Yeah... I did the Intro program at Columbia...
...and I even had a GSAPP professor and a GSAPP alum write me awesome rec's.

I'm guessing that didn't help secure me an acceptance. I'm really bummed about today.

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It's nice to see some SCI-Arc mentions on the board. It's funny - I don't hear much chatter about my remaining schools: SCI-Arc, Pratt or UCLA.

Why is that?

It was via email.
To be honest, don't know too much about Tulane's grad program....I'm going to have to do some serious research.

sweetpotato, I got that impression ("beyond obnoxious") when I visited Columbia last fall for their open house. I have realized since that that are not trying to be mean, just direct. Maybe it has to do with being in New York.

The art history professor sounds like a b****. I am having trouble focusing on Michel de Certeau right now and could use a drink too, actually.

UCLA doesn't seem to have it all together....my application status online hasn't been updated since 12/14, even though they've sent me an email saying they have received my materials. I finally got the SCI-Arc financial aid email everyone was talking about on here several days later. That's all the chatter I have.

Actually Waqas, I am from New York, and most New Yorkers *are* direct, but they are also organized and efficent. They lost a bunch of my stuff, which I made an extra effort to send in ahead of time.

anyone out there still waiting to hear from UMich or have been recently accepted?

I feel like the 70-90$ application fee should warrant a little consolation prize from these school.

What if they sent us like a t-shirt that says "Not Harvard" <--insert your respective school. Or maybe a sprig of ivy.

I wonder if the application fees everyone sends funds their open houses??

did anyone do the gsd career discovery program this summer?

I just want freakin Berkeley to move it's bloomin' arse. Post haste, dig?

Actually making some "Not (whatever school) " tee-shirts would be a great graphic design/public art experiment, or just plain, "Not Ivy". I'm sure there are lots of feisty, yet disgruntled undergrads and grad students in other disciplines who would get a laugh out of a shirt like that.

Breathe easy everyone. Inhale, and exhale. Get some rest - tomorrow will surly be another marathon.

I must say, this thread has been quite an experience. I have really enjoyed looking at everyone's portfolios, and listening to why we decided to apply to our favorite schools. It has been very supportive, insightful, and of all things, passionate. We are a very passionate group of people and that is one of the necessary attributes required of architecture. You need to love what you are doing here, or there is no point in doing it.

Over the past few days a real virtual camaraderie has developed - I am rooting for all of us and really wish everyone the best, especially the people who have been around these pages enough for me to recognize the screen names.

See you all tomorrow!

I noticed that a lot of you guys who have applied to schools of a similar caliber (GSD, Princeton, Penn, GSAPP, Sci-Arc, Berkeley,) have not listed Yale. I was wondering if there was something about that program that made it less appealing to sink the $85 application fee for?

And you guys, this forum has seriously kept me going in the last couple of months.

This has truly been a first-rate commiserate thread thus far!

Yay, LiG!

Yea turtle, I did - but I'm paying for grad school personally without loans or anything, so I need to hold out for the cheapest option.

I haven't heard anything from Columbia which only makes me nervous. There are a shit ton of quality people on here who didn't get in. If I get in I am officially tattooing "getting into grad school is a crap shoot" on my ass.

ADavin and babybokchoy et. al - I agree! This forum is probably the most amazing and real part of the whole damned application process!

To add to the why I chose school X - I come from an interiors background and while most of it was wonderfully creative, I felt (feel) a bit bogged down in the practicality of the design right away. I was in search of architecture programs that allow me to play a lot more with my designs before adding the feasibility aspect to it. Let me dream! (in Rhino, hahaha)

Have a great night everyone!

Pao - I haven't heard anything too. I have no idea what this means. Am nervous as hell.

sudedehead - which schools did you apply to?
I believe there are quite a number of archinecters here who have yet to get into any schs, so it's too early to freak out ! chill man.

I applied to three - Columbia, Pratt, and Harvard. How about you?

I'm just pretending that I'm not thinking about it but refreshing gradcafe/archinect every few minutes.

well is there are any body in this website who went to 5 year arch school and now appliing for M.arch II or somting like it?
it seems like every body here is applying for marchI.

haha, Suedehead...i am unable to sleep and keep refreshing this page.

i'm sure as ADavin says, we are a passionate bunch, but we are a pretty neurotic bunch too.

