testingtesting Posted February 22, 2015 Posted February 22, 2015 That terrible feeling when you know that you will not hear a final decision from the waiting list until April 15. Tick, tick, tick....
SocialHealth Posted February 22, 2015 Posted February 22, 2015 Just left an interview this weekend and the director was saying how there's a waitlist gridlock because of how people wait to hear from other schools but they might be on the waitlist there and so on and so forth and then everything gets jammed up. smh.
BeatrizBear Posted February 22, 2015 Posted February 22, 2015 You might hear earlier depending on when everyone replies to their offers.
testingtesting Posted February 22, 2015 Author Posted February 22, 2015 You might hear earlier depending on when everyone replies to their offers. Speaking with DGS and POIs, it is almost always on April 15th that people hear back. Can you imagine the craziness on the last day for middle-tier universities?
Zoethor2 Posted February 23, 2015 Posted February 23, 2015 Oddly, this is one place where the onus is actually on us, the applicants! Guess we get a little bit of power in this crazy process...
mmzee Posted February 23, 2015 Posted February 23, 2015 You could be accepted before April 15. I was waitlisted and after only a week my acceptance came (they did mention I was on the top of the waiting list, so you're position on the list definitely plays a part here). Just have faith, a lot of people are already talking about declining offers on the results page.
testingtesting Posted February 23, 2015 Author Posted February 23, 2015 You could be accepted before April 15. I was waitlisted and after only a week my acceptance came (they did mention I was on the top of the waiting list, so you're position on the list definitely plays a part here). Just have faith, a lot of people are already talking about declining offers on the results page. Not from Princeton/Harvard!
NeuropharmesanCheese Posted February 23, 2015 Posted February 23, 2015 I've got a question about waitlists, so I'll post it here instead of starting a new thread. Is it considered rude and/or pestering to ask about one's position on a wait list? I'm pretty sure some schools might not exactly have a ranking, like if my research interests are more suited for a POI who has a student who declines an offer, I might get in in place of someone who has better "stats" than me but who has different research interests. That considered, is it okay to just ask, or will that hurt my chances?
JW83 Posted February 23, 2015 Posted February 23, 2015 I'm at the top of my waitlist, but at this program the waitlists are POI-specific and he's only taking one student. So unless that one student declines the offer (or the department gives extra funding for another student)...
testingtesting Posted February 23, 2015 Author Posted February 23, 2015 I've got a question about waitlists, so I'll post it here instead of starting a new thread. Is it considered rude and/or pestering to ask about one's position on a wait list? I'm pretty sure some schools might not exactly have a ranking, like if my research interests are more suited for a POI who has a student who declines an offer, I might get in in place of someone who has better "stats" than me but who has different research interests. That considered, is it okay to just ask, or will that hurt my chances? From my understanding, it is contingent on the system for wait listing. Some programs have subfield-level wait lists, but others literally have POI-level waiting lists. This saddens me because I am wait listed after listing 3 rock star POIs but I would be happy to work under so many other faculty at the university I'm working at as well!
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