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@pato I hate this so much. Sending the best.

@deshypothequiez I applied to MCC; haven't heard anything, but I'm confident that one will be a rejection.

@pato and @twin35 I'll be there! Also waitlisted, but for media studies.

Anyone else here apply to Utah? According to last year's results, tomorrow should be the day they send out acceptances. A bundle of nerves over here! Going into this cycle my top two (they're always switching places!) have always been Utah and Minnesota. Minnesota waitlisted me, so hopefully at least one of my top choices will take me outright. I think Utah is a little less difficult to get into, so hopefully that will work in my favor... Good luck to anyone else who applied there!

@whitmanifesto interesting! Thank you

@whitmanifesto @pato @michellelaura92 Thank you; all you've said does make me feel better. Lot of nerves right now. @michellelaura92 Iowa is definitely near the top of my list, and my excitement is growing. I was less sure of my fit, but as I spoke with the faculty in interviews I could see really interesting angles I could take with my work that hadn't fully occurred to me yet. Very eager. The language of the email was "You are at the top of the waitlist, so there is a good chance that will be able to offer you admission should openings become available," and they invited me to the recruitment weekend, so hopefully it'll happen. Definitely appreciate the candor and detail; Minnesota is a program I am very interested in, but all they sent me a form email telling me I was on the waitlist and didn't respond to my follow-up inquiry.

Well. I went into this season feeling good. I have worked very hard over the past two years to make myself as strong a candidate as possible and thought I had done well. Apparently not. I have one acceptance from a program that is very unestablished, and all the really good schools I've applied to have either rejected or waitlisted me. This cycle is turning out to be rather depressing... I mean, even if I get off the waitlist I have to ask if I want to go somewhere where they weren't interested enough to actually accept me. Like, will the fact that I would be in like a second-class-citizen pool of admitted students hinder me when trying to get resources (summer fellowships or teaching appointments, travel money, etc.) or close attention from the department? Not a good day today.

@pato @sriracha18 interviews are the worst, you have to just make a fool of yourself and then wait weeks to see if they'll take you anyway

@Pato Wow that sounds amazing! I think I can guess...I may well hit you up in a PM, especially if I end up hearing from them. Glad to hear that its a great place to be. Sorry to hear that you're having to try and head elsewhere

Thank you very much @pato for the insight! I've applied to Minnesota, and they're my top choice (usually anyway! Sometimes Utah edges them out). The posted acceptance had me kind of spooked. If you have any insight as to what schedule the different areas are working on I'd of course love to hear it Sorry to hear about the circumstances of the transfer you're seeking but I hope the interview goes well! Just finished an interview with Iowa's media studies area yesterday, so I'm going through all that with them as well. Have you enjoyed the program at Minnesota while you have been in it?

Oh god. A Minnesota acceptance posted. My single top choice school. Freaking a bit...as usual.

Just in time to save me from hella anxiety...good news in the last hour! Email from Iowa for an interview on Monday (in the media studies area). Now for a new, but better, kind of nerves!

@Hao Hongtao @surprise_quiche Thank you, and hopefully you're right! This process is so grueling.

All the talk of Madison interviews is rattling me a little to be honest! I've heard nothing from anywhere else, and starting the season with a probable rejection is not easy. Especially because lately I've been thinking about what type of program I want to attend. I'd obviously like to attend the type of program whose graduates go onto prestigious jobs in PhD granting programs, and so I did some research. I looked at the faculty at all the PhD programs in comm to find faculty who look like they might have responded to job calls that, if they were open once I hit the job market, I would apply to. Unfortunately, I did this after applications were sent out. What I found were that five of the programs I applied to have a much more impressive record of their graduates going onto prestige jobs than the others. Wisconsin is one of those, and I'm less and less sure I want to attend a program whose graduates don't go on to prestigious jobs. My list can be divided into three tiers in terms of job placement, and I'm desperately hoping to get into a school in at least the middle tier. Hopefully the response from Madison is not indicative that I'll get dinged from all the top programs.