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Please don't shoot the messenger on this one, but I was in touch with the department earlier and she informed me that, 'although official responses can only come from the dean's office, [she could] tell me that all admitted students were already contacted.' Thought that that would be useful to share with those who still haven't heard.

Thanks for sharing (and congrats!) marlowe and ComeBackZinc. Just needed some glimmer of hope to help me get kick-started again. I'm pretty sure the daunting prospect of going through the application process again was sadder than the rejections (which, to be fair, were not surprising).

Congrats to all those who have been accepted and good luck to those still waiting! I know many of you are still wrapped up in hearing from schools this year, but as I've officially been shut out, I'm moving on! I can now see the hundreds of things that I did wrong in my applications. But the one thing that I can't change might be the very thing hurting me the most--my low (let's say 3.4ish) GPA. I managed to somewhat redeem myself by receiving honors for my UK Masters dissertation, but that angry number is still there on my transcripts. My question is: with average GPAs of 3.7 and higher, am I an automatic rejection? I know everything is very cumulative and it's about the overall package, but if anyone is in a similar boat, have you had a successful application? Any insight or reason to be positive again would be greatly appreciated!