pim

Can someone claim the latest UPenn acceptance, the one via phone from the DGS? Like what time was the call? I don't know, give me anything! Nervous breakdown ensuing over here.

Just did...doesn't say anything on there except that my app was completed so, not much of a revelation there.

I know...but hey, Duke wait listed some before acceptances were sent out. Hold on to that...at least I am....trying to.

I don't know, it's super odd. I'm holding on to the hope that there will be more news tomorrow. Or potentially calls in a little while? As ridiculous as this might seem I have to think so...it's my top choice and I don't want to bear that kind of heartbreak right now.

What's up with Penn!! Two wait-listers and three email acceptances, two of which are international? Seems odd. I do hope they'll be making some phone calls this evening for domestic acceptances. I haven't been able to focus on anything all day.

Thanks for the info!

Congrats!! How/when did you hear back?

Congrats!!!

Does anyone know generally around what time schools usually make calls? Like after work hours or during? I guess they're probably all different and there's no real answer to this. Sorry for being totally neurotic and transparent but that's how I feel right now, in rapidly increasing levels.

Same here. My attention span has reached an all-time low and I'm supposed to finish reading The Human Condition by tomorrow morning...guess not.

Seconded. Philly rules.

The suspense. I can't. My inbox tab just changed to (1) three separate times. All spam

Also, going from the results search, the initial UPenn acceptances generally happen over the phone. And the poster marked it under email... don't know, may be a fib I suppose.

UPenn acceptance. Someone please claim this! I am about to have a nervous breakdown.

UF is awesome! No I didn't apply there, but I'm originally from Florida and I have a lot of friends at FSU and UF grad programs now, so I was just curious. I'm not a big fan of FL in general (growing up there might have something to do with it...) but I've always had a soft spot for Gainesville. There's a lot to do there and a surprisingly thriving music scene and art culture. I hope you get in! Let me know if you do and if you need advice, I can always ask my friends living there now about where to go out/live/etc

Thanks! Yes, it certainly does. I feel like I'm going to wake up at any minute and realize this was all the work of wish-fulfillment. I am also now just waiting on Columbia and Penn (I think I read a post from you that mentioned the same). Hopefully we will both hear good news very soon. Penn is my dream program so, while I'm totally ecstatic, I still feel quite a bit of nervous anticipation in waiting to hear back from them... I'm keeping my fingers crossed for you The Whistler

Thank you! I hope you get good news as well soon! Is the Florida school UF or FSU? The email was sent last night, around 8pm, but (for the first time in weeks) I wasn't checking my email every five minutes when I went out and woke up to it this morning.

Just got into Brown!!!! I can't believe this. After assumed rejections at NYU, Chicago, and Berkeley I really thought I would have to do this all over again and despair for another year. But the day is good! I feel like a bag of bricks was just lifted from my weak and anxious shoulders. Yay! And congrats to all the recent admits! I am so happy to finally share in the excitement rather than lurking in total despair!

Just got an email back from POI there...said they should be making their decisions in the next week or so. So yeah, I'd say at the earliest we'll hear on the week of the 18th to 22nd, if not the one after based on last year. But yes. It would be great to hear from them sooner than that! The suspense is killing me.

Good luck! I'm also having a really hard time concentrating on my thesis this week...but it's due in a month so your situation is much more intense. But seriously somebody needs to claim that acceptance and let everyone know if the call was indeed today!

Oh wow. I really hope it's not a late poster and that it was really today...and so, maybe, we can hold on to a tiny bit of hope for just one more day. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah I haven't been able to work on my thesis for two weeks. The only work I can manage at this point is reading, passively. It's the start of the semester so it's ok but I don't know how much longer I can keep this up. I just want one acceptance, or any sort of news. All I have at the moment are two implicit rejections from NYU and Chicago. Hopefully NYU is still working on acceptances...but it'd be kind of an odd timeline since they notified people last week. But still. I hope we both hear good news soon.

I like the idea of being a beeping green dot on someone's radar. It's more comforting than being reduced to a pile of papers that may 'fall through the cracks' or fall victim to some everyday administrative mishap. Thanks for your words of encouragement! I might leave him alone since I already feel like I took up a lot of his time...but there's another prof I kind of know there that I might try out your suggestion with. If anything it'll help me get through the next three weeks with a little more hope! (by which I mean: without completely losing it)

Thanks. Yeah I probably wouldn't have gone through with it. But this purgatorial waiting is so defeating and terrible that I guess the possibility seemed somewhat appealing. I was in contact with this professor recently about a paper I wrote about two of our oddly combined interests, and he was unexpectedly generous about responding and helping me edit it to submit as an article to a major journal. This is the only thing I'm holding on to. I'm just so afraid of being forgotten in a giant pile of 600 applications...or as my untactful advisor recently suggested might happen, of "falling through the cracks." That Jonathan Edwards imagery really freaked me out.

I'm also terrified of UPenn at this point. It's my first choice and, taking a hint from past years...will be the last to notify. You said you contacted a POI from NYU to ask about your status (implicit rejection for me too...), I'm just wondering what you said in the email (or call?) or how you phrased it so that it didn't sound crazy/desperate (which is kind of how I feel I sound to everyone right now anyway). I have a POI at Penn I was in contact with all through November and January. I was just wondering if it would be totally weird to send him an email asking about my status or chances?