Hey, Jim Kies just emailed me my UCLA letter - finally! Maybe calling the department earlier today prompted this. Excellent. Wow, this is a boring letter. I need more info.

YAY!! Congrats Neat! ... and the sun is sorta kinda coming out... sorta... mail is out in SC... I wanna go home!!

Congrats Neat!

So....does anyone else have a lot of missing items sow up when they check their admission status online for UCLA? I flew out there and handed it to their front desk, they emailed me confirmation of receipt.

info for those waiting: the letter is dated Mar. 19th, and has a poster of a bug skyscraper with some examples of the post pro work on the back. You get a financial aid letter as well.

thanks guys!

i like hearing good news!!! congrats!
:O*

Congrats Neat!

*clapclapclap* Good work!

I get stuck on roofs, OK? I get up and I can't come down. I get freaked out. There, I said it.

man they do some craaaa-aaaaazy stuff at Penn. not sure it's for me, but I'm curious, hence why I applied. any thoughts on the post pro program there?

yayyy Neat and 222!

buckity - fyi, UCLA architecture does not use the UCLA graduate website for updating info.

Thanks Kistin.

Come down Wonder.

yay neat! I hope the mail brings the rest of us as much happiness today as it has you. That's pretty sweet of them to do financial aid right off the bat, instead of dragging out the process for a few more weeks like so many of them seem to.

Buckity and kristin_kai - my status online at UCLA is still all incomplete. My last name begins with K but I dont think that has anything to do with it since I know people with last names starting with A, M, N, R, and V who also have already heard. Also, its M.ArchI and I already heard I was in two weeks ago...but thanks for the cheers everyone!

Ok, going home for the day. Maybe a sick day tomorrow? So tired of this job...

i posted something on another thread about penn. i would be skeptical.

Don't lose hope kristin_kai! I have faith in you!

222-

You mean they lied to me 2 weeks ago when I called and they said they wouldn't send any letters out until last week? Those fart stains.

Have fun on your sick day.

The lesson is - you CAN strong arm schools into sending you mail

Axial753, How do I go about flattering / threatening Berkeley?

hey, if it's getting up into April and I haven't heard anything, I will absolutely be strongarming schools, not just to send me mail but to give me decisions over the phone. It's probably a little early for gangster tactics, but after April 1, I figure anything is pretty much fair game for whatever jackass school has made you wait that long.

Theoretically, we should all know about all of our schools within the next 11 days. I still have 4 schools to hear decisions from, plus 2 for financial aid. Logically, I should be getting exciting mail every two days from here on out, right?

Got a letter from SCI-Arc today. Waitlisted for M.Arch 1. Won't know if I'm in unti May. No news from UCLA. I went ahead and called today...was told accepts and rejects are still going out. I asked if I could just come down to get the news in person...nope.

I got SCI-Arc's letter today as well. And, I too, am waitlisted for M.Arch 1 til May. That's really late. I really wish they would tell us earlier. I guess waitlist is better than a rejection, but it still puts you in this limbo decision making and more waiting.

i havent received anything! just from my backup plan! i wanted it to stay as a backup, not a "the plan"...

god, at least i have something... but am i asking to much?

Counting down the minutes until I can leave the office and check my mail... Hopefully I'll find something from Penn as well. Even if it's a rejection letter at least I'll have an answer.

The skies are looking pretty threatening out there... I actually hope we get a big storm, because I need to justify driving to work and paying for parking today.

ok this is off topic but I need to be publicly jealous for a minute. A friend of mine who is looking for a job sent her resume to someone she knows at paramount. He didn't have a job for her but did need someone to deliver a tape from LA to NY tonight. So now she's flying to NY on a free mini-vacation thru Sunday.

zundfolge, how many programs did you apply to? I'm sure you'll hear good news from someone soon.

clarito,

i heard that berkeley used up all the spots this year! so you should have a chance.

if u know ANY faculty members at berkeley, speak to them NOW. they sent out an email to the faculty on Monday asking if there's any applicant they should look into before they send out the finalized letters.

BLAST! I don't know any... you should hint to someone that you think Berkeley needs more architects with film / American studies backgrounds but little to no actual Architecture experience.

axial - how come you have more insider berkeley info than i do. haha.

G'day I'm from sunny Melbourne, Australia. Went to college in Maine, lived in Hong Kong and New York.

I like soy lattes and lychee martinis.

Nothing from Penn (nor anybody else) in today's mail... But I received a voucher for $100 in free money if I open a checking account at Chase Bank. I think I might do it.

They probably realize that if I open a checking account with them, they'll easily recoup that $100 in overdraft fees within a month.

sneaky bastards.

although i've been intimately involved in this thread from the start i can't remember if anyone has already asked this...or if the answer even matters, but i'll ask anyway:

does the order/timeline in which people are accepted to a school directly directly indicative of how much they want you or where you fall in their prioritized pecking order? or is it based on the order/disorder in which they happen to review the application packages?

I hope it's the latter, but I fear it's the former.

I'm wondering the same thing since I know several people have been rejected from UTA, and I have heard NOTHING (except that they received my FAFSA)....grrrr! I'm calling tomorrow!

I would think the people that get the quickest response are the ones on both ends of the extreme. either they really want you or they really don't want you. the middle ground is what takes so long. and obviously it should because its a much larger group of people that need to be weeded through.

brightside- I expect that it varies by school. Some of the schools I applied to specifically mentioned that your stuff was reviewed in the order recieved, while others mentioned that they collect everything they deem to be 'on time', review it all together, and then send out decisions. So which method a school uses probably affect the order in which responses are sent out. For example, CCA sent every response out on the same day it seems, while other schools are trickling them out a few at a time, and still others seem to have a hierarchy of phone calls and/or emails, then snail mails on different dates.

no mail today. has anyone been rejected to the ucla m.arch 1 program yet? sorry to ask.

i'll take the silence as a no? no one has been rejected from it yet?

Just got the letter from Yale. Rejected. Oh well.

Woo hoo! The internationals are rolling in! Hello Continents on the other side of the globe.....

I got no mail. Again. Today. Just like every other day.

My heart stops a little every time I unlock that mailbox though.

This is bullshit. Cpnorris got rejected by Yale. WonderK got nothing again. That's it. I'm buying the van.

How about a Winnebago? Better yet, an Airstream!

Fuck yeah! An Airstream!

You know, the new Airstreams are actually pretty nice.

Hi everyone, I'm a new member so just getting used to this forum... and I could use some advice as well, as a newbie!

I've been accepted to Calif College of the Arts for MArch Fall 2007 and since I am an engineer with no previous background in Arch, I am very keen to know everyone's opinion about CCA. Anyone applied there for MArch? I know their BArch is good and all that, but any thoughts on their MArch?

no mail for me today, either. And I'm going away for the next four days, and so is my bf, so there's nobody to call home and ask about the mail.

Yale rejection. Couldn't care less (I never even finished filling out their financial aid info) but did my giant benefits package from work and my roommate's gift CDs for supporting KCRW really need to arrive today? Those damn giant bubble wrap envelopes have an emotional effect on me. Lame.