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same boat...

Nice, Kelkel! I am a big proponent of mixed methods - why not try to study a topic from different perspectives?

Lol, runner09 - in the Fall 2011 app cycle, with all applications being equal, you had a 52/1010 chance of being wait-listed at one school (~5%). So statistics (probabilities) not failing me, (52/1,010)*(51/1,009)*(50/1,008) = 132,600/1,027,242,720 or about 1 in 10,000, which, evidently (according to a quick google search), are the same odds as finding a four-leafed clover on your first try. Enough numbers for now... I am going to look up a phrase I just came across in my readings - "rhetorical question" - I wonder what it means?

Thanks, STF. I do Nineteenth Century U.S. history with quantitative/HGIS/interdisciplinary methods (big surprise with the graphs and all, right?!). Last year there were approximately 1010 History results posted. This year there have been about 379 results posted. I say "approximately/about" for these because, while I tried to weed out posts that were messages ("to the poster below"), I have not been through the data with a fine-toothed comb. Hang in there, though; I have only heard back from one program out of seven, so we're all in the same boat (besides the chosen few... tmp, saff).

Haha, thank you! You can right-click on the image, select "open image in new tab", and bookmark it from there (in Chrome at least). And of course, this was procrastination at its best - I am suppose to have an article written and in my adviser's hands tomorrow!

Yes, I have finally come to accept that there is no avoiding this board. I tried just to glance at it every once and a while, but after waking up at 2am last night and checking GC on my phone, I figured I might as well join y'all.

And this year so far...

My version of twiddling my thumbs... I hope this helps some of you, but maybe it hurts. The red spikes are pretty intimidating!