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From what I can tell, Loyola still hasn't notified from wait list or for rejection. Not that everyone hasn't already figured out their situations for next year. To me, this is just insane. Final decision week was April 15th, and to not notify your rejections by then? I cannot comprehened such poor communication on behalf of a renowned institution. Anyone else heard anything?

Waiting to hear as well, I was pretty sure that on their website they mentioned that they notify by March 1st... maybe that person emailed the department?

super impersonal rejection O.o

http://www.testudo.umd.edu/admissions/ some other admissions info site, you have to enter your ID number which can be found under contact information in ASF

checked testudo and my rejection is on there, not updated on ASF or via email yet. yaaay.

I don't know if anyone watches The Big Bang Theory, but with every (rejection) email I just imagine Sheldon popping up and saying BAZINGA

FAFSA, baby, FAFSA.

Hoping this is one instance where my post-bachelor green-ness works out in my favor...

0/3 (about to be 0/4...) and collectively mourning with ya'll. Your own undergraduate school not wanting you is a pretty big blow... Just keep trying to tell myself that a year off won't be the worst thing in the entire world. PMA, guys!

At this point i'm hoping for Penn State, I knew Brown was a reach. Still holding out for BU, though... I hope Jason Segel warms your grad-school dejected heart

same three rejections, sigh

Just got the email directing me to my rejection. It was expected, at least the email was nicer than UMass' two sentences...

Now thinking this is an implicit rejection for me...

"no decision" here, no news is good news?

the town! I don't know anything about Amherst College. I like UMass a lot and the city of Amherst, but many graduate students choose to live in Northampton and commute (~20 minutes, unless you get stuck on the bridge). Amherst has that really great "larger" town feel, with not many chain restaurants or shopping malls, but a lot of great local food/commerce/shops/markets with the option to travel to a larger city like boston (~90 minutes) if desired. Oh and Megabus now runs to NYC for usually less than 20 bucks.

Amherst is pretty great, a lot of the grad students here will tell you otherwise but you just have to give it a chance Or live in Northampton.

FYI, there is a wine actually called cupcake!

I really do, as well. Well I've got BU left and you've got Brandeis, so here's to hoping we're both in Boston next year!

Seriously. I took two seminars because I wanted to look good and, well, was interested in them and some sociology course outside the major for an interdisciplinary requirement which I obviously underestimated in difficulty. Not to mention spending an ENTIRE summer studying for the GRE, which of course I ended up wanting to retake... and then the dreaded subject test! And then having everything due during finals week, which I'm sure happened to you as well. We're both in Mass, where are you for undergrad? Look like we've both been rejected by two Mass schools so far, too..

Really wish someone would have hammered it into me how difficult of a process it was going to be as a first semester senior.

southern lit fan here, seconded!

thanks for the info!

so would you reccomend using one of the folio services, or simply just attempting to keep in direct contact with your reccomendors?

For those anticipating rejections and reapplying in the future: how do you go about asking your LOR to hold on to their letters for the future? Maybe it's just me, but I feel like an annoying burden to them. All of the online application systems now seem to require a direct email from the professors themselves, so uploading letters to some folio service is out. Thoughts?

I'm anticipating a round of rejections, and i've come to terms with the fact that I might just be too "green." I have a pretty good undergrad GPA from an okay state school (3.7 ish), an okay GRE verbal (161), and pretty good LOR (one from the most respected emeritus here, another from the director of the American Studies group). I know that I have the basics of what these schools look for, but I think my problem is that I don't have anything to really set me apart. My subject test score was horrendous, and I know that while that score is not heavily weighted it is more "eye-catching." I'm trying to convince myself that a year off after graduating won't be the worst thing in the world (even though right now it seems like it ) What I plan to do is: -definitely study and re-take the subject test -get some sort of "experience" under my belt, whether it be non-profit work, editing, tutoring/volunteer teaching -try and contact professors in my area, but this seems very difficult to do at larger schools where the faculty are quite busy. -apply to more MA programs, but only ones that at least attempt to offer funding, like Boston College other than that, I'm at a loss. My writing sample and SOP were generally praised by my advisors/mentor