U Oregon Acceptances

[spartaca]

I noticed a few acceptances from U Oregon on the results page. Any additional info you'd want to share would be appreciated!!

[booksareneat]

I still haven't heard anything except that I believe acceptences will be done by email and mail and rejections will be sent out via the postman.

That said, I'd love to hear more if just to torture myself.

[zoberg]

I received the opposite of an acceptance from the mailman. Best of luck to the rest of you who are still waiting.

[sarahrayyy]

I received an email on March 4th that I was accepted and that formal acceptances will be mailed out this weekend. I don't know how many they are offering but I hope you get one too! I received full funding with a 8,000 GTA

[booksareneat]

So, Sarah, your email acceptance was informal? Was the email initiated by you or are they emailing and mailing acceptances?

[sarahrayyy]

Yes it was sent from the dean of the english department. They should be sending out formal letters ASAP (I should have gotten one already but haven't). I'm not sure if they have sent them all out or not, but I got my email last Wednesday so all formal letters should be arriving this week. Hope this helps!

[ATLhawks]

I was accepted to Oregon today without funding (for now). I was wondering if anyone here is familiar with the program and how you like it. I'm from the east coast but I like what I've seen so far from the information out there. Also, any of you who were accepted with funding and don't want to go, feel free to reject that offer anytime for my sake...

Accepted: Oregon, Penn State (maybe?)

Waitlist: Washington University in St. Louis

Rejected: Duke, UNC Chapel Hill, Vanderbilt

[booksareneat]

I spoke to the graduate secretary and found out I'm on some sort of amorphous waitlist. He didn't have many details, but it seems there is a purgatory of those not accepted and those not denied for whom there is no real ranking. He said he was hoping to know more before April 15th. So, if you haven't heard, perhaps you can join me in purgatory.

I'm starting to rack up some waitlists here. Always the bridesmaid, never the bride.

[joeygiraldo]

I spoke to the graduate secretary and found out I'm on some sort of amorphous waitlist.

As if this season wasn't bad enough, now there's sightings of an "amorphous waitlist." Haha... sounds like some terrible cryptid like the Abominable Snowman. Man, some schools just suck at processing apps....

[booksareneat]

I get the impression that it isn't their suckitude (except Washington, there I'm pretty sure it's institutionalized), but rather that no program has a sense of how much money it has. I think they tried to wait as long as they could to figure out their budget. I think program budgets have changed in the last few months because money (from the stimulus and omnibus spending bill) is coming, but they don't know how much. So, they make a baseline acceptance and then put together a waitlist. From now to April 15th, I think they're hoping to have a better idea of funding and thus how to solve a problem like Maria.

[booksareneat]

Here's the skinny: cohort will max out at 15 (don't know how many offers they've made so far) and the waitlist is 7 people long (seems small to me). The waitlist may be small if they made a large number of original offers that exceeded the cohort size.

[godardbardotlang]

I'm applying for an MA and was told that they wouldn't have any information until around mid April? Mid April?! I already have an arm full of decisions back and they want me to wait until Mid April to decide. hmmm. This is frustrating.

[booksareneat]

I'm applying for an MA and was told that they wouldn't have any information until around mid April? Mid April?! I already have an arm full of decisions back and they want me to wait until Mid April to decide. hmmm. This is frustrating.

There is a certain amount of justified frustration on this board and a whole lot of whining on this board. In your case, I think it's somewhat justified, but you have to remember that this isn't cut and dry for adcoms. Often there is a first round of acceptances that is more than the intended cohort: they have money for 15 people, so they offer it to 20 (then there is a waitlist). They have to balance their funds and their applicants. Oregon is not well funded in normal years and this year, I imagine, like everyone else, there are cutbacks--they may not even know their set budget yet.

Patience. If you have other great offers, then go with them. Or, be honest and email the DGS with your concern, saying "I have these offers and I would like to know if possible something a little bit more about funding."