Florida State

[Shaky Premise]

For those of you who applied to Florida State, I'm assuming you'll receive an email from Tara Stamm about the admission decision timeline, as I did this afternoon. I just wanted to post this little note, on the offhand chance that some of you check this forum before you check your email, to save you the shock of stumbling upon an email entitled "Admission status" and having your heart rate quadruple before realizing that the message does not contain any information on your decision, just information about the decision timeline. I found the update to be VERY thoughtful (and unprecedented), but I must admit that it momentarily frazzled me, as any message from a sender with a .edu suffix does these days. I would save you all the undue anxiety!

[astroturf]

I just wanted to post this little note, on the offhand chance that some of you check this forum before you check your email, to save you the shock of stumbling upon an email entitled "Admission status" and having your heart rate quadruple before realizing that the message does not contain any information on your decision, just information about the decision timeline

Haha, this is exactly what happened to me. I saw "Dear Applicant" and froze for a few seconds. I thought it was very thoughtful as well- not many of my other schools have given any kind of time frame so far so this is refreshing.

[gracieb]

yeah I had a mini heart attack when I read that on my blackberry in traffic this afternoon. Good thing I was at a red light. I'm not so shocked that FSU sent this, I went there for undergrad and the english department is extremely thoughtful. They always keep you in the loop on everything. Good luck to everyone waiting to hear back!