Q: If I meet the required deadlines, when can I expect to receive a decision?
A: Programs have different application review schedules. Some programs wait and rank all of their applications against each other; others make individual determinations on a case-by-case basis. Program decisions are rendered from early January all the way through the middle of April. To reduce your wait time, The Graduate School communicates admission decisions via the online application portal rather than through mail. You may access the online application as many times as you wish to check if a decision has been rendered on your file. If a decision has been rendered on your file a "View Decision" link will appear. If no decision has been rendered, no link will be present.
I had my interview two weeks ago. My twenty minute conversation with three important people in the program (we talked mostly about my past, my travels, my experiences, my writing, all in the broadest of senses). I was nice, they were nice. It was a nice twenty minutes.
Too nice? Forgettable? Not nice enough?
My brain's melting with anxiousness; I check each night when I get home. It interferes with otherwise relaxed moments. "What should I eat for lunch? Grad School."
What will they say? Am I fit to pay them in high-priced loans and my creative soul? Or just, well, nice?
So now I wait. Possibly until May.
