Wow - this thread has been more informative than conversations I've had on campus! I'm a little encouraged that perhaps U of A is still filling their class. This is my first year applying so I knew it could be an uphill battle. I would love to apply to more schools, however, I'm in the same boat as far as having a partner than cannot leave his work. However, we've already discussed how we could work it out if I were to be accepted somewhere else next year. In the grand scheme of things, 2 years with lots of visits/short term leave of absence (his part) and perhaps placements here in Alberta could work I believe.
The one girl that I heard for sure was offered admission was a total shoo in anyhow (works for one of the profs,4.0, tons of relevent experience and research awards etc...) so perhaps it's just those early admissions that have been offered. I just stumbled upon this site the other day so I am a little unfamiliar with the lay-out, but over 800 views? I'd say there are lots of us waiting...good point sirk88
And each of these offers has 2 weeks to respond? Am I remembering this correctly? So new offers could be going out the same time as the first offers need to be in...oh my. LingCal - 20th on the waitlist? That's a tad reassuring While I feel I'm a decent candidate, I'm totally fine being offer #56 - or more - as long as I get in!!
dlau27 - thanks for the update
Nice to "meet" people going through the same thing. As I'm a mature student returning to school (and only recently returned to university to pick up the last remaining prereq's) I have not met anyone that is applying aside from at the OASIS conference last fall.
Good luck everyone. I will also keep everyone posted if I hear anything.