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So for those who also applied to UCLA....I just was looking at the website and it's claiming notifications will not be available until mid-March.......ugh. http://www.history.ucla.edu/academics/graduate/admission-requirements It makes me wonder what the point of the December 1st deadline was.

This might make some people laugh.... http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=346902978661374&set=a.245032212181785.67973.100000250234311&type=3&theater hopefully the link will work

Dont' get discouraged. This whole process is unnerving and nutty, and a total crapshoot. The factors involved are too many to even imagine.

Lol. I wish I knew! I wish I knew what they were saying about all of us! But just seeing that pending link still is a bit of a killer. From what I understand, they do a combination of both, but usually, there is an email followed by snail mail.

I think I may have...I can't remember. All I know is that, apparently, the committee met exactly one week ago today and made decisions last Friday. We *should* be hearing back soon. Unless we were all rejected........

It says in small grayish letters right beneath the link. And I was wrong. The count was for solely today. Kill me. But maybe wait until I've been notified officially.

Apparently, when I type in grad cafe to google, it tells me that I've visited this page 138 times in the past two days. Something is seriously wrong. I'm nuts? I'll concede to that.

Stupid question: did you name yourself after Osiris? If so, it would be even more amazing if you were studying to do Egyptology. I geeked out last night by watching that horrible movie with Brendan Fraser in it....

I doubt it means that. Perhaps it means you've been considered for a fellowship!

I understand. Speaking of schools, I just got another email from Wisconsin. This time it was about the change to federal loans...ugh. Any of the other Wisconsin applicants get this email?

But you still have so many others so do like the Brits and chin up, chin up!

"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it." -W.C. Fields Food for thought??

Wow. If you were in an "Ivy" pile, then I'd expect you'll get into an Ivy! But yes, what does the "Ivy" pile mean exactly? And if you don't mind...what school was it?

So none of the other Wisconsin applicants have heard?

Hello. Yes, I was a lurker. And am still just lurking about...

That's reasonable. I can't really afford to go without funding as well. Grad school is pretty expensive.

But in all honesty, it's probably better to just get in before it gets worse, since the competition and lack of funding seems to only increase with every passing application cycle.

Agreed. It sucks. We'll just have to see where we get in and what we're offered....

Maybe both? It can be taken either way. The suspense is killing me.

I wonder if this is bad that we got notifications about financial aid........

I don't think that an acceptance without funding is really a rejection since most state schools are experience economic hardships and have had their funding really cut. There are only so many endowments to go around, and they have to honor prior commitments (like those who won multi-year packages in the past years).

Well from what I understand, the funding is in the forms of various external fellowships, RAships, TAships, and project assistantships. Only a few are excepted with full multi-year funding projects, so most end up with a sort of combined thing of external funding and some financial aid. It's sad to also hear that FLAS was slashed 50%.

I got it January 13. Try checking around that date.

It was just an email prompting you to fill out the FAFSA...let me search my email to see when I got it so you can check yours.

Also for the all the Wisconsin applicants -- did you guys all get emails about financial aid in early January?