at what hour do you receive your acceptance?

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betelgeuse1
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at what hour do you receive your acceptance?

Post by betelgeuse1 » Wed Feb 17, 2010 2:21 pm

Hello my friends,
I hope your applications went perfect. If not, there's still time! I have one question to you: at what hour of the day do you usually receive acceptance/rejection e-mails? (EST time) I just want to know in order not to stay sticked to my laptop all the day... it interferes sometime with my work... :D
Thanks
Hope you'll get acceptances from the places you like most!
Good luck
The star in the northern sky

geshi
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Re: at what hour do you receive your acceptance?

Post by geshi » Wed Feb 17, 2010 2:43 pm

I wouldn't base it necessarily on EST. You need to look at what time zone they're in. You probably won't get many emails after 5 PM for whatever timezone the school is in. For PST schools, 5pm is 8pm in EST.

I did get an email at around 6 or 7 PM CST (which is 7 or 8 EST). That was from Brandeis which is in EST. Otherwise, the emails I've gotten are generally late morning to late afternoon (next latest email I got was around an hour to closing time on Friday, don't remember what timzone it was).

betelgeuse1
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Re: at what hour do you receive your acceptance?

Post by betelgeuse1 » Wed Feb 17, 2010 2:48 pm

Thanks,
well, I'm in eastern Europe GMT+2 so EST was a choice of time that I thought most of you consider more comfortable. I have EST on my laptop here too. So, between midday and afternoon? well... hope I'll get something this night then...
:)

ddubs
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Re: at what hour do you receive your acceptance?

Post by ddubs » Wed Feb 17, 2010 3:00 pm

Mine have been all over the place (all times in the school's time zone): 11pm, 5pm, 10am, 12pm... If I could only choose one, I'd guess late morning for EST schools...but every school works at their own pace.

matonski
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Re: at what hour do you receive your acceptance?

Post by matonski » Wed Feb 17, 2010 3:01 pm

My 2 so far were both at about 11 am their time.

betelgeuse1
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Re: at what hour do you receive your acceptance?

Post by betelgeuse1 » Wed Feb 17, 2010 3:19 pm

11pm school time? What school was that?

ddubs
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Re: at what hour do you receive your acceptance?

Post by ddubs » Wed Feb 17, 2010 3:27 pm

betelgeuse1 wrote:11pm school time? What school was that?
It was University of Arizona.

mobytish
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Re: at what hour do you receive your acceptance?

Post by mobytish » Wed Feb 17, 2010 5:27 pm

I got my first one and my last one both around 3 or 4pm (I'm guessing that they had the meeting earlier in the day). I got my one from Rochester at 10am, so it seems they met the day before toward the end of the day.



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