Cheynina

I was attending services on Ash Wednesday while out of town on a business trip. Once services concluded I headed to my car and checked my email. There it was…the decision email I had been waiting for! I called my boyfriend and asked him to open the email and let me know the outcome. After fumbling through usernames, passwords and "where do I click now?" he found the decision. While I was muttering that "I learned so much going through the application process….it's OK if I didn't get accepted" he stopped me and said, "Well, you're going to be disappointed…because you got in!" After almost taking out his eardrum with screams of joy I hightailed it back into the church to offer up a prayer of thanks and gratitude. Moral of the story….sometimes you really do get what you pray for!

Congratulations FutureEdStudent12!! You're so positive and very motivating to so many people on this forum....it's terrific to see great things happen to great people...enjoy the success you so richly deserve...woo hoo!!

I'm 45 years old and have just been accepted to a doctoral program that six months ago would have seemed totally out of reach. I wanted to share this with you to provide a ray of hope that age isn't always a show-stopper or a take-away in the eyes of the adcomms. By the time I've completed my dissertation I'll be in my early 50s (yikes - how'd that happen?) but will hopefully be in a good place to make the transition into academia. Best of luck to everyone who's awaiting decisions!