NatRose Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 It's only been four days since the Oct 1 application, and the wait is already unbearable. It's my first time applying to graduate school, and I'm applying to the only Spring school in Florida: UCF. Should that fail, I'll apply to the rest of the FL schools for Fall. Sigh. (My stats: applying for Speech-Language Pathology, am bilingual SLP-A cGPA: 3.48 CSD/Last 60: 3.7 GRE: 154Q / 159V/ 4.0w) How do you keep yourself distracted while waiting for decisions? What are you applying for? How do you mentally prepare yourself for the uncertainty of the decision? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keri Posted October 11, 2017 Share Posted October 11, 2017 It's such a struggle! Half of mine closed on October 1st, but the other half closed on September 15th. I found those out last week! So I think on the others we have to just keep checking and wait. I distracted myself (as best I could) but staying very busy... studying for a Korean test, beginning to learn Japanese, etc. I wish you the best of luck!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LBsh Posted October 20, 2017 Share Posted October 20, 2017 Still waiting.. I applied to just one school (Columbia U) as well on Oct 1st... but my LORs came a little later (they said a week or two is acceptable) so actually it's just been a couple days for me after I got everything settled. Their application was not open till beginning of September tho.. so they only gave us a month's window which is fairly short compared to fall. I was trying to find the timeline for Spring admission in previous years but did not find anything... So now I am wondering if there were very few people applying in the Spring semester (this is a fairly large program). Anyway, no news is good news! I guess we just have to be patient. I am actually doing a graduate program already at Columbia U so this is just an 'transfer' but they do not allow transfers between programs. Hope for the best! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clarwyn Posted October 22, 2017 Share Posted October 22, 2017 I applied to Michigan State. My application has been in for several months, but they told me I probably wouldn't hear back until the last week of October or early November. (I did undergrad there, so I know the people making the decision.) Of course I've been checking all along, just in case; but I'm getting more frantic as it gets to be that time. I wish they could have let me know sooner, as I was deciding between two schools and the other one wanted a decision in July. I told them no, as this is a better program. But I feel like, since they know me, they probably already know what they plan to do, and would it really kill them to just let me know? I am distracting myself with TV and with taking extra hours at my job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clarwyn Posted November 2, 2017 Share Posted November 2, 2017 And now it is early November. I am becoming crazed, checking for updates every ten minutes, and nothing is distracting me. Anybody have tips on how to deal with this? I am resisting the urge to email the decision maker; I feel like that would be a bad idea. I just want this to be over! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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