smwinterfeldt Posted February 10, 2016 Posted February 10, 2016 How long should we wait before we presume a rejection? UC Boulder released four of their acceptances today, and so far my inbox is empty. But it is only the first day.
jacbarcan Posted February 10, 2016 Author Posted February 10, 2016 Based on the past, I would say wait a week.
bechkafish Posted February 11, 2016 Posted February 11, 2016 I saw that the prediction for Georgetown was the 19th - do they usually release on Fridays, or is there a chance that they could start sending out earlier, between now and then? I guess it doesn't really matter (they'll get in touch whenever they get in touch), but I'm trying to manage my expectations a bit.
jacbarcan Posted February 11, 2016 Author Posted February 11, 2016 (edited) Oddly enough, they've exclusively started releasing on Fridays for the past for years, according to my data. I would expect the first to come out on a Friday. Edited February 11, 2016 by jacbarcan
Siegfried42 Posted February 11, 2016 Posted February 11, 2016 2 hours ago, jacbarcan said: Oddly enough, they've exclusively started releasing on Fridays for the past for years, according to my data. I would expect the first to come out on a Friday. I say tomorrow, then! bechkafish 1
bechkafish Posted February 11, 2016 Posted February 11, 2016 15 minutes ago, Siegfried42 said: I say tomorrow, then! Fingers crossed!
thatsjustsemantics Posted February 12, 2016 Posted February 12, 2016 Here's hoping for notifications from UNC, CH & UW-Madison tonight! 502845824 1
bechkafish Posted February 12, 2016 Posted February 12, 2016 22 minutes ago, thatsjustsemantics said: Here's hoping for notifications from UNC, CH & UW-Madison tonight! And Brown! A girl can dream...
gughok Posted February 12, 2016 Posted February 12, 2016 About a dozen programs sent out their responses at least a week earlier than predicted, so you'd think I'd be lucky enough to have applied to maybe one of them, right? Nooooo. My programs are all stubbornly on-schedule. At best I'll get my first piece of news in a week. AnotherKantFan 1
AnotherKantFan Posted February 12, 2016 Posted February 12, 2016 5 minutes ago, gughok said: About a dozen programs sent out their responses at least a week earlier than predicted, so you'd think I'd be lucky enough to have applied to maybe one of them, right? Nooooo. My programs are all stubbornly on-schedule. At best I'll get my first piece of news in a week. Ahh same here (almost). Something related to one of the Murphy's laws? gughok 1
gughok Posted February 12, 2016 Posted February 12, 2016 2 minutes ago, AnotherKantFan said: Ahh same here (almost). Something related to one of the Murphy's laws? Murphy's Law (generalized): whenever it's possible to state any vaguely related variant of Murphy's laws in a particular situation to your own detriment, that variant will hold. MentalEngineer and AnotherKantFan 2
jacbarcan Posted February 12, 2016 Author Posted February 12, 2016 21 minutes ago, gughok said: About a dozen programs sent out their responses at least a week earlier than predicted, so you'd think I'd be lucky enough to have applied to maybe one of them, right? Nooooo. My programs are all stubbornly on-schedule. At best I'll get my first piece of news in a week. I feel you here.
jacbarcan Posted February 12, 2016 Author Posted February 12, 2016 I've got an anonymous source telling me that UNC will most likely not release today or even Monday because of how much work they still have for the weekend. Most likely, the source tells me, they will be done next Friday with a possibility of it being next Wednesday. thatsjustsemantics and gughok 2
gughok Posted February 12, 2016 Posted February 12, 2016 8 minutes ago, jacbarcan said: I've got an anonymous source telling me that UNC will most likely not release today or even Monday because of how much work they still have for the weekend. Most likely, the source tells me, they will be done next Friday with a possibility of it being next Wednesday. All this talk of anonymous sources has me picturing a discreet, undercover Jac exchanging briefcases with strange people in trench coats and big hats. Siegfried42 1
thatsjustsemantics Posted February 12, 2016 Posted February 12, 2016 13 minutes ago, jacbarcan said: I've got an anonymous source telling me that UNC will most likely not release today or even Monday because of how much work they still have for the weekend. Most likely, the source tells me, they will be done next Friday with a possibility of it being next Wednesday. Aww, 'tis a shame. Merci quand-même.
machineghost Posted February 12, 2016 Posted February 12, 2016 Jac: can your correspondent inquire into the status of things at Riverside?
o m g Posted February 12, 2016 Posted February 12, 2016 I'm also wondering about the likelihood of Notre Dame today... Siegfried42 1
jacbarcan Posted February 12, 2016 Author Posted February 12, 2016 1. Trench coats, yes. 2. I'll see what Nat can do about Riverside. Probably not much since they are very unpredictable ranging from late January to late February and a bit in between in the past four years. I pretty much randomly selected a date. Nat and I are still trying to figure out good ground rules for emailing/calling and I'm unsure what the consensus is on asking before anything has been sent out when they're still within their release date ranges. (Hopefully that all makes sense.) 3. Notre Dame--I would say relatively consistent and should come out today or any day next week. Last year, they came out on the 18th. Earlier years, they came out on the 13th twice and 1st one.
jacbarcan Posted February 12, 2016 Author Posted February 12, 2016 Also, just received information about Riverside. They just began reading applications last week and while I'm not sure how long the process takes I don't think it'll be even by next week. offyerhst and gughok 2
gughok Posted February 12, 2016 Posted February 12, 2016 57 minutes ago, jacbarcan said: They just began reading applications last week Now, I didn't apply to UC Riverside, but: really? Like, actually? It blows my mind that they can get started this late.
jacbarcan Posted February 12, 2016 Author Posted February 12, 2016 Yeah. That's what I was told. It might be wrong, but the message seems honest to me. Might have to get my sock mask.
majorshake Posted February 12, 2016 Posted February 12, 2016 Just now, MickeyRay said: In case anyone is interested, I have heard from an inside source that Villanova is finalizing right now and people will hear if they're being invited to interview at the end of next week. Yes, this is very interesting. Interesting indeed. Thank you!
gughok Posted February 12, 2016 Posted February 12, 2016 My advisor just informed me that a friend of hers at Rutgers said they would make their decisions by the end of then last week of February, and thus that we would be informed early March. No surprise there but at least we can be sure not to expect a surprise. (My advisor also told me not to worry, which paradoxically made me neurotic; does she know something?)
majorshake Posted February 12, 2016 Posted February 12, 2016 (edited) I noticed on the DePaul Facebook page that they are running their graduate conference this weekend - this might have some bearing on when we'd hear from them. Edit: I said that and literally two minutes later someone else posted an interview offer. So.. Edited February 12, 2016 by majorshake
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