Warning - Profanity Included in this Rant

[kenjari]

The University of Chicago has rejected me. Those fuckers. I had thought my interview and visit had gone well; they seemed interested in me. The professor I talked to spent about 10 minutes of the interview telling me why UChicago was better than the other schools I applied to. And now they tell me that "we are unable to grant you admission to graduate study". I feel like they strung me along. This is so fucking disappointing and frustrating. And there's not really anything I can do about it.
And of course, the rejection letter offers absolutely no information, not even a hint, about why I didn't get in. It's full of the usual crap "I regret very much to inform you.... It is our sincere hope that you will find a satisfactory opportunity elsewhere...You have our best wshes for success". Blah Blah Blah. I think next week I'm going to call them and try to find out the reason. But I have to wait until I can avoid the temptation to call up and say something like "So what's your fucking problem, and I don't want to hear any bullshit".
They can all go jump in a lake. And Chicago, conveniently enough, has a really big one. Plenty of room for everyone, no need to shove.

Now I have to wait until April to hear from my second choice school, Peabody Conservatory. That's three more weeks of nerve-wracking waiting. This sucks.

Comments

[iralith.livejournal.com]

What a ripoff! That sucks!

Do such establishments . . . I mean, is the lack of explanation normal for grad school rejections? Obviously it would be for undergrad programs, but I'd have thought, for several reasons, that it'd be different at the graduate level.

If it's any consolation, it was cold and rainy the last time in Chicago.

[iralith.livejournal.com]

"the last time I was in Chicago"

[kenjari.livejournal.com]

From my all-too-extensive experience with graduate school rejection letters, they do seem incredibly reluctant to give you any real information about why they didn't accept you. But I agree, you would think things would be different at this level. People who apply to doctoral programs are pretty committed to that course of action, particularly in the arts, so you would think it would be to everybody's benefit for the schools to give applicants more specific feedback about what they were looking for and where the applicant fell short.