@sweetpotato i got accepted into the MSAAD program. i am not sure what everyone else's situation is, but i graduated with a b-arch in 2002, worked in nyc for 6 years and recently have been working in tokyo and auckland, nz. i was able to get some really good rec letters from previous employers/respected architects, i put alot of time into my statement ... and i think i had a pretty solid portfolio with a mix of built/conceptual work.

i am sure there are alot of really qualified applicants who didnt get accepted, one advantage that i think i had is i have been out of school for a while, have some work experience and bring a "different" perspective... (but who knows, they may not even give a shit!)

great job to those who got accepted to the school of their choice! for those of you who didnt... be patient it will come.

suedehead - Penn, Berkeley, and Yale. I could only afford to apply to 3 schools with the resources I had. Was considering WUSTL but couldnt find a good recommender, so pulled out my application at the last minute. On hindsight, I should have just gone ahead, since the most important component - like a poster has mentioned - is the portfolio.

Yeah, it's near impossible not to think about it. Logging on to Archinect/gradcafe is the first thing I do when I wake up. Man, we really need to get a life.

voneckht -

i have also applied to urban design programs,

MIT (no news)
Columbia (no news)
GSD (no news)
Princeton (no news)
Cooper Union (no news + no expectations)
Sci-arc (no news)
Carnegie Mellon (no news)

* '09 grad from architecture ,

i have to say my optimism is down in the magma.
now i realize my application was very naive. just graduated, no urbanism background except grand tour, no work experince, 3.3 GPA (actually it is pretty high in my country)

anyway, lets see..

Pythagoras -

Logging on to Archinect/gradcafe is the first thing I do when I wake up tooo!! hang in there.. i feel you

good news - someone got into yale M.arch on grad cafe! theres still hope...

praxis99, i don't know seems like that's from the 8th of Mar.
He/she just posted late.

I called them last night (since i'm not in the states)
and asked about additional acceptance,
they kept saying the same thing.

"Decisions will be made this week."
"Decisions will be made this week."
"Decisions will be made this week."

No matter what I ask.

However, strange there's no international acceptance.

yeh but in any case, i would be under 'U: International, with US degree'
and people on gradcafe have been accepted under that category...

i read an article from last year on the yale news site saying that they accepted around 140 people last year.. so there is no way that gradcafe is representative of how many people received acceptances...

but then judging from how many people get rejected by columbia.. its strange.. i would have thought the same amount of people if not more would have applied to yale... which then means yale really hasn't given all their acceptances out yet...but then again they even have their waitlisted people out...
so yeh - i have no idea, these are just all assumptions

^ just to clarify what experim and others have suggested: on gradcafe, there do not seem to be any "I" acceptances for Yale (international without US degree), but there do seem to be a few "U" acceptances (international with US degree). whether this is just because the accepted "I" people haven't posted their results yet, or because the school will send the "I" emails later for some strange reason, is not known for certain, but i would bet $ on the former.

of course, in addition to the above, it could also be one of the following cases: (i) no "I" acceptances at all, (ii) emails have not been sent to all accepted people, which may include "I" people that would post their results on gradcafe if accepted, in addition to potential "A" and "U" people who have also not yet received their acceptances.

I am an International applicant with International degree. I have 3.4 CGPA as jaded mentioned it is pretty high in here however when i heard your 3.7 , 3.9 CGPA I feel really depressed. I hope the schools are aware of this. I have been accepted to Uni. Michigan Ann Arbor 2G program but no scholarship and International applicants can not apply o FAFSA. That's so sad.
How are you thinking of financing your March, without any scholarship/ aid? Do you think student loans are logical?

it really depends on the school you get into.. some such as princeton apparently give out lots of aid, no matter who you are.
others such as columbia don't give out any if you are international...

i would just intensely look around for scholarships and aid when available

Good Morning !!!

Wishing everyone lots of Luck ! Lets hope we all hear an acceptance... by the end of the day :-)

Good morning! My eyeballs were still dry from sleep when I started reading this forum. I am either too invested/dehydrated. On that lovely note, let the obsession begin!

Thought I'd add my specs while I'm waiting (and so I can uncheck the reply notification box!)

