Time of day when you received acceptance or rejection?

[casey825]

So that I can properly brace myself each time I nervously check my e-mail inbox, I am curious if there are patterns in what time of day people receive acceptance e-mails compared to rejection e-mails. Any thoughts?

Edited February 3, 2010 by casey825

[tem11]

You'll make yourself crazy with this kind of thinking. It's whenever the administration gets around to it; I don't think there's any set time. Good luck with your applications, though!

[modernity]

You'll make yourself crazy with this kind of thinking. It's whenever the administration gets around to it; I don't think there's any set time. Good luck with your applications, though!

Agreed. Some people have heard in the morning, the afternoon, and I think someone just said the other day they got a notice at midnight. So...really no way to gauge.. plus it would depend on your timezone vs. the school's.

[casey825]

You'll make yourself crazy with this kind of thinking. It's whenever the administration gets around to it; I don't think there's any set time. Good luck with your applications, though!

Yes you are right. I should stop obsessing and find things to take my mind away from it until I actually get responses.

[LateAntique]

There is no pattern. I got a rejection at 12 during the day, and a phone call from a professor at 10 at night. They'll get around to it when they get around to it.

[DJLamar]

I hope no one calls me while I'm at a bar or something O_o

If I reject a call and send it to voice mail, the professor will just leave a message saying I'm accepted, right?

[origin415]

I hope no one calls me while I'm at a bar or something O_o

If I reject a call and send it to voice mail, the professor will just leave a message saying I'm accepted, right?

Actually if you don't pick up, you will be immediately rejected from the program and your spot will go to someone else.

More seriously, others on this forum have said that they attempt to call multiple times before trying anything else.

Edited February 3, 2010 by origin415

[juror#1]

I hope no one calls me while I'm at a bar or something O_o

If I reject a call and send it to voice mail, the professor will just leave a message saying I'm accepted, right?

I actually have followed the rule that unless I am at my computer or near my notes, if some unknown number calls me, I let it go directly to voicemail. This has happened to me 4 times and each time the professor just asked that I call them back. None of them seemed to mind at all and it gave me a chance to get my head on straight and pull out my information for the program

[melusine]

I actually have followed the rule that unless I am at my computer or near my notes, if some unknown number calls me, I let it go directly to voicemail. This has happened to me 4 times and each time the professor just asked that I call them back. None of them seemed to mind at all and it gave me a chance to get my head on straight and pull out my information for the program

hmmm.. very smart, this!

I once had a potential employer call me while I was on the treadmill at the gym. I thought it was someone else so I picked up..

Needless to say, that was one weird conversation.

[JulesM]

Definitely can relate to the wish that there was a pattern of contact - or just something to where you didn't feel so stinking helpless just sitting around waiting. Someone posted a rejection to a top choice school yesterday, and I think I refreshed the results about... oh, thirty times since then hoping for more news. Unfortunately, people rarely post about that school, I think only once last year was there anything posted in results.

Someone posted yesterday about how staying positive can't hurt anything - why inflict more frustration and stress right now, when you can just wait until it is actually justified. Or something like that. Made our night easier last night.

If someone in Stats does discover a pattern, please do share

[HOUBMA]

Actually if you don't pick up, you will be immediately rejected from the program and your spot will go to someone else.

More seriously, others on this forum have said that they attempt to call multiple times before trying anything else.

I hope not, since if I got rejected due to being in class I would be furious...

[JerryLandis]

But if you get the call when you're out at a bar, it's just so convenient! Drinks to celebrate, or drinks to drown the sorrow.

[DJLamar]

I actually would have gotten my acceptance email on my phone right near the start of a bar outing. My phone didn't have any battery power left though so I had turned it off earlier in the day (to prevent that annoying vibrating that it does to tell you that the battery is low, which of course necessarily only uses the remaining power up faster > ). After we had left the place I turned on my phone to see if I had gotten any messages, and I had a (6 page) text message from a couple of hours before -- the email from the professor, which I had set up to be automatically forwarded to my phone via a text message.

Of course it's the day that I have to turn my phone off that I get my first notice >_>