Duke

[MegMill]

Anyone that has applied to Duke, are y'all getting incessant emails saying the exact same thing? Mine always say this:

On November 28, 2010 we received your application to the Duke University Graduate School as follows:

Department/Program: History

Degree: Ph.D.

Term of Admission: 2011 Fall Term

Identification Number: xxxxxxxx

If you have already received notification from Duke University Graduate School of the decision on your application, please disregard this message.

In any future communication you have with the Graduate School, please provide your full name as you provided it on your application and the name of the department and degree program to which you have applied.

The purpose of this message is to inform you of which supporting materials we have received. Please recall that we do not require you to send in official copies of transcripts until such time as you are offered admission, thus, any transcripts marked as received and unofficial require no further action from you at this time.

Other items that are still missing should be sent to us immediately. The completion of your file is your responsibility, and delays in our receipt of missing information may impact the review of your application. Although there may still be documents missing from your file, it has been sent to the department to begin the review process.

Please do not respond to this message. We understand that you plan to send us missing documents, and thus there is no need to call us or to send us a message to that effect. We will send updates to you periodically to inform you of supporting documents that have been received for your application and those that have not. During the admissions season, we receive hundreds of email messages every day. Since we must focus our efforts on processing applications, we will not respond to emails requesting information on the status of applications. If you have questions about your application that are not answered in our periodic updates to you, you may call our office (no collect calls accepted, however) between 2:00 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. (Eastern U.S. Time) weekdays at (919) 684-3913.

IMPORTANT NOTE: If you have sent documents/test scores to us recently but they are indicated as not received in this message, please wait until you receive our next status update prior to contacting us. Due to the large volume of mail we have received recently it has not been possible for us to log all the information into our database. We may have received information that has not yet been recorded for your application.

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And then it goes on to say they've received all my materials. But seriously, I've gotten like FOUR of these. Huuuuh?

[packerboy31489]

I almost started this thread myself. I have gotten 3 of these, 1 approximately every 2 weeks since the deadline for submission. I think this is a way for them to lull you into a false sense of security and then BAM you get an email that slaps you in the face with a rejection. This is what I am expecting anyway. I wish some other schools took the initiative to update you on what they actually have and what they don't. It would make this process a little less complicated. Whatever, Duke is different.

[MegMill]

I almost started this thread myself. I have gotten 3 of these, 1 approximately every 2 weeks since the deadline for submission. I think this is a way for them to lull you into a false sense of security and then BAM you get an email that slaps you in the face with a rejection. This is what I am expecting anyway. I wish some other schools took the initiative to update you on what they actually have and what they don't. It would make this process a little less complicated. Whatever, Duke is different.

I know, packerboy, I always get so excited when I see the Sender of the email and then I'm all disappointed like, "Meh...you've sent this to me more than I can count..." Sad Panda...

[datroy]

Yep - just got another one today. I was getting nervous that despite the fact that it said I had sent everything in, that I was getting them because I had indeed forgotten something. Glad to hear everyone else is getting them too.