bar_scene_gambler Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 Rejection from Penn State for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cottagecheeseman Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 Rejection from Penn State for me. Man so many of my gradcafe pals are getting rejections today. So sad. wandajune and philstudent1991 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bar_scene_gambler Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 Man so many of my gradcafe pals are getting rejections today. So sad. It's okay. I'm actually not too upset about the Penn State rejection. It wasn't even near the top of my list. I'll probably be crushed by the Chicago rejections though (whenever they come in). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philosophe Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 Man so many of my gradcafe pals are getting rejections today. So sad. Out of upvotes, but I appreciate the sentiment. Bottle of wine for me tonight! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cottagecheeseman Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 Man Arizona hated my application so much they sent me a letter in the mail too. Edit_Undo and stressedout 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greencoloredpencil Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 The exclamation marks are confusing me. Are we happy about our rejections? Absolutely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silly_Socrates Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 I can claim a Madison rejection. The letter said they were accepting 7 out of over 170 applicants. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianfaircloud Posted February 25, 2014 Author Share Posted February 25, 2014 I can claim a Madison rejection. The letter said they were accepting 7 out of over 170 applicants. Was it postal mail or email? And if postal, what's the first number if your zip code? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silly_Socrates Posted February 25, 2014 Share Posted February 25, 2014 Was it postal mail or email? And if postal, what's the first number if your zip code? It was postal mail. I live in wisconsin, so first number of my zip is 5. The letter was dated February 21st, so I am actually surprised it did not arrive Saturday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bar_scene_gambler Posted February 25, 2014 Share Posted February 25, 2014 Man Arizona hated my application so much they sent me a letter in the mail too. Don't worry zizeksucks, they sent me one too. We can both wallow in our respectively shallow philosophical perspectives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zblaesi Posted February 25, 2014 Share Posted February 25, 2014 (edited) Now I'm checking my mailbox... EDIT And sure enough! Hello Arizona. Edited February 25, 2014 by zblaesi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stressedout Posted February 25, 2014 Share Posted February 25, 2014 Got a paper Arizona love note as well... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianfaircloud Posted February 25, 2014 Author Share Posted February 25, 2014 Thinking more about the Wisconsin rejections: If you didn't get a Wisconsin rejection yesterday, you will probably get one today, provided that: you don't live a great distance from Madison, Wisconsin. you haven't been accepted or wait-listed The letters were dated February 21. (Thanks to Silly Socrates, above.) Now Silly Socrates received the letter on February 24. I lived in Wisconsin, and I remember mail usually arrived one or two days later, if sent between places in Wisconsin. So I think the letters were actually mailed on February 21, too. (Silly Socrates, does the envelope have a date stamped on it from the USPS?) Now for the rest of us, typically mail takes three days. (At least that's been my experience after living in five different zip codes, starting with 7, 6, 5, 2, and 0.) So my thought is this: If you haven't received a rejection from UW Madison, and if you don't receive one today, and if you don't live a great distance from Madison, then there's reason to be hopeful about being wait-listed. The other side of this: Someone said yesterday that s/he was told that wait-list notifications would be sent today. So maybe we'll hear from UW Madison today, in which case none of this speculation matters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platonist Posted February 25, 2014 Share Posted February 25, 2014 (edited) Could anyone tell me about the Duke rejections? From the results page, I saw that the rejections were made available on the website. But I just logged in to my Duke application account (the SSIS website account), and found nothing about decisions about my application: no acceptances, no waitlist, no rejections. It merely says "no notifications". What does this mean? Are they behind the updates of rejections or do they forget to update the rejection decision toward my application? Thanks. Edited February 25, 2014 by Platonist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silly_Socrates Posted February 25, 2014 Share Posted February 25, 2014 1) Ian, to answer your question, the envelope is time stamped with 2/21 as well. 2) The online status of my Madison application has been updated to say "denied." So if you haven't heard anything via post or email, it seems as if the website has been updated! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheVineyard Posted February 25, 2014 Share Posted February 25, 2014 1) Ian, to answer your question, the envelope is time stamped with 2/21 as well. 2) The online status of my Madison application has been updated to say "denied." So if you haven't heard anything via post or email, it seems as if the website has been updated! Mine still says pending. Assuming waitlist at this point. Fit is perfect, strong connections with my writers, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silly_Socrates Posted February 25, 2014 Share Posted February 25, 2014 Mine still says pending. Assuming waitlist at this point. Fit is perfect, strong connections with my writers, etc. Best of luck to you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platonist Posted February 25, 2014 Share Posted February 25, 2014 Mine still says pending. Assuming waitlist at this point. Fit is perfect, strong connections with my writers, etc. Do not mean to be offensive, but want to add that it could be the case that they are behind the updating, especially when your last name is quite late in the alphabet. But if your last name is very early, it is quite reasonable to assume that you are on the waitlist. I do hope it is the latter case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheVineyard Posted February 25, 2014 Share Posted February 25, 2014 (edited) Do not mean to be offensive, but want to add that it could be the case that they are behind the updating, especially when your last name is quite late in the alphabet. But if your last name is very early, it is quite reasonable to assume that you are on the waitlist. I do hope it is the latter case. Oh no offense taken. I am not at all sure that I will be waitlisted. I'm just saying that I can't help but assume that I am at this point. I know there are a thousand reasons why I might not have received word yet...I just am confirmation biasing them out of the way to make room for that waitlist letter. Edited February 25, 2014 by TheVineyard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platonist Posted February 25, 2014 Share Posted February 25, 2014 (edited) Oh no offense taken. I am not at all sure that I will be waitlisted. I'm just saying that I can't help but assume that I am at this point. I know there are a thousand reasons why I might not have received word yet...I just am confirmation biasing them out of the way to make room for that waitlist letter. Thanks, Vineyard. Hope you are waitlisted at this school. I am in a similar situation with Duke. I am very tempted to assume that I will be or am being waitlisted. Stay positive! Edited February 25, 2014 by Platonist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheVineyard Posted February 25, 2014 Share Posted February 25, 2014 Thanks, Vineyard. Hope you are waitlisted at this school. I am in a similar situation with Duke. I am very tempted to assume that I will be or am being waitlisted. Except as I said in that thread, I haven't seen any Duke rejections posted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platonist Posted February 25, 2014 Share Posted February 25, 2014 (edited) Except as I said in that thread, I haven't seen any Duke rejections posted. Check the results page of TGC. Entering "philosophy Duke" in the search field, you will see many posts of Duke rejections. Try this: http://www.thegradcafe.com/survey/index.php?q=philosophy+duke Edited February 25, 2014 by Platonist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheVineyard Posted February 25, 2014 Share Posted February 25, 2014 Check the results page of TGC. Enter "philosophy Duke" in the subject field, you will see many posts of Duke rejections. Try this: http://www.thegradcafe.com/survey/index.php?q=philosophy+duke Damn, those must have been some really bad applicants if they got rejected a full year early! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platonist Posted February 25, 2014 Share Posted February 25, 2014 (edited) Damn, those must have been some really bad applicants if they got rejected a full year early! Oh, so sorry, I am so silly: did not see the dates!! But there are indeed acceptances and waitlists, so the rejections are forthcoming. Now I assume I am rejected at Duke. So disappointed. Edited February 25, 2014 by Platonist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dialectica Posted February 25, 2014 Share Posted February 25, 2014 I've applied to 7 terminal MA programs. I just heard back from the first one, Georgia State University: Rejected. Pretty bummed about this. I was under the impression that GSU's program would be one of the less difficult to get into, being that they had 23 spots open. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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