make a decision!

So you're the Umass admit! Congrats! Jesus, I'm still waiting on them to make a decision on my application.

I won't go to any school where the basketball benches are on the endlines and below the surface of the floor, also i was rejected.

Thanks for the post.

I feel like I'm on waitlist island and will get my only acceptance on April 14th. As for work, I only wish mine was school work...You can't scoff at a UT acceptance, great town, great school, and you'll have a great time if that where you end up!

Its very interesting to see people wrapping up this cycle, I have literally heard from one of the 8 schools I applied to. This is supremely frustrating. I know a couple are in a similar situation, anyone else out there in this situation and has the excitement of phd applications waned. I know four of the eight have not made final decisions so its just very difficult to get to up or down about anything. I have too much f-ing work to do and can not focus!

As Arlo Guthrie sings in Alice's Restaurant, "Kill, kill, kill!"

Thank you. A bit of a reach for me I think, but you never know...I'm guessing Brown is probably out for you given the other schools you were admitted too, so maybe there is hope yet!

Did anyone actually get accepted to Brown? I saw the waitlisters but have seen no other activity...

Thanks for the input everyone. I went ahead and sent the updated version out, I know that 2 of the schools I applied (brandeis and Temple) are meeting next week(s) (emailed confirmation from DGS if anyone is also waiting on those schools), and other schools such as Umass and Uconn I have heard zippo from despite the Umass rejections. If im waitlisted, maybe they'll look favorably on it. Who the hell knows at this point!

I like Taft. He scored an incredible 27 on the 18th hole at Kebo Valley Golf Club in Bar Harbour, Maine. There is a plaque on the tee-box to commemorate his terrible play.

I just received notice that my paper was accepted to a conference. Should I email the DGS a new CV? I have only heard from one school (a Vandy reject!) but have 7 more applications pending. Anyone know what the protocol is in this situation? Thanks!

Thats what its all about!

Cool. I had a seminar in Terrorism/counter last year (had never done much in the subject) and was facinated and scared out of my mind each week! I ended up doing my seminar paper on US State Department policy on State sponsor surrounding the split of Sudan. Really interesting growing field, good luck!!