Rejection Thread

[Eshtah]

  On 2/20/2017 at 10:53 PM, 753982 said:

With respect, you shouldn't have emailed them. I read someone post a year ago who I believe was pretty successful as an applicant that emailing before March 15th is a bad, bad idea. You want to give schools plenty of time before you solicit an update on your status. Apparently this person made someone angry by contacting them relatively early in the app season. I'd also recommend against getting attached to any particular school. 

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Not getting attached is so much easier said than done. I have been in touch with the aforementioned faculty member for much longer and she has expressed her wish to stay in touch. I had solid reasons to believe that had a good chance for getting in and since I knew that they had made their choice, I wrote her to find out more. In this particular case, it wasn't at all harmful and has rather helped me to let go of my hope. 

[Big Ariana]

  On 2/20/2017 at 10:42 PM, Eshtah said:

In response to a personal e-mail to a faculty member, I just received the news that Columbia rejected me. This sucks so so much. Can't believe how much it hurts.

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Is this for the philosophy phd or a rel studies program? And condolences. 

[Eshtah]

  On 2/20/2017 at 11:14 PM, Big Ariana said:

Is this for the philosophy phd or a rel studies program? And condolences. 

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Religious studies

[Dialectica]

Rejected from Cornell...probably. 

[Ikari Gendo]

Rejected from SFU MA.

[apophantic]

  On 2/20/2017 at 10:53 PM, 753982 said:

With respect, you shouldn't have emailed them. I read someone post a year ago who I believe was pretty successful as an applicant that emailing before March 15th is a bad, bad idea. You want to give schools plenty of time before you solicit an update on your status. Apparently this person made someone angry by contacting them relatively early in the app season. I'd also recommend against getting attached to any particular school. 

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I've never emailed, but for an administrator to get upset by a student requesting an update would be childish. Acting on the assumption that other people behave according to 5th grade logic would be absurd. 

[To φ or not to φ]

Just received a rejection from WUSTL. 

[eigenname]

  On 2/22/2017 at 3:44 PM, To φ or not to φ said:

Just received a rejection from WUSTL. 

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was it a generic email blast? 

[To φ or not to φ]

  On 2/22/2017 at 5:05 PM, eigenname said:

was it a generic email blast? 

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Yeah! 

[eigenname]

  On 2/22/2017 at 5:09 PM, To φ or not to φ said:

Yeah! 

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I didn't get an acceptance a few weeks ago and had assumed I was rejected, but I didn't get the rejection email either (yet?)... not sure what to think now. 

[eigenname]

  On 2/22/2017 at 5:59 PM, mano said:

if they haven't sent wait lists yet, maybe you are on the wait list?

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Hopefully? They typically send out wait-list emails as well, so I guess I'll just wait and see. 

[Duns Eith]

Rejected at WUStL.

Anyone else not able to post their results in the database?

(EDIT: the answer is yes. Not sure whether the site admins are going to fix it soon, but it's definitely broken)

Edited February 22, 2017 by Turretin

[majorshake]

  On 2/20/2017 at 10:42 PM, Eshtah said:

In response to a personal e-mail to a faculty member, I just received the news that Columbia rejected me. This sucks so so much. Can't believe how much it hurts.

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Sorry to hear - don't suppose they'd have told you when they intend on releasing their offers?

[Big Ariana]

  On 2/22/2017 at 9:02 PM, majorshake said:

Sorry to hear - don't suppose they'd have told you when they intend on releasing their offers?

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that post was for religious studies

[Naruto]

Last year WUSTL sent out rejections in the course of two days. I hope I get on the waitlist though. Best of luck everyone!

[Eshtah]

  On 2/22/2017 at 9:02 PM, majorshake said:

Sorry to hear - don't suppose they'd have told you when they intend on releasing their offers?

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Yeah, sorry. I got lost and ended up here. Big Arians is right, that post was for religious studies.

[eigenname]

  On 2/22/2017 at 9:30 PM, Naruto said:

Last year WUSTL sent out rejections in the course of two days. I hope I get on the waitlist though. Best of luck everyone!

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Yea, and last year's wait-list for WUSTL (if the remarks are to be believed) was 40 people long... best of luck to all 

[The_Last_Thylacine]

I had a problem with submitting my rejection from CU Boulder, but it ended up being because Google Chrome blocked the anti-robot text box. 

[Swann]

i just looked at the past dates for depaul rejections... I wonder why some of their rejections are via email while other postal? that seems strange haha

[Dysexlia]

  On 2/23/2017 at 8:40 PM, I_am_the_last_Thylacine said:

I had a problem with submitting my rejection from CU Boulder, but it ended up being because Google Chrome blocked the anti-robot text box. 

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Firefox actually did this to me when I went to submit my Harvard rejection last week as well!

[dormouse]

University of Colorado Boulder  

[eigenname]

MIT rejections are out 

[753982]

I don't like your funky-looking buildings anyway, MIT. In all seriousness, I'm glad they sent out their rejections. Hopefully UCSD will follow suit soon.

Edited February 24, 2017 by 753982

[cogsguy]

I got rejected from MIT too  Oh well... 

[BLESW]

  On 2/24/2017 at 6:57 PM, 753982 said:

I don't like your funky-looking buildings anyway, MIT. In all seriousness, I'm glad they sent out their rejections. Hopefully UCSD will follow suit soon.

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I wish UCSD will send out rejection soon, too. I'm dying waiting.