Was emailed to check website. Rejected everywhere, back to the world of work. Does America actually support its own people anymore?

Called to check status and found out there were 97 applicants and 4 spots. There are 3 - 4 individuals that are on a sort of waitlist should any of the 4 accepts decline.

Rejected by website message, like the rest.

Dear undergrad adviser- thank you SO much for encouraging me to apply to Penn. I would never even have considered it if you hadnt been all "oh give it a shot, your a great candidate" etc.

OMG. thanks to the below posting, I saw their website and speechless. ...They even don't notice at least? What a lovely rejection, huh?

Maybe I just came late to the party, but in case anyone else is holding out hope, the English dept website says: "All applicants who were accepted into the PhD program and those on the PhD waitlist were already notified on February 26th. MA offers will be announced in early-mid March." Not even a short rejection letter or formal notification? Geez.

Emailed the director of graduate studies directly since I have to respond to another school's offer by next week and got a very nice response back. Not at all surprised, but still a little disappointed :(

Interviewed 6 days before acceptance phone call.

E-mail to see website.

TM: triple_sec

"Your application is strong, but the pool of about 870 applicants from over 60 countries for admissions to our program in the fall of 2010 is very strong." I would be upset, but that logic is foolproof...

"Every year the number of applications to the University of Pennsylvania is very great, and unfortunately your application was not among those we were able to accept."

I needed to figure out my schedule for visiting schools this month, so I emailed them and found out.

WHOOOO!

Rejected just like I thought I would be. Extremely depressed though as I have no acceptances. I haven't felt this low in a long time.