Pythagoras: I got the letter of acceptance by flat rate mailing envelope on a beautiful Sat in the West coast, along with the open house invitation. No scholarship mentioned in it. The School said that they will complete the evaluation of requests for financial aid by the end of March. Open House will be held on 4/9-4/10 ("travel and accommodation expenses for the visit will be supported in large measure by the School"), and it will let financial aid candidates to speak with financial aid staff. Sounds cool!!!!

@if_arch thanks for taking the time to look at my portfolio and for the feedback. the wait IS brutal. i'm pretty sure the anticipation kept me up until five am. next week can't come fast enough!

congrats to everyone who has heard so far!

Yesterday was a bi-polar day for me: First I received a "thanks but no thanks" letter from ASU then hours later an acceptance letter from SAIC! That's two down, now waiting on U of Minnesota, WashU and U of Cincinnati.

Excited to have one option for next year and congrats to everyone else who got in! Keep your head up if you are still waiting!

i wonder, if a person were in the weaker pile, would they have been notified of rejection already?

The way that I understood the admission process from last year was that if the admissions committee were on the fence about you, you wouldn't receive an acceptance/rejection/waitlist until they had received the majority of their responses from their first round of acceptances and then they would filter through the applications again. I think the only way that you would receive an early rejection was if the applicant was unequivocally not suitable for the program, i.e. the applicant didn't meet the minimum requirements and submitted a portfolio that wasn't strong enough to counter their low academic standing.

I would assume that each school has their own process of going through their applications though so this wouldn't be relevant for all schools.

archhk: Congrats on the WUSTL acceptance! I really hope a similar letter is on its way here -- I'll be anxiously checking my mailbox this week. I visited in February (was visiting my sister in St. Louis anyways) and Bruce Lindsey spent a good 1.5 hours talking with me and giving me a personal tour of the department. Sure hope he wasn't wasting his time on me!

Has anyone else heard from WUSTL yet?

Congrats again to all of the continued acceptances. It's exciting to hear how quickly everyone is beginning to find out (though obviously not quickly enough for most of us)!

just for fun and to distract from playing the waiting game...

it's actually really cool and inspiring too. viva la analog!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w

What an amazing video! Incredible how they were able to film it as well. Must have taken forever to design and construct.

Anyone hear from Sci-Arc? I think their schedule is a bit behind the other schools.

if i anyone gets turned down by Yale, perhaps knowing this will lessen the blow >>

http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Showers-for-Bike-Riders-Earn/21096/

you have to admit, this is pretty funny, if not embarrassing for the school. if any current students can offer any insight about this, i'm sure many people would love some details.

according to 2007-2009 gradcafe results, we could be hearing A LOT more news starting as early as this week.

brace yourself.

click on "Institution" if you wish to sort by institution name instead of date

i feel like an emergent drama queen..i don't want this week to pass!

PaoZeDong, According to what I interpreted from an email I received last week, UNC Charlotte has made their decisions, they are just going back through the graduate college. So maybe this week.

I've also noticed that a lot of schools will call or email the first-round accepted students, then send letters to the rest later. U Florida might be the most dramatic example... last year people received emails of acceptances in mid-march, and then rejection letters went out in mid-May.

fasttrakstatus - thanks for sharing, I wonder if they'll lose a point / if it matters to their standing

And speaking of LEED, is anyone else LEED AP? Do you think it helps at all in admissions?

lidandan - most schools I applied to promised a decision by April 1, I think some of the later acceptances / rejections are from people who were originally wait listed

I think LEED AP helps more with job applications...

And yes, I think that it was wait-listing as well, but even by april 1st the last to know will be the rejections. everyone else will hear first sometimes weeks beforehand. I just wish they did everything at once in the same method of notification. It might help with the anxiety.

Ambrosia, I'm a LEED AP- and I'm undecided as to whether it helps in admissions. Possibly for the non-Ivies, but I doubt the GSD (for example) cares at all... is that too cynical?

