Grad GPA 3.95.

GPA is MA. Really a bummer, WashU was near the top of my list.

A very nice rejection email! Congrats to those who got in!! And good luck and good wishes to those who didn't!!

Northwestern always sends the nicest rejection emails :')

Generic but thoughtful email. Extremely disappointed about this one :(

Rejects from NW and WashU in the same day...I guess the midwest doesn't like me.

Only 5 students accepted to the program this year. Onto the next--fingers crossed for everyone!

Email to check portal. Rejected from PhD but accepted into MA with 50% funding, invited to virtual open house in Feb. MFA but no MA here. According to the grad stats link, 76% come in to PhD program with MAs, 2-3 students per cohort. MA size for LCS 12-13 students.

GPA is BA. My MA GPA is 3.7. I received an e-mail, asking me to check the portal. The rejection letter was short and didn't contain any feedback. Not that I had great expectations, but my research fit was excellent with the department and PoIs, so maybe something else played a factor. As one of the applicants posted below, this whole process truly seems like an insane lottery. What can I say, we are all trying our best to get a shot at the prize. Such an arbitrary process, trying my best not to let it get the better of me (and my sanity).

Automated email to check the portal. Very short rejection letter. I was waitlisted here two years ago so I'm a tiny bit surprised. Very tiny bit. Miniscule. Here's the thing: my application is objectively better now so this rejection only reinforces my belief that this process is just a lottery. Perhaps my application was reviewed in the late afternoon when the committee was hungry and tired and wanting to go home? Or maybe my POIs weren't on the committee this year, and instead it was a committee of people who feel indifference for my research area? Or maybe they read my application carefully and thought to themselves, "What a boring, halfwitted, desperate attempt at professional scholarship" before throwing my application materials into the rejection oven to heat their redbrick building. I can just see it, the pages of hundreds of applications and the application fees burning up together, paying for WUSTL's winter heat while the committee stands around, twiddling their fingers and laughing nefariously. Anyway, this is all to say that it's a subjective crock so don't let rejection get you down. GPA is MA. 2a/1r/7p

4th Rejection