Clemson
Syracuse
Ohio State

gpa 3.6

BA in 96, have worked as a carpenter for 10 years, recently took 2 years of undergrad studios locally

portfolio:
http://issuu.com/jgilmo/docs/archportfolio?viewMode=magazine

Hopefully some news while be in the mail today. Waiting is getting much worse knowing of all the decisions rolling in!

I think I'll go check my spam folder now, just in case :)

beautiful hand drawings jgilmo

i check my my spam folder tooo. ahaha, a little sad

and good afternoon guys - about time this picked up little

I have also applied Syracuse and this morning I received a package from them contains MArch1 catalog but no info about acceptance or rejection.

to pass the time

the comments as just as interesting

wow jgilmo. beautiful models and drawings.

delirious: how did you find out about $ for UM? I was accepted for 2G as well, but have yet to receive "offical" letter or word on $

LiG: Good job getting into OSU! I did my undergrad bs arch there...great prog, great facilities, wonderful (diverse) faculty.

I'm one of the people still yet to hear from gsapp. I wasnt really expecting to get in (esp after a no-call from mit), so I dont really know what to make of it right now. just breathing slowly.

Villian - I'm rooting for you, man. I'd say your chances look pretty damn good... still bizarre to me how they flipped the order of notifications and sent rejections first. Frankly, kind of nice they did it that way, as someone pointed out earlier - kind of nice to know you are up and out of the running as opposed to MIT and Yale, where I'm hanging on with a dream.

To those who are saying GSAAP made a huge mistake and mixed up acceptance letters with rejections - haha somehow I don't think it happened. That's way too huge of a f-up to pull off.

OK, gotta go to work. I promised myself I would not look at grad cafe, archinect or gmail until lunch. Yesterday I made it til 11 before I gave in. I must be stronger today. Good luck everyone!

Rejected from GSAPP.

I feel like I'm gonna be sick, like my stomach just dropped out from underneath me.

GSAPP was the only school I really wanted to go through. I guess this is a message from Gd to keep on at my current architecture program. It's a relief, in way, to know what I'll be doing next year...

Still waiting on:
-ucla
-rice

UCLA I don't think I would go to, even if I did get in.
Rice- not sure yet, what would happen if I got in. But they only accept like 12 people, right? Odds are against me.

I guess misery loves company, so while I apologize to the others GSAPP rejected, I'm glad I'm not alone

sorry to hear that sbeth. if you dont mind me asking: why wouldnt you go to ucla or rice if you got in?

i keep gmail open whenever i am on my work computer so... i've already failed at not checking everything. i've avoided logging in and out of my applications & the grad cafe so far. maybe ill watch some calculus videos for my test friday to distract me. yeah that sounds like fun...

and i dont think columbia just screwed up everyones applications.
granted UF did when we were going through upper division pin up, they sent people the wrong letters or both letters but that was not as sophisticated as an online application system (it was one lady in an office) and was just the transition from second to third year, not graduate school.

i would ask my friend who is at columbia right now what she thinks but it's midterms there and she's super busy.


good luck lets keep those decisions rolling iN!

Sbeth - I felt the same way when I got my email yesterday, it was also the only school I *really* wanted to go to.

I looked back at grad cafe again, and I just don't understand why they sent out rejections first. Columbia - and most other schools - follow that much-discussed pattern of acceptances first, rejections and waitlists later.

Has anyone called Columbia to confirm??

@ sixtrain-

your port is beautiful, i can see why i didn't get into GSAPP. I particularly like how you drew in the hands to complete the photos- humorous ;)

it doesn't seem like a lot of the patterns from last year were followed... we're already early for a lot of the decisions

so far i don't think anyones heard of a rejection from yale right?

To those that are waiting to hear from Syracuse do you think the packet they recently sent was a preview to a welcomed acceptance letter? I can't understand why someone would send publications and recent news unless they were trying to sway you towards their institution. Just seems like wasted resources if they were going to reject you. Or maybe I'm looking too much into this and they sent it to everyone because they enjoy killing unnecessary trees.

TheVillain - UM wanted me to send them a form about my financial situation. When i call them they said all scholarships has been given. if the letter does not mention about the scholarships that means you don't have it.

Praxis - my guess (according to last year's grad cafe) is that Yale mails (via postal service) a rejection letter in the week or so after acceptances are emailed

Does UPenn inform via Email or Post - Any Thoughts !