I agree - it'd be nice to know exactly when we'll hear. Plus I know that every time I see someone post they got in someone I applied, I'm going to worry that I'm in the "find out later" pile...

being in the "find-out" later pile can't be too bad

think of it as a perpetual, anti-shock system that gradually eases one's mind into the realization of rejection

one's acceptance in the belief that they have been rejected grows exponentially with the amount of passed time after the period of notification to accepted students

i would think this tends to be easier on the mind than the sudden shock one has if they were notified at the same time as the accepted students

it's analogous to easing onto anti-psychotic medication rather than taking the highest dosage right off the bat. =D

being in the "find-out later" pile can't be too bad

think of it as a perpetual anti-shock system that gradually eases one's mind into the realization of rejection

one's acceptance in the belief that they have been rejected grows exponentially with the amount of passed time after the period of notification to accepted students

i would think this tends to be easier on the mind than the sudden shock one tends to have if they are notified at the same time as the accepted students

it's analogous to easing onto anti-depressant/psychotic medication rather than taking the highest dosage right off the bat. =D

being in the "find out later" pile can't be too bad

think of it as a perpetual anti-shock system that gradually eases one's mind into the realization of rejection

one's acceptance in the belief that they have been rejected grows exponentially with the amount of passed time after the period of notification to accepted students

i would think this tends to be easier on the mind than the sudden shock one tends to have if they are notified at the same time as the accepted students

it's analogous to easing onto anti-depressant/psychotic medication rather than taking the highest dosage right off the bat

=D

i apologize for the triple post - archinect has been quite the snail lately

Hello all,

At this point it really makes no difference, you all should be hearing within the next several days from almost everyone, but as a 2009 M. Arch I applicant, I know how stressful it can be waiting for word from someone and clicking refresh on grad cafe about 15 times a minute.

On that note, prior year's dates of notification (for M Arch I at least) hold pretty true. For those applying to Yale, almost all the acceptances heard on March 12 via email last year from what I recall. GSAPP was the next day, email notification to check the website where a decision was posted (although the 13th this year is a saturday, so that may slide).

GSD, as opposed to prior years, sent out snail mail last year, followed by calls in the ensuing days. This staggered the dates of notification over a couple days, depending on one's proximity to Cambridge.

Penn had an email update a about a week after the others (later March).

Again, this is easily accessible knowledge if one has been checking websites, but just thought I would share the dates from last year that I am aware of first hand.

Good Luck to everyone!

Hello all,

At this point it really makes no difference, you all should be hearing within the next several days from almost everyone, but as a 2009 M. Arch I applicant, I know how stressful it can be waiting for word from someone and clicking refresh on grad cafe about 15 times a minute.

On that note, prior year's dates of notification (for M Arch I at least) hold pretty true. For those applying to Yale, almost all the acceptances heard on March 12 via email last year from what I recall. GSAPP was the next day, email notification to check the website where a decision was posted (although the 13th this year is a saturday, so that may slide).

GSD, as opposed to prior years, sent out snail mail last year, followed by calls in the ensuing days. This staggered the dates of notification over a couple days, depending on one's proximity to Cambridge.

Penn had an email update a about a week after the others (later March).

Again, this is easily accessible knowledge if one has been checking websites, but just thought I would share the dates from last year that I am aware of first hand.

Good Luck to everyone!

^ one is not warranted impatience given that any notification news arrives faster than archinect (i.e. snail mail)

I've gone as far as disabling the mini-summaries on my e-mail, so it only displays the sender/subject. Need to prepare myself before opening one of these admissions e-mails up.

An exciting two weeks ahead of us..

sixtrain ... thats a good idea. i think i might do that on my gmail....

Its eerily quiet this morning... I'm ready to get this week underway.

Sixtrain... brilliant idea. I've now done the same. Although, Im not sure if its actually better to be able to prepare for the information or just take it like a slap in the face.

haha yea I did that to both gmail and my iphone. looks bizarre on the iphone, though.

and fair point. rip the band-aid off or peel it? I was using it to make the e-mail notifications more analogous to a physical letter that you get, stare at, then rip open. gives it a certain respect and process, at least more than seeing a heavy rejection e-mail right away next to VIAGRAFREEVIAGRA and ATT WIRELESS BILL. :P

Has anyone heard back from RISD or GSD for MArch I?

What if they start putting the decision in the subject line. like GSD: REJECTED or GSD: ACCEPTED.

