ridgey Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 Mine is that I get a phone call from the person I reeeeeeeally hope will be my advisor telling me of my acceptance and how impressive my application is etc. He invites me to admitted students' weekend (for which the department pays all my expenses). On the visit, we start to talk, and he quickly realises that it wasn't me he was so impressed with - he dialled the wrong number by mistake. My application was on his desk because it was so bad it was going on the website in an attempt to show future applicants what not to do. Others? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohheygradschool Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 Mine has to do with the admissions committee finding my writing sample immature / scandalous / not well written / whatever, and inviting me for an interview just so they can put a face to such a ridiculous application. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miratrix Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 Nothing so dramatic...just waiting until late March or April to hear from all the schools, and winding up with a pile of rejections. gellert 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deipnosophistry Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 Nothing so dramatic...just waiting until late March or April to hear from all the schools, and winding up with a pile of rejections. A big, steaming pile of THIS. I likely took an enormous gamble in applying to only three schools, and I'm terrified it's going to bite me in the ass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenderpete Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 Nothing so dramatic...just waiting until late March or April to hear from all the schools, and winding up with a pile of rejections. Yeah that is mine too really. The 'nice' version of the nightmare would be getting in everywhere I applied and having to decide between schools you could barely get a gnat's hair between in terms of course/faculty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miratrix Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 Ooh I have a new one, because it almost happened today! I got a phone call while I was at work from the department coordinator at one of my schools with a December 31 deadline, saying they're making decisions about fellowships next Monday morning but haven't received 2 of my letters, my transcripts, or my resume, and they needed them by 5 PM to consider me. I spent my lunch break on the phone and email and managed to send the coordinator my resume, get both of my recommenders to email copies of their letters to her, and get my undergrad to send an electronic copy of my transcript (which she said they'd be willing to use due to the situation). Except for my study abroad transcripts, which I simply couldn't get in one day, the department now has semi-official copies of everything. I'm SO glad that she called to give me a chance to get the materials in! And so glad that my undergrad, from the registrar to my professors, are accessible and helpful in a crunch. My nightmare is now that this is happening at all my other schools and they won't let me know, they'll just throw my application out. (So what happened? I sent out the transcripts and resume a few weeks ago, and I trust my recommenders, so I was like "does the post office actually have a 75% failure rate for priority mail, or is this the graduate school office's fault?" After work I checked my tracking number, and the package with my transcripts and resume was delivered, albeit during the school's Christmas break. So it's the graduate school administrative office's fault that the department was missing 75% of my application. *sigh*) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragynally Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 you're on the livejournal blog too....yeah dude that's horrible!!! I would be so upset Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limeinthecoconut Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 Hmm... My nightmare is, only one of the schools I applied to, calls informing of my admission me with full funding. ... only to have them call the next day, informing me that they called the wrong person and that I have been rejected as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
username Posted January 14, 2009 Share Posted January 14, 2009 Oh dear, such negative thoughts. Although I suppose I aimed a teensy bit too high, and only applied to 2 plan B schools. Speaking of which, UT Austin finally answered their @#%*in' phone so that I could explain to them that my application was not incomplete but had been, in fact, completed early...they hadn't forwarded it to the adcom yet...the deadline was a month ago and I didn't bother them about it until now because they say you shouldn't call them...dunces. :x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modernity Posted January 14, 2009 Share Posted January 14, 2009 well besides the obvious "get rejected across the board" nightmare... that i get accepted only to my last choice school, with no funding. I almost think that scenario would be worse than getting rejected because I would have to decide between putting grad school off yet another year, or going to a school that I am lukewarm about and paying full price for it. I think part of me wouldn't want to give up grad school, and another part of me would worry about regret if I did go ahead with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miratrix Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 Yeah, going into debt is a bit of a nightmare. That, or having the choice between moving somewhere I don't like or going into debt to stay where I do enjoy living. Honestly, I don't expect to get rejected across the board, but a couple of iffy choices could be hard to decide between. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
causingascene Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 I haven't had any actual nightmares about it (yet) but I'm terrified of: 1. All of my schools rejecting me because they didn't get my materials (I sent transcripts and applications in wayyy before some deadlines). 2. My top school(s) (or really any school) telling me I was admitted and then saying, Nope, oops! Emailed the wrong group of students! You're denied! I had a third one but it's not coming to me right now. If I remember maybe I'll post again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purplepepper Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 1. That my days as a lost undergrad will come back to haunt me. (not great grades) 2. That I just simply didn't do enough to make a strong profile funny enough, i have a lot of faith in the dept secretaries, and didnt have a problem at all with missing documents or anything. i just looked at some of the successful profiles on applycorner and was totally blown away by most of them. hence the anxiety-ridden post! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAPoliSciPhD Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 mims, my nightmare, too.... as for looking at apply corner - it was sobering, scary, mortifying, etc. People are rejected with better stats than mine and the people who did get in - well, their profiles make me want to throw up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miratrix Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 I'm not sure if I want to know what this "apply corner" is. PhDreaming 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saritapie Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 A big, steaming pile of THIS. I likely took an enormous gamble in applying to only three schools, and I'm terrified it's going to bite me in the ass. Yuuuuup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAPoliSciPhD Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 I'm not sure if I want to know what this "apply corner" is. Yeah, you do. mwahahahahaha (that was my evil laugh) just google apply corner and you'll figure it out - i looked at who got in and who's applying...those two separate places... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
t_ruth Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 applycorner doesn't seem all that active, does it? I check it out every day, but gradcafe is my main home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAPoliSciPhD Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 I don't use it for the forums - I just looked at the results (kind of thinking maybe I shouldn't have...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
t_ruth Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 yes, I meant the results section, the results posting is a lot slower than here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAPoliSciPhD Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 yeah, I just liked it because it also had the stats matched up with the results and you saw what group of schools they applied to Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louiselab Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 nightmare... Being rejected from every school. (check) Having to tell everyone I told that I applied to graduate school that I was rejected from every school and having the woman who works in the post office where my application stuff was mailed say, "so you hear from any of those schools you applied to? You applied to so many you must have gotten accepted somewhere!" (check) Sitting in my advisor's office as she enumerates why I did not and never will be accepted to a program. (check) Finding out four days after the deadline that I never submitted the online application to one of my favorites and most likely to be accepted to schools. (check) I've lived the nightmare, so hopefully this year won't be too bad of a repeat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boz Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 [quote name="Louiselab Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miratrix Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 Wow, your advisor sounds pretty awful, at least as far as advising goes...I hope it works out better for you this year! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctoraldude Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 knowing about my "best fit" program (in terms of research interests) one day after the deadline - and frantically trying to to shift my application to that program (from a different program in the same univ.) ... oh wait that nightmare is still on :roll: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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