acceptance dates

[heatherpantss]

I seriously apologize if this is TMI, but if I wasn't on Klonopin right now I would go mentally insane.  I have only eaten a taco and a pop tart within the last two days because I am so busy with everything that I forget to eat.

Good news is, I am about 70% done with everything involved with the grad process.

I'm wondering, if your deadlines are in

Comments

[brittdreams]

When you will hear really depends. I heard as early as Jan 20 and as late as May 25 for schools with a Jan 1 deadline.

[omgitskatharine]

Yeah, one school took until June 3rd. Mind you the deadline was Dec. 15th.

I know.

[seasontoseason]

that's so early! one school i'm applying to doesn't even close admissions until March 1st! I wonder if this is a UK trend, as I'm applying mostly to schools in the UK and it seems as if most of my deadlines are after January, at least.

[dreadnought]

My application year, I heard from my first school on February 8th, and I'd heard from the rest of my admits by the end of February. Rejections came in more slowly - I don't remember as clearly, but I think the last one came in mid-March - and one school didn't bother to update its online application or contact me for months, lol. I'd given up on ever hearing from them by the time they finally said "No" - I wanted to go, "No kidding

[flamingjune07]

I would go mentally insane

Gosh, I'm not sure I even want to know what going physically insane would look like ;)

[lyricon]

If you want to go a little more insane before you've even sent in the applications, you can go to www.thegradcafe.com and check the dates that people heard from your programs last year. There is no guarantee it will be the same, but it might give you at least a general time frame.

[losemeontheway]

Can I tag on to this post and ask how schools notify us? Do most schools do email notifications these days? Or do a lot still send out letters?

[saunders]

In my experience, rejection letters either come by logging in to the application site or by snail mail. I received phone calls from the department DGS (and later, paper acceptances from the graduate school) for my acceptances, but I know that some schools send emails to let you know, while a few let you know over the online system.

[lostreality]

6 years ago when I was accepted to a bunch of places I got phone calls from most schools, emails from a few schools, and snail mail from the school that rejected me.

I heard stuff as early as the end of January and as late as the beginning of april. Most of the schools got back to me in February and March. I know my department usually gets back to people at the end of february/beginning of march, but it really depends on who the grad chair is and how much they have their shit together

[brittdreams]

Check the survey at thegradcafe.com