anonymous98765 Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 Just got rejected from Berkeley via email -- no fun there. Good luck to the rest of you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
contiguous Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 (edited) arthistoryvoe2 -the weird thing is that the acceptance email never says "PhD". Yet I can't imagine why a school would give a 4 year stipend to a 2-year MA student, unless they're trying to encourage a student to stay for the PhD afterwards. Edited February 24, 2012 by contiguous Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unitname Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 Has anyone had any correspondence/ heard any news from Tyler or BU? I just got an email from Tyler, an invite to their MFA exhibit. That is all I have heard since applying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hicks Posted February 25, 2012 Share Posted February 25, 2012 I got the same e-mail. There was one acceptance posted a couple of weeks ago. If we are rejected I think it is just mean to add us to their e-mail list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unitname Posted February 25, 2012 Share Posted February 25, 2012 Agreed, that would be no fun at all! Question: Did you die when you refreshed your inbox? I did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hicks Posted February 25, 2012 Share Posted February 25, 2012 Actually, at this point I'm kind of numb. I just want the results so I can figure out what I'm doing. I half expected it to be a rejection since that one acceptance was posted a while back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unitname Posted February 25, 2012 Share Posted February 25, 2012 Thats funny you mention feeling numb, I can relate. When I saw the word "Tyler" I was confused, not excited. Why are they emailing me? While waiting the two seconds for the email images to load, I felt a rush of excitement realizing this could be the moment...it died and I quickly neutralized. In short: NUMBNESS is a great way to describe what I feel, too. Good one. I think we subconsciously feel like we passed the threshold of any good news, and plateaued off into"whatever" mode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLajax Posted February 25, 2012 Share Posted February 25, 2012 Hrm, Seems like Columbia finally decided to do its open house/admit someone. Ah well, I had alreayd counted myself out anyways since their (western) medievalist is retiring. Alas, alck. Now if only the rest of them would get on with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
complexprocedure Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 First, late congratulations to Yale admit TBD! Second, I'd like to blow off a bit of steam and spend a moment to textually angst, if I might. Acceptances, rejections, and wait lists are all reported on the board's results for Rochester, but (naturally) I have yet to hear back from them. Now, sure, I know what you're thinking: How hard can it be to make a phone call or send an email, complexprocedure? The answer? Pretty darn hard! See, the not-knowing protects me from the certainty of rejection. Instead, I stew. However, this leads to being frustrated with myself about my unproductive angst! Then I tell myself that it's probably time to step back and survey what's left to wring my hands over. Aside from Rochester, there are four programs from which I've yet to receive a decision. One school offers the MA; the other three are MA to PhD programs. Considering an acceptance into any of these programs precipitates a cascade of anxiety over funding, as even contemplating going into further debt to finance a MASTERS DEGREE IN THE HUMANITIES pushes me over the hand-wringing edge. Seriously, there are hives that are just waiting under the surface of my skin to break free if I am willing to give it more than a momentary thought. But, but... what if I'm not even lucky enough to have that problem?!? Eeep! Well, it looks like I've finally made the transition from "Why worry about what you can't change?" to "So. Many. FEELINGS. !!!!11!!!!1" I'm pretty certain that this is not an improvement. There are plenty of things that I have on my plate right now to keep me busy, and in fact I should not lose any more time to concerning myself over issues that are largely out of my control (this is Logical Me stepping in, in case you didn't notice). Yet the not-knowing is robbing my focus here, even as my task list impatiently taps its foot, waiting for a whole other set of action items to be crossed off. And it's not even MARCH yet?!? Hoo boy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLajax Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 First, late congratulations to Yale admit TBD! Second, I'd like to blow off a bit of steam and spend a moment to textually angst, if I might. Acceptances, rejections, and wait lists are all reported on the board's results for Rochester, but (naturally) I have yet to hear back from them. Now, sure, I know what you're thinking: How hard can it be to make a phone call or send an email, complexprocedure? The answer? Pretty darn hard! See, the not-knowing protects me from the certainty of rejection. Instead, I stew. However, this leads to being frustrated with myself about my unproductive angst! Then I tell myself that it's probably time to step back and survey what's left to wring my hands over. Aside from Rochester, there are four programs from which I've yet to receive a decision. One school offers the MA; the other three are MA to PhD programs. Considering an acceptance into any of these programs precipitates a cascade of anxiety over funding, as even contemplating going into further debt to finance a MASTERS DEGREE IN THE HUMANITIES pushes me over the hand-wringing edge. Seriously, there are hives that are just waiting under the surface of my skin to break free if I am willing to give it more than a momentary thought. But, but... what if I'm not even lucky enough to have that problem?!? Eeep! Well, it looks like I've finally made the transition