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Hmmm fast food that never crossed my mind. Do you think with all my education and experience I could start off as the burger maker... I don't do deep fryers.

Just got this a few hours ago. It's in response to my inquiry of my application status. We have contacted our first round of accepted applicants; however, your file is still active. We expect to make admissions decisions through April. If you accept another offer before we are able to make a final decision about your application, please let us know. All best, and thanks for your inquiry, Holly

yeah I suppose I'm not that pissed about it... and it is the frustration and exhaustion talking. Sorry if I appeared obnoxious.

For those of you who happened to realize that I was misspelling waitlist, I'd like to clear up the record... :oops: Please feel free to pick the reason that works best for you 1. I'm trying to make everyone feel better about themselves by making everyone feel smarter than me 2. Since my chances are so "slim" in getting in off the waitlist, I decided that there needed to be a new spelling... weightlist just seems to be more appropriate for my chances 3. The stress of being on the waitlist has indeed put weight on me... all those oreos have finally caught up. So, the two are sort of synonymous.

I emailed them on Monday the 23rd and they never emailed me back. I think it's rude and I'm rather pissed about it. I know that a bunch of people got accepted the last week of February... so. Who knows.

wrappedupinbooks... give me your email address I'll forward you the email that Jill has sent anyone asking about their application status... no need to email them. :wink:

I got it after contacting them. I emailed Jill on Monday and that was what she emailed me back. And then I asked if that was an unofficial rejection and she said that my chances were very slim. That email was awful, and I can't believe that they sent it out to other people too. It made no sense and just frustrated me.

I agree with the above poster. It will be harder to get into a phd program a few years from now, and it's pretty damn hard now. I had a similar feeling about going on to a phd program when I was in my last year of undergrad, so I applied to just get my MA. After half a semester of my masters program, I knew this is what I want to do. So, I now am finishing up at a terminal masters program, and I really do feel that I'm at a disadvantage. I've talked to a handful of DGSs and they all have said that programs aren't to keen on a terminal masters degree. I already have been trained to read, write, and teach according to another department's standards and opinions... which may or may not mesh up well with another departments. I wish I could go back and do it differently... and now I think I'm paying for it, because I've got 11 rejections and 1 weightlist under my belt. Woot. Woot. Go with an open mind to Brown. IF you hate it, say thanks for the masters see you guys later! People do that all the time. Good luck!

There are so many things wrong with that email besides grammatical mistakes... like WHAT DOES IT MEAN?!

Speaking from experience... because I too received that email yesterday... literally word for word and asked her if that was an unofficial rejection and she said that my chances were very slim. So, for what it's worth I'm going with we're weightlisted.

Hmmm... curiouser and curiouser... I'm a lit phd applicant too... ugh there really is no point figuring this stuff out. So, just my own nosiness how was their funding package?

Ok. Now I'm going to go cry in a corner... And the next thing you're going to tell me is that my mailman secretly hates me and has been forging rejection letters.

With the amount of rejections I've received (and having zero acceptances) being weightlisted is like winning the Superbowl to me right now. It's like oh, well it's the economy's fault... not my lack of intellect...

I think unofficial weightlist means that not only were you not good enough to make the first cut, but you're not even good enough to make the A team weightlist.... so basically we aren't even good enough for junior varsity... we're on the freshmen team.

I guess I just don't get it. How can some people know already... and yet decisions haven't been made yet. I'm calling Shenanigans... on what I don't know. But I'm calling it dammit.

I think that some people are unofficially weightlisted. But... according to Jill chances are slim.

Hey... So, I got that email about final decisions being made at the very earliest (for lit people) March 20th... but has anyone heard anything? I emailed the assistant to the DGS and she said they would be emailing everyone of their decisions, and then looking on the results page it seems a bunch of people were accepted already a while ago. Does anyone have any news. It's my last school to hear from, and I just want to be done with this round. I'm ready to move on with my life and start planning for next fall.

So, I emailed Jill Quirk yesterday... and this was her response: While your application was well received by the committee, it did not make the top tier of our rankings. Because we only admit applicants with funding, we don't anticipate being able to offer you a teaching assistantship. We wish you all the best in your graduate studies. What does this even mean? Can't she just say I'm rejected... close but no cigar... Ugh. I hate this year.