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Accepted to UC Irvine! It's a late acceptance and my only acceptance so I'm trying to not go crazy and consider my options for next year. Anyone else heading to UCI?

Found this thread AND AM SO RELIEVED TO BE AMONG MY PEOPLE. I'm 29, and have in fact been previously in a PhD program when I was 22 and had a really rough time because of multiple factors: my advisor being a non-communicative, freaky dude, my research ideas not really being developed and my lack of desire to be there. Now, after working a few years at a nonprofit, I'm returning back to the fold to get that damn degree and get out more research and it's been awkward to say the least. I have a significant other and we are both thinking about where to move together, but I like @shadowclaw have gotten a lot of pressure from family to "settle down" and get kids IMMEDIATELY instead of going to school or maintaining a job. It's stressful to say the least.

Yuuuuuup got a rejection from UCLA. I'm feeling pretty down now about these rejections. I'm waiting on UC Irvine and UW-Seattle (my alma mater), but I'm not thinking anything positive will come. Like some others, I'm not traditional. I come from a Social Psychology background, I'm not in my early-mid 20s, and I've been working in a public policy org for the past 3.5 years. I'm trying to think if I want to try again this coming year, but also want to really think about where I want to take my research and in where. LIFE, GUYS.

Yeah, another Berkeley rejection here. It was one of my top choices and am super sad about it. I'm nervous that I'll be roundly rejected this year, but still holding up some hope.

Hoping the stars are aligned for us both! I'm getting a lot of emails from friends and random events right now...and it's THE WORST because I jump up each time thinking there might be something. Also frantically checking my spam folder and seeing another email about liposuction or bitmojis. Sigh.

wow wow wow. Congrats to all that have received a flurry of good news today! Sympathetic and empathetic feels to those "denied admission" or waiting ANY NEWS. No one has heard anything from UC Berkeley? Waiting........a lifetime.

That same thing happened to me!!! Except it was for a writing sample. They admitted that their system was backed up though. Still haven't heard from them...... But....is it late in the game?Nervous about not hearing anything other than one rejection. P.S. - Your username is priming me to eat ramen for dinner tonight, on top of the dinner I already ate.

Yes. Absolutely. Especially since I lurk and panic. But I feel as though I lurk, panic, feel some sort of sad relief that others feel pain and I know the process better. Mutual pain is better than ignorance right?

There's still time and other places friend. We would get too sunburnt in Santa Barbara anyway.

Congrats to those who got accepted already! Long time lurker, second time poster. Just got rejected from UC Santa Barbara. Wasn't a great fit necessarily, but in pain regardless. Sadness reigns.

I have a Masters but it's from another PhD program (in Psychology) that I left because my advisor essentially did not want to do the kind of research I was interested in. Suffice to say, I was irate and we left on bad terms. A few years later, after working in the nonprofit research think tank world, I'm applying again for a PhD program (in Sociology) and have confirmed letter of recommendation writers lined up (undergraduate advisor and two former bosses, both of whom are social science PhDs). Is it bad not to have a LOR from my Master's/former PhD advisor?