Misread waitlist email.. anyone else?

[Writer M]

Last year I misread the email informing me I was on the waitlist since it had one sentence that said something like "hang tight"-- then there was another sentence which I missed after that which said to email them back if you wanted to remain on the waitlist. Please tell me I'm not the only one something like this has ever happened to. To make matters even worse, they were already emailing me about teaching assistantships! So when I saw "hang tight" I didn't think I had to do anything but wait. ?

So now I'm reapplying and hoping I get in. I can't believe this happened.

 

Edited January 11, 2019 by Writer M

[Ternwild]

On 1/11/2019 at 4:25 AM, Writer M said:

Last year I misread the email informing me I was on the waitlist since it had one sentence that said something like "hang tight"-- then there was another sentence which I missed after that which said to email them back if you wanted to remain on the waitlist. Please tell me I'm not the only one something like this has ever happened to. To make matters even worse, they were already emailing me about teaching assistantships! So when I saw "hang tight" I didn't think I had to do anything but wait. ?

So now I'm reapplying and hoping I get in. I can't believe this happened.

 

Ouch.  That's rough.  No, that hasn't happened to me, but thank you for making me self-conscious about it, now.