UVA -- Still Pending?

[Yellow#5]

How many of you are still in limbo with UVA?

Are you dreading the Monday morning status change to "rejection" like I am?

What gives? Are they just working through the pile slowly or are they gearing up to offer a bunch of unfunded Master invites?

Thoughts?

[immersion]

Yeah you prolly rejected..UVA told us almost a month ago that we had been accepted..Who were you hoping to work with, btw?

[lotf629]

Ouch, immersion. I'm in at UVA but waiting in agony for another school: I get the pain. I think, however, that just as I am probably out at my other school, so you are probably out at UVA . Maybe it's best for us both to let the dream go?

[lyonessrampant]

Good luck on UVa! I hope you get in. Gees immersion, you may have gotten into some great schools, but as for "fit" on here, you seem like a jerk sometimes. . . and don't spell check your entries at all. . .

[Yellow#5]

Hey guys, thanks for sticking up for me, but you know what they say, if you can't take the criticism, show biz ain't for you.

[lyonessrampant]

LOL Yellow5. Apparantly, you're more than capable of taking care of yourself. Still, good luck on UVa or other places you're waiting on.

[immersion]

Hey Guys, I'm sorry...I didn't realize how gruff my response had come off...and I didn't realize blogs needed spell check (lol...) Many apologies

[immersion]

and, damm, i swore I deleted that old UVA post...it was a moment..lol

[JKessler]

Still "Pending" on the UVA website. They have rejected a lot of people though. I wonder if they are just determining a waiting list or something.

-Jeff

[michellemmattern]

I, too, am still waiting on a response to UVa. At this point, I'd take an unfunded MA position.. has anyone heard acceptances or rejections from their MA program yet?

[irishcoffee]

I was pending until precisely 4:45pm yesterday, when I hit "refresh" and got a "deny." The rather poorly-worded rejection email was sent to me today, so I suppose you're still being considered for something (a wait list, perhaps?) if you weren't in that massive emailing.

But in all seriousness, if I was grading that rejection letter I would have bracketed the whole thing and put "awk." beside it.

[dd87]

For all of you guys that are still "pending" (like me!) I wouldn't give up all hope. I know lots of schools this year have been making decisions in pieces, and there have been a couple of wait-lists up in the last couple of days, which wouldn't be too bad.

Anyways, good luck!

[Cherokee_red]

Hey! I just found out I'm on UVa's waitlist! Does anyone know if people got off the waitlist last year? Anyone else on it? Anybody know how many people are on the list?

Thanks for any information!

[michellemmattern]

Yellow #5: when was your letter dated? I was wondering if mine just didn't arrive yet; mail around here (which first travels through my university's mail) is extremely slow..

[michellemmattern]

Oops. I didn't mean Yellow #5, I meant Cherokee_red.

[Cherokee_red]

Postmarked Feb. 25.

Letter dated Feb. 24.

If you'll notice, my mail is very slow (resulting in a tortuously long week)

[michellemmattern]

Thanks, Cherokee_red.

Your mail isn't that slow--I still have hope for a UVa waitlisting, because my rejection from UNC was dated 2/16, postmarked 2/17, and didn't arrive until 2/24!

[Cherokee_red]

Wow, that's so late! I myself have yet to hear from UNC...

[Yellow#5]

Hey,

Thanks for posting guys, especially those of you who had to relive a bad experience. Someone posted on the results page that they were robbed by a guy with a knife the same day they were rejected from UVA, and the rejection was worse. (Sorry dude!)

I just hope they are not working through rejections alphabetically, as your friend and humble narrator, Yellow, is probably still at the bottom of the pile.

Immersion, it takes a big man to admit when he's wrong. There's hope for you yet. :wink:

[Yellow#5]

Oh, and I notice someone posted this in the results section, so I thought I'd move it here. (promise, it wasn't me!)

University Of Virginia - Charlottesville English, PhD Other via Other on 1 Mar 2009 A 1 Mar 2009 To the Virginia waitlist folks: what does your status on the UVa website say? Are you still "pending" or has it changed to something else?

...and someone answered...

University Of Virginia English, PhD Wait listed via Postal Service on 1 Mar 2009 O 1 Mar 2009 To the previous poster: I am waitlisted and my online app still says "pending."

[Yellow#5]

Still pending with no word either way

I saw an additional post or two on the results page about receiving waitlist notifications by mail, but, alas, my city just got a foot of snow.

Now, I know the post office says rain, snow, sleet, etc., but they never promised to walk up the stoop of every brownstone in the south end before they are shoveled and salted.

Any other souls in UVA limbo left out there?

[SmartCookie]

Hiya, Yellow5.

Yup, I'm still pending and no word either way as well, AND also up to my knees in snow. Cheers, Here's to hopin'

[michellemmattern]

Hi Yellow #5 & Smart Cookie,

I also am still pending. I have convinced myself that I'm waitlisted--a dangerous assumption, I know, but a prayerful one at least.

I've had NO snow, so I don't know what the excuse is around here if I am getting a letter. I live in Ohio--how about you two?

[Yellow#5]

Hi Cookie and Michelle,

It seems like many people are waitlisted, and many of us are STILL waiting. I think it is dangerous to assume we are waitlisted, because it feels like there haven't been that many rejections posted, considering the program size.

I've called the Department and if they get back to me, of course I'll post here, since this is the only place I seem to be these days. I've moved out of my apartment, and put all my stuff in storage at the gradcafe!

[JKessler]

Still Pending.

-Jeff