Oh COME ON Admission People

[kkeefe]

So last night I got an email from Drexel University, one of my current top choices, that started:

"Greetings from Drexel University! Congratulations! Your application..."

Of course I thought: "OMGOMGOMG!!"

And then the rest of the sentence was: "is complete and now under review with the Admissions Committee!"

For the love of everything, what kind of torture is that?!? I can see some Admissions person cackling a bit...please people, be merciful!

[caezar86]

That's just cruel!

[Daniela]

Ugh, I got an email just like that, and at the bottom it said "Admissions decisions WILL BE RENDERED IN LATE MARCH"

So last night I got an email from Drexel University, one of my current top choices, that started:

"Greetings from Drexel University! Congratulations! Your application..."

Of course I thought: "OMGOMGOMG!!"

And then the rest of the sentence was: "is complete and now under review with the Admissions Committee!"

For the love of everything, what kind of torture is that?!? I can see some Admissions person cackling a bit...please people, be merciful!

[XOwlfan]

Seriously!!!! What were they thinking?!!!! So cruel.

[wook]

That is so evil!! I can't believe they actually do things like that. I hope you hear from them soon!

[Red Bull]

One of my schools pulled the same thing on me. Luckily it was only a few days after the app deadline so I figured it was way too early for a reply. If that were to happen at this moment when the rest of my replies are imminent it would probably give me a stroke. So, note to my enemies, now is the time to send an email with something like "decision available" etc in order to bump me off via myocardial infarction.

[PsychGirl1]

So last night I got an email from Drexel University, one of my current top choices, that started:

"Greetings from Drexel University! Congratulations! Your application..."

Of course I thought: "OMGOMGOMG!!"

And then the rest of the sentence was: "is complete and now under review with the Admissions Committee!"

For the love of everything, what kind of torture is that?!? I can see some Admissions person cackling a bit...please people, be merciful!

Drexel is really slow. I got that same email a few weeks ago and still no word!!!!! Same with all the other schools.

So. Slow.

[aber_leider]

Speaking about cruel jokes from adcoms, I was rejected from Stanford some four weeks ago. Today an e-mail from Stanford appeared on my in box. Of course, I thought that someone had declined the offer of admision and that my application was being reconsidered... no, it was once again the very same rejection email I had previously received. So, thank you for reminding me, I had almost moved on. Now I'm depressed again.

Edited March 3, 2011 by aber_leider

[ugly_duckling]

I got an email from CSUSM and it was a FAFSA reminder. It said all "incoming students...". Made me feel depressed because I have not been admitted. However, I have not been rejected either. That makes it worse since now I keep having these pervasive thoughts that I am admitted and just haven't been notified yet. Uugggghhh. I can't wait for this nonsense to be over with.

And that duplicate email about being declined admission to Stanford would've made me lose it!!! What a bummer, but don't worry, you'll get in somewhere and then Stanford can suck it. Hang in there aber_leider!!

[michpc]

Can't beat PennDesign's subject line of "Admissions Decisions", which then informed me that I needed to complete FAFSA by the 15th of Feb and that they would notify online on the 14th of March. Killin' me!

Edited March 4, 2011 by michpc

[TMP]

Agreed... they should've sent that... long time ago, right after you submitted your app. Not now! It's too late!

[encephalization]

Have to say that I laughed when I saw your post. I wonder if the adcoms did it on purpose.

Anyways, good luck to you, I'll keep my fingers crossed that you'll get in.

[Jason Morrow]

I just got an email that they received my application and it is now under review. I should know by the end of the month. I was like noooooo lol.

[michpc]

Can't beat PennDesign's subject line of "Admissions Decisions", which then informed me that I needed to complete FAFSA by the 15th of Feb and that they would notify online on the 14th of March. Killin' me!

update: they let me in after all, even though I'd seen other acceptances on here via email almost a week earlier! Didn't expect that!

[smarmie]

Speaking about cruel jokes from adcoms, I was rejected from Stanford some four weeks ago. Today an e-mail from Stanford appeared on my in box. Of course, I thought that someone had declined the offer of admision and that my application was being reconsidered... no, it was once again the very same rejection email I had previously received. So, thank you for reminding me, I had almost moved on. Now I'm depressed again.

I had a similar experience with Cornell. First I got the standard email rejection from the admission committee. Four days later I got a personal email from my POI explaining in more detail why they decided not to accept me (at least she was nice about it and said that she was disappointed that I had not gotten in.) Yesterday I got the EXACT same standard rejection letter via snail mail. What's next, are they going to call me on the phone to tell me I have been rejected, just in case I didn't already know? Seriously Cornell, stop rejecting me. It is hurtful and cruel and only adds to my already spiraling depression.