Oh wait... actually come to think of it I think ASU sent me an email that said "ASU admit letter" so that took away all the suspense

Just went home for lunch to find a nice FedEx package in the mail from Wash U St Louis!!

Ahhhhhh thank god I can finally breathe!!! Esp after not getting a call from MIT I was in a constant state of self-doubt!

Hooray!

I couldn't disagree more with "odear."

If this experience taught me anything last year, it's that one's success in admissions is DIRECTLY PROPORTIONAL to the number of times he/she checks GradCafe/Archinect for results (a.k.a. "freaking out"), and I would challenge the writer of that post to prove me wrong empirically.

Simply 'knowing' the approximate dates on which schools 'historically' notified students is irrelevant. One must pay due diligence and suffer a drop in work-related productivity great enough to risk unemployment (if applicable) simply to CONTINUALLY RECONFIRM the very fact that, no, neither you nor anyone else has heard anything whatsoever.

SO NOW, refresh your tabs, reconfigure your gmail, check & recheck that you've sent everything - every second counts! If you must, pan around your autocad briefly - BUT BRIEFLY! This is the eleventh hour, and there's no time to waste. Anyone who tells you to relax is just trying to get ahead - don't let them! BE DILIGENT, FRIENDS - TO THE VICTOR THE SPOILS!!

Well played, kschmeck.

I've heard RISD can take FOREVER.... ADavin congrats, where in the country are you, roughly? I am waiting eagerly for WASH...
and UT...
and Syracuse...

oh Jesus this is torture

Congrats ADavin! I take it you were the one that just posted it on thegradcafe...

Alonso: I live in Eastern Pennsylvania... I hope you get some good news! Just remember that snail mail can be very fickle and unpredictable....

ADavin...congrats! There is something much more satisfying about getting a nice piece of mail with an acceptance opposed to an email! Seems more real or something.

Yeah that was me!

So apparently the rule of thumb is:

you open your home mailbox and there's a package for you.

A. the package is a simple letter. pretty thin, nothing more than your grandma would send you from Florida. that's probably the REJECTION. short and painful. in and out. like a dentist's anesthetic.

B. the package is fairly big, and it looks like containing several brochures, etc etc. well..that should be the ACCEPTANCE. along with intro to the school, etc etc, holding hands and singing kumbaya.

can anyone confirm, so we pass the bill as law?

cheers. little time left. hang in there folks.

r

Razvan.... I would love if this was true but unfortunately just last week I received a package from Oregon. Based on the size and girth of the package I was positive held my acceptance.

Unfortunately my heart fell when I eagerly ripped open the packaging to find a packets of info on housing acompanied by a brief letter saying that a decision has not yet been made.

What a waste of paper if they sent that out to every applicant...

Razvan.... I would love if this was true but unfortunately just last week I received a package from Oregon. Based on the size and girth of the package I was positive it held my acceptance.

Unfortunately my heart fell when I eagerly ripped open the packaging to find a packets of info on housing acompanied by a brief letter saying that a decision has not yet been made.

What a waste of paper if they sent that out to every applicant...

objection - i got a tiny, one-sheet acceptance letter. motion to delay onset of heartbreak until the envelope is actually open.

Razvan
I actually must VETO that, and here's why -

I got a text from my roomate about 10 days ago informing me that I had a big packet from Syracuse waiting for me.

He left to go skiing for hte weekend before I could talk to him, and I was an hour outside the city having dinner with my parents.

Hurricane force storm outside.

But I drive back in regardless.

Windshield wiper breaks halfway there, but I carry on undaunted, eager to be rewarded with my Syracuse *acceptance*

Big packet. Tear it open.

"Dear applicant.

We hace successfully recieved all of your application materials. Please enjoy this prospectus and info packet while we review your materials.

Thank you."

Not even a personalized letter, a full month after the app went in.

So, so cruel.

JUST GOT INTO YALE!

Oh awesome dude how did you hear???

MountainBoy, I got that packet about a month ago! You'd think that a school that's so good for sustainability wouldn't waste that paper on every applicant. I'm hoping that both of our acceptances are on the way!

oops

Yale already? well hot damn. congrats!