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The Stig · Post by **The Stig** » Thu Feb 17, 2011 4:39 pm

glitched wrote:
ScarryBakhtin wrote:Rejected. A holistic rejection.
Lolll

That's why this kind of sucks. It really makes me believe my cycle is officially over without 3 of my decisions.

I wouldn't worry about it too much... holistic means different things to different schools - did you write an extended PS?

heywood03 · Post by **heywood03** » Thu Feb 17, 2011 4:39 pm

TurtlesAllTheWayDown wrote:Pray for mojo. Good luck to all those in the great state of panic. Why can't this be the 1950's so we could all drink and smoke at work?

"pray for mojo" takes me back. amid the waiting anxiety that quote really made me happy. thank you.

LargeHuman · Post by **LargeHuman** » Thu Feb 17, 2011 4:39 pm

neonx wrote:Did anyone receive a ding/WL e-mail?

Me. Ding. About 7 minutes after I saw the decision on my status checker.

ScarryBakhtin · Post by **ScarryBakhtin** » Thu Feb 17, 2011 4:41 pm

src42 wrote:
ScarryBakhtin wrote:Rejected. A holistic rejection.
Yeah, with Berkeley it's like, hey, we just don't like you as a person.

Ya. And it doesn't help that I'm not having a great cycle. Granted, I didn't really apply to any safe options. But I mean I wrote 4 full size eleven font pages and had them thrown right back at me.

sgtgrumbles · Post by **sgtgrumbles** » Thu Feb 17, 2011 4:43 pm

First ding of the cycle by email. CR1. Below 25th GPA, above 75th LSAT. Sent a LOCI a couple days after being sent to CR. I wasn't expecting much with my GPA, but CR got my hopes up just to send them crashing down.

syezzie · Post by **syezzie** » Thu Feb 17, 2011 4:44 pm

Dinged. Not surprised given my lackluster GPA (was actually pleased I made it through to CR1). Also, one of the nicest rejection letters I've ever seen.

lakerfanimal · Post by **lakerfanimal** » Thu Feb 17, 2011 4:46 pm

Excellence = a Habit wrote:Woah. I just checked my status checker due to all the status checker dings, but mine said this:

Current Status: A decision has been reached
Current Status Date: 2/17/2011
Decision Status: Admitted!
Decision Status Date: 2/17/2011

I guess that's pretty clear. Woohoo! Anyone else have this?

I'm sorry for all who didn't get in today

Congrats excellence!! I'm happy for you!! And congrats to everyone else too

I got rejected but all is well. This cycle has been so weird and unexpected. Getting into schools I thought I had no shot at and getting rejected/wl-d by schools I thought I had decent shots at. Definitely more than a numbers game

mistermister · Post by **mistermister** » Thu Feb 17, 2011 4:49 pm

very thankful for the waitlist, given my numbers... but, dammmmn I wish it was an admit.

sgtgrumbles · Post by **sgtgrumbles** » Thu Feb 17, 2011 4:54 pm

Excellence = a Habit wrote:Woah. I just checked my status checker due to all the status checker dings, but mine said this:

Current Status: A decision has been reached
Current Status Date: 2/17/2011
Decision Status: Admitted!
Decision Status Date: 2/17/2011

I guess that's pretty clear. Woohoo! Anyone else have this?

I'm sorry for all who didn't get in today

Congratulations, Habit! You deserved it.

santoinettea · Post by **santoinettea** » Thu Feb 17, 2011 4:54 pm

Dinged... Goodbye, alma mater.

Excellence = a Habit · Post by **Excellence = a Habit** » Thu Feb 17, 2011 4:54 pm

sgtgrumbles wrote:First ding of the cycle by email. CR1. Below 25th GPA, above 75th LSAT. Sent a LOCI a couple days after being sent to CR. I wasn't expecting much with my GPA, but CR got my hopes up just to send them crashing down.

Grumbles

Surprised and sorry. but you've got fantastic options.

sanguar · Post by **sanguar** » Thu Feb 17, 2011 4:55 pm

Anyone else in CR2 check their status to make sure they hadn't changed their mind?

Sorry for the WLs and dings... It's brutal in here.

bruinkid8 · Post by **bruinkid8** » Thu Feb 17, 2011 4:56 pm

waitlisted via status check

Knock · Post by **Knock** » Thu Feb 17, 2011 4:57 pm

Excellence = a Habit wrote:Woah. I just checked my status checker due to all the status checker dings, but mine said this:

Current Status: A decision has been reached
Current Status Date: 2/17/2011
Decision Status: Admitted!
Decision Status Date: 2/17/2011

I guess that's pretty clear. Woohoo! Anyone else have this?

I'm sorry for all who didn't get in today

Congrats Habit!!!!!!!!!!!!!

sheD · Post by **sheD** » Thu Feb 17, 2011 5:03 pm

IN! Yes!!! So excited...

mikstew · Post by **mikstew** » Thu Feb 17, 2011 5:06 pm

sheD wrote:IN! Yes!!! So excited...

stats?? A/S/L

sgtgrumbles · Post by **sgtgrumbles** » Thu Feb 17, 2011 5:07 pm

Excellence = a Habit wrote:
sgtgrumbles wrote:First ding of the cycle by email. CR1. Below 25th GPA, above 75th LSAT. Sent a LOCI a couple days after being sent to CR. I wasn't expecting much with my GPA, but CR got my hopes up just to send them crashing down.
Grumbles Surprised and sorry. but you've got fantastic options.

Aw, thanks. I always had a crush on Berkeley but wasn't really thinking of it as an actual possibility given my splitter-ness.

As opposed to an earlier poster, my cycle has played out predictably: I slipped into one of CCN, got one of the ubiquitous Michigan scholarships, and was dinged at Boalt. Now, to decide between NYU and Michigan...stay in NYC, or try out college town life? Awesome LRAP, or solid scholarship? Decisions, decisions.

Philip_J_Fry · Post by **Philip_J_Fry** » Thu Feb 17, 2011 5:11 pm

Dinged

Congrats to everyone that got in!

Excellence = a Habit · Post by **Excellence = a Habit** » Thu Feb 17, 2011 5:15 pm

Knock wrote:
Excellence = a Habit wrote:Woah. I just checked my status checker due to all the status checker dings, but mine said this:

Current Status: A decision has been reached
Current Status Date: 2/17/2011
Decision Status: Admitted!
Decision Status Date: 2/17/2011

I guess that's pretty clear. Woohoo! Anyone else have this?

I'm sorry for all who didn't get in today
Congrats Habit!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you Knock, and Grumbles and Laker!! If I were a dead head I would say, "what a long, strange trip it's been."

sheD · Post by **sheD** » Thu Feb 17, 2011 5:16 pm

mikstew wrote:
sheD wrote:IN! Yes!!! So excited...
stats?? A/S/L

Haha...3.49/175 (retake). Been out of undergrad for a few years working in politics. Submitted in December.

mikstew · Post by **mikstew** » Thu Feb 17, 2011 5:20 pm

hah.. as I work on my nerdy CAD drawings (whilst pressing f5 on these forums) I came up with a lame joke:

The internet forum troll asks for another person's stats in the A/S/L format
The arrogant womanizer asks for a woman's stats in the bust/waist/hips format,
But the engineer asks for his client's stats in L/W/H format.

glitched · Post by **glitched** » Thu Feb 17, 2011 5:21 pm

The Stig wrote:
glitched wrote:
ScarryBakhtin wrote:Rejected. A holistic rejection.
Lolll

That's why this kind of sucks. It really makes me believe my cycle is officially over without 3 of my decisions.
I wouldn't worry about it too much... holistic means different things to different schools - did you write an extended PS?

actually wrote a 1.5 pg PS. short for most schools but it just would've made less sense to extend it cause I'd have nothing substantial to say without digressing from the main story. lol i'm going to try not to blame it on that though - but it might just comfort me tonight. AHHHH! I'm going to visit up there in a month. haha i'm going to walk up to tom (he's no longer dean tom to me anymore) and ask him whatsupppppp.

SLS2011 · Post by **SLS2011** » Thu Feb 17, 2011 5:23 pm

Anyone dinged who went UR on or after 1/18??? anyone?

Aggiegrad2011 · Post by **Aggiegrad2011** » Thu Feb 17, 2011 5:27 pm

Ring-a-ding-ding.

Totally anticipated. Off to UW @ 50% off for me!

bhan87 · Post by **bhan87** » Thu Feb 17, 2011 5:30 pm

Congrats to all the new admits!

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