When it comes time to choose where you will apply, there is only one factor you need to consider: forget about location, cost, strength of the program, hotness of the student body, and just go for the schools that give the earliest interviews and admissions decisions. Because otherwise? Otherwise you will find yourself like me, surrounded by people who are getting interviews and rejections, while your schools can neither shit nor get off the pot. Theoretically no decision is better than a rejection, but this? This is a special kind of torture.
I am bordering on an abusive relationship with my email - obsessed with it and afraid of it at the same time. In the morning I sort of glance at it sideways, to soften the potential blows; when there is nothing there I get pissed and go to all the schools' sites to check the status pages. I almost came home at lunch today because someone told me Vanderbilt will be sending invites by snail mail AND I couldn't access the Wake Forest status page from work. Mayo doesn't have a status page, and they tend to send out the rejection emails in the middle of the night - a friend and I were joking about staying up, and I suggested we set an alarm for three am instead. I MIGHT DO IT. I want to be knocked unconscious for the next two weeks, STAT.* I just want one - let's get it over with. Interview, rejection, WHATEVER, just acknowledge my existence, PLEASE.
*That's medicalese for "right away." As you can see, I'm practically a doctor already.
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