It's (Not) About Me Posted February 12, 2013 Share Posted February 12, 2013 There is only one possibility: they are toying with us. Affirmative. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bdon19 Posted February 12, 2013 Share Posted February 12, 2013 Haha mainly I'm just SO EXCITED that we are about to have a new cohort I can't contain myself! AHHHHH! I had so much fan last year on the prospective student visit, I want to make that happen again! And I want to wish good luck to everyone! I know just how crazy I felt last year at this time, and I have survived! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InHacSpeVivo Posted February 12, 2013 Share Posted February 12, 2013 I got my first rejection today, and in some way, it actually felt good. I mean, I totally want to throw a hissy fit and stomp and scream that it's not fair... but at least I know my anxiety over the past weeks was justified. I just want the rest of my rejections so I can curl up with booze, fattening food, and my misery and tell the rest of the world to FOD. Fruitless hope is so much worse than rejection. Agreed. Also, best.avatar.ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DHEnthusiast Posted February 12, 2013 Share Posted February 12, 2013 Just wanted to let everyone know that I just heard from the admin assistant at Rutgers and she told me that we should expect to hear the last week of Feb or the first week of March. I also heard from a prof at Wayne State but all he said was "fairly soon," which doesn't give me a better idea at ALL! The silence is killing me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
true_katydid Posted February 12, 2013 Share Posted February 12, 2013 Hey friends! Just wanted to throw out there, I heard rumors today that the adcomm here at UNC is finalizing decisions basically as we speak and will be starting to notify soon! I know I got my e-mail last year at about 8 pm, so keep your eyes out! I am crpssing my fingers for all of you!! Do you happen to have any more insider information on UNC's admissions process that you might be willing to divulge? I don't want to pry, but UNC is my top choice and has been my "dream school" for years, so I'm a bit of a nervous wreck here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Two Espressos Posted February 12, 2013 Share Posted February 12, 2013 (edited) It's insane, hidalgo. It's pure capitalism. We're perpetuating it continually. Don't get me wrong, though, I'm buying-in like all the rest, but just look closely at any English Department and it should be clear that the process is failing us. For the most part, the wrong people are critics, the wrong people are teaching Literature, the wrong people are accepted. Also, economic inequality is a major flaw in the process, and no one seems to care to turn the critical eye inward. What the fuck did I just read?! Hey friends! Just wanted to throw out there, I heard rumors today that the adcomm here at UNC is finalizing decisions basically as we speak and will be starting to notify soon! I know I got my e-mail last year at about 8 pm, so keep your eyes out! I am crpssing my fingers for all of you!! Hey bdon19! My application season thus far has been very dismal, and though your news terrifies me, I'm grateful for it. Hopefully UNC sends good news my way! Edited February 12, 2013 by Two Espressos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gwendolyn Posted February 12, 2013 Share Posted February 12, 2013 Found out one of my recommenders didn't submit her letter to OSU correctly. Could've turned out awfully, but they (mercifully) called her and told her the only thing keeping me from admissions was her letter. She of course obliged (I totally just realized she graduated from the same program in the 60s). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bdon19 Posted February 12, 2013 Share Posted February 12, 2013 Do you happen to have any more insider information on UNC's admissions process that you might be willing to divulge? I don't want to pry, but UNC is my top choice and has been my "dream school" for years, so I'm a bit of a nervous wreck here. Unfortunately, I only heard this from a friend, who heard it from a faculty member he passed on the staircase today. Other than that, I don't know much at all. I don't even know who's on the committee, minus the admissions director, DGS, and such. Good luck to you though! UNC is a great place to be! Hey bdon19! My application season thus far has been very dismal, and though your news terrifies me, I'm grateful for it. Hopefully UNC sends good news my way! Good luck to you, Two Espressos! You've been working so hard at this; I really hope it works out for you!! patientagony 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
collikl Posted February 12, 2013 Share Posted February 12, 2013 Unfortunately, I only heard this from a friend, who heard it from a faculty member he passed on the staircase today. Other than that, I don't know much at all. I don't even know who's on the committee, minus the admissions director, DGS, and such. Good luck to you though! UNC is a great place to be! Good luck to you, Two Espressos! You've been working so hard at this; I really hope it works out for you!! ACK! I'm so nervous about UNC! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ishmael Posted February 12, 2013 Share Posted February 12, 2013 ACK! I'm so nervous about UNC! Um, YES. I wonder if we really will hear tonight... Do programs often notify in the evening? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patientagony Posted February 12, 2013 Share Posted February 12, 2013 I might as well add my heard it through the grapevine info: a grad student at UCR tells me that the admissions decisions should go out either the end of this week, or the beginning of next. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patientagony Posted February 12, 2013 Share Posted February 12, 2013 Do programs often notify in the evening? IUB contacted me 7 pm Indiana time, so it does happen sometimes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DontHate Posted February 12, 2013 Share Posted February 12, 2013 Um, YES. I wonder if we really will hear tonight... Do programs often notify in the evening? Programs notify at all times of day, since it's really just a question of a professor sending out an email. And profs often do their emailing at night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bdon19 Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 Um, YES. I wonder if we really will hear tonight... Do programs often notify in the evening? I got my admission from UNC around 8 pm (9 pm NC time) last year, so yes, it's possible! Fingers crossed for y'all! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ocean Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 First acceptance notification from UCI on the board now!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeelyMK Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 First acceptance notification from UCI on the board now!!!! That's me. It was a generic email from DGS saying I should get more info from "whatever program I applied to" in the next few days. So I wouldn't be surprised if all the acceptances went out just now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ocean Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 That's me. It was a generic email from DGS saying I should get more info from "whatever program I applied to" in the next few days. So I wouldn't be surprised if all the acceptances went out just now. Congratulations! Did you receive this email this evening? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeelyMK Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 Yup just before 5 (CA time) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ocean Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 Yup just before 5 (CA time) Thank you for the information! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datatape Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 Keely, you won applications. wreckofthehope 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaykitty19 Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 Keely Congrats on all your acceptances!! Now the real decision making begins! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeelyMK Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 (edited) Lol thank you. Here's an update for those waiting to hear from Irvine. I just got a phone call from the grad chair who said that DGS wasn't actually supposed to send out the email yet. The only reason I got early acceptance was because of Deans fellowship nomination and diversity fellowship nod, but it didn't say anything about those things in the email. On the phone she said they would match and raise any other offer I've been given from other schools because they "knew they would have to fight for me". I feel so blessed and cursed :/ is it possible for a school to guilt you into enrolling? Too much to think about. Good luck in the coming hours and days my friends. I love you all. Edited February 13, 2013 by KeelyMK asleepawake, lisajay, Two Espressos and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
practical cat Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 Congrats, Keely. And have I told you how I love your picture? Marilyn Monroe reading Ulysses is one of the best images to come out of the 20th century. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lisajay Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 Keely, you won applications. out of upvotes, but amen to that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfat Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 This is utterly and completely off-topic, but, girl who wears glasses: I just read this in Mary Ann Doane's "Film and the Masquerade" (which I'm teaching tomorrow): "The woman who wears glasses constitutes one of the most intense visual cliches of the cinema. The image is a heavily marked condensation of motifs concerned with repressed sexuality, knowledge, visibility and vision, intellectuality and undesirability; but the moment she removes her glasses (a moment which, it seems, must always be shown and which is itself linked with a certain sensual quality), she is transformed into spectacle, the very picture of desire." Made me think of you (and, of course, She's All That). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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