from "Why worry about what you can't change?" to "So. Many. FEELINGS. !!!!11!!!!1" I'm pretty certain that this is not an improvement. There are plenty of things that I have on my plate right now to keep me busy, and in fact I should not lose any more time to concerning myself over issues that are largely out of my control (this is Logical Me stepping in, in case you didn't notice). Yet the not-knowing is robbing my focus here, even as my task list impatiently taps its foot, waiting for a whole other set of action items to be crossed off. And it's not even MARCH yet?!? Hoo boy. My solution to the anxiety has been a large-ish bag of Nestle semi-sweet morsels. It makes the feelings reside for a bit in loving, non-confusing semi-sweet chocolatey bits. If it works for demontor attacks, it should be an okay treatment for grad admissions anxiety (you know, since I assume the sucking-out-your-soul process is roughly the same for both, right?) Sorry I don't have anything logical and rational to say at the moment in regards to anything but chocolate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLajax Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 Any predictions on who we'll hear from this week? I'm going to guess UVA. Maybe Harvard? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cokohlik Posted February 27, 2012 Author Share Posted February 27, 2012 UVA, Toronto, UDel are my guesses. My top 3... Argh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fullofpink Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 My colleague received their acceptance to UVA about 2 weeks ago.... Hegel's Bagels 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cokohlik Posted February 27, 2012 Author Share Posted February 27, 2012 My colleague received their acceptance to UVA about 2 weeks ago.... From the results, it doesn't seem like UVA sends out their acceptances all at once, so even though I'm not too worried that all hope is lost... I'm still worried. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cokohlik Posted February 27, 2012 Author Share Posted February 27, 2012 Hmm... For UVA, 2 weeks ago would be around Valentine's Day, plus there's an acceptance from the 4th of Feb. this year. They're admitting around 5 applicants according to their website, so that's 2/5 plus any that we might not know of because they don't use the GC. Super worrying commenced. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unitname Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 someone needs to knock me out and wake me up in April!!!!!!!!! Hicks 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLajax Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 Oh good morning Yale. What's that? You're rejecting me? Eh screw it, no one likes New Haven anyways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AClarke Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 Late this whole message board - but I'm guessing since I wasn't invited to the open house at Columbia that means I'm rejected? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
complexprocedure Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 Forget what I said about the silence from Rochester...admission offered w/ 4 year full tuition fellowship & TA-ship, plus maybe something else. Apparently my admissions emails were bouncing?!? HOLY COW HOLY COW HOLY COW!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hegel's Bagels and once 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hegel's Bagels Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 Oh good morning Yale. What's that? You're rejecting me? Eh screw it, no one likes New Haven anyways. Yep. Had the same exact reaction this morning. Sorta bummed, too. Maybe we should start a "Screw you Yale, we don't need you" Club? :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hegel's Bagels Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 Forget what I said about the silence from Rochester...admission offered w/ 4 year full tuition fellowship & TA-ship, plus maybe something else. Apparently my admissions emails were bouncing?!? HOLY COW HOLY COW HOLY COW!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Congrats complexprocedure! Better get some serious longjohns. Rochester has four seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter, and construction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLajax Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 Yep. Had the same exact reaction this morning. Sorta bummed, too. Maybe we should start a "Screw you Yale, we don't need you" Club? :-) Dude, let's do it. Apparently we're 11,000 strong. The board is awash with our Yale rejects. On a different note- congrats to complexprocedure and the BU admit! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stilnovista Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 Ok ok, so I am one of the BU admits! Who's the other?! I'm dyingggg to know! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLajax Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 Congrats sillnovista! I'll claim one of the other BU admits. Got the call while I was in class, so I just have a voicemail to go off of. Confused about funding, which sounds suspiciously like work-study (Must I be an academic indentured servant for the rest of my life??) But yay nonetheless. Definitely feels good after the Yale thrashing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stilnovista Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 Congrats sillnovista! I'll claim one of the other BU admits. Got the call while I was in class, so I just have a voicemail to go off of. Confused about funding, which sounds suspiciously like work-study (Must I be an academic indentured servant for the rest of my life??) But yay nonetheless. Definitely feels good after the Yale thrashing. I was at work, so I imagine we have very similar muddled and confusing voicemails. Please feel free to PM me, I'd love to discuss and introduce! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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