Ball State anyone? They seem on the "ball" with the process

[quick1]

...no pun intended.

I really like this school and the work they do. But lately their emails have been a roller coaster of excitement, followed by fear, followed by a sigh of relief tinged with anxiety.

Who else applied to Ball State Psych and is waiting?

They sent me an email in January saying I met the Grad School's min. admission requirements (I take that as, hey you made it through the initial cut off, you're somewhat smart!) and my application would go to the Psych dept admissions for review.

Then yesterday I got an email from their psych admissions and my heart skipped a beat. It was just them letting me know that they are still reviewing applications and lots of competitive applicants, hope we're all doing well and said we'd know if we got an interview by 2/13 with interviews on 3/2. (Now my hopes are higher because I feel like maybe those of us getting these emails made it through some hoops and are so close to interviews we can almost see ourselves suited up and there).

I know some schools send out flat rejections first then interviews. I know other schools work on interviews then do rejection notices (my guess is they want to keep some extras lying around in case interviews dont work out), and I know some do them all at once and then add wait lists.

Ball State so far is the only school that's kept me in the loop on the process which makes a possible outright rejection even more disappointing if I don't at least interview there.

Edited February 4, 2012 by quickinstinct