Poll time: if you want to reject me, reject me NOW.

[monkeyMD]

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How do you feel about the admissions process and the waiting that sometimes feels endless?

Now that it's mid December (or almost), do you feel that you'd rather be rejected outright NOW rather than having to wait endlessly for a letter of rejection to reach your inbox or mailbox sometime in the future (which, I am sure, gives hope to some people that hope that they might, just might, get into that one school they are waiting to hear from?).

I wish the wait was shorter; but it's not up to me.
Share some thoughts SDNers!


Oh. And which schools are the worst about dragging our wait into the end of the cycle? Which ones are too prompt about rejections? Which ones are doing it just right?

 

[docbrill]

Where is the poll? 😕

And yes, of course I would rather be rejected sooner than later.

 

[Myuu]

That can be arranged.

 

[centrigeugle]

"You don't have to keep yelling at us. Nobody is on the other side of this issue."

From Community.

No but seriously, you didn't need to include any poll options but the first because nobody likes the unknown, and nobody likes the powerlessness of waiting.

 

[monkeyMD]

No but seriously, you didn't need to include any poll options but the first because nobody likes the unknown, and nobody likes the powerlessness of waiting.

But if the schools know this and everyone knows this, why do the schools do this to us... to make us suffer...

 

[Osakhomen]

Yeah, I wish they would just reject me if they don't want me... Especially the ones who haven't even given me an interview.

 

[docbrill]

"You don't have to keep yelling at us. Nobody is on the other side of this issue."

From Community.

No but seriously, you didn't need to include any poll options but the first because nobody likes the unknown, and nobody likes the powerlessness of waiting.

I agree, but we may be wrong...let's wait and see.

 

[docbrill]

That can be arranged.

 

[centrigeugle]

My god that...that is...

...a somewhat intimidating smily. </afeared>

 

[monkeyMD]

I hope admissions officers are reading this thread right now...and I bet someone is.

 

[kexy]

I hate waiting, but I kind of like silent rejections. If I get into one of my top choices before March, I can withdraw from all the other schools before they technically reject me. Pathetic? Yes. But I like anything that spares my ego even a little bit during this ego-shattering, soul-crushing process. Haha. 😳

 

[monkeyMD]

I hate waiting, but I kind of like silent rejections. If I get into one of my top choices before March, I can withdraw from all the other schools before they technically reject me. Pathetic? Yes. But I like anything that spares my ego even a little bit during this ego-shattering, soul-crushing process. Haha. 😳

👍

 

[Cinclus]

I just want to know, asap. This will better allow me to plan out my future.

 

[mednem]

I think for a lot of schools they don't know what kind of applications they're going to get that year so if you haven't heard back you have a chance, depending on the other applicants who come later.

Or maybe it's just that I like to pretend I have a chance 😛