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this HAS to be our week people! keep the hope alive!
I just received an email - Ferkauf has reached it target! No more acceptances off the waitlist. I just can't believe it.
There is no hope for me, rlw23. Yeshiva was all I had this year.
There is no hope for me, rlw23. Yeshiva was all I had this year.
I'm pretty old for this game (32) and to invest 7 years or more years in this...I just don't know. I'm pretty let down by the absolute randomness of the clin.psych process.
Why all this competition?
I'm pretty old for this game (32) and to invest 7 years or more years in this...I just don't know. I'm pretty let down by the absolute randomness of the clin.psych process.
Why all this competition?
Today was a very eventful day for me. Three schools let me know about decisions regarding their waitlist, two ended up being rejections though but most important: I was accepted to what have been my top choice since the start of this process. I'm SO excited. I will be turning down the offer I have been holding for a while now tomorrow (I also turned down another offer last week, but I don't think that helped anybody because nobody was on the waitlist for that lab, which is why I haven't really mentioned it). It seems like most schools are able to wrap up now (well, they kind of have to I guess since it's the last week before the 15th). I have heard back from all schools I was initially waitlisted at now.
turn down university of wisconsin-milwaukee by chance!?! lol
Congrats! What happened to you is what I am hoping happens to me!
I'm pretty old for this game (32) and to invest 7 years or more years in this...I just don't know. I'm pretty let down by the absolute randomness of the clin.psych process.
Why all this competition?
With the April 15th deadline on Sunday, do people have to let schools know by Sunday if they accept an offer? Or, do they have to notify by today or Monday? Just curious what happens when the 15th falls on a weekend...
As if this process wasn't stressful enough, the professor I've been in contact with at the program I'm waitlisted at is out of town for this entire week. She called me Monday of last week and told me to check in with her via email toward the beginning of this week to see if there had been any change in my status. She told me that she would be out of town, which is why she wanted me to email instead of call. However, when I sent the email on Tuesday, I received an automated "out of office" response, and haven't gotten any actual reply yet. I'm wondering if this is just because she has no news, or because she is not checking her email during her vacation time. I'm nervous it's the latter and it will be too late before I know my status, as she doesn't return until Monday, the 16th. Sigh. I know I am probably stressing myself out for no reason, as the program is fully aware of the deadline on the 15th and wants to fill their cohort, but I'm having a hard time dealing regardless. A small (obsessive) part of me wants to contact another professor on the admissions committee if I haven't heard anything by tomorrow afternoon just to be sure (this is not a mentor match program). The sane part of me is trying to talk me out of doing this.
I don't think it's inappropriate for you to email someone on the admissions committee or another professor, especially if you've had some communication with them previously. I feel like a lot of people I've seen are very hesitant to contact professors for fear of bothering them, but I've been very upfront with checking in with professors if I hadn't heard from them and I have had no complaints, ignored emails, or signs of annoyance. I would just sent a 2-4 sentence email explaining the situation - eg, "Dear Prof. X, I was told to email Dr. Y earlier this week regarding any updates to my admission status. She's been difficult to touch base with as she's out of town, and since the April 15 deadline is this weekend, I was hoping you might have an idea of where I stand with University of ABC, or when I might expect to hear more. I appreciate all your help!" Or some such.
Of course, your results may vary, but I personally see nothing wrong with staying on top of things and making sure you have a full understanding of the process, as long as you keep your communication concise and polite.
Thank you for the encouragement and advice! I gave in and sent an email to another professor that I spoke with a lot on interview day. What you said about contacting professors makes a lot of sense. And besides, a program whose faculty members would be bothered by being contacted by students is probably not the program for me, anyway. That's not the impression I got from them. Here's hoping we all get some news, one way or the other!
Haha, that's how I feel too - if they don't want me to email them, why would I want to go there? I'm glad you emailed them - let us know if you hear back!
I did hear back! Basically, there's still no final word, but it's not looking good. Only one person left that hasn't officially accepted and that person is likely to accept. In the meantime, the program I have an offer from contacted me to offer me an assistantship, so I went ahead and officially accepted that offer. Feels so good to be settled somewhere! Good luck to all those still waiting!
Three weeks ago I was told that I am first on the waitlist. However I haven't heard from the professor since. I had assumed she would let me know either way. Should I interpret this silence as a rejection? Is it possible that they are still trying to decide who has or hasn't accepted? Clearly I am trying to analyze all possibilities! Does anyone have a similar experience?
I'm in the same position. I've interpreted as rejection, but I could just be being a downer.
Has anyone heard anything from DePaul regarding waitlist status?
I got a rejection letter in the mail yesterday after being on their wait-list. I live in Milwaukee, so it probably only took a day to get to me....
I received a letter as well, but it said I was rejected from the MA program... odd, since I applied to the child clinical track in the PhD program...
I literally could not agree more. Good to know someone else feels the same.Because psychology is a popular undergraduate major in general. Then you have the multitude of folks convinced they're going to be the next FBI criminal behavioral analyst and they are going to accomplish this by pursuing psych further. Then you have all the folks who only want to be psychologists because of a desire "to help people," so this was it. Then you have the folks who truly do have some idea of what the field entails realistically, but they have unrealistic expectations regarding their own abilities. So although many of those students performed poorly while in school and apply with no/minimal research experience, abysmal scores, restrict themselves to certain geographical locations, etc. (you get the point, yes?), some will still manage to land interviews... and they are now your competition for better or worse.
This obviously does not take into consideration the vast number of folks who apply each & every year with stellar stats/scores, experience, etc.
Sooo, there's a sh*tload of people out there = buttloads of competition for everyone to "enjoy."