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That is a very short and high quality list, fenderpete. You must be either be sufficiently awesome or sufficiently risk acceptant.

Sufficiently poor. At around $100 a pop I couldn't afford to apply to more than five programs by the time I paid for the GRE and everything else. Being in the middle of undergrad also meant I probably couldn't have physically filled in any more apps. I applied where I'd want to go. I'm not confident at all but I'm hoping my life experience will count for something. If not I'll work in the field for a year, retake the gre and apply again. Plenty of people have better stats than me but I'm hoping my experience shows I'm serious.

Tbh I'm worried enough about my likelihood of getting in without other people slating my chances.

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A couple of years ago (basically straight out of undergrad), I applied to just four places (all top 5-10) because I wasn't able to take the time to really figure out where I wanted to go, what I wanted to do, etc. Didn't get in anywhere, but referred to CIR at Chicago, did that, and this time around I think I'm a lot stronger candidate in terms of knowing what I want to study and picking programs where I could successfully do that.

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Don't expect the e-mail, do like those of us who are obsessive and just log in and out of the site all day. IF they are making decisions, the site will change throughout the day as they individually assign decisions. This is not a short process, so people will hear earlier than others.

So far, so good.

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My OSU account has been disabled for some reason. wtf? This is discouraging. Could it be because my obsessive account checking?

I got that last week. I followed the instructions and sent an email to the access at osu dot com. They never replied, but my account went back to normal.

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Sorry to be a moron, but what "site"? Do I just log on to my application at ApplyYourself and look for a link or is there some other "status" site that I'm not aware of?

Thanks. We're all in this stupid, masochistic mess together...

Applyyourself apparently changes when it is ready to alert your for news. If you login to your applyyourself account it will either say "A decision has been rendered on your application" or something like that, or "Submitted". From the sounds of things, "submitted" is the better status at the moment.

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Surprises abound! Nobody predicted Duke would put out a flyer this week.

To be fair, we were talking about acceptances, not rejections ;)

Who wants to speculate about rejections!? Depressing!

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