post here if one of your programs has started contacting...

[nabh]

I am not sure if this should even be a separate topic.

Yesterday a prospective professor emailed me, congratulating me to join his research group. He also mentioned the good news being posted some where, which I supposed to be the online status and that the letter should be soon in the mail. Apparently my status is still blank and I still have not received a confirmation from the school.

Normally if you are officially in both the school and the department will have to email you right? Or does that depend? I am a little scared of the possiblity that he messed my name up with someone, but shouldn't they be very careful an discreet about this? Should I email and ask him directly or should I write to the department's graduate coordinator?

Thank you very much,

[Victory]

I'd wait until Tuesday before you allow panic to set in.

[humanature]

nabh, I'm pretty sure they're very careful about this. Especially if the professor was congratulating you himself about joining his group - I would hope he knew who you were! Give it a few business days at least. I'm sure your acceptance letter is on its way.

On another completely unrelated note. I am stupid. Don't be like me - i.e. running around like a chicken with its head cut off a few days after seeing other people hear back from my program. I just got the email at noon today (my recruitment weekend ended on Tues) that I've been accepted to the UC Berkeley MCB PhD program! Yay!

[nandelle]

Congratulations!

I heard back last night at about 6:00pm that I was accepted to UC Irvine!! No funding for master's students, so between U Irvine + no funding and Minnesota + no funding, I'd choose minnesota, but hey it's always awesome to get an admittance rather than a rejection

[frankdux]

DAMN IT!!!

3 people were called today and accepted to one of my top choice programs. :x :cry: :x :cry: :x :cry:

[riss287]

I still haven't heard from anyone... panic.

[Tonights]

Someone was called yesterday for my second choice and one of the schools I thought I had the best shot at. Waiting on the rejection now. I'm crying - is that ridiculous and overly hormonal? Probably. Happy Fucking Valentine's.

[Dubya]

Someone was called yesterday for my second choice and one of the schools I thought I had the best shot at. Waiting on the rejection now. I'm crying - is that ridiculous and overly hormonal? Probably. Happy Fucking Valentine's.

You never know, different sub-fields within the same department may send out acceptances/rejects at different times...I know the other person was bio anth and you're not. There's still hope!

[Tonights]

There's still hope!

Thank you so much. My hope reservoirs are running really, really low.

[medianerd]

Someone was called yesterday for my second choice and one of the schools I thought I had the best shot at. Waiting on the rejection now. I'm crying - is that ridiculous and overly hormonal? Probably. Happy Fucking Valentine's.

I don't think it's ridiculous at all. Whenever I've had a school rejection in the past, I've cried or gone to bed for hours and then sat and stared at a wall. I take it really hard. It's understandable considering how important this stuff is to us.

[miratrix]

News that one other person got notified is not the same as a rejection, though. I think taking it as a rejection is definitely premature given all the what-ifs we can think of (for instance, only one advisor made the calls this early, or they haven't finished making decisions). Doesn't mean it's not understandable to cry in frustration, though :/

[humanature]

Yes it's not the same as rejection! Don't cry yet. Some programs review different applicants on different days.... or sometimes one PI is more pushy than another. Others were notified 3 days before me for instance... although I completely understand about the going crazy & waiting for a rejection part... it's just not the case though. Don't give up hope yet, especially after only one day.

[miratrix]

And the calls might not be that coordinated - I got two calls from the one school I've heard from because the POI (is this "person of interest," or am I using it wrong) didn't realize the department coordinator had already called me. This is so much better than not hearing from either of them, but still shows that they hadn't totally figured out who was doing what and when.

[vern23]

10 apps out no word from anyone yet, killing me slowly inside, and 5 of these schools have already started contacting people...why not me, everyone else i know in my department, my friends, have all heard from at least one school, its a starting to seem weird that no waitlist no rejection no acceptance. I really hope this week brings some news, preferably good rather than bad, but i'd like to at least know something.

[fuzzylogician]

Don't lose hope. I had one school send me an invitation to an Open House to the wrong email address. It took them about 10 days (according to the date on the original mail they forwarded me again, this time to my correct address) to notice that I didn't reply in any way! Since I knew the invitations were already sent out and I didn't get one, I thought for sure I was doomed. It turned out to be good news in the end, though.

[mws17]

Penn GSE apparently sent invites for interview weekend. I did not get one. :-(

Strangely, I applied to another school at Penn and I'm waiting for the decision but I just got Penn GSE's information CD yesterday. I don't quite understand as I thought the early admission for financial aid and fellowship consideration was in early Jan. (right?) already. Did you apply for the early admission?

[Tonights]

The nice responses to my mini-breakdown on Saturday were so, so wonderful and exactly why I adore this forum. Sometimes a couple of kind and encouraging words can make all the difference during a process like this. Thanks, you guys.

[Sonic]

10 apps out no word from anyone yet, killing me slowly inside, and 5 of these schools have already started contacting people...why not me, everyone else i know in my department, my friends, have all heard from at least one school, its a starting to seem weird that no waitlist no rejection no acceptance. I really hope this week brings some news, preferably good rather than bad, but i'd like to at least know something.

We are one and the same. I didn't start panicking until 50% of my schools were notifying. Now I'm surrounded by people waving their big fat admissions packets around and while I'm very happy for them, I definitely want my own giant envelope soon!

[wantaphd]

Update: I finally received the acceptance letter from my #2 school Saturday after seeing a status update on the website a week earlier. I was also nominated for a fellowship, which comes with four years of funding. I suspect I'll get a TA regardless, since pretty much everyone gets that in this program.

I'm excited and ready to move now!

[vern23]

another one of my schools started calling people over the weekend. thats 6 outta 10 now. I think i really need to stop checking these sites and other's results its probably making me crazier.

[msphdhopeful]

According to the results section, someone already got an interview last friday for one of my top programs. This person was contacted mid-January. It's hard to hold on to hope.

[Tonights]

It's hard to hold on to hope.

Believe me, I know, but when the alternative is to descend into madness, it's best to just keep on hoping no matter what.

[medianerd]

You know, I now understand where people were coming from when they saw a program update on here and they hadn't gotten any notice.

I really fell apart today as a result of this. And I know all of the common sense things about variation in notice time, etc but I figure that's uncommon.

It also made me wonder whether anyone maliciously posts an update from a program that's inaccurate.

Sigh. I thought I'd be a lot cooler.. it's just that the acceptance I did get may not come through with funding so I can't really count it. Trying to pull my head back up and think logically.. to let the thoughts go that don't serve me.

[illinoisellie]

Yeah... so I'm 2/6 now.... 1/3 of my programs has started contacting people...

but hey, gotta look on the bright side - maybe they don't work out the funding until later, so they give the people they contact last more funding!!

yeah, i know - not very likely... but a girl can dream, right?

isn't that what this whole application process is about, anyways?

better end it there before it gets more introspective... darn psychology major... :roll:

[anthcat]

It also made me wonder whether anyone maliciously posts an update from a program that's inaccurate.

I know what you mean, and I wonder too, especially when, like Chicago anthropology, they have a stated policy that they never accept by email, never notify before 1st week of March, and sent out all the notices on the same day. The results updates have their weaknesses - maybe the email was from a potential advisor, maybe they asked directly for an answer, but we have no way of knowing that. Not to mention that it would be very easy to grief and stir up a huge amount of panic by posting false results.

...although I can't for the life of my imagine who would get a kick of of griefing